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

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.

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.