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It is understood by A.A. members that personal disclosures made in A.A. meetings are to be treated as confidential. For example, if friends outside…
Explain that anonymity is extremely important to A.A. members. All A.A. members decides if and when to share aspects of their recovery, and with whom…
They will be there for the same reason that you are. They will not disclose your identity to outsiders. At A.A. you retain as much anonymity as you…
When we use social media, we are responsible for our own anonymity and that of others. When we post or text, we should assume that we are publishing…
Like everyone else, public figures should have the protection of anonymity to the extent that they desire it.
Asking for special favors because of A.A. membership is not in the spirit of the anonymity Traditions.
An A.A. meeting may take one of several forms, but at any meeting you will find alcoholics talking about what drinking did to their lives, their…
Our website refers individuals to their local service office rather than maintaining meeting lists. In our experience, the most detailed information…
As stated in A.A.'s Responsibility Pledge, “I am responsible … when anyone, anywhere, reaches out for help, I want the hand of A.A. always to be…
This is entirely a personal matter, but it is usually best for all concerned to let the A.A. member decide who shall be told and when.
Publicly accessible aspects of the Internet such as websites featuring text, graphics, audio and video can be considered the same as publishing or…
The "group conscience" is the collective conscience of the group membership and thus represents substantial unanimity on an issue before definitive…