DNA Connect remains switched off until you choose to activate it in your private account, using an option separate from the rest of the service. When you activate it:
• You can see your pet’s participating relatives, and they can see your pet as a relative.
• Those relatives’ owners can see your pet’s profile and your chosen names, which may be pseudonyms, but not your email address or contact details unless you choose to share them. Before activation, we show you which profile details will be visible.
You can deactivate it at any time in your private account. We then stop searching for relatives and, within a reasonable technical timeframe, remove your pet from other users’ lists. Messages already sent remain in the other users’ conversations.