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Change.org
Basic information
Founded 7 February 2007
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

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  • User privacy: Gets geo-location data to show local petitions that may be of interest and things like postal address and telephone number are optional.[1]
  • Business model: 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]

Incidents

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This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the Change.org category.

Forced retention of payment methods

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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

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Forced retention of payment methods

References

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  1. "Privacy Policy". Change.org. Archived from the original on 15 Feb 2026. Retrieved 29 Aug 2025.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "I believe this site to be a very clever scam". Trustpilot. Archived from the original on 23 Feb 2026. Retrieved 28 August 2025.