Create an online petition

Create a free, customizable petition in minutes. Unlike most platforms, you see all the information signatories provide, including emails.

1. Write

Write your petition in minutes.
2. Promote

Share online or on paper.
3. Deliver

Deliver to a decision maker.

Cover image

Add a wide cover image. It is shown at the top of your petition and used as the preview image when the petition is shared on social media.

Add a photo

Petition name

A specific statement, which tells people precisely what you would like them to support.

Petition text

You are asking people to agree with this text and to sign it. Make sure to express your point of view in clear language (what you are against/for, what should be done and why).

The author of the petition

Enter the full name of the author, or the official name of a registered organization. Signatories have a right to know who created this petition.

Petition author's residence country

Information asked from the signatories

Recommended fieldsFirst name, last name, city, country, email and an optional comment.Define manuallyManually define what is asked from the signatories.

First name

Last name

City

Country

Street address

Postal code

Email address

Phone number

Comment

State

Add a custom field

You can add up to 3 custom fields.

Custom field 1

Required

Optional

Should the answer to this field be hidden on the signatures page?

Yes

Custom field 2

Required

Optional

Should the answer to this field be hidden on the signatures page?

Yes

Custom field 3

Required

Optional

Should the answer to this field be hidden on the signatures page?

Yes

How will you use signatories' personal data?

We ask signatories for consent for the purposes you enable:

Publicly display name, city, country, and comment

Hand the information over to the decision-makers

Please provide the decision-makers in the fields below, or simply leave the fields empty if you don’t wish to specify them. We recommend entering only their positions, such as Secretary-General of the United Nations. This ensures that your consent to hand over the signatures remains valid even if the person in that role changes. If you include names, please also mention their positions, as not everyone will know their roles based on names alone.

Note: If you leave the fields empty, our system will automatically ask for consent from signatories with the following broad question: I authorize [[[Petition author]]] to hand over the information I provide on this form to the decision makers..

Decision maker 1

Decision maker 2

Decision maker 3

Email signatories about the petition's progress

To verify the identity of the signatory by contacting via phone.

Define manually (add your own purposes)

For what purpose do you collect signatories' personal data?

Describe how the data will be used, not what your petition is about. Each purpose is shown to signatories as a separate consent option.

Good examples: “Subscribe to our association’s newsletter”, “Share anonymized statistics with a research partner”.
Not here: the petition's goal or arguments belong in the petition text above.

Purpose 1

Purpose 2

Purpose 3

You can add up to 3 purposes.

You can change the language of the signature form and choose the URL (web address) of the petition.

Language

Petition URL

https://www.petitions.com/petition_name [Edit]

https://www.petitions.com/

Who can see and sign?

You can change this anytime.

PublicAnyone can see and sign your petition.PrivateOnly people with the link can see and sign.

Retention period for the personal data of signatories

Until the goal is metRetained as long as necessary to achieve the goal of the petition.Define manuallyDefine the retention period manually.

How long will you store the personal data of the signatories?

Generate automaticallyCreate the privacy policy based on my choices on this page, including the Terms of Service and Data Processing Agreement, which I have approved.Use my own URLI provide the web address (URL) of the privacy policy.

The web address (URL) of the privacy policy

Your email address

Your email address is your username.

Repeat your email address

The clipboard has been disabled for this field!

Password

At least 8 characters.

I accept the Terms of Service, Data Processing Agreement, and the Privacy Policy of Petitions.com.

Yes

You may edit your petition at any time even after it is published. Your email address will not be published.

Why choose Petitions.com?

Keep supporters up to date

Publish announcements to keep signatories up to date on what has happened and what comes next. They are notified by email automatically.

Export signatures

Download all signatures in Excel, PDF or HTML.

Full control

See all information signatories provide, including email addresses and phone numbers if you choose to collect them.

Transparent consent choices

You define the purposes for collecting personal data. Signatories decide for each purpose individually whether they consent.

Public or private petitions

Choose if you want your petition to be listed publicly or kept out of petition lists, site search, and search engines.

Team collaboration

Grant others permission to manage your petition. Assign different levels of access to translators, moderators, and administrators.

Multilingual petitions

Translate your petition into multiple languages. Language versions are cross-linked automatically and share one signature list.

We provide 46 language versions and use 30 domain names for them. Some language versions share the petitions.com domain through language-specific subdomains. A domain name that matches the language version makes it easier to remember and promote the petition.

See all language versions.

Rich content editor

Add images, videos, links and formatted text. Make your petition stand out.

Online or on paper

Collect signatures digitally and on paper, then combine them in a single petition.

Embed on your website

Add the signature form to your own website with a simple embed code, no coding needed.

Custom petition URL

Choose a short, memorable web address for your petition — for example, Petitions.com/your-cause. Easy to share on flyers, posters, and in conversation.

Every petition gets its own automatically generated privacy policy based on your choices during petition creation. Alternatively, you can provide the URL of your own privacy policy.

Set retention periods

Decide how long personal data of the signatories is stored. Your choice is shown automatically in the petition's privacy policy, unless you provide the URL of your own privacy policy.

What we do differently

No blind one-click signing

We don't let people sign based on a headline alone. Signatories always see the petition and the author of it before submitting the signature. One of the largest petition platforms offers one-click signing, but we believe signers should know what they are signing and who created the petition.

We don't use your petition to grow our mailing list.

We only ask signatories for consents for purposes chosen by the petition creator.

Many of the biggest platforms bundle their own marketing consents into the signature form of the petitions they are hosting. You can't opt in to petition updates without also agreeing to their emails.

No automatic user accounts

Some petition platforms automatically create user accounts for signatories. Petitions.com lets people sign petitions without automatically creating an account for them.

Language-specific domains

For the most popular languages on our service, we use language-specific domain names instead of putting every language version under one brand domain. A domain name that matches the language version makes the petition easier to remember and promote.

Tips

Add an image or video to your petition.
Ask someone to check your text, or try using an AI tool.
Remember to promote your petition.

Create a Petition

1 Your petition A clear petition has a bigger impact. Tell people what you want to change.

2 Signatories Choose what information you want to ask and how you'll handle it.

Advanced settings

3 Your account Create an account to manage your petition and the signatures.