Required Before Ordering · Version 2.0

Informed Consent.

Before you can order your DNA kit, we need your explicit consent on a few important matters. Please read each question carefully and answer honestly — your answers form the legal basis of the service.

Version 2.0·Updated May 13, 2026·New · the Storage Partner Storage Section

Plain English Summary

MySpawn is a preservation service. Today, we only store your DNA (via our biobanking partner, the Storage Partner) along with your memories, preferences, and instructions. We do not — and legally cannot — create any descendant today. This consent document covers your wishes and permissions for the future, plus your explicit acknowledgement of how the Storage Partner stores your sample. You may withdraw any consent at any time.

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Foundational Consent

Your core permissions. Each is independent — please answer each one.

QUESTION 01

Do you consent to MySpawn Inc. storing your DNA sample, personal data, preferences, and recorded memories indefinitely (or for your chosen plan duration), through our ISO-certified biobanking partner the Storage Partner?

Your sample will be received and stored solely by the Storage Partner in a controlled, access-restricted ISO- and CAP-certified facility in Texas, USA. You may request destruction at any time. Full details in our Privacy Policy §4.1.

QUESTION 02

Do you consent to MySpawn Inc. creating your descendant to the best of its ability, using your DNA and your recorded instructions, only when and if the applicable laws of your jurisdiction permit such an act to be lawfully performed?

This is a forward-looking permission only. No descendant will be created today, tomorrow, or at any time while current laws prohibit it.

QUESTION 03

Do you consent to your recorded preferences, personality profile, memories, and questionnaire responses being used as the guiding specification for your descendant's identity, upbringing intent, and inherited characteristics — to the extent scientifically and legally possible at the time of creation?

Your descendant would be built from your DNA, guided by your recorded intentions. MySpawn will follow your instructions in good faith but cannot guarantee any specific outcome.

QUESTION 04

Do you understand and consent that MySpawn Inc. will never use your DNA, memories, or data for any purpose you have not explicitly authorised — including research, commercial licensing, genetic analysis, or transfer to any third party?

Your sample and data are yours. The Storage Partner is contractually prohibited from any use beyond secure storage. Any future action requires your separate, explicit, written authorisation.

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Posthumous Wishes

These concern what should happen to your sample and data after your death or legal incapacity. We strongly recommend speaking to an estate lawyer.

QUESTION 05

In the event of your death, do you consent to your stored DNA, data, and instructions being retained by MySpawn/the Storage Partner for the remaining duration of your chosen plan, pending future lawful use?

Without this consent, your sample would be scheduled for destruction upon verified notice of your death.

QUESTION 06

Do you consent to your designated legal representative (executor / next of kin on file) being authorised to make decisions about your stored material after your death, within the bounds of the consents you have given here?

Your representative cannot override consents you have declined — they can only act within the envelope of permissions you have granted.

QUESTION 07

If descendant creation becomes legal during your lifetime, do you consent to being contacted by MySpawn to re-confirm your wishes before any action is taken?

We will always prefer live, contemporaneous consent over historical consent where possible.

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Understandings & Acknowledgements

These are factual acknowledgements, not optional permissions. We need you to confirm you understand each one.

QUESTION 08

I acknowledge that MySpawn Inc. is a preservation service only, and does not currently perform — and has never performed — genetic engineering, cloning, reproductive medicine, embryo creation, or any biological procedure of any kind.

QUESTION 09

I acknowledge that MySpawn Inc. makes no guarantee, warranty, or representation that any descendant will ever be created, that the science will ever become available, or that the law will ever permit it.

QUESTION 10

I acknowledge I am at least 18 years old (or the age of majority in my jurisdiction), have full legal capacity, and am acting of my own free will and without coercion.

QUESTION 11

I acknowledge that I may withdraw any of these consents at any time by contacting myspawn@myspawnapp.com, and that I may request destruction of my stored DNA sample without penalty. I understand that destruction is the only available withdrawal route — samples cannot be physically returned.

QUESTION 12

I acknowledge that this consent document does not replace independent legal, medical, or estate-planning advice, and that I have been advised to seek such counsel where appropriate.

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Storage Partner Storage Acknowledgement

Specific consents about the Storage Partner's role as your storage custodian. Required by our biobanking partner to accept your sample.

Storage Partner note: Your sample is held by an independent, ISO- and CAP-certified biorepository operating in Texas, USA, engaged by MySpawn as the dedicated storage custodian. References to "the Storage Partner" throughout this consent and related documents mean that biorepository.

QUESTION 13 · Intended Use

Do you understand and consent that the sole intended use of your stored sample is long-term private preservation — and not medical, diagnostic, research, therapeutic, or reproductive use?

the Storage Partner accepts samples only against a stated, lawful intended use. By consenting, you acknowledge that any future activation (including descendant-related actions) requires separate consent, separate regulatory clearance, and is subject to law at the relevant future time.

QUESTION 14 · Storage Custodian Only

Do you understand that the Storage Partner is a storage custodian only, does not validate your sample's identity or origin, and bears no responsibility for the intended use, regulatory compliance, or future activation of your sample?

the Storage Partner accepts your sample on the basis of your sworn attestation that it is your own. All regulatory and intended-use responsibility rests with MySpawn Inc. and you.

QUESTION 15 · Sample Type Characteristics

Do you acknowledge that hair and nail samples may, in suboptimal collection or shipping conditions, develop mould or biological degradation, and that the Storage Partner will store sample types in separated controlled-environment vessels under its standard protocols?

Neither MySpawn nor the Storage Partner warrants the future biological viability of your sample. Your sample is preserved "as received".

QUESTION 16 · No Return Policy

Do you acknowledge that once your sample is received by the Storage Partner, it cannot be physically returned to you, and that the only available withdrawal route is certified laboratory destruction?

This is a strict policy of both MySpawn and the Storage Partner for chain-of-custody, biosafety, and regulatory reasons.

QUESTION 17 · the Storage Partner Indemnification

Do you agree that the Storage Partner is an express third-party beneficiary of your indemnification obligations to MySpawn, with independent standing to enforce those obligations against you?

This means that if the Storage Partner faces any claim, fine, or regulatory action arising from your submitted sample or your breach of these consents, the Storage Partner may enforce its rights directly against you. Full details in §11 of the Storage Services Agreement.

Important Disclaimer

No biological procedures today. MySpawn Inc. does not currently perform — and has never performed — cloning, genetic engineering, in vitro fertilisation, embryo creation, gestation, or any medical, reproductive, or genetic procedure of any kind. As of the date of this consent (May 13, 2026), the technology to recreate a full human individual from stored DNA and behavioural data does not exist.

No guarantees. Nothing on this page should be read as a guarantee that a descendant will ever be created. Any future action is contingent on scientific progress, regulatory approval, your continued consent, and MySpawn's or its successor's operational capacity.

Right to withdraw. You may withdraw any or all of these consents at any time, without reason and without penalty, by contacting myspawn@myspawnapp.com.

Governing law. Delaware, USA. Special-category biological data is handled under GDPR Article 9 where the User is in the EEA.