Article Status Notice: This Article is a stub


This article is underdeveloped, and needs additional work to meet the wiki's Content Guidelines and be in line with our Mission Statement for comprehensive coverage of consumer protection issues. Learn more ▼

Change.org is a website which allows users to create and sign petitions in an attempt to advance various social causes by raising awareness and influencing decision-makers.

Change.org
Basic information
Founded 2007-February-7
Legal Structure Non-profit
Industry
Also known as
Official website https://www.change.org/

Consumer-impact summary

  • Buisness model - Lets people host their own petitions hoping to get signatures and possibly change laws.
  • Privacy Policy - Gets geolocation data to show local petitions that may be of interest and things like postal address and telephone number are optional.[1]
  • Profit - Has a subscription service to help it keep running, but some people have had issues of them billing even though they closed down their account.[2]

Disadvantages

A user on Trustpilot has claimed that they have been charged monthly even though they chose a one-time payment option and have found no way to cancel, which is known as forced retention of payment methods.[2]

See also

Forced retention of payment methods

References

  1. "Privacy Policy". Change.org. Retrieved 29 August 2025.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "I believe this site to be a very clever scam". Trustpilot. Retrieved 28 August 2025.