Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 18, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how TheTreatmentCommunity.com collects, uses, and protects information when you visit our site, subscribe to our emails, use our interactive tools, or contact us. We believe people researching alcohol treatment, recovery, and wellness deserve privacy, clarity, and respectful handling of their information.

Information We Collect

Depending on how you use the site, we may collect information that you provide directly and information collected automatically through website technologies.

Information You Provide

Email address and newsletter preferences when you subscribe to updates.
Information you submit through forms, including contact requests, correction requests, and privacy inquiries.
Tool responses, such as details entered into calculators, assessments, comparison tools, or planning resources.

Information Collected Automatically

Basic analytics data such as pages viewed, referral source, approximate device information, and interactions with site content.
Cookie and similar technology data used to understand site performance, user experience, and referral tracking.
Affiliate referral information when a reader clicks a tracked outbound link.

How We Use Information

We use information to operate the site, improve the reader experience, deliver requested resources, and understand what content and tools are most useful to our audience.

To send newsletters, educational resources, and updates you asked to receive.
To provide personalized informational outputs from calculators, assessments, and other tools.
To improve site performance, content relevance, and user experience.
To measure traffic, engagement, and referral activity.
To respond to inquiries, corrections requests, and privacy requests.
To maintain security, detect abuse, and enforce our site policies.

When you use our interactive tools (calculators, assessments), your responses are used solely to generate your personalized results and, if you opt in, to send you relevant resources via email. We do not sell your personal information.

How Tool Responses Inform Personalized Content

Our interactive tools are part of The Restoration Ecosystem™, the physician-designed framework that organizes our clinical and educational content. Read more about The Restoration Ecosystem →

When you complete a tool, your responses help our system match you with content, articles, and resources that fit your situation. For example, someone who completes a treatment comparison tool may receive resources about levels of care; someone who completes a family-focused tool may receive supporter education and family guidance. The match is based on what you told the tool — not on inferences drawn from data we did not ask you for.

You control what you share. Tools work without an email address; your responses generate your personalized results regardless of whether you choose to receive follow-up email. If you do opt in to email, you can change your preferences or unsubscribe at any time.

Email Marketing and Personalized Content

If you choose to subscribe, we may use your email address and your stated interests to send content that is more relevant to where you are in the decision process. For example, someone who uses a treatment comparison tool may receive resources about levels of care, while someone who uses a family-focused tool may receive supporter education and family guidance.

You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link in the email. Unsubscribing from promotional emails does not prevent us from sending essential responses related to a request you initiated, such as a privacy request or support inquiry.

Third-Party Services

We use third-party services to help operate TTC and measure performance. These may include email service providers such as ActiveCampaign, analytics providers such as Google Analytics, and affiliate networks or referral platforms used to track qualifying outbound referrals. We may also use website hosting, form handling, and security vendors to support site operations.

These third parties may process information on our behalf subject to their own terms and privacy practices. We select services that help us operate the site efficiently, but we do not control every aspect of a third party's privacy practices once you leave our website or interact directly with that provider.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

TTC uses cookies, analytics tags, and similar technologies to understand traffic patterns, remember certain preferences, improve functionality, and measure the performance of content, tools, and affiliate referrals. Some cookies are necessary for site operation, while others help us understand how readers use the site.

You can manage cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect how some parts of the site function.

Your Rights and Choices

You may have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information we hold about you, subject to legal and operational limits. You may also request that we stop sending marketing emails or ask questions about how your information is used.

If you would like to make a privacy request, please contact us through our contact page and include “Privacy Request” in the subject line. Please provide enough information for us to verify the request and understand what you need.

CCPA Notice for California Residents

If you are a California resident, you may have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, including rights to know, access, correct, and delete eligible personal information, as well as the right to limit certain uses of sensitive personal information where applicable. TTC does not sell your personal information.

California residents may submit privacy requests through our contact page. We will review and respond in accordance with applicable law.

Data Security and Retention

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect information in our control. No online transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure, but we work to minimize unnecessary collection and retain data only as long as needed for the purposes described in this policy, legal obligations, or operational records.

Privacy Inquiries

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how TTC handles information, please contact us through our contact page and note that your message is a privacy inquiry.