Last updated: October 27, 2026.
This website is operated by San Fernando Valley Intergroup of Overeaters Anonymous (the “Intergroup,” “we,” or “us”). This notice explains information handled through this website, not the practices of every OA meeting or external website.
Anonymity and Information You Share
We respect OA anonymity. However, website submissions and email cannot be guaranteed completely confidential or secure. Please provide only information necessary for your request. Do not send diagnoses, treatment records, meeting passwords, or another person’s private information without appropriate permission. This website is not a medical, counseling, or emergency service.
Information We Handle
- Requests and service information: names, contact details, message content, meeting-change details, meeting or service affiliation, availability, role preferences and supporting comments, depending on the form.
- Optional recovery-related context: some service or speaker forms invite limited experience, strength and hope. This information may be sensitive; share only what is necessary.
- Delegate attendance: the meeting represented, attendee name, delegate, alternate, covering or replacement role and optional private email. Session and assignment history support attendance and private roster follow-up.
- Technical and security information: hosting and security providers may process IP addresses, device/browser information, requested pages, timestamps, login attempts and suspicious activity.
- Preferences and meeting searches: cookie choices and optional translation settings. Meeting filters may appear in the page URL and in links you share. ZIP-code and current-location distance searches are processed in your browser and are not saved by the meeting finder or added to its URL.
Public comments are disabled.
Use, Access and Publication
We use information to answer and route requests, maintain meeting/event information, coordinate approved services, manage attendance and access, protect the website and meet applicable recordkeeping obligations. Access is limited to authorized trusted servants and service providers who need it for their task. Information may be disclosed when required by law or reasonably necessary to address security or legal issues.
A private submission or acknowledgment of this notice does not, by itself, authorize public display of your name, photograph, recovery story or recording. Material intended for publication follows the applicable separate permission/release and editorial approval process. Delegate attendance and optional email details are not published by the sign-in form; indicating a possible replacement flags private review rather than automatically changing the roster.
Delegate Links and Restricted Sign-In
Host-issued delegate links are temporary bearer credentials: anyone holding an active link can open that session’s form. Share them only with intended meeting participants. They stop working when the session closes, expires or its credentials change. They do not grant access to private attendance, roster or administration screens.
If restricted resources offer Google Workspace sign-in, the website may receive an email address, Google account identifier and basic profile information to verify identity and access eligibility. That sign-in does not authorize reading Gmail. Google Drive links remain subject to Google’s terms and the file owner’s permissions.
Email and Subscription Choices
Google Workspace processes Intergroup email and associated delivery information. The website’s configured Google email connection has send-only authorization, not permission to read a Gmail inbox. Email correspondence may contain the information you choose to send. For new Intake Manager submissions, notification emails include the submitted contact details and the fields relevant to that form, including any optional recovery-related context provided, along with a private administrator link. They are sent to the authorized Intergroup recipients handling that workflow. Email copies have separate retention and are not removed by website record cleanup.
Contacting us or submitting a service request does not automatically subscribe you to newsletters or announcements. Any enabled subscription workflow requires a separate choice and its own unsubscribe information; unavailable preview signups do not collect email addresses.
Service Providers and External Sites
GoDaddy provides hosting, Wordfence supports security, Google Workspace handles Intergroup email, and Google Translate is optional. When enabled, translation may involve page content and technical requests being processed by Google under its terms. Payment, Google Drive, Zoom, maps, OA World Service and other external links take you to those services, where their privacy notices apply. Payment providers process payment information on their own services; the Intergroup may retain contribution details and transaction references for recordkeeping.
The Intergroup does not intentionally use website submissions for targeted advertising or sell personal information. Hosting and administrative tracking must also be considered; the public cookie controls are not a certification of all provider settings. See the Cookie Policy for the controls’ scope.
Retention and Deletion
The configured retention setting for new operational submissions in the website’s intake register is 730 days. Eligible records are removed by the scheduled cleanup task; execution can be delayed by site scheduling or availability. Imported legacy records are excluded from that automatic rule and require authorized review.
This period is not a universal deadline for email correspondence, delegate/assignment history, contribution records, newsletters, recordings, exported files or backups. Their retention depends on the record type, its approved purpose and applicable obligations. Deleting active records does not necessarily remove backup copies immediately. Contact us about a particular record rather than assuming every copy is immediately deleted.
Your Choices and Privacy Requests
You may ask about, request access to, correct, or request deletion of personal information the Intergroup controls using the contact details below. We may request information reasonably necessary to verify and fulfill your request; do not send government identification, diagnoses or other sensitive documents unless a suitable method and need have been agreed. Applicable rights, identity verification and lawful retention needs affect how a request can be fulfilled.
Use to change optional translation choices. Changing these choices controls future optional loading; it does not automatically delete existing provider cookies or information previously processed elsewhere. Browser cookie controls can remove stored cookies.
California Privacy and Browser Signals
Privacy rights depend on applicable law and the circumstances. This notice does not claim a blanket nonprofit exemption, waive applicable rights or certify legal compliance. Our cookie control detects Global Privacy Control to display a notice, but that is not a universal block on hosting, administrative or external-provider processing. It does not interpret the separate legacy Do Not Track signal. See the Cookie Policy for details.
Children and Policy Changes
This general-audience website is not directed to children under 13. Contact us if you believe a child has submitted personal information; do not include unnecessary sensitive details in the initial request. Material changes will be posted here with a revised update date. A policy revision does not itself authorize an unrelated new use of information already collected.
Contact the Intergroup
San Fernando Valley Intergroup of Overeaters Anonymous
6200 Canoga Ave., Suite 101Woodland Hills, CA 91367
office@oasfvalley.org · (818) 888-4776
Please contact us before visiting.