Shareathon

Legal

Acceptable use

Last updated · July 16, 2026

Shareathon exists to help schools, clubs, churches, and nonprofits raise money in a way that feels good for everyone. Here's the short list of what's welcome and what isn't.

Draft — pending attorney review

1. Campaigns we welcome

  • K-12 schools, PTOs, booster clubs, and student programs.
  • Colleges, athletic teams, and student organizations.
  • Churches, ministries, and faith-based nonprofits.
  • Registered 501(c)(3) nonprofits.
  • Community and mission-driven groups with a clear purpose.

2. What's not allowed

You can't use Shareathon to raise for or promote:

  • Anything illegal in the United States or in the donor's state.
  • Hate, harassment, or content targeting a person or group based on identity.
  • Adult content, escort services, or pornography.
  • Weapons, ammunition, explosives, or related accessories.
  • Tobacco, vaping, cannabis, recreational drugs, or drug paraphernalia.
  • Gambling, sweepstakes, raffles where prohibited by state law, or anything labeled as "investment".
  • Political campaigns, PACs, and partisan electioneering. (Civic-education and nonpartisan voter-engagement nonprofits are welcome.)
  • Multi-level-marketing recruiting, pyramid schemes, or pay-to-play arrangements.
  • Cryptocurrency speculation, tokens, NFTs, or anything sold primarily as a financial product.
  • Personal fundraising on behalf of someone else without their written consent.
  • Causes that mislead donors about where the money goes.

3. How you share

  • Only contact people you actually know — friends, family, your community.
  • No purchased lists, no scraped emails, no spam, no unsolicited bulk SMS.
  • No impersonating someone else.
  • No fake donors, no self-dealing donations to manipulate the leaderboard.
  • Respect "stop" and unsubscribe requests immediately.

4. Sharer rewards and the gift-card thank-you

The optional $20-per-$500 gift-card thank-you is designed to reward participants who genuinely drive verified donations through their own personal share link. You may not use it to farm gift cards. In particular, you may not:

  • Self-donate or coordinate donations to your own share link to trigger a gift card.
  • Coordinate rings with other participants for the purpose of generating gift-card eligibility that would not otherwise exist.
  • Create sham campaigns or fake donations to inflate a share link's totals.
  • Use bots, scripts, purchased traffic, or other automation to simulate donations or share activity.
  • Misrepresent whose personal share link drove a donation.

We may withhold, delay, claw back, or forfeit gift-card eligibility; reverse credited donations; and suspend or close accounts on reasonable suspicion of any of the above. Full rules — including the 80/10/10 split, the 10% Share Fund referral share, and the gift-card program — live in the Sharer Rewards Terms.

5. Rewards and prizes

You can absolutely thank donors and reward sharers. You can't tie a donation to a regulated good or to a prize that turns the campaign into a raffle in states where that requires a license.

6. How we enforce

If we see a violation, we usually warn first and ask you to fix it. For serious or repeated issues we may suspend the campaign, hold funds for refund to donors, and close the account. For anything illegal we will cooperate with law enforcement.

7. Report a violation

See something off? Write safety@shareathon.com. We respond within one business day.

Questions?

Email legal@shareathon.com or head back to the Trust Center.