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  1. Cookie PolicySERIOUSCOOKIES · CHANGED SEP 12, 2026Change.org replaced its bare cookie table with a full, structured German-language Cookie Policy. The essential-cookie list itself is unchanged, but the new policy discloses for the first time that it also uses separate categories of preference, analytics, and marketing/advertising cookies — including ones that explicitly share data with third-party advertisers — and adds a Cookie Manager with consent controls and a disclaimer that non-English versions are AI-translated.Read the analysis
  2. Community GuidelinesNOTEDGUIDELINES · CHANGED SEP 12, 2026This update translates the entire Community Guidelines document from English into German for German-speaking users. Aside from a small change to the intro sentence explaining why petitions show diverse perspectives (now attributed to petitions coming from people worldwide, rather than framed as reflecting diverse community views) and an updated link for the 'Promoted Petitions' help article, no rules, rights, or obligations were changed in substance.Read the analysis
  3. Privacy PolicyMATERIALPRIVACY · CHANGED SEP 12, 2026This update republishes Change.org's Privacy Policy in German instead of English. The vast majority of the change is a straight translation with no substance change, but a few real differences slipped in: a specific promise that text-message opt-in data would not be shared with third parties (beyond aggregators/SMS providers) has been dropped entirely, and new mentions of 'crowdfunding' and 'subscription' communications appear for the first time, hinting at features not described in the prior policy.Read the analysis
  4. Terms of ServiceNOTEDTERMS · CHANGED SEP 12, 2026The most important thing about this diff isn't a policy change — it's that the entire Terms of Service switched from English to German between the two fetches, taken just three days apart. Companies don't rewrite and fully translate a legal document in three days. The far more likely explanation is that the crawler was served a different country/locale version of the page (this codebase has recent fixes for exactly this kind of problem, like pinning crawls to a fixed region). Comparing the German text against the prior English text does turn up several sections that appear to be missing (nonprofit signer-data rules, the US SMS/texting disclosures, the EU Digital Services Act appeal notice, the 'Updates to Terms' section, a severability clause, and the GDPR petition-starter addendum), plus a simplified minimum-age statement. But these are exactly the kind of country-specific legal blocks (US SMS shortcodes, India grievance-officer language, EU-specific DSA notices) that legitimately differ page-by-page across a company's various locale versions of its terms — their absence from what looks like a German-market page is at least as consistent with normal per-country legal pages as with a real global rollback of rights. Given that, this comparison should not be treated as a confirmed edit to Change.org's terms. Recommend re-fetching the correct English-locale terms page and re-running this comparison before concluding anything changed.Read the analysis