Legal
Privacy Policy
Effective date: July 7, 2026
Draft — not yet published.This page needs a lawyer’s review before going live. It is not final legal copy.
New Way to Live is built around a simple principle: we collect as little as possible, we don’t sell anything, and we are plain about what we do collect and why. This policy describes exactly that — no legal boilerplate beyond what is genuinely necessary.
What we collect and why
Your email address
If you sign up for our email list, we collect your email address and pass it to Buttondown, our email provider. We use it only to send you recovery-related content. We tag each subscriber with “nwtl-website” to identify where sign-ups came from. We do not share, sell, or rent your email address to anyone.
Your IP address (temporarily, for rate limiting only)
When you use the Step 4 AI reflection tool, your IP address is held in server memory to enforce a usage limit (five requests per hour per IP address). It is not written to any log file or database, and it is discarded whenever our servers restart or redeploy. We have no way to link your IP address to your identity or to any other data we hold.
Your sobriety date — stays on your device
The sobriety date you enter stays on your device. It is stored in your browser’s localStorage and is never included in any network request to our servers or to any third party. We never see it. Clearing your browser’s localStorage removes it permanently.
Your Step 4 reflection prompt — sent to Anthropic
If you use the AI reflection tool, the text you type is sent to Anthropic (the company that provides the AI model) to generate a response. We do not store the text of your prompt on our servers. Anthropic processes it under their own privacy policy. We recommend you avoid including full names, addresses, or other identifying information about yourself or others in your prompt.
Your Step 10 daily inventory — stays on your device
Answers you write in the Step 10 daily checklist are stored in your browser’s localStorage. They are never transmitted to our servers. We never see them. The current day’s entry clears automatically at midnight; clearing your browser data removes everything.
What we do not collect
We run no analytics. There is no Google Analytics, Plausible, Mixpanel, or similar tracking service on this site.
We place no tracking cookies.
We run no advertising technology of any kind.
We collect no personal data from the meeting finder. We fetch publicly available meeting information from AA intergroup websites and deliver it to your browser. None of your searches or filter selections are stored or transmitted to our servers.
Area requests — the “Don't see your area?” link
Clicking “Request your area” on the Meetings page opens your email client with a pre-filled message. This message is sent directly from your email client to us. NWTL does not process or store anything on the web before your email client opens. If you choose to send the email, your email address and message go to us directly, and we use that information only to respond to your request.
Third-party services
Buttondown — If you subscribe to our email list, your email address is stored with Buttondown. Their privacy policy governs how they handle that data.
Anthropic— If you use the Step 4 AI reflection, your prompt is processed by Anthropic. Their privacy policy governs how they handle that data.
Vercel — This site is hosted on Vercel. Vercel collects standard server logs (including IP addresses and request paths) as part of operating hosting infrastructure. Their privacy policy governs how they handle those logs. We do not sell or provide this data to any other party.
AA intergroup websites — The meeting data we display is fetched from publicly available feeds run by AA intergroup organizations. We do not share any user data with these organizations.
Your rights
Because we do not maintain a user account system, the personal data we hold about you is limited.
Email subscribers: You can unsubscribe from any email we send. To request deletion of your email address from Buttondown, contact us at newwaytolive2@gmail.com and we will process your request within 30 days.
Anthropic: To make data requests related to content processed by Anthropic, contact Anthropic directly under their privacy policy.
Browser data: Your sobriety date, Step 10 answers, and any other locally stored data can be deleted by clearing your browser’s localStorage for this site.
CAN-SPAM compliance
Our email list complies with CAN-SPAM requirements. Every email we send includes an unsubscribe link. We do not use deceptive subject lines. Our physical mailing address: [PLACEHOLDER: address or P.O. box — required for CAN-SPAM].
Changes to this policy
If we make material changes to this policy, we will update the effective date shown at the top of this page. If you are an email subscriber, we will notify you of material changes by email.
Contact
Privacy questions: newwaytolive2@gmail.com