Privacy Policy

Effective Date: May 1, 2025

Overview.

We at the Partnership to End Addiction (the “Partnership,” “we,” or “us”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting the privacy of personal information you provide to us while using our services. This Privacy Policy describes the access, collection, use, retention, disclosure and protection of information we collect when you communicate with us and/or visit or interact with https://drugfree.org/ (our “Website”), including any content, functionality, and services offered on or through https://drugfree.org/ (collectively, our “Services”).

This Privacy Policy may be downloaded and printed.

To the extent that you may be entitled to certain consumer rights (including, but not limited to, rights of access, modification, deletion, or portability) under such comprehensive consumer privacy statutes and regulations, please visit the section entitled Your Privacy Choices and Rights below. Please note that the Partnership, as a District of Columbia nonprofit corporation, is exempt from such comprehensive consumer privacy statutes and regulations or may be otherwise inapplicable.

Acknowledgment.

Please carefully read this Privacy Policy.

By using our Services, or by clicking to accept when this option is made available to you, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, incorporated herein by reference. By accessing or using our training modules, educational videos, materials, and content (collectively, “Content”), you also agree to be bound by our Content Terms. If you are engaged with or use any of our text messaging services, please also refer to that specific program’s SMS Terms of Use.

To the extent there is a conflict between this Privacy Policy, our Terms of Use, and our Content Terms solely in connection with our privacy practices and your applicable rights to privacy, this Privacy Policy shall control. Otherwise, to the extent there is a conflict between our Terms of Use, our Content Terms, and our Privacy Policy involving any matters not solely involving our privacy practices or your privacy rights, our Terms of Use and our Content Terms shall control.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, you or your organization may have entered into a separate agreement with the Partnership, governing the rights and obligations of the parties. To the extent such separate agreement is in place and conflicts with this Privacy Policy, our Terms of Use, or our Content Terms, such separate agreement shall control and no term contained in this Privacy Policy shall supplement or supersede such separate agreement unless expressly set forth therein.

Otherwise, if you have read this Privacy Policy but would like further clarification, please contact us at the information provided below.

Changes to this Policy.

This Privacy Policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of our Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Privacy Policy periodically for updates.

We may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. If changes are significant and materially affect your rights under this Privacy Policy, we may request your consent, to the extent required by law.

We will also update the “Effective Date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.

Geographic Restrictions.

The Partnership is based in the State of New York in the United States. Your information, including Personal Information, is processed at the Partnership’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. Your information will be collected on our servers in the United States, and processed by our service providers, contractors, or third parties where they are located. This means that this information may be transferred to—and maintained on—computers located outside of your territory where the data protection laws may differ from those in your territory.

By accessing or using our Services, or otherwise providing information to use, you understand and agree that:

• you consent to the collection, processing, transfer, and storage of information about you in and to the United States and other applicable territories in which privacy laws may not be as comprehensive as or equivalent to the law in your country of residence;
• we make no claims that our Services or any of its content is accessible or appropriate outside of the United States;
• access to our Services may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries; and
• if you access our Services from outside the United States, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws.

Please use the contact information below if you have a question or concern about the policies or manner in which we treat your Personal Information.

Scope.

This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect:

• on our or through our Services;
• in email and other electronic messages between you and us;
• when you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this Privacy Policy;
• when you interact with our social media pages and/or accounts (which use is also subject to the privacy policies of the service provider upon which such page or account is hosted;
• when you sign up for one of our newsletters or mailing lists.

Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to any research conducted by the Partnership to End Addiction. For more information, please visit Addiction Science – Partnership to End Addiction and Reports Archive – Partnership to End Addiction.

This Privacy Policy also does not apply to information collected by any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising), that may link to or be accessible from or on our Services. We encourage you to seek out and read the privacy policy of any linked site that you visit to understand how such site will manage your data.

Types of Data Collected.

We collect several categories of information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, and/or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with users and their household or device (“Personal Information”).

By way of example but not limitation, this includes information such as:

• name
• Internet Protocol (“IP”) address
• mailing address
• state of residence
• email address
• phone number
• social media handles
• demographic details (such gender, age range, etc.)
• commercial transaction information (such as records donations)
• geolocation
• Internet or other similar network activity (such as browsing history, search history, information on a website user’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement)

Please note that Personal Information does not include:

• publicly available information from government records
• deidentified or aggregated consumer information
• de-identified data website and mobile app activity and history, not attributable to an identified or identifiable consumer (“Usage Data”)

Usage Data may include but is not limited to de-identified data related to:

• device IDs
• clickstream formation
• device type
• browser type
• time and date
• subject of advertisements clicked or rolled over

We use Usage Data to help us provide users of our Services with a more user-friendly browsing experience.

How We Collect Information About You.

We may collect both Personal Information and Usage Data on or through our Services from you.

By way of example but not limitation, this includes information we collect:

• directly when you provide it to us (see Information You Provide to Us)
• through your use of our Services and links you interact with
• from third parties (for example, our business partners)
• automatically as you navigate through our Services (see Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies)

Information You Provide to Us.

We collect information that you provide us. By way of example but not limitation, this includes:

• information that you provide when, for example:
• contacting us
• completing forms on our Website
• making donations
• posting User Contributions
• reporting a problem with our Services
• records and copies of your correspondences (including messages transmitted via our Services and email addresses) if you contact us
• information provided through email updates, text message, and postal mailing list sign ups
• your responses to other surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes
• details of transactions you carry out through our Services
• your search queries on our Services

If you prefer that we not collect personal information from you directly, please do not provide us with such information.

Any data or personal information we collect from you solely through any of our “short-code” or text messaging service, including, without limitation, data collected in any of the categories that follow, will not be shared with any third parties for their marketing purposes.

Credit Card Information

We recognize the importance of respecting the integrity of credit card and related contact information that you provide and limit access only to certain third-party vendors (as discussed below).

Donations in Honor or Memory of Another

You may also choose to donate in honor/memory of someone. The person or family you designate will receive a notification with your name if you choose to send one. Any contact information that you provide about the person or family you designate will be used to honor your request to send a notification.

Self-Assessment Responses

We may offer users the opportunity to take self-assessment tests. All responses provided to self-assessment tests are anonymous. When completing a self-assessment test, please do not provide Personal Information or other information that could be used to identify you or anyone else. For the purposes of scientific research and usage analysis, responses will be associated with an anonymous numerical identifier that will not be linked to browser cookies or your IP address (see below for information on cookies and IP addresses). If we publicly release user response data, it will only be in aggregate (group) form.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies.

As you navigate through and interact with our Services, the Partnership and our service providers may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. The information we collect automatically may include Personal Information.

It helps us to improve our Services and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• conduct research
• aggregate statistics
• estimate our audience size and usage patterns
• store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Services according to your
  individual interests
• speed up your searches
• recognize you when you return to our Services
• support our system administration and troubleshooting

We gather information, such as:

• details of your visits to our Services, including:
• traffic data
• location data
• logs
• other communication data and the resources that you access and use on our Services

• information about your computer and internet connection, including:
• device type
• your IP address
• operating system
• browser type

Except as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, we do not link IP addresses with additional Personal Information.

By way of example but not limitation, the technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies can be used to collect anonymous data and serve the user with specifically targeted ads, and may be used to communicate with third-party sites in connection with, for example, the “share” or “like” buttons for these third-party sites. Generally, we use cookies to remind us of who you are, tailor our communications to suit your personal interests, estimate our audience size and/or analyze your visiting patterns. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Services. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, we may issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Services. Our Services uses a web analytics service provided by Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses cookies to evaluate the use of the Site by its visitors, to compile reports about the activities of the visitors on the Site, and to provide other services related to usage of the Site and the internet. Google may also transmit this information to third parties if this is legally required or if third parties process these data on behalf of Google. Google guarantees that your IP address will not be linked to other Google data in any way. You may opt out of Google Analytics Advertising Features. Please see the following link for details and follow Google’s opt-out procedures: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/#!/. Except in the case of analytics cookies, we do not employ third-party cookies from any outside organization, although our outside vendors (as discussed below) also may place cookies.
• Pixels. Pages of our Services and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as pixel tags that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.

Third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies, and these third parties may be located in a jurisdiction with lesser data protection laws. We do not control third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. Since our social media content is available to the general public, if you make a comment on a social media site, any information in your comment, as well as your profile name and any other public profile information, will be available to the general public to see. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that users can set in their browsers to let third parties know that they do not want to be tracked online. You can disable or enable this setting by changing the DNT settings in your browser. We do not track users across third-party websites, and therefore do not respond to DNT signals, and except in the case of analytics cookies as described above, our Services limit tracking to the internal uses described above. The Partnership does not authorize the collection of personally identifiable information about users for third-party use through advertising technologies without user consent. However, some third-party sites, including potentially those that have content embedded on our Website or to which this Website links, may keep track of your browsing activities and may set cookies on your browser. If you are visiting such sites, your browser may allow you to set the DNT signal so that third parties (particularly advertisers) know you do not want to be tracked. Please review the third parties’ privacy policies to understand how you may be tracked. As noted, since our Services do not respond to DNT signals you may have set in your browser, we cannot fully control what third parties may do.
For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from providers, please visit the section entitled Your Privacy Choices and Rights below.

How We Use Your Information.

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including Personal Information. By way of example but not limitation, we use information as follows:

• to fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to ask a question about our Services, we may use that Personal Information to respond to your inquiry.
• to provide, support, personalize, and develop our Services, products, and services.
• to create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us.
• to process your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments and prevent transactional fraud.
• to provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
• to personalize your experience and to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and ads through our Services and via email or text message (with your consent, where required by law).
• to help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Services, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business.
• for testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our Services, products, and services.
• to respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
• to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information about our Service users is among the assets transferred (a “Business Transfer”).
• in any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
• for any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please visit the section entitled Your Privacy Choices and Rights below.

We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements.

Even though we may be required to obtain your consent for these this purpose, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.

You may inform us at any time if you would like to cancel a subscription and/or have your contact information deleted from our records.

Disclosure of Your Information.

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose Personal Information that we collect or that you provide as described in this Privacy Policy, by way of example but not limitation:

Service Providers, Contractors, and Partners

We may retain or utilize other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf consistent with this Privacy Policy. Examples include consultants and Web hosting and payment processing companies. Such third-party vendors may be provided with access to personal information needed to perform their functions but they may not use such information other than on our behalf and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Business Transfers

In the event that the activities of the Partnership are merged, sold or otherwise transferred, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy of the Partnership, user information, including personal information, generally is and may be one of the business assets transferred in those circumstances. By submitting your information through our Services, you agree that your data may be transferred to outside parties in these circumstances.

Compliance with Law and Fraud Protection

We may disclose any information we deem necessary, in our sole discretion, to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process (including, but not limited to, in response to a subpoena) or governmental request. In addition, we may disclose any information when we believe, in our sole discretion, disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss or in connection with suspected or actual illegal activity.

Security/Confidentiality

We may share your personal information, if needed, to protect the security or confidentiality of our records.

Nonpersonal Information

Third-party vendors we use in providing our Website may have access to and use information related to your visit to our Website, such as your IP address. These companies most often use non-personally identifiable information generated during your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third-party web beacon to collect this information. In addition to setting cookies on your browser, they may also read cookies that are already there. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice, you can visit www.networkadvertising.org.

Fulfillment and With Your Consent

In addition to the sharing described in this Policy, we may share information about you with other third parties, for non-marketing purposes, when you consent to such sharing, including but not limited to:

• to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it
• for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information
• with your consent
• to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements
• if we believe, in our sole discretion, that disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others.

We do not currently rent or sell your information to any third parties; however, your information may be sold in the event of a Business Transfer, as discussed above.

For more information, please visit the section entitled Your Privacy Choices and Rights below.

Access to Our Site via Third-Party Accounts or Links.

If you access our Website through a third-party connection or log-in, such as through your Facebook account, what information the third-party may collect about your visit and how they may use it would be governed by the third-party’s privacy policies and terms of use and not by this policy nor our Terms of Use.

Payment Processors.

At present, we use payment processors, such as Stripe, to collect and process transactions completed through our Services.

In connection with the services they provide, these payment processors (and their sub-processors) may collect and store your payment information and other Personal Information necessary to process a transaction (e.g., including your name, email, or other points of contact).

Our service providers that process payments have certified that they are Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant, and they have committed contractually to maintain your information in accordance with applicable laws.

While payment information (e.g., credit card number, debit card information, etc.) may be transmitted via our Services, we do not store any payment card information. However, we may receive information associated with your payment information (e.g., billing details) to help us confirm your transactions with you and as required by law (e.g., to confirm there is no fraudulent transaction).

For more information with respect to payments, please visit our Terms of Use.

If you use and maintain accounts with online payment providers (e.g., ApplePay, GooglePay, PayPal, etc.), such online payment providers will collect your transaction information. To be clear, online payment provider accounts are created by you, and you should review the terms of use and privacy policies of those online payment providers that you choose.

Media and Influencer Contact Details.

The Partnership obtains contact details and other personal information regarding media contacts and influencers from a variety of sources including third-party media databases. If you wish to know more about how such information is collected and used, please contact contact@centeronaddiction.org.

Security of Your Personal Information.

We have implemented technical and organizational measures designed with the intent to (i) secure your personal information; and (ii) mitigate the risk of accidental loss or unauthorized access, use, alteration, or disclosure of your personal information. Under certain circumstances, these measures may include the anonymization, pseudonymization (where necessary), and/or encryption of personal information.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure.
WHILE WE STRIVE TO USE COMMERCIALLY ACCEPTED MEANS TO PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION, WE CANNOT GUARANTEE ITS ABSOLUTE SECURITY. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW, ANY TRANSMISSION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR CIRCUMVENTION OF ANY PRIVACY SETTINGS OR SECURITY MEASURES CONTAINED ON OUR SERVICES.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you.

We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of our Services. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of our Services, including our Website.

LIMIT PERSONAL INFORMATION: Please limit the information you provide to us in connection with your use of our Services. Further, we do not need your sensitive personal information (e.g., Social Security number, date of birth, etc.) for any reason. Accordingly, please do not post or share any such information with us.

Your Privacy Choices and Rights.

Consumer privacy laws of certain states may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information, including:

• the right to confirm whether we process their personal information.
• the right to access and delete certain personal information.
• the right to correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information’s processing purpose.
• the right to data portability.
• the right to opt-out of communications, notifications, and personal data processing for:
• targeted advertising;
• sales; or
• profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (excluding certain states).
• the right to either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal data.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE EXACT SCOPE OF THE ABOVE RIGHTS MAY VARY BY STATE. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE PARTNERSHIP, AS A DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA NONPROFIT CORPORATION, IS EXEMPT FROM SUCH COMPREHENSIVE CONSUMER PRIVACY STATUTES AND REGULATIONS OR MAY BE OTHERWISE INAPPLICABLE TO THE PARTNERSHIP.

Nevertheless, we may comply with a consumer request. If you wish to submit a request, please submit a request by:

• Completing the contact form, available at Contact Us – Partnership to End Addiction
• Emailing us at contact@toendaddiction.org (Subject Line: Exercising Privacy Right)

To the extent required by law, we may comply with your request; provided, however, that we may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal information (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal information is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

To the extent required by law, we will, upon receiving your request, make reasonable efforts to comply with such a request to the extent that such information remains in our possession.

Please note that, to the extent permitted by law, we may not accommodate a request if we believe in good faith that such a request would violate these Terms of Use, any law, or legal requirement; subject the Company to liability; or cause the information to be incorrect.

Please note that in response to a request for deletion, we may destroy your user account using reasonable data-destruction practices.

If at any time you would like to top-out or unsubscribe from receiving future emails, please note that we include unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email. Further, certain of our services which involve communicating with you via text message, email or other written correspondence. Such communications are stored on our servers. Our communications in each such medium (e.g., text message, email, etc.) provide distinct instructions on how your communication history with us in such medium can be deleted. Accordingly, if at any time you would like your correspondence in any given medium deleted, please follow the applicable instructions from our communications in such medium.

We also strive to provide you with choices regarding the information you provide to us.

While we do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.

California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Services that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us.

Nevada also provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain personal information sales. For Nevada residents who wish to exercise this sale opt-out rights may submit a request to this designated address, please submit a request by:

• Completing the interactive web form, available at Contact Us – Partnership to End Addiction
• Emailing us at contact@toendaddiction.org (Subject Line: Nevada; Exercising Privacy Right)

However, please know we do not currently sell data triggering Nevada’s opt-out requirements.

Contact Us.

If you have a question about this Privacy Policy, please submit a query using our form https://drugfree.org/contact-us/, email us at contact@toendaddiction.org (Subject Line: Privacy Policy) or call during normal business hours, Monday–Friday, 9:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. EST at (212) 841-5200. All inquiries will be directed to the appropriate staff person accordingly.

To contact us in writing:

Partnership to End Addiction
711 Third Avenue
5th Floor, Suite 500
New York, NY 10017