Privacy Policy

Last updated July 17, 2025

Back from the Brink (BftB) respects your right to privacy and has created the following privacy policy to inform you about the ways in which this website collects data. Rest assured that no personally identifiable information is collected automatically when you visit our website. Text messaging opt-in data and consent will also not be shared with any third party.

Outlined below is our privacy policy for information collected as a result of engagement with our website. If you have questions about these policies, we encourage you to contact us at info@preventnuclearwar.org.

Collection and Use of Information: We collect information that you choose to provide to us, such as your name, address, telephone number, email address, and company or organization name. We may use the information that we collect to provide the site and services to you, to communicate with you (including to send you promotional materials), to analyze and improve the site and services, to prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities and enforce our Terms of Use or rights, and otherwise as disclosed to you at the time of collection or with your consent.

This website uses Statcounter, an online service which helps us to understand our visitors; for example, how visitors find our website, how long they spend on our site, which web pages they are most interested in etc. We use Statcounter because better understanding how visitors are interacting with our website helps us to improve the content, design and functionality of our site. This allows us to offer a better online experience to our visitors.

Statcounter uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on visitors and visitor activity on our website. This data includes:

• Time and date of visit (this can help us to identify and plan for busy periods on our website)
• IP address (this is a numerical label assigned to a device by an Internet Service Provider to enable the device to access the internet)
• Browser and Operating System (this can help us to make sure that our website functions correctly in the browsers/operating systems used to access our site)
• Device Information e.g. device type and screen size (this can help us to make sure that our website functions correctly in the devices used to access our site)
• Referring Data e.g. a search engine link (this can help us to understand which search engines are helping visitors to find our website)

Furthermore, when you visit our website a Statcounter cookie (called “is_unique”) may be placed in your browser. This cookie is used only to determine whether you are a first-time or returning visitor and to estimate unique visits to the site. You can learn more about cookies from Statcounter and set your browser to refuse same here: http://statcounter.com/about/set-refusal-cookie/. For further details, please see the Statcounter privacy policy: https://statcounter.com/about/legal/#privacy

Sale or Disclosure of Information to Third Parties: BftB does not share, rent, sell, exchange or otherwise disclose any personal information with other unaffiliated organizations, nor do we share, sell or exchange lists of users or other constituents with unaffiliated organizations. We may disclose your information when required by law or to respond to legal process, law enforcement requests, or government inquiries; and to defend the rights, interests, safety, and security of us, our affiliates, constituents, or the public.

Privacy of our Email Lists: BftB may maintain email lists to keep our supporters — including online and offline users and constituents, the press and policy makers — informed about news and events. We do not share the email addresses on our lists with staff outside of BftB. We do not intentionally send unsolicited e-mail messages that could legitimately be construed as spam. Out of respect for our users’ privacy we provide a way to opt-out of these communications. You may review, correct, update or change your email information at any time. Simply contact us at info@preventnuclearwar.org.

Sending Emails via the BftB Website: In certain cases, we may enable you to send individual emails to the President, legislators, and other targets through our website. These messages are sent in your name, with your email address as the return address and your full name and contact information is provided as part of the submission. These messages will only be sent out under your name as you approve them on an individual basis using our email tool. You are solely responsible for the specific message(s) you send using our email tool.

Links to Other Websites: BftB may provide links to third-party websites, and other websites may provide links to our websites. Third-party websites operate according to their own terms of use and privacy policies. BftB has no control over such third-party websites and, by using our websites, you acknowledge and agree that BftB is not responsible for the availability of such third-party sites and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products or other materials on or available from such sites. You further acknowledge and agree that BftB is not responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use or reliance on any content, advertising, products or other materials on or available from such sites.

Security: BftB uses reasonable physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect information from unauthorized access, use, loss, misuse, or alteration. Notwithstanding these security safeguards, it is impossible to guarantee 100 percent security in all circumstances.

COPPA: If you are under the age of 13, we comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. If you inform us that we have collected or received information from a child under 13, we will delete such information immediately from our databases. Our website is not specifically directed to children under 13. We shall not knowingly distribute to third parties any personally identifiable information erroneously collected from children under 13.