Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 4, 2026

ReThink Citizens is a youth-led nonprofit on a mission to empower young people to rethink the internet and build a healthier, safer digital world. We keep our data footprint intentionally small: we collect only what we need to run our programs and respond to you, we never sell or rent your information, and we don’t share individual-level personal data with anyone for their own purposes. This policy explains what we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have.

What we collect

  • Information you give us when you contact us, request our free curriculum, apply to our programs, partner with us, sign up for an event we host, donate, apply for a job, or subscribe to our newsletter — such as your name, email, organization, and anything you include in your message or application.
  • Program information, if you take part in our programs: your application, communications on our program channels, project information you share, evaluation surveys, and — with advance notice and consent — recordings of some virtual sessions.
  • Technical information collected automatically when you visit our site, such as IP address and browser type, in our hosting provider’s server logs. Services embedded in our site (our donation form, newsletter sign-up, and social links) may set their own cookies under their own privacy policies.

How we use it

Only to run our programs, respond to you, evaluate and improve our work, recognize participants and partners (with consent), process donations and send our newsletter, consider job applications, and meet our legal and child-safeguarding obligations. We don’t use your information for advertising or profiling.

Where it’s stored

Your information lives in our email system and a small set of trusted service platforms that act only on our instructions: Google Workspace, Airtable, Slack, Zoom, Luma (registration for events we host), Zeffy (donations — they, not we, handle your card details), Substack (newsletter), and our website host. Access is limited to the staff who handle each function.

What we share — and what we never share

We never sell or rent your information. We share personal information externally only:

  • With consent: we celebrate selected program participants with profiles on our website, newsletter, and social media, and in direct emails to our network of partners, funders, and supporters — only with the member’s approval and, for participants under 18, written parent/guardian consent. You can ask us to take a profile down at any time. We also display partner-organization profiles, removable on request.
  • In aggregate: we share de-identified statistics about our impact (for example, the percentage of participants from a region) with funders and the public — never anything that identifies you without your consent.
  • When safety or the law requires it: as a youth-serving organization, we report suspected child abuse or exploitation to the appropriate authorities, may contact a young person’s parent/guardian or connect them to professional support where their safety requires it, and comply with valid legal process.

Children’s privacy

Our direct programs are open to ages 13 and up, and participants under 18 take part only with written parent/guardian consent. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13; if we learn we have, we will delete it promptly.

How long we keep it

Only as long as needed for the purpose we collected it. Records related to child safeguarding are kept as law and good practice require.

Your choices

You can ask us to access, correct, or delete your information, withdraw consent (including a guardian withdrawing consent for their child), remove published content about you, or unsubscribe from our newsletter (link in every email). Contact Us and we’ll respond promptly. See “Your privacy rights” below for more detail.

Cookies and similar technologies

A cookie is a small file a website places on your device. We keep our own use of cookies to a minimum, and we do not use cookies for advertising, and we do not run analytics or tracking software such as Google Analytics on our site.

Essential cookies. Our website host may set cookies that are needed for the site to load and function correctly, and to keep it secure.

Third-party embeds. Some services built into our pages — for instance (please note this list is not exhaustive), our Zeffy donation form, our Substack newsletter sign-up, Luma event registrations, and links or embeds from social media — may set their own cookies when you interact with them. Those cookies are governed by each provider’s own privacy policy, not this one.

You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking essential cookies may stop parts of the site from working properly.

“Do Not Track” signals

Some browsers can send a “Do Not Track” (DNT) signal. There is no common industry standard for how to respond to one. Because we do not track you across other websites or serve you targeted advertising, a DNT signal does not change what we do — we behave the same way whether or not you send one.

Your privacy rights

Rather than give different people different rights depending on where they live, we extend the same core choices to everyone who contacts us. Whoever and wherever you are, you can ask us to:

  • See what personal information we hold about you, and get a copy of it;
  • Correct information that is wrong or incomplete;
  • Delete your information, which we will do unless a legal or child-safeguarding obligation requires us to keep it;
  • Withdraw consent you previously gave — including a parent or guardian withdrawing consent for their child;
  • Take down published content about you, such as a participant profile; and
  • Unsubscribe from our newsletter, using the link in every email.

Contact Us and we will respond promptly. We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request. We will never treat you differently, or withhold a service, because you exercised one of these rights.

Alongside those choices, a few commitments apply to everyone:

  • We do not sell personal information about anyone, at any age, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising — so there is nothing for you to opt out of.
  • If you are under 18 and have publicly posted content on our site, you or your parent/guardian can ask us to take it down, and we will.
  • We are based in the United States, so information you send us is stored and processed here, wherever you are writing from.

Links to other websites

Our site links to websites we do not run, and our programs point young people and caregivers to outside resources. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of those sites, and we encourage you to read the privacy policy of any site you visit.

Changes and contact

If we change this policy, we’ll update it here with a new date. Questions? Contact Us

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