Disclaimer, Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, and Content Protection Notice
Effective Date: April 1, 2026
Campaign: Kidney4Teacher, Please Save My Teacher, Please Save My Daughter, Please Save My Sister, Please Save My Aunt, Please Save My Best Friend
Designed and Operated by: Kidney4 LLC
This website was created to help raise awareness that Meredith Stevenson is seeking a living kidney donor and to provide general educational information about living kidney donation, transplant evaluation, donor protections, and related resources.
This website is operated for educational, awareness, and donor-activation purposes only. It does not provide medical, legal, financial, insurance, employment, tax, or transplant-center advice.
1. Educational Information Only
The information on this website, including text, graphics, images, videos, testimonials, stories, linked resources, FAQs, donor concern materials, and other content, is provided for general educational and informational purposes only.
This website does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, surgical advice, donor eligibility advice, transplant candidacy advice, legal advice, insurance advice, employment advice, financial advice, or tax advice.
Questions about living kidney donation, transplant eligibility, donor eligibility, donor testing, surgery, recovery, long-term follow-up, medications, risks, benefits, financial assistance, insurance coverage, employment leave, tax treatment, or legal rights should be directed to qualified professionals who know your individual circumstances.
Medical questions should be directed to your own physician, primary care provider, nephrologist, transplant coordinator, living donor team, donor advocate, or transplant hospital.
2. No Professional Relationship Created
Use of this website does not create a physician-patient, transplant-center, donor-patient, attorney-client, advisor-client, fiduciary, insurance, employment, financial, tax, or other professional relationship between any visitor and:
Meredith Stevenson;
Kidney4 LLC;
the website owners or operators;
any volunteers, contributors, designers, campaign supporters, or affiliated persons;
any transplant hospital, nonprofit, registry, or organization referenced on this website.
3. Transplant Center Controls Medical Evaluation
All donor evaluation, donor testing, donor eligibility decisions, donor approval, transplant eligibility, transplant candidacy, surgery, recovery instructions, and follow-up care are controlled only by the applicable transplant hospital and licensed medical professionals.
Kidney4 LLC does not evaluate donors, approve donors, screen donors medically, collect medical records, determine transplant eligibility, or make transplant decisions.
Any person interested in being evaluated as a donor should use the official donor evaluation process provided by the transplant hospital or applicable transplant program.
4. No Payment for Organ Donation
This website does not offer, request, arrange, encourage, or imply payment or valuable consideration for an organ.
It is illegal to buy or sell organs in the United States.
References to donor financial protections, reimbursement, lost wage reimbursement, travel assistance, lodging, meals, dependent care, or donor protection programs are provided for general educational purposes only. They are not offers of payment for donation. Eligibility, availability, documentation requirements, tax treatment, timing, limits, and program rules must be confirmed directly with the transplant hospital, donor coordinator, National Kidney Registry, Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation, National Living Donor Assistance Center, insurer, employer, tax professional, or other appropriate source.
5. No Guarantee of Donor, Transplant, or Outcome
This website does not guarantee that:
any person will become a donor;
any donor will be eligible;
any donor will be approved;
any donor will proceed to surgery;
Meredith Stevenson will receive a transplant;
any transplant will occur within any particular timeframe;
any transplant will succeed;
any donor protection, reimbursement, priority, voucher, or other benefit will apply;
any medical, financial, legal, insurance, employment, or tax outcome will occur.
Testimonials, personal stories, campaign results, and donor experiences reflect individual circumstances and do not guarantee similar results for any other person.
6. Accuracy and Updates
Kidney transplantation and living donation involve complex medical, legal, insurance, financial, and program-specific rules. Information on this website may be simplified, incomplete, outdated, or not applicable to your specific circumstances, transplant center, insurer, employer, state, or jurisdiction.
While we try to present information carefully and in good faith, we do not guarantee that any information on this website is complete, current, accurate, or suitable for any particular purpose.
Visitors should confirm all important information directly with qualified professionals and the relevant transplant hospital.
7. Third-Party Links and Resources
This website may link to third-party websites, hospitals, transplant programs, donor intake forms, registries, nonprofits, videos, social media platforms, articles, or other outside resources.
Those links are provided for convenience and reference only. Kidney4 LLC and this website do not control and are not responsible for the content, accuracy, security, privacy practices, availability, or policies of third-party websites or services.
If you click a third-party link, your use of that site is governed by that third party’s own terms, policies, and privacy practices.
8. Privacy Policy
We may collect limited information that you voluntarily provide, such as your name, email address, phone number, or message content if you contact us, email us, or submit information through a form.
We may also collect basic technical information automatically through normal website operation, such as IP address, browser type, device type, referring pages, pages visited, dates and times of access, and similar analytics information. This website may use cookies, analytics tools, hosting logs, or similar technologies to understand website traffic, improve user experience, and maintain website security.
We may use collected information to:
respond to inquiries;
provide requested information;
improve website content and performance;
understand website traffic and visitor engagement;
maintain website security and integrity;
comply with legal obligations;
protect rights, safety, and website integrity.
We do not sell personal information submitted through this website.
We may share limited information with service providers or vendors who help operate the website, hosting, email systems, forms, analytics, security tools, or related services. We may also disclose information where required by law or where necessary to protect rights, safety, or website integrity.
Do not submit medical records, Social Security numbers, financial account information, insurance documents, employment documents, or other sensitive personal information through public website forms unless specifically requested through a secure process.
If you click a hospital donor intake form, transplant-center page, registry page, social media platform, video platform, or other third-party link, your information will be governed by that third party’s privacy practices, not this website.
We use reasonable efforts to protect information collected through this website, but no website, transmission, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Use of this website and submission of information are at your own risk.
If you do not wish to provide personal information, you may choose not to submit it.
9. Patient Materials and Personal Story Rights
Patient-provided photographs, videos, testimonials, names, likenesses, personal stories, biographical materials, and campaign-specific facts remain subject to the rights and permissions of the individuals who provided them.
By providing materials for use on this website, the provider confirms that they have the right to provide those materials and grants permission for their use in this campaign website and related campaign materials.
Kidney4 LLC may edit, format, organize, excerpt, design around, or adapt patient-provided materials for campaign purposes, while preserving the underlying ownership rights of the original provider where applicable.
10. Kidney4 Ownership of Original Content, Framework, and Materials
All original Kidney4 LLC content on this website, including text, page copy, graphics, layout elements, design elements, educational materials, donor concern materials, Q&A content, videos, forms, templates, downloadable materials, collateral concepts, campaign materials, and other original works, is owned by Kidney4 LLC unless otherwise stated or used with permission.
Kidney4 LLC also retains all rights in its donor activation framework, campaign architecture, intake structure, donor concern framework, Q&A structure, website structure, messaging system, social media sequencing, collateral concepts, outreach process, donor education materials, related methods, workflows, templates, know-how, and materials.
The website is one visible part of a broader Kidney4 donor activation model. Access to this website does not transfer or license Kidney4’s framework, process, methods, templates, content system, campaign architecture, donor concern structure, or operating model.
11. Limited Permitted Use
Visitors may view this website for personal, noncommercial informational purposes.
Visitors may share a public page link for awareness purposes if the link preserves attribution, does not alter the content, and does not imply ownership, sponsorship, endorsement, affiliation, or control by any unauthorized person or organization.
No other rights are granted.
12. Prohibited Use of Content and Framework
Without prior written permission from Kidney4 LLC, no person, nonprofit, hospital, transplant program, support organization, board member, volunteer, contractor, webmaster, consultant, vendor, company, or other third party may:
copy, reproduce, republish, distribute, modify, display, transmit, scrape, extract, download in bulk, or exploit this website’s original content;
adapt, rebrand, summarize, rewrite, or republish Kidney4 materials as their own;
create derivative works based on Kidney4 content, materials, site structure, donor concern framework, Q&A structure, campaign process, intake approach, collateral concepts, workflows, or operating model;
use Kidney4 materials, framework, structure, methods, or workflows to create, operate, promote, or support a competing or similar donor campaign service, transplant campaign service, patient campaign platform, nonprofit resource, website template, social media system, donor education product, collateral system, or related service;
remove, obscure, alter, or replace Kidney4’s name, copyright notices, disclaimers, source references, ownership notices, or attribution;
use confusingly similar names, labels, headings, page structures, campaign structures, or descriptions that create confusion about the source, sponsorship, approval, affiliation, connection, or association of Kidney4 or any Kidney4 campaign;
use this website or Kidney4 materials to train, fine-tune, prompt, populate, or build artificial intelligence systems, automated content systems, website generators, template systems, campaign tools, or derivative databases without written permission;
frame, mirror, clone, or reproduce this website or its structure on another website or platform;
present Kidney4 content, materials, framework, or derivative materials as the work of another person or organization.
Unauthorized copying, adaptation, derivative use, scraping, republication, redistribution, rebranding, commercial use, organizational use, or operational use of Kidney4 materials is prohibited.
13. No Misrepresentation or False Association
Kidney4 LLC is an independent organization.
No person, nonprofit, hospital, transplant program, support organization, board member, volunteer, contractor, webmaster, consultant, vendor, or third party may state or imply that they own, operate, manage, supervise, control, sponsor, approve, or are affiliated with Kidney4 unless authorized in writing by Kidney4 LLC.
No person or organization may use confusingly similar names, labels, headings, campaign structures, or descriptions that create confusion about the source, sponsorship, approval, affiliation, connection, or association of Kidney4, Kidney4 LLC, Kidney4.org, Kidney4Dad, Kidney4Teacher, Kidney4Cop, Kidney4Wendi, or any related Kidney4 campaign or service.
14. Confidential and Limited-Purpose Materials
Some Kidney4 materials, including drafts, playbooks, intake forms, campaign workflows, Q&A systems, donor concern frameworks, templates, strategy documents, collateral concepts, and internal operating materials, may be shared with patients, families, partners, reviewers, contractors, or organizations for a limited purpose.
Unless Kidney4 expressly states otherwise in writing, those materials are confidential, proprietary, and provided only for the specific review, patient campaign, or collaboration purpose for which they were shared.
Receipt of Kidney4 materials does not grant permission to copy, adapt, publish, rebrand, distribute, operate, train others on, or use those materials or derivative materials for any other patient, organization, website, campaign, program, service, or competing activity.
Any use beyond the limited purpose requires prior written permission from Kidney4 LLC.
15. Enforcement and Consequences of Unauthorized Use
Kidney4 LLC reserves all rights and remedies available under federal law, Illinois law, contract law, copyright law, trade secret law, unfair competition law, trademark and trade name law, and any other applicable law.
Unauthorized use may result in one or more of the following actions:
written demand to stop use and remove materials;
demand for destruction or return of unauthorized copies;
demand to remove or correct confusing names, labels, attributions, or affiliations;
notice to website hosts, platforms, search engines, social media platforms, and other service providers;
copyright takedown notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act;
claims for injunctive relief;
claims for actual damages, infringer profits, statutory damages where available, reasonable royalty, restitution, unjust enrichment, costs, and attorney fees;
claims for trade secret misappropriation where confidential or proprietary materials are used or disclosed without authorization;
claims for deceptive trade practices or unfair competition where conduct creates confusion about source, sponsorship, approval, affiliation, connection, or association.
Kidney4’s failure to enforce any right immediately does not waive that right or any other right.
16. Limitation of Liability
By using this website, you agree that Kidney4 LLC, Meredith Stevenson, website owners, operators, contributors, volunteers, designers, campaign supporters, and affiliated persons are not liable for any claim, loss, injury, damages, or adverse consequence arising from:
use of this website;
reliance on website content;
use of linked third-party resources;
donor evaluation decisions;
transplant-center decisions;
donor eligibility or ineligibility;
transplant eligibility or ineligibility;
medical, financial, employment, insurance, tax, or legal outcomes;
website errors, omissions, delays, or unavailability;
unauthorized access to information;
actions of third parties.
This limitation applies to the fullest extent permitted by law.
17. Governing Law and Venue
To the fullest extent permitted by law, these terms and any dispute involving this website, Kidney4 content, Kidney4 materials, Kidney4 services, Kidney4 framework, campaign materials, or proprietary materials shall be governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, without regard to conflict-of-law rules.
Any action relating to this website, Kidney4 content, Kidney4 materials, Kidney4 services, Kidney4 framework, campaign materials, or proprietary materials shall be brought in the state or federal courts located in Illinois, unless Kidney4 LLC elects another forum available by law.
18. Changes
We may update this Disclaimer, Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, and Content Protection Notice from time to time. Updates will be posted on this page with an updated effective date.
19. Contact
Questions about this website, this policy, or use of website content may be directed to: