Privacy policy
We handle personal information carefully because the people who trust us are applying to take an animal into their home.
What we collect
When you apply to adopt or foster, we collect the information you enter on the application: your name, contact details, household information, animal experience, and the references you provide. Foster caregivers also store care updates, photographs, and appointment availability in the foster portal.
Why we collect it
Application information is used solely to review your application, check references, coordinate a meet-and-greet, and complete an adoption or foster placement. Care updates are used to track an animal's health and progress.
Who can see it
Adoption and foster applications are visible only to the rescue's administrators. Foster households can see only their own household record, the animals assigned to them, and their own appointments, updates, and messages. Public visitors can never see application, foster, or medical records.
Foster home privacy
Foster home addresses are never published. Meet-and-greets are arranged at parks, veterinary clinics, or other approved community locations, and location details are shared only with the participants in a scheduled meeting.
Documents
Veterinary records, agreements, and other documents are stored privately and are accessible only to authorized users. They are never served from public links.
Retention
We keep application records for as long as needed to process an application and to meet our recordkeeping obligations. Administrators can delete records that are no longer needed.
Your choices
You may ask us to correct or remove your application information at any time by contacting us. Use the contact page to reach our administrators.
This policy is maintained by the rescue's administrators and can be updated at any time in the portal settings.