After You Terms of Use

Last Updated: September 15, 2026

Charity Navigator, Inc., a 501(c)(3) public charity (hereinafter, “Charity Navigator,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) welcomes you to After You. We invite you to access and use our online services (“Services”), which are made available to you through the After You website, https://afteryou.org/, (the “Website”) and related applications and platforms.

We provide our Services to Visitors (as defined below) subject to these Terms of Use, which may be updated by us from time to time without notice to you. The Terms of Use are a contract between you and Charity Navigator. Your access to and continued use of certain areas within the Website located at https://afteryou.org (including any successor sites), including any portions of the Website that request the submission of data or other information, constitutes your reading, understanding and acceptance, without limitation, of the terms and conditions of the Terms of Use. You agree to be legally bound by these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy, which is hereby incorporated by reference (collectively, the “Agreement”). If you do not agree to any of these terms, then please do not access the Website or use the Services.

1. Description and Use of Services

Charity Navigator’s mission is to make impactful giving easier for all. After You is a people-powered giving recommendation platform that helps donors discover organizations they may not have previously heard of via recommendations from other users.

When we use the terms “you” or “your” in these Terms of Use, we are referring to “Visitors” of the Website, which refers to individuals who view various webpages and explore the Website and the Services described therein. No login is required for Visitors. Visitors can: (a) view all publicly-available content; (b) access the “survey” function and/or submit information about themselves and/or nonprofit organizations they support; and (c) e-mail us.

Use of Third-Party Applications. Charity Navigator uses third-party applications to provide the Services, and some of the content appearing on the Website is in fact supplied, supported or provided directly or indirectly by third parties, for example, in instances of framing of third-party websites or incorporation through framesets of content provided by third-party services. We also may provide links to third-party websites. For more information on third party applications, please see the Privacy Policy. Charity Navigator has no responsibility for any such third-party applications or websites (“Third-Party Applications”) and do not make any representations regarding the content or accuracy of the information presented therein. Your use of such applications or websites is governed by the Agreement and any privacy policies and terms of use of such third parties.

2. Community Rules (“Community Rules”)

Charity Navigator’s community, like any community, functions best when its users follow a few simple rules. By accessing and/or using the Services, you agree to comply with these Community Rules, including when you access Third-Party Applications through the Website, and that:

• You will not use the Services for any unlawful purpose;
• You will not upload, post, e-mail, transmit, or otherwise make available any content that:
  • infringes any copyright, trademark, right of publicity, or other proprietary rights of any person or entity;
  • you do not have a right to make available under any law or under any contractual or fiduciary relationship (such as inside information, proprietary, and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);
  • is defamatory, libelous, knowingly false, indecent, obscene, pornographic, sexually explicit, invasive of another’s privacy, promotes violence, or contains hate speech (i.e., speech that attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and/or sexual orientation/gender identity); or
  • discloses any sensitive information about another person, including that person’s e-mail address, mailing or permanent address, phone number, credit card information, or any similar information.
• You will not instigate or encourage others to commit illegal activities or cause injury or property damage to any person;
• You will be courteous, treating everyone with respect, as showing respect to others makes the community better for all users;
• You will not spam or use the Services to engage in any commercial activities, including, without limitation, raising money; advertising or promoting a product, service, website, or company; or engaging in any pyramid or other multi-tiered marketing scheme;
• You will not access or use the Services to collect any market research for a competing business or businesses;
• You will not acquire or attempt to acquire any resources or information through any means not intentionally made through the Services;
• You will not violate any applicable local, state, national, or international law;
• You will not manipulate identifiers in a manner that disguises the origin of any content you transmit through the Website;
• You will not impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
• You will not interfere with or attempt to interrupt the proper operation of the Services through the use of any means designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer software, hardware, telecommunications, or other equipment, or to cause a security breach of such software, hardware, telecommunications, or other equipment (such as a virus, worm, computer code, file, program, device, information collection or transmission mechanism, software or routine, or access or attempt to gain access to any data, files, or passwords related to the Services through hacking, password or data mining, or any other means);
• You will not cover, obscure, block, or, in any way, interfere with any promoted messages and/or safety features (e.g., report abuse button) on the Services; and
• You will let Charity Navigator know about inappropriate content by contacting afteryou@charitynavigator.org with the subject line “TERMS OF USE.” If you find something that violates Charity Navigator’s Community Rules, let us know, and we will review the content for potential violation (provided, however, that Charity Navigator may not be able to and shall not be required to monitor or remove any content submitted through a Third-Party Application).

We reserve the right, in our sole and absolute discretion, to deny you access to the Services, or any portion of the Services, without notice, and to remove any content that does not adhere to these guidelines.

3. Permitted and Prohibited Uses

Permitted Uses. You may access and use the Website for the following purposes:

• To learn about nonprofit organizations for the purpose of evaluating them as recipients of charitable donations, including grants;
• To learn more or exchange information about specific nonprofit organizations or general issues of interest to the nonprofit community;
• To fulfill your business or organizational mission of making charitable donations to nonprofit entities; and
• To conduct comparative or other “best practices” research purposes.

Prohibited Uses. You may not:

• Use the Website other than as authorized by the Terms of Use;
• Use the Website for the benefit of any third party, other than as part of a Permitted Use;
• Republish or distribute information from the Website without Charity Navigator’s express written consent;
• Modify information from the Website except in connection with a Permitted Use;
• Disassemble, decode, decompile, or otherwise reverse engineer the Website, including, without limitation, any interfaces or software programs comprising the Website;
• Take any action that would impede or interfere with the operation of the Website or alter Contents of the Website, or alter or interfere with any other content, website, or software that Charity Navigator owns or controls;
• Directly or indirectly, change, recompile, reframe, rent, sell, distribute or publish any of the Website, any database thereon and/or any content thereon, or any portion thereof, without explicit written consent from Charity Navigator;
• Use any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction methods with respect to the Website or any portion thereof; or
• Use the Website directly or indirectly in competition with Charity Navigator in any way whatsoever.

4. Restrictions

The Services are available for individuals aged 16 years or older. If you are 16 or older, but under the age of 18, you should review the Agreement with your parent or guardian to make sure that you and your parent or guardian understand it.

5. Personal Information

On the “survey” page of the Website, you may be asked to provide certain personal and demographic information. When submitting this information, you must provide true, accurate, current, and complete information. We reserve the right to delete your information at any time and for any reason.

6. Intellectual Property

The Services contain material, such as software, text, graphics, images, sound recordings, audiovisual works, and other material provided by or on behalf of Charity Navigator (collectively referred to as “Content”). Content may be owned by us or by third parties. Content is protected under both United States and foreign laws. Unauthorized use of Content may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws. You have no rights in or to Content, and you will not use Content except as permitted under the Agreement. Any other use is prohibited without prior written consent from Charity Navigator. You must retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the original Content. You may not sell, transfer, assign, license, sublicense, or modify Content or reproduce, display, publicly perform, make a derivative version of, distribute, or otherwise use Content in any way for any public or commercial purpose. The use or posting of Content on any other website or in a networked computer environment for any purpose is expressly prohibited.

If you violate any part of the Agreement, your permission to access and/or use Content and the Services automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any copies you have made of Content.

“After You” and all other trademarks, service marks, and logos of Charity Navigator (“Charity Navigator Trademarks”) used and displayed on the Services are registered and unregistered trademarks or service marks of Charity Navigator. Nothing in this Agreement, on the Website or within the Services should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to you to use Charity Navigator Trademarks. You may use the Charity Navigator Trademarks only with Charity Navigator’s prior written permission specific for each such use. All goodwill generated from use of Charity Navigator Trademarks inures to our benefit.

Other company, product, and service names located on the Website or within the Services may be trademarks or service marks owned by others (“Third-Party Trademarks”). Nothing in this Agreement, on the Website or within the Services). should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to you to use any Third-Party Trademarks.

Elements of the Services are protected by trade dress, trademark, unfair competition, and other state and federal laws and may not be copied or imitated in whole or in part, by any means, including, but not limited to, the use of framing or mirrors. No Content may be retransmitted without our express, written consent for each and every instance.

7. User Content; Licenses

As noted above, the Services provide Visitors the ability to submit user content (“User Content”).

You retain all copyrights and other intellectual property rights in and to your own User Content. You do, however, hereby grant Charity Navigator a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, transferable, sub-license license to modify, compile, combine with other content and data, copy, record, synchronize, format, and index your User Content and display, perform, sub-license, commercialize, and make it available to others in all media now known or hereafter devised, including, without limitation, through the Website.

If you submit User Content to us, each such submission constitutes a representation and warranty to Charity Navigator that such User Content is your original creation (or that you otherwise have the right to provide the User Content), that you have the rights necessary to grant the license to the User Content under the prior paragraph, and that it and its use by Charity Navigator does not and will not violate our community guidelines.

You expressly acknowledge and agree that once you upload User Content, it will be accessible and viewable by Charity Navigator and, depending on the forum, others. You can find more information in the Privacy Policy about Charity Navigator’s privacy practices concerning personal data you share with us, but please note that if you share even personal data via the Website, you are sharing it with others outside of Charity Navigator and we are not responsible for its safeguard or security.

8. Communications With Us

Communications From Charity Navigator. You understand and agree that, as a Visitor of the Website, Charity Navigator may send to you certain communications from time to time, including (a) product announcements, including but not limited to announcements concerning modifications, enhancements, and/or upgrades to the Website; (b) service announcements, including but not limited to announcements regarding conditions or other possible interruptions that may affect use of and/or access to the Website and/or any services or other products offered by Charity Navigator; and (c) other administrative updates. You further understand and agree that your agreement to receive such communications is a condition of your use of the Website. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, any new feature that enhances or supplements the Website shall be subject to the Agreement.

Communications to Charity Navigator. Although we encourage you to contact us, we do not want you to, and you should not, send us any content that contains confidential information. As outlined in Community Rules, you should not send us any content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under any contractual or fiduciary relationship (such as inside information, confidential and proprietary information, learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements). With respect to all communications you send to us, including, but not limited to, feedback, questions, comments, suggestions, and the like, we shall be free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in your communications for any purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to, the development, production, and marketing of products and services that incorporate such information without any payment or obligation to you.

9. No Warranties; Limitations of Liability

WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE CONTENTS OF THE SERVICES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, CONTENT (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY REVIEWS, RECOMMENDATIONS, OR FINANCIAL DATA OF ANY PARTICULAR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION(S)), OR USER CONTENT. WE SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO LIABILITY FOR ANY DELAYS OR INTERRUPTIONS OF THE SERVICES FROM WHATEVER CAUSE. YOU AGREE THAT YOU USE CONTENT, THE SERVICES, AND USER CONTENT AT YOUR OWN RISK.

WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES WILL OPERATE ERROR-FREE OR THAT THE SERVICES, ITS SERVERS, ITS CONTENT, OR USER CONTENT ARE FREE OF COMPUTER VIRUSES OR SIMILAR CONTAMINATION OR DESTRUCTIVE FEATURES. IF YOUR USE OF CONTENT, USER CONTENT, OR THE SERVICES RESULTS IN THE NEED FOR SERVICING OR REPLACING EQUIPMENT OR DATA, WE SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THOSE COSTS.

THE CONTENT, THE USER CONTENT, AND THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE WARRANTY OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTIES’ RIGHTS, AND FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

IN NO EVENT SHALL WE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, INCIDENTAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOST DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) RESULTING FROM THE USE, INABILITY TO USE, DISCLOSURE, DISPLAY, OR MAINTENANCE OF ANY CONTENT, USER CONTENT, OR THE SERVICES, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH STATES, OUR LIABILITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

THE SERVICES MAY CONTAIN TECHNICAL INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS OR OMISSIONS. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY SUCH TYPOGRAPHICAL, TECHNICAL, OR OTHER ERRORS LISTED ON THE SERVICES. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE CHANGES, CORRECTIONS, AND/OR IMPROVEMENTS TO THE SERVICES AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE

10. External Sites

The Services may contain links to third-party websites (“External Sites”). These links are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by us of the content on such External Sites. The content of such External Sites is developed and provided by others. You should contact the site administrator or webmaster for those External Sites if you have any concerns regarding such links or any content located on such External Sites. We are not responsible for the content of any linked External Sites and do not make any representations regarding the content or accuracy of materials on such External Sites. You should take precautions when downloading files from all websites to protect your computer from viruses and other destructive programs. If you decide to access linked External Sites, you do so at your own risk.

11. Representations; Warranties; and Indemnification

(a) You hereby represent, warrant, and covenant that:

• You own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to all trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other proprietary, privacy, and publicity rights in and to your User Content and any other works that you incorporate into your User Content, and all the rights necessary to grant the licenses and permissions you grant hereunder;
• Use of your User Content in the manners contemplated in the Agreement shall not violate or misappropriate the intellectual property, privacy, publicity, contractual, or other rights of any third party; and
• You shall not submit to the Services any User Content that violates our community guidelines set forth above.

(b) You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us and our officers, directors, employees, successors, licensees, and assign harmless from and against any claims, actions, or demands, including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, arising or resulting from: (i) your breach of the Agreement, including, without limitation, the representations and warranties asserted in Section 11(a), above; (ii) your access to, use, or misuse of Content, User Content, or the Services, and (iii) your violation of any third-party right, including without limitation any copyright, trademark, property, or privacy right. We shall provide notice to you of any such claim, suit, or proceeding and shall assist you, at your expense, in defending any such claim, suit, or proceeding. We reserve the right to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter that is subject to indemnification under this section. In such case, you agree to cooperate with any reasonable requests assisting our defense of such matter.

12. Use of Cookies

The Website uses cookies for marketing and analytics, as explained in the Privacy Policy. By using or interacting with the Website, you agree to the placement of such cookies.

13. Compliance With Applicable Laws

The Services are based in the United States and intended only for use in the United States and is not intended for use outside of the United States.

14. Termination of the Agreement

We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to restrict, suspend, or terminate the Agreement and your access to all or any part of the Services, at any time and for any reason without prior notice or liability. We reserve the right to change, suspend, or discontinue all or any part of the Services at any time without prior notice or liability. Sections 6, 7, 9 and 11 will survive any termination of this Agreement.

15. Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Charity Navigator respects the intellectual property rights of others and attempts to comply with all relevant laws. We will review all claims of copyright infringement received and remove any Content or User Content deemed to have been posted or distributed in violation of any such laws.

Our designated agent under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “Act”) for the receipt of any Notification of Claimed Infringement which may be given under the Act is as follows:

Charity Navigator, Inc.
Attention: DMCA
500 Paterson Plank Rd., Ste. 31059
Union City, NJ 07087

If you believe that your work has been copied on the Services in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our agent with notice in accordance with the requirements of the Act, including (i) a description of the copyrighted work that has been infringed and the specific location on the Services where such work is located; (ii) a description of the location of the original or an authorized copy of the copyrighted work; (iii) your address, telephone number and e-mail address; (iv) a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; (v) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf; and (vi) an electronic or physical signature of the owner of the copyright or the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest.

16. Miscellaneous

The Agreement is governed by the internal substantive laws of the State of New Jersey, without respect to its conflict of laws provisions. You expressly agree: (i) to submit to the exclusive personal jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the State of New Jersey; and (ii) that the Services shall be deemed passive that do not give rise to personal jurisdiction over Charity Navigator, either specific or general, in jurisdictions other than New Jersey. YOU AGREE THAT ANY CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SERVICES MUST COMMENCED BY YOU WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ACCRUES, OTHERWISE SUCH CAUSE OF ACTION IS PERMANENTLY BARRED.

You and Charity Navigator agree that any dispute arising out of or related to these Terms or the Website is personal to you and Charity Navigator and that any dispute will be resolved solely through individual action, and will not be brought as a class action or any other type of representative proceeding.

If any provision of the Agreement is found to be invalid, or otherwise contrary to the law or equity, by a court of competent jurisdiction or terminated in accordance with the Termination provision above, you and Charity Navigator agree that such provision shall be automatically severed and the remainder of the Agreement that can be given effect shall continue to be given effect. The invalidity or termination of such provision shall not affect the validity of any other provisions outlined in the Agreement.

Our failure to act on or enforce any provision of the Agreement shall not be construed as a waiver of that provision or any other provision in the Agreement. No waiver shall be effective against us unless made in writing, and no such waiver shall be construed as a waiver in any other or subsequent instance. Except as expressly agreed by us and you in writing, the Agreement constitutes the entire Agreement between you and us with respect to the subject matter, and supersedes all previous or contemporaneous agreements, whether written or oral, between the parties with respect to the subject matter. The section headings are provided merely for convenience and shall not be given any legal import. The Agreement will inure to the benefit of our successors, assigns, licensees, and sub-licensees.

17. Modifications to Website, Terms of Use

We reserve the right to make changes to any information or services on the Website, including these Terms, without notice to you. Any such changes to the Terms will be posted here and will be effective upon posting. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of such changes will mean you accept those changes. You acknowledge and agree that you are responsible for keeping yourself apprised of any such changes.