Last updated: July 10, 2026

Heart Gallery by Partnership for Strong Families respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we may collect, use, protect, and share information when you visit https://psfheartgallery.org/, submit a form, register for an account, log in to a secure area, inquire about adoption, contact us, interact with child profile or Heart Gallery content, use donation links, or otherwise use our website.

This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected through this website. It does not replace any confidentiality notice, child welfare confidentiality requirement, adoption records process, Department of Children and Families requirement, court order, case management policy, client records process, HIPAA-related notice, contract, or other privacy practice that may apply to protected child welfare, foster care, adoption, caregiver, family, or client records handled outside the general website.

Who We Are

Our website address is: https://psfheartgallery.org/.

Heart Gallery by Partnership for Strong Families helps connect children in foster care with prospective adoptive families by using photography, storytelling, and community awareness to support the search for safe, loving, permanent homes.

Organization name: Heart Gallery by Partnership for Strong Families
Address: 2850 NW 43rd Street, Suite 200, Gainesville, FL 32607
Phone: 352-244-1615
Email: HopePartner@pfsf.org
Website: https://psfheartgallery.org/

Information We Collect

We collect information in a limited number of ways, including information you choose to provide and information that may be collected automatically through website technology.

Information You Provide Voluntarily

You may choose to provide information when you contact us, submit a website form, register for an account, log in to a secure area, inquire about adoption, ask about a child profile, request information, communicate with our team, make a donation through a third-party platform, or otherwise interact with the website. This may include:

• Name
• Email address
• Phone number
• Mailing address, if provided
• Username and password if account registration is enabled
• Account registration or login information
• Adoption inquiry information
• Family, household, caregiver, or prospective adoptive parent information, if provided
• Questions, comments, or messages submitted through the website
• Information related to a child profile, adoption process, or Heart Gallery inquiry
• Donation-related information provided through third-party donation platforms
• Volunteer, donor, sponsor, photographer, vendor, or community partner information, if provided
• Files, documents, forms, photos, or other materials you choose to submit or send to us

Because this website involves adoption, foster care, children, and family services, some information submitted through the website may be sensitive. Please use care when submitting information through general website forms or email.

Do not submit highly sensitive, confidential, emergency, court-protected, medical, financial, or legally protected information through a general website form unless the form specifically requests that information and you are authorized to provide it.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically by our website, hosting provider, security tools, cookie consent tools, form tools, CAPTCHA tools, analytics tools, accessibility tools, translation tools, WordPress-related technology, embedded content providers, or similar services. This may include:

• IP address
• Browser type and version
• Device type
• Operating system
• Pages visited
• Referring website or search engine
• Date and time of visit
• General website usage and performance data
• Approximate location based on browser, device, or IP information
• Cookie and consent preference data
• Accessibility, language, translation, or display preferences, where applicable
• Interactions with forms, login areas, account registration pages, child profile pages, donation links, social media links, embedded content, or website features, where applicable

How We Use Information

Heart Gallery by Partnership for Strong Families may use information collected through the website for the following purposes:

• To respond to inquiries and communications
• To provide information about the Heart Gallery, adoption, child profiles, family recruitment, volunteer opportunities, donations, community involvement, and related resources
• To review, route, and respond to adoption-related questions or Heart Gallery inquiries
• To create, review, verify, approve, maintain, or manage website accounts where registration and login features are enabled
• To help provide secure access to restricted or verified-user areas of the website
• To communicate with prospective adoptive families, caregivers, volunteers, donors, community partners, vendors, photographers, and website visitors
• To support donations, events, community awareness, recruitment, and outreach efforts
• To maintain, operate, secure, and improve the website
• To support website accessibility, usability, language, translation, and display preferences
• To understand general website usage and performance
• To measure outreach, advertising, or campaign performance, if such tools are enabled
• To help protect the website from spam, bots, abuse, unauthorized access, fraud, and security threats
• To comply with applicable legal, contractual, governmental, child welfare, adoption, administrative, accounting, tax, reporting, recordkeeping, and regulatory obligations

We do not use general website form submissions to make automated decisions about visitors.

Important Notice About Confidential and Emergency Information

This website is not intended for emergencies or urgent safety concerns. If there is an immediate danger or emergency, call 911.

General website forms and email may not be appropriate for urgent child safety concerns, emergency matters, confidential case communications, medical emergencies, court-protected information, or time-sensitive issues.

If you need to report suspected abuse, neglect, or abandonment, use the appropriate official reporting channel. Do not rely on a general website contact form for emergency or legally required reporting.

Child Welfare, Foster Care, Adoption, and Confidential Information

Heart Gallery by Partnership for Strong Families operates in a sensitive area involving children, foster care, adoption, caregivers, families, and child welfare services.

Information related to child welfare records, foster care records, adoption records, caregiver information, prospective adoptive family information, court-related information, client records, and other confidential records may be subject to separate laws, rules, contracts, Department of Children and Families requirements, court orders, agency policies, and record request procedures.

This Website Privacy Policy applies to general website activity and does not change any rights, duties, confidentiality protections, record request processes, or privacy notices that may apply to client records, adoption records, foster care records, child welfare records, or protected information.

Child Profiles, Photos, Stories, and Heart Gallery Content

Our website may display child profiles, photographs, stories, videos, descriptions, or other Heart Gallery content for the purpose of adoption awareness, family recruitment, community education, and support for children seeking permanent homes.

Child-related content is intended to be handled with care and used only for appropriate adoption, recruitment, awareness, and related purposes. Visitors may not copy, download, reproduce, republish, misuse, alter, distribute, scrape, or use child images, child profiles, child stories, or related content for unauthorized purposes.

Any child-related photos, stories, names, profile details, or related information displayed on the website are subject to applicable authorization, confidentiality, child welfare, adoption, and agency requirements.

If you have concerns about a child profile, photograph, story, or other content displayed on this website, please contact us promptly.

Account Registration, Login, and Verified Access

Our website may include registration and login features that allow users to request access, create an account, or sign in to a secure or restricted area.

Account registration may require information such as email address, password, username, name, address, and other details needed to review, verify, approve, or administer access.

Account approval may be required before access is granted. We may use registration information to verify identity, evaluate eligibility, manage website access, protect child-related information, support adoption-related communications, and administer restricted website features.

You are responsible for keeping your account credentials confidential. Do not share your username or password with others. If you believe your account has been accessed without authorization, contact us immediately.

Website Forms and Communications

Our website may include forms for general inquiries, adoption questions, Heart Gallery questions, account registration, contact requests, or other purposes.

Information submitted through website forms may be processed through WordPress, website form tools, email delivery tools, hosting systems, spam-prevention tools, CAPTCHA tools, and related website technology.

When you submit a form or inquiry, the information you provide may be stored in the website database, delivered by email to our team, routed to the appropriate department or staff member, or retained for follow-up and administrative purposes.

By submitting a website form or inquiry, you agree that Heart Gallery by Partnership for Strong Families may contact you by email, phone, mail, or text message regarding your inquiry, adoption-related request, account registration, donation, volunteer interest, or other communication. Message and data rates may apply for text messages. You may ask us not to contact you regarding non-essential communications.

Adoption Process and External Resources

Our website may provide general information about the adoption process and may direct visitors to Partnership for Strong Families or other appropriate resources for detailed information.

Adoption-related processes may involve screening, background checks, training, home studies, matching, full disclosure, transition planning, court processes, and other steps that are handled through separate procedures, forms, systems, agencies, or professionals.

Information submitted or processed through adoption-related channels may be subject to separate legal, confidentiality, verification, child welfare, case management, and recordkeeping requirements.

Donations and Third-Party Donation Platforms

Our website may include donation links or online giving features that allow visitors to make contributions through a third-party donation or payment platform.

If you make a donation through a third-party platform, that platform may collect and process your information according to its own privacy policy, security practices, and terms. This may include name, contact information, donation amount, payment information, billing information, and related transaction details.

We do not store complete credit card, debit card, or payment card information on our website servers.

We may receive limited donation, transaction, or donor information from third-party platforms for acknowledgment, donor communication, fundraising, accounting, tax, reporting, and recordkeeping purposes.

Volunteers, Sponsors, Photographers, Vendors, and Community Partners

If you contact us about volunteering, sponsorship, photography, donations, events, vendor opportunities, community partnerships, or similar opportunities, we may collect and use information needed to evaluate, respond to, and follow up on your request.

Information submitted in connection with these opportunities may also be governed by separate agreements, releases, waivers, vendor agreements, volunteer forms, media releases, confidentiality agreements, or other written communications.

Photos, Videos, Testimonials, and Media

Our website may display photos, videos, testimonials, stories, media coverage, event images, sponsor information, donor recognition, and other public-facing content.

Photos, videos, names, stories, testimonials, and related media may be used for website, social media, fundraising, promotional, archival, educational, adoption awareness, family recruitment, or community engagement purposes where permitted by authorization, agreement, law, policy, public availability, or applicable practice.

Because this website may involve children in foster care, additional care and restrictions may apply to child-related photos, profiles, stories, and identifying information.

Google reCAPTCHA and Spam Prevention

Our website may use Google reCAPTCHA or similar CAPTCHA tools to help protect website forms, registration features, and login features from spam, abuse, and automated submissions.

Google reCAPTCHA may collect hardware and software information, such as device and application data, and send that information to Google for analysis. Use of reCAPTCHA is subject to Google’s privacy practices and terms.

You can review Google’s Privacy Policy here:

https://policies.google.com/privacy

Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, and Similar Tools

Depending on the current website configuration, Heart Gallery by Partnership for Strong Families may use Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, or similar analytics tools to help understand how visitors use the website and to improve website performance, usability, content, outreach, recruitment, and communications.

Analytics tools may collect information such as pages visited, time spent on the website, browser type, device type, general location data, referral source, and other usage information. These tools may use cookies or similar technologies.

Google may process information according to its own privacy practices. You can learn more about how Google uses information from websites and apps that use Google services here:

https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

Visitors may be able to control or limit certain analytics cookies through our cookie consent tool, browser settings, or opt-out tools provided by Google or other analytics providers.

Marketing, Advertising, Fundraising, and Remarketing Tools

Depending on the tools enabled on the website, we may use marketing, advertising, conversion tracking, fundraising measurement, social media pixel, or remarketing technologies to understand general website performance, measure campaign effectiveness, promote adoption awareness, support family recruitment, support fundraising, or share relevant outreach content.

These tools may use cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, or similar technologies. If such tools are enabled, visitors may be able to accept, reject, or manage certain categories of cookies through our cookie consent tool, browser settings, or privacy tools provided by the relevant platform.

Social Media and Third-Party Platforms

Our website may link to Facebook or other social media platforms, donation platforms, video platforms, government resources, adoption resources, partner websites, or other third-party websites.

If you click a social media link, interact with a third-party platform, submit information through a platform, or engage with content on a third-party website, that platform may collect information according to its own privacy policy, cookie practices, and terms.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, policies, availability, or security of third-party websites or platforms.

External Websites and Resource Links

Our website may include links to third-party websites or embedded content, including Partnership for Strong Families, adoption resources, foster care resources, donation platforms, Facebook, government resources, videos, maps, forms, and other external services.

Embedded content from third-party websites behaves in the same way as if you visited that third-party website directly. These third-party websites may collect information about you, use cookies, embed additional tracking technologies, and monitor your interaction with their content.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, policies, availability, or security of third-party websites or platforms.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our website may use cookies, pixels, local storage, session storage, and similar technologies to support website functionality, security, spam prevention, registration, login, account access, accessibility features, language or translation tools, analytics, advertising, performance, embedded content, and user preferences.

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. Cookies may help the website remember preferences, protect against bots or abuse, support security features, maintain login sessions, measure website usage, and improve how the website functions.

Cookies may be used for purposes such as:

• Remembering cookie consent choices
• Supporting basic website functionality
• Supporting website security and spam prevention
• Supporting form functionality and CAPTCHA protection
• Supporting registration, login, account approval, and restricted access features
• Supporting WordPress login and administrator sessions
• Measuring website traffic and performance, if analytics are enabled
• Measuring outreach, advertising, fundraising, or campaign performance, if such tools are enabled
• Helping pages load more efficiently
• Remembering accessibility, language, translation, or display preferences
• Supporting embedded videos, maps, social links, donation links, forms, child profile features, or external content

Depending on your browser settings and the tools enabled on the website, you may be able to accept, reject, or manage certain categories of cookies through our cookie consent tool.

You can also adjust your browser settings to refuse or delete cookies. Some website features may not function properly if cookies are disabled, especially login, account access, form, security, or preference-related features.

Cookie Policy

For more detailed information about the cookies used on this website, please review our Cookie Policy.

Cookie Consent and Privacy Preferences

Our website may use a cookie consent or privacy preference tool to provide visitors with information and choices regarding certain cookies and tracking technologies.

Where the cookie consent tool is available, visitors may be able to accept all cookies, reject non-essential cookies, or manage cookie categories. Rejecting non-essential cookies does not prevent you from voluntarily contacting us, submitting a website form, registering for an account, logging in, making a donation, or requesting information.

If you change browsers, clear cookies, use a different device, or update browser settings, you may need to update your cookie preferences again.

Accessibility and Language Tools

Our website may use accessibility, language, or translation tools to help improve usability for visitors. These tools may allow visitors to adjust visual settings, contrast, text size, navigation options, language options, translation preferences, or other display settings.

Accessibility, language, or translation tools may use cookies or local storage to remember selected preferences. These tools are provided to support usability and do not replace our ongoing efforts to improve website accessibility.

Website Plugins and Third-Party Tools

Our website is built with WordPress and may use plugins or third-party tools to provide design, forms, security, CAPTCHA, account registration, login, restricted access, accessibility, language or translation tools, performance, analytics, advertising, SEO, cookie consent, embedded content, donation links, and related website functionality.

These tools may process limited technical information as needed to provide their services. Examples may include:

• WordPress: used to build, display, and manage website content.
• Website hosting and security tools: used to operate, secure, monitor, and maintain the website.
• Website form tools: used to collect and process inquiries where forms are enabled.
• Account registration and login tools: used to support user registration, verification, account approval, login, password reset, and restricted access functionality.
• Google reCAPTCHA or similar CAPTCHA tools: used to help protect website forms, login, and registration features from spam and abuse.
• Cookie consent tools: used to display cookie notices and manage visitor cookie preferences.
• Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, or similar analytics tools: used only if enabled to measure website traffic and usage.
• Social media, donation, and embedded content providers: used to display or link to social media content, videos, resources, donation pages, maps, or other external content.
• Advertising or remarketing tools: used only if enabled to measure campaign performance or support outreach.
• Accessibility, language, and translation tools: used to provide accessibility, language, and display features and may remember related preferences selected by visitors.
• SEO, caching, image optimization, and performance tools: used to improve website visibility, speed, and functionality.

Third-party providers may have their own privacy policies and data practices. We do not control the privacy practices of third-party providers.

Security and Spam Prevention

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and security measures to help protect the website and information submitted through it. This may include hosting security, firewall tools, login protection, password protection, account approval processes, malware scanning, spam prevention, bot protection, CAPTCHA or reCAPTCHA tools, access controls, and review of suspicious activity.

No website, server, email system, online form, account system, donation platform, external form system, or online transmission is completely secure. We cannot guarantee that information submitted through the website, third-party services, or email will be completely protected from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or disclosure.

Comments and Public User Accounts

Our website is not intended to provide public comment areas for general website visitors.

If public comments or broader visitor account features are enabled in the future, we may collect information submitted through those features, along with related technical information such as IP address, browser user agent, login information, account status, and spam-prevention data.

Media Uploads and File Metadata

If you upload or send files, photos, documents, forms, applications, or other media through the website or in connection with a request, those files may contain embedded metadata, including author information, editing history, location data, or other hidden information.

Visitors should avoid uploading files with unnecessary personal, confidential, protected, proprietary, or location-related metadata.

Who We Share Information With

We do not sell personal information for money.

We may share limited information with service providers that help us operate the website, process forms, review account registration, administer login features, respond to inquiries, manage donations, support adoption-related communications, maintain security, analyze website usage if enabled, manage cookie preferences, provide accessibility or translation functionality, deliver email, provide business support, or perform administrative functions.

These service providers may include website hosting providers, email providers, form tools, analytics providers if enabled, advertising platforms if enabled, security tools, CAPTCHA providers, cookie consent tools, accessibility tools, translation tools, donation platforms, account/login tools, embedded content providers, and website maintenance providers.

We may also share information with employees, contractors, service providers, community partners, agencies, vendors, adoption professionals, family recruitment professionals, legal representatives, auditors, accountants, or other appropriate parties when needed to respond to a request, administer website access, support adoption-related communications, comply with legal obligations, protect children and families, process donations, coordinate resources, or fulfill organizational responsibilities.

We may disclose information if required or permitted by law, regulation, contract, court order, subpoena, Department of Children and Families requirement, government request, reporting obligation, grant requirement, accounting requirement, audit requirement, safety concern, or to protect the rights, safety, privacy, property, or security of Heart Gallery by Partnership for Strong Families, children, families, caregivers, prospective adoptive families, clients, employees, volunteers, donors, website visitors, community partners, or others.

How Long We Retain Information

We retain personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose it was collected, including inquiry response, account registration, account review, login administration, adoption-related communications, donation administration, volunteer inquiries, website administration, legal compliance, accounting, tax, grant reporting, audit, fraud prevention, security, and recordkeeping purposes.

Client records, child welfare records, adoption records, foster care records, caregiver records, account approval records, donor records, volunteer records, financial records, and other regulated or administrative records may be retained according to separate legal, contractual, governmental, Department of Children and Families, court, audit, grant, accounting, tax, or organizational retention requirements.

Analytics, cookie, and technical data may be retained according to the settings of our analytics tools, hosting provider, security tools, cookie consent tools, accessibility tools, translation tools, and related website systems.

Your Choices and Privacy Rights

You may contact us to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information you have submitted through the general website, subject to legal, security, accounting, contractual, child welfare, adoption, client record, grant, audit, court, governmental, or legitimate retention requirements.

Requests involving client records, child welfare records, foster care records, adoption records, caregiver records, prospective adoptive family records, account approval records, or other protected information may be subject to separate verification, authorization, confidentiality, legal, and record request procedures.

You may also ask us to stop contacting you regarding a general website inquiry or non-essential communication.

You may manage cookies through your browser settings and, where available, through our cookie consent tool.

To make a website privacy-related request, contact us through the information listed below.

We may need to verify your identity before responding to certain requests.

Children’s Privacy

Heart Gallery by Partnership for Strong Families serves a mission involving children in foster care and adoption awareness. However, the general website is intended primarily for adults, including prospective adoptive families, caregivers, donors, volunteers, community partners, and professionals seeking information or secure access.

We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13 through general website features without appropriate authorization. If we become aware that personal information from a child under 13 has been submitted through the general website without appropriate authorization, we will take reasonable steps to delete or address that information in accordance with applicable requirements.

Information related to children, child profiles, foster care, adoption, families, caregivers, or child welfare services may be subject to separate confidentiality, records, consent, authorization, and legal requirements outside this general Website Privacy Policy.

Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers may send “Do Not Track” signals. Because there is not a uniform industry standard for responding to these signals, our website may not respond to them automatically. Visitors may manage cookies through browser settings and, where available, through our cookie consent tool.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our website, plugins, tools, services, programs, account features, legal requirements, contractual obligations, governmental requirements, or privacy practices.

When we update this Privacy Policy, we will revise the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. Continued use of the website after changes are posted means you acknowledge the updated Privacy Policy.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how website-related information is handled, please contact us:

Heart Gallery by Partnership for Strong Families
2850 NW 43rd Street, Suite 200
Gainesville, FL 32607
Phone: 352-244-1615
Email: HopePartner@pfsf.org
Website: https://psfheartgallery.org/