Privacy, plainly.

There’s nothing to sign up for and nothing to log in to. We don’t collect email addresses, and the site doesn’t send email.

We don’t save what you type on our servers. A few tools remember things in your own browser so they’re still there when you come back — your sobriety date, today’s Step Ten answers, the daily reflection. That stays on your device, and clearing your browser data removes it.

When you keep a PDF, copy your text, or download your inventory file, it goes to your device — not to us.

Some steps offer an optional reflection written by AI. If you choose one, what you wrote for that tool is sent to Anthropic — the company that makes the Claude AI — so it can write a reply. We don’t keep a copy. Anthropic handles it under its own privacy terms.

Please leave out last names and other people’s details. Initials work fine. (The Step Eight list never sends the names you write — only how many are in each group.)

If something you write sounds like a crisis, it’s never sent to the AI. You’ll see ways to reach a person instead.

If you make a share image of a reflection (from Step Four or the day counter), the reflection passes through our server to draw the picture and isn’t kept. A shared day-count link carries only the number of days, never your words. A daily reading saved as an image is drawn from that day’s date alone; copying, sharing or printing a reading happens on your device.

Like any website, our host (Vercel) handles basic request details such as IP addresses to deliver pages and keep things running. We hold IP addresses briefly in memory to stop the AI tools being overused.

We use Vercel’s cookie-free analytics to count page visits, which tools get opened or finished, and where a visit came from (such as a link we posted on social media) — never what anyone writes. We don’t set cookies, run ads, or sell anything.

New Way to Live is people in recovery sharing what helped us: peer-style support. It isn’t therapy, medical advice, or an emergency service, and the AI reflections are a mirror, not a counselor.

For medical questions — especially about stopping drinking — please talk to a doctor. Stopping suddenly can be medically dangerous.

Questions, corrections, or your story? Reach us by Email · Facebook · Instagram. Anything you send comes only to us — the site doesn’t collect or keep it.