Non-EU vendorPersonal Health & DNAHeadquarters: IL

MyHeritage: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

MyHeritage is an online genealogy platform with family trees, a large archive of historical records and DNA testing. MyHeritage DNA, launched in 2016, provides ethnicity estimates and finds relatives through shared DNA; testing is carried out in a laboratory in Texas. The service is delivered as a website and as apps for iOS and Android, with a freemium model. Users can permanently delete their DNA data, and the company states it does not sell or license genetic data.

MyHeritage is headquartered in Or Yehuda, Israel, and has been owned by the US private equity firm Francisco Partners since 2021, which makes a US parent the CLOUD-Act signal. According to its privacy policy, personal information is transferred, processed and stored in data centres in the United States, DNA samples are stored in the US, and cloud storage comes from Amazon and Google Cloud. Transfers outside the EEA rely on the EU Commission's standard contractual clauses. The policy names no European data centres, so for a European organisation or individual genetic data sits on US infrastructure under a US parent.

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Sovereignty score

42 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-250
Headquartered outside the EU (IL)
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (US, EU)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-340
Key management with a non-European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-630
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked September 8, 2026

Headquarters	IL (OTHER)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent company	USVerified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Yes — found adequate by the European CommissionVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	US, EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	INCAPSULA - Incapsula Inc, US (US)Technically measured
Category	Personal Health & DNA
Type	Product
Website	myheritage.com ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to MyHeritage

The European alternatives to MyHeritage come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with MyHeritage

MyHeritage is headquartered in IL, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor. The ultimate owner is based in US. Foreign control undermines part of the certainty a European headquarters offers.

MyHeritage hosts data in US, EU. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

MyHeritage is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs MyHeritage together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to MyHeritage?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to MyHeritage include tellmeGen, 24Genetics and Clue. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to MyHeritage?

Our list of EU alternatives to MyHeritage is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is MyHeritage GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

MyHeritage is headquartered in IL (OTHER) and hosts data in US, EU. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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