Guidance for posting Legacies on your Service Arm Website

The World Service Office (WSO) manages al‑anon.org, which is designed with a broad approach for national and international appeal to members, newcomers, professionals, and the general public.

Al‑Anon service arms—Areas, Districts, and Al‑Anon Information Services (AIS) /Intergroups—may create websites to meet the specific needs of local members and potential newcomers.

For Areas/Structures outside of the United States (including Puerto Rico), Bermuda, and Canada, please email International@al-anon.org for more information.

Al‑Anon’s Legacies are available in their entirety, as approved by the World Service Conference, on al‑anon.org; Service arm websites are encouraged to link directly to them due to copyright law.

Use this form for permission to post the Twelve Steps, Twelve Traditions, and/or Twelve Concepts of Service.

Please reference Al‑Anon Service Arm Websites (G-40) for additional information.

Form of Credit

This exact wording is to be included on the website on each page the Al‑Anon Legacies are posted:

• Al‑Anon’s Twelve Steps, © 1996 by Al‑Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc. Copyright renewed 2000 by Al‑Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc. Reprinted with permission of Al‑Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc. 
• Al‑Anon’s Twelve Traditions, ©1996 by Al‑Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc. Copyright renewed 2000 by Al‑Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc. Reprinted with permission of Al‑Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc. 
• Al‑Anon’s Twelve Concepts of Service, © 1996 by Al‑Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc. Copyright renewed 2000 by Al‑Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc. Reprinted with permission of Al‑Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc. 
• Alateen’s Twelve Traditions, © 1996 by Al‑Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc. Copyright renewed 2000 by Al‑Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc. Reprinted with permission of Al‑Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc. 

Some content is not suitable for posting on service arm websites:

• It is important for all Al‑Anon members to protect our copyrights, and therefore it is not appropriate to post Conference Approved Literature (CAL) on any public internet site or social platform.
• Avoid posting content from, or linking to, any outside enterprise which would violate Tradition Six.
• Avoid posting content which could be considered an official opinion or could be controversial to ensure Al‑Anon’s name is not drawn into controversy as suggested by Tradition Ten.
• Avoid posting content which would violate Tradition Twelve by breaking a member’s anonymity. No other Al‑Anon/Alateen copyrighted literature may be reprinted electronically without express written permission from the WSO.

The undersigned agrees:

• to make no adaptation or change in the material without prior written consent of Al‑Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc. (AFG, Inc.);
• to use the material only as described herein;
• to post the Form of Credit specified above on the page on which the material is displayed;
• to identify, on this form, each page of your website that will have the Legacies displayed;
• that the permission, if granted, will terminate if the website is not published within one year from the date of this request;
• and shall, in any event, terminate one year from the date of this request.

This permission may be extended annually by submitting this form each year.