Last Updated: [November 7, 2025]

1. First principle: Relationships stay where they belong

Donors own their profile and giving history.
Nonprofits own their supporter relationships and records.
Gudsy provides the rails between them. Nothing more.

In practice:

• When someone gives to a nonprofit through Gudsy using that nonprofit’s own payment account (e.g. PayPal):
  • That donor is the nonprofit’s donor.
  • The nonprofit receives the same information they would reasonably expect from a direct online gift.
• Gudsy stores only what is necessary to:
  • process transactions,
  • display giving history to donors,
  • display relevant transactions to nonprofits,
  • maintain security, integrity, and auditability.

2. What nonprofits can see (and cannot see)

Nonprofits can:

• See donors and transactions specifically directed to their organization through Gudsy.
• Export their own Gudsy-related data in a usable format.
• Control their public profile, content, and how they use Gudsy tools.

Nonprofits cannot:

• See where else their donors give.
• Access any other organization’s donor data.
• Use Gudsy to scrape, purchase, or “trade” donor lists.

There is no cross-organization donor directory and no backdoor visibility.

3. What donors can see (and control)

Donors can:

• See their own giving history across nonprofits they support via Gudsy.
• Follow organizations, manage saved causes, and adjust communication preferences.
• Choose what information is shared with each nonprofit, subject to what’s required to complete a gift.

Donors cannot:

• View other donors’ identities or giving histories.
• Access internal nonprofit records.

Donors may update or close their account, subject to applicable legal, security, and record-keeping requirements.

4. How Gudsy uses (and does not use) data

Gudsy does:

• Use data to:
  • operate and improve the platform,
  • prevent fraud and abuse,
  • ensure reliability and security,
  • generate aggregated, anonymized insights (e.g. high-level trends without identifying individuals).
• Support compliance with state and jurisdictional fundraising rules by allowing nonprofits to configure where they actively solicit (e.g. profile visibility or donation options by state).

Gudsy does not:

• Sell, rent, or trade donor data.
• Sell access to nonprofit donor lists.
• Run advertising or “paid placement” targeting one nonprofit’s donors on behalf of another.
• Use individual donor giving histories to steer them away from the organizations they support.

If recommendation or discovery features are present, they are:

• driven by donor intent (search, filters, interests),
• based on neutral criteria (cause area, geography, status),
• not powered by harvesting one nonprofit’s donor list for another.

5. Control, exit, and alignment

• Nonprofits can stop using Gudsy at any time. They retain their donor and transaction records. Gudsy retains only what is required for legal, accounting, and security purposes, plus anonymized analytics.
• Donors can leave Gudsy; their choices are honored within the bounds of applicable law and nonprofit obligations.
• Gudsy’s business model is transparent: value is created through services, not by exploiting hidden data monetization.

Any future material change to these commitments will be reflected clearly in public-facing terms and communications.