Your Story Is Not For Sale
Last Updated: May 2026
SpoonieFans does not sell your personal information. We never have, and we have no plans to.
We also do not "share" your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, as those terms are defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), or similar privacy laws in other U.S. states.
There is nothing for you to opt out of — because there is nothing being sold or shared in the first place.
Our community shares deeply personal stories about chronic illness, mental health, treatments, medications, and daily struggles. That information is sacred. Selling it — or sharing it with advertisers, data brokers, or AI training companies — would be a fundamental betrayal of the trust our community places in us.
So we made a choice early on:
Under the CCPA, CPRA, and similar laws, the terms "sell" and "share" are defined very broadly. They can include:
We have reviewed each of our service providers — payment processing (Stripe), email delivery (Brevo), cloud hosting (Hetzner), and identity verification — and structured our agreements so that none of them constitute a "sale" or "share" under these laws. They process data on our behalf, under our instructions, and only to provide their service to us.
If we ever introduce a business model that could be considered "selling" or "sharing" personal information under any privacy law — for example, third-party advertising — we will:
Until then, this page will continue to say what it says today: nothing to sell, nothing to share, nothing to opt out of.
Even though we do not sell or share your data, you still have these rights under the CCPA, CPRA, and similar laws in other states:
Request what personal information we collect about you
Request that we delete your personal information
Request correction of inaccurate information we hold about you
Request to limit the use of sensitive personal information
You have the right to non-discrimination for exercising any of your privacy rights
To exercise any of these rights, email privacy@spooniefans.com or see our Privacy Policy for full details.
Under the CPRA, certain categories of information are classified as "sensitive personal information," including health-related information. Because much of what is shared on SpoonieFans falls into this category, we are especially careful with it:
You have the right to request that we limit the use of your sensitive personal information at any time, though doing so may affect Platform functionality.
This notice is designed to address the requirements of the following U.S. state privacy laws:
Users outside the United States may have additional or different rights under their local laws (such as GDPR for EU/UK users). Please see our Privacy Policy for jurisdiction-specific rights and procedures.
We're committed to protecting the deeply personal information you share with our community. Your privacy is not a commodity. It's a fundamental part of the trust we've built together.
Your story belongs to you. Always.