Terms & Privacy
Draft · 19 August 2026
This is a working draft, not a reviewed legal document. It is written to be accurate and readable, and it has not been through counsel. Given is not open to the public, and this page must be reviewed by a lawyer — specifically one who knows nonprofit and payments law — before anyone can sign up.
What Given is
Given is a platform for giving to registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, and for making that giving visible to people you choose. Given is not itself a charity, is not a nonprofit, and is not a bank, broker, or money transmitter.
Your money
When you give, Given charges a 3% platform fee and passes the remainder to the organization you chose. The exact split is shown before you confirm. Given never takes custody of a gift for longer than it takes to pass it on, and does not hold balances on your behalf.
Gifts are final. Given cannot recall money once it has reached a charity. If something has gone wrong with a payment, contact us and we will help you work it out with the organization.
Credit is not money
Credit is a count of what you have given. It has no cash value, cannot be bought, sold, transferred, redeemed for money, or used anywhere outside Given, and Given can change what credit claims at any time. Nothing you claim with credit is property, an investment, or a security.
Tax
Given does not give tax advice and does not tell you what is deductible. Given produces a statement of what you gave, when, and to whom. The charity issues its own acknowledgment. Because giving on Given earns credit, your gift may not be treated the same as a plain donation — that is a question for your own tax professional.
What we collect
- Your account details: name, handle, email, and password.
- Your giving: amounts, dates, organizations, and whether each gift was public or private.
- What you choose to add: a photo, a bio, a city, an employer, group memberships.
- Basic technical data needed to run the service and keep accounts secure.
What other people can see
Your name, handle, photo, bio, rank, and collection are public. Your public gifts appear in the feed. Your lifetime giving total is private to you — it drives your rank, but the number is never shown to anyone else. Private gifts do not appear anywhere attributed to you.
What we do not do
- We do not sell your personal information.
- We do not sell or rent your email address.
- We do not show advertising, and we do not build profiles for advertisers.
- We do not publish your lifetime total, ever.
Your data, and leaving
You can download a complete copy of your data from inside the app at any time, as a JSON file generated on your device.
You can delete your account from inside the app. Deleting removes your profile, collection, credit, rank, follows, posts and comments, and cancels any monthly giving. Records of donations are retained in a de-identified form: the charity has already received and receipted that money, and both parties may be required to keep the record. Your name is removed from them.
Rules for using Given
- Be who you say you are. One account per person.
- Do not harass, impersonate, or abuse other people.
- Do not attempt to buy, sell, or trade credit or accounts.
- Do not use Given to move money for any purpose other than giving to the listed charities.
Given may suspend or remove an account that breaks these rules.
Contact
Questions about this page: legal@joingiven.com. Everything else: Help.