Privacy Policy
Privacy Assurance
We will not willfully disclose any individually identifiable information about you to any outside source without your express consent.
FATE and changeyourfate.org are committed to protecting the personal information you choose to share with us. Below you will find our privacy assurance.
How does use cookies?
FATE and changeyourfate.org uses cookies to facilitate the login process for you to access sections that require registration to post or contribute to the site. When you register in these sections, we assign a unique user id to you and we place a cookie on your computer, which will remind our system of that USER ID the next time you visit the site. This cookie allows you to access the areas of the site that require registration without having to log on multiple times. If you choose to log out, the cookie we set in registration will be deleted and we will then set another cookie like it on your computer next time you log in.
Please note: Nothing in a cookie allows anyone to identify you individually. Your computer is assigned a number and that number is tracked using the cookie. This number is only meaningful in the context of our secure database system and your personalized version of changeyourfate.org website.
What information do we gather?
The only individually identifiable information that we collect about you is that which you provide to us through registration and submission forms, polls and surveys that you choose to fill out. This information will be closely protected and used for internal purposes only. We will never willfully release your personal information to any third party other than vendors who provide us with web and other technology services.
We also collect information about aggregate site usage. Statistics that we gather about unique visits, repeat visits and page views are all based on IP address, not on your individual activities.
Donating to FATE
When you donate to FATE online you submit confidential credit card information, contact information, and acknowledge whether you would like to be contacted by FATE and changeyourfate.org via email in the future. We recognize the importance of respecting the integrity of this material and limit access only to personnel authorized to process your request.
You may also choose to make a donation in memory of someone or in honor/tribute of someone in recovery. When you make a donation of this type, the amount of your gift is shown only on your receipt. The person or family you designate will receive an acknowledgment ecard or regular-mail card in your name if you choose to send one. We collect this additional contact information in order to honor your request to send an acknowledgement. The information is not used for any direct mail or email databases or solicitations, nor is it shared with any third parties. Email-communications from FATE and changeyourfate.org are only issued through the direct consent of each unique visitor (known as “opting in”).
Online donors are also offered the option of choosing to let FATE and changeyourfate.org contact them via email in the future.
Stories: Personal Stories, Recovery Stories and Memorial Stories
Many visitors to our site have stories to share about their experiences, or experiences of their friends and siblings, with substance abuse, recovery, treatment, prevention, etc. We created the “Stories” and “Personal Stories” sections to enable visitors to submit a personal story for possible posting to our site. Only select stories will be posted to the site. Submitting gender, age range, ethnic background, city and state is optional. When you submit a story to this section, an email address is required in case we need to contact you. By submitting a story, you automatically give us permission to post the story on our web site. FATE and changeyourfate.org reserves the right to edit the story for publication. Your email address will not be published, and your email address will not be shared with any outside organizations or individuals. Please review our Terms and Conditions of Use for more information.
We are creating a Memorials site for individuals to submit memorials in memory of loved ones lost to drugs or alcohol. For Memorial stories that we publish, we may follow-up to with the submitter to verify the story details. Memorials published on the site contain the real first name and last name of the deceased. We also ask for the year of the deceased’s birth and death as well as the substance they used or died from. For longer-formatted stories we develop in house, specific dates of birth and death of the deceased may be used.
Online “Volunteerism” Submissions:
The online registration form includes optional “areas of interest” and may include a check box for volunteering. The information that you provide here is viewed only by us and we will then contact you about volunteerism opportunities best suited to your interests.
Registration Termination
FATE and changeyourfate.org reserves the right to terminate your account if it learns that you have provided false or misleading registration information.
eNewsletter Sign-up
Our eNewsletter sign-up section requires you to enter your email address to sign up for email newsletters. When you choose to sign up for one of our email newsletters, your email address is used solely to provide the newsletter to which you subscribe. Your email address won’t be shared with any outside organizations or individuals without your express permission. Whenever you do receive a mailing from us you will always find an easy method to unsubscribe within the contents of the email.
Online Surveys
Our occasional online surveys ask visitors for contact information (like email or mailing address). We use contact data from our surveys to send the user information about FATE and changeyourfate.org and its activities. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings (see the Choice/Opt-out section below). Other data collected by online surveys is used to educate FATE and changeyourfate.org about the interests and concerns of its supporters and general site visitors concerning our mission, programs and events. This information is not shared with other organizations.
“Tell-A-Friend,” “Email Others”, “Tell Others”
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, programs or events, we ask them for the friend’s name and email address. FATE and changeyourfate.org will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site to learn about the feature, program or event. FATE and changeyourfate.org stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email. The friend may contact FATE and changeyourfate.org to request the removal of this information from the database.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. We also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users’ information, not just the sensitive information, is restricted in our offices. Only those who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information.
Contact Information
If you have any questions, concerns, or comments about our privacy policies or practices, we would like to know what they are so we can address them. Please contact us at or email us at info@changeyourfate.org
Changes to Privacy Policy
FATE and changeyourfate.org may at any time revise this Privacy Policy by updating this posting. You are bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this page to review the then current Privacy Policy to which you are bound.
