AF App Privacy Policy

Welcome to Adoption Finder’s Privacy Policy. Thank you for taking the time to read it.

We appreciate that you trust us with your information and we intend to always keep that trust. This starts with making sure you understand the information we collect, why we collect it, how it is used, and your choices regarding your information. This Policy describes our privacy practices in plain language, keeping legal and technical jargon to a minimum.

This Privacy Policy applies to begin June 3, 2019. 

Where This Privacy Policy Applies

This Privacy Policy applies to websites, apps, events, and other services operated by Adoption Finder Inc. For simplicity, we refer to all of these as our “services” in this Privacy Policy. To make it extra clear, we’ve added links to this Privacy Policy on all applicable services.

Some services may require their own unique privacy policy. If a particular service has its own privacy policy, then that policy — not this Privacy Policy — applies.

Information We Collect

It goes without saying, we can’t help you develop meaningful connections without some information about you, such as basic profile details and the types of people you’d like to meet. We also collect information generated as you use our services, for example, access logs, as well as information from third parties, like when you access our services through a social media account. If you want additional info, we go into more detail below.

Information you give us

You choose to give us certain information when using our services. This includes:

When you create an account, you provide us with at least your login credentials, as well as some basic details necessary for the service to work, such as your gender and date of birth.

When you complete your profile, you can share with us additional information, such as details on your personality, lifestyle, interests, and other details about you, as well as content such as photos and videos. To add certain content, like pictures or videos, you may allow us to access your camera or photo album. Some of the information you choose to provide us may be considered “special” or “sensitive” in certain jurisdictions, for example, your racial or ethnic origins, sexual orientation, and religious beliefs. By choosing to provide this information, you consent to our processing of that information.

When you subscribe to a paid service or make a purchase directly from us (rather than through a platform such as iOS or Android), you provide us or our payment service provider with information, such as your debit or credit card number or other financial information.

When you participate in surveys or focus groups, you give us your insights into our products and services, responses to our questions, and testimonials.

When you choose to participate in our promotions, events, or contests, we collect the information that you use to register or enter.

If you contact our customer care team, we collect the information you give us during the interaction. Sometimes, we monitor or record these interactions for training purposes and to ensure a high quality of service.

If you ask us to communicate with or otherwise process information of other people (for example, if you ask us to send an email on your behalf to one of your friends), we collect the information about others that you give us in order to complete your request.

Of course, we also process your chats with other users as well as the content you publish, as part of the operation of the services.

Information we receive from others

In addition to the information you provide us directly, we receive information about you from others, including:

Other Users Other users may provide information about you as they use our services. For instance, we may collect information about you from other users if they contact us about you.

Social Media You may be able to use your social media login (such as Facebook Login) to create and log into your Adoption Finder account. This saves you from having to remember yet another user name and password and allows you to share some information from your social media account with us.

Other Partners, We may receive info about you from our partners, for instance where Adoption Finder ads are published on a partner’s websites and platforms (in which case they may pass along details on a campaign’s success).

Information collected when you use our services

When you use our services, we collect information about which features you’ve used, how you’ve used them, and the devices you use to access our services. See below for more details:

Usage Information We collect information about your activity on our services, for instance how you use them (e.g., date and time you logged in, features you’ve been using, searches, clicks, and pages which have been shown to you, referring to webpage address, advertising that you click on) and how you interact with other users (e.g., users you connect and interact with, time and date of your exchanges, number of messages you send and receive).

Device information We collect information from and about the device(s) you use to access our services, including:

hardware and software information such as IP address, device ID and type, device-specific and apps settings and characteristics, app crashes, advertising IDs (such as Google’s AAID and Apple’s IDFA, both of which are randomly generated numbers that you can reset by going into your device’ settings), browser type, version and language, operating system, time zones, identifiers associated with cookies or other technologies that may uniquely identify your device or browser (e.g., IMEI/UDID and MAC address); information on your wireless and mobile network connection, like your service provider and signal strength; information on device sensors such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, and compasses.

Other information with your consent If you give us permission, we can collect your precise geolocation (latitude and longitude) through various means, depending on the service and device you’re using, including GPS, Bluetooth, or Wi-Fi connections. The collection of your geolocation may occur in the background even when you aren’t using the services if the permission you gave us expressly permits such collection. If you decline permission for us to collect your geolocation, we will not collect it. Similarly, if you consent, we may collect your photos and videos (for instance, if you want to publish a photo, video, or streaming on the services).

Cookies and Other Similar Data Collection Technologies

We use and may allow others to use cookies and similar technologies (e.g., web beacons, pixels) to recognize you and/or your device(s). For more information on why we use them (such as authenticating you, remembering your preferences and settings, analyzing site traffic and trends, delivering and measuring the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, allowing you to use social features) and how you can better control their use, through your browser settings and other tools. 

Some web browsers (including Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome) have a “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) feature that tells a website that a user does not want to have his or her online activity tracked. If a website that responds to a DNT signal receives a DNT signal, the browser can block that website from collecting certain information about the browser’s user. Not all browsers offer a DNT option and DNT signals are not yet uniform. For this reason, many businesses, including Adoption Finder, do not currently respond to DNT signals.

How We Use Information

The main reason we use your information is to deliver and improve our services. Additionally, we use your info to help keep you safe and to provide you with advertising that may be of interest to you. Read on for a more detailed explanation of the various reasons we use your information, together with practical examples.

To administer your account and provide our services to you

• Create and manage your account

• Provide you with customer support and respond to your requests

• Complete your transactions

• Communicate with you about our services, including order management and billing

• To help you connect with other users

Analyze your profile, activity on the service, and preferences to recommend meaningful connections to you and recommend you to others; For more information on our profiling and automated decision-making, please see our website AdoptionFinder.org.

Show users’ profiles to one another

To ensure a consistent experience across your devices

Link the various devices you use so that you can enjoy a consistent experience of our services on all of them. We do this by linking devices and browser data, such as when you log into your account on different devices or by using partial or full IP address, browser version, and similar data about your devices to help identify and link them.

We also may use “cookies” and other similar technologies on the Site. Cookies are small files that are placed on your hard drive for record-keeping purposes and to enhance your experience with the Site. By showing how and when visitors use the Site, cookies help us deliver advertisements, identify how many unique users visit us, and track user trends and patterns. They also prevent you from having to re-enter your preferences on certain areas of the Site where you may have entered preference information before. This Site also may use web beacons (single-pixel graphic files also known as “transparent GIFs”) to access cookies and to count users who visit the Site or open HTML-formatted email messages.

How Information is Used

We use the information we collect from you while you are using the Site in a variety of ways, including, for example, for the purpose for which the information was submitted, to process your registration request, to provide you with services and communications that you have requested, to send you to email updates and other communications, customize features and advertising that appear on the Site, to deliver our Site content to you, to measure Site traffic, measure user interests and traffic patterns, and to improve the Site and the services and features offered via the Site.

We may use location information, either information you provided by you or information automatically collected, in order to provide you with content, services, and advertising that is relevant to your geographic area. We may combine information we collect from you while you are using our Site with information that we collect from other sources to customize features, content, and advertising that appear on our Site.

In addition, we may use any information submitted by or collected from you via the Site for any purpose related to the Site, including to contact you for customer service purposes, to inform you of important changes or additions to our Site or the services offered over our Site, and to send you administrative notices and any other communications that we believe may be of interest to you.

Your Choices. When we request information from you on the Site, you may always choose not to provide us with that information. But if you decline to supply or provide us with certain information while using the Site, you may not be able to use or participate in some or all of the features offered through the Site.

If you want to limit the information that is automatically collected while you use our Site, most Web browsers allow you to disable certain functionality or set certain privacy settings. If you choose to disable cookies or turn off other functionality, you may not be able to use or participate in some or all of the features offered through the Site. 

To provide new Adoption Finder services to you

• Register you and display your profile on new Adoption Finder features and apps

• Administer your account on these new features and apps

• To serve you relevant offers and ads

• Administer sweepstakes, contests, discounts, or other offers

• Develop, display and track content and advertising tailored to your interests on our services and other sites

• Communicate with you by email, phone, social media or mobile device about products or services that we think may interest you

To improve our services and develop new ones

• Administer focus groups and surveys

• Conduct research and analysis of users’ behavior to improve our services and content (for instance, we may decide to change the look and feel or even substantially modify a given feature based on users’ behavior)

• Develop new features and services (for example, we may decide to build a new interests-based feature further to requests received from users).

• To prevent, detect and fight fraud or other illegal or unauthorized activities

• Address ongoing or alleged misbehavior on and off-platform

• Perform data analysis to better understand and design countermeasures against these activities

• Retain data related to fraudulent activities to prevent recurrences

• To ensure legal compliance

How We Share Information

Since our goal is to help you make meaningful connections, the main sharing of users’ information is, of course, with other users. We also share some users’ information with other users, adoption agencies, and, in some cases, legal authorities. Read on for more details about how your information is shared with others.

With other users

You share information with other users when you voluntarily disclose information on the service (including your public profile). Please be careful with your information and make sure that the content you share is the stuff that you’re comfortable being publicly viewable since neither you nor we can control what others do with your information once you share it.

If you choose to limit the audience for all or part of your profile or for certain content or information about you, then it will be visible according to your settings.

With our service providers and partners

We use third parties to help us operate and improve our services. These third parties assist us with various tasks, including data hosting and maintenance, analytics, customer care, marketing, advertising, payment processing, and security operations.

We may also share information with partners who distribute and assist us in advertising our services. For instance, we may share limited information on you in hashed, non-human readable form to advertising partners.

We follow a strict vetting process prior to engaging any service provider or working with any partner. All of our service providers and partners must agree to strict confidentiality obligations.

• Comply with legal requirements

• Assist law enforcement

• Enforce or exercise our rights, for example, our Terms

To process your information as described above, we rely on the following legal bases:

Provide our service to you: Most of the time, the reason we process your information is to perform the contract that you have with us. For instance, as you go about using our service to build meaningful connections, we use your information to maintain your account and your profile, to make it viewable to other users, and recommend other users to you.

Legitimate interests: We may use your information where we have legitimate interests to do so. For instance, we analyze users’ behavior on our services to continuously improve our offerings, we suggest offers we think might interest you, and we process information for administrative, fraud detection, and other legal purposes.

Consent: From time to time, we may ask for your consent to use your information for certain specific reasons. You may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at the address provided at the end of this Privacy Policy.

When required by law

We may disclose your information if reasonably necessary: (i) to comply with a legal process, such as a court order, subpoena or search warrant, government/law enforcement investigation, or other legal requirements; (ii) to assist in the prevention or detection of crime (subject in each case to applicable law); or (iii) to protect the safety of any person.

To enforce legal rights

We may also share information: (i) if disclosure would mitigate our liability in an actual or threatened lawsuit; (ii) as necessary to protect our legal rights and legal rights of our users, business partners, or other interested parties; (iii) to enforce our agreements with you; and (iv) to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing.

With your consent or at your request

We may ask for your consent to share your information with third parties. In any such case, we will make it clear why we want to share the information.

We may use and share non-personal information (meaning information that, by itself, does not identify who you are such as device information, general demographics, general behavioral data, geolocation in de-identified form), as well as personal information in hashed, non-human readable form, under any of the above circumstances. We may also share this information with other adoption agencies and third parties (notably advertisers) to develop and deliver targeted advertising on our services and on websites or applications of third parties and to analyze and report on advertising you see. We may combine this information with additional non-personal information or personal information in hashed, non-human readable form collected from other sources. More information on our use of cookies and similar technologies can be found on our website AdoptionFinder.org.

Cross-Border Data Transfers

Sharing of information laid out in Section 6 sometimes involves cross-border data transfers, for instance to the United States of America and other jurisdictions. As an example, where the service allows for users to be located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), their personal information is transferred to countries outside of the EEA. We use standard contract clauses approved by the European Commission or other suitable safeguards to permit data transfers from the EEA to other countries. Standard contractual clauses are commitments between companies transferring personal data, binding them to protect the privacy and security of your data

Your Rights

We want you to be in control of your information, so we have provided you with the following tools:

Access / Update tools in the service. Tools and account settings that help you to access, rectify or delete information that you provided to us and that’s associated with your account directly within the service. If you have any questions about those tools and settings, please contact our customer care team for help.

Device permissions. Mobile platforms have permission systems for specific types of device data and notifications, such as phone book and location services as well as push notifications. You can change your settings on your device to either consent or oppose the collection of the corresponding information or the display of the corresponding notifications. Of course, if you do that, certain services may lose full functionality.

Deletion

You can delete your account by using the corresponding functionality directly on the service.

We want you to be aware of your privacy rights. Here are a few key points to remember:

Reviewing your information. Applicable privacy laws may give you the right to review the personal information we keep about you (depending on the jurisdiction, this may be called right of access, right of portability, or variations of those terms). You can request a copy of your personal information by putting in such a request here.

 Updating your information. If you believe that the information we hold about you is inaccurate or that we are no longer entitled to use it and want to request its rectification, deletion, or object to its processing, please contact us here.

For your protection and the protection of all of our users, we may ask you to provide proof of identity before we can answer the above requests.

Security

All information we gather on our Site is stored within databases to which only we and services providers are provided access. However, as effective as the reasonable security measures

implemented by us may be, no physical or electronic security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our Site’s servers or databases, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.

Keep in mind, we may reject requests for certain reasons, including if the request is unlawful or if it may infringe on trade secrets or intellectual property or the privacy of another user. If you wish to receive information relating to another user, such as a copy of any messages you received from him or her through our service, the other user will have to contact our Privacy Officer to provide their written consent before the information is released.

Also, we may not be able to accommodate certain requests to object to the processing of personal information, notably where such requests would not allow us to provide our service to you anymore. For instance, we cannot provide our service if we do not have your date of birth.

Uninstall. You can stop all information collection by an app by uninstalling it using the standard uninstall process for your device. If you uninstall the app from your mobile device, the unique identifier associated with your device will continue to be stored. If you re-install the application on the same mobile device, we will be able to re-associate this identifier to your previous transactions and activities.

Accountability. In certain countries, including in the European Union, you have a right to lodge a complaint with the appropriate data protection authority if you have concerns about how we process your personal information. The data protection authority you can lodge a complaint with notably may be that of your habitual residence, where you work, or where we are established.

Residents of California

If you are a California resident, you can request a notice disclosing the categories of personal information about you that we have shared with third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year. To request this notice, please submit your request here. Please allow 30 days for a response. For your protection and the protection of all of our users, we may ask you to provide proof of identity before we can answer such a request.

How We Protect Your Information

We work hard to protect you from unauthorized access to or alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal information. As with all technology companies, although we take steps to secure your information, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information will always remain secure.

We regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks and regularly review our information collection, storage, and processing practices to update our physical, technical, and organizational security measures.

We may suspend your use of all or part of the services without notice if we suspect or detect any breach of security. If you believe that your account or information is no longer secure, please notify us immediately here

In order to ensure that our systems and your information are protected against unauthorized access, theft and loss, we implemented a bug bounty program. For more information about our bug bounty program, please contact us for help.

How Long We Retain Your Information

We keep your personal information only as long as we need it for legitimate business purposes (as laid out in Section 5) and as permitted by applicable law. To protect the safety and security of our users on and off our services, we implement a safety retention window of three months following account deletion. During this period, account information will be retained although the account will of course not be visible on the services anymore.

In practice, we delete or anonymize your information upon deletion of your account (following the safety retention window) or after two years of continuous inactivity, unless: we must keep it to comply with applicable law (for instance, some “traffic data” is kept for one year to comply with statutory data retention obligations); we must keep it to evidence our compliance with applicable law (for instance, records of consents to our Terms, Privacy Policy, and other similar consents are kept for five years); there is an outstanding issue, claim, or dispute requiring us to keep the relevant information until it is resolved; or the information must be kept for our legitimate business interests, such as fraud prevention and enhancing users’ safety and security. For example, information may need to be kept to prevent a user who was banned for unsafe behavior or security incidents from opening a new account.

 Keep in mind that even though our systems are designed to carry out data deletion processes according to the above guidelines, we cannot promise that all data will be deleted within a specific timeframe due to technical constraints.

Children’s Privacy

Our services are restricted to users who are 18 years of age or older. We do not permit users under the age of 18 on our platform and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 18. If you suspect that a user is under the age of 18, please use the reporting mechanism available through the service.

Privacy Policy Changes

Because we’re always looking for new and innovative ways to help you build meaningful connections, this policy may change over time. We will notify you before any material changes take effect so that you have time to review the changes.

How to Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, here’s how you can reach us: 

Adoption Finder Inc 

PO Box 1773 

Leander, TX 78646 

adoptionfinder.org

adoptionfinders@gmail.com

Online Shop Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from (the AF SHOP).

WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device.
Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically collected information as Device Information.
We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

• Cookies are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier.
• Log files track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.

Mention all other tracking tools and/or technologies being used by your website.
Also, when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers Mention all types of accepted payments, email address, and phone number. This is called Order Information.
Make sure you mention all other information that you collect.

By Personal Information in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfil any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations).
Additionally, we use this Order Information to: – Communicate with you. – Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud. – When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site.

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above.
We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use (Store Name). How Google uses your Personal Information.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful requests for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

BEHAVIOURAL ADVERTISING
We use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you.
Mention opt-out links from external services such as:

• Facebook
• Google

You can opt out of targeted advertising.

YOUR RIGHTS
If you are a European resident, you have the right to access the personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information is corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us.

Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above.

Please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.

DATA RETENTION
When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

MINORS
The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18.

CHANGES
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

ADA COMPLIANCE 

We’re committed to making our products and services accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities. We follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and use the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) specification.

Adoption Finder is passionate about enabling access for all. If you need an accommodation or request for auxiliary aides or services, please contact us via email. We will consider all requests.

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Membership Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 7/1/23

At Adoption Finder, we are committed to protecting the privacy of our members. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal information when you become a member of our platform. By accessing or using our services, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

1.1 Personal Information:
When you sign up for a membership with Adoption Finder, we may collect certain personal information from you, including but not limited to:

– Full name
– Contact information (email address, phone number, mailing address)
– Date of birth
– Gender
– Username and password
– Profile photo
– Adoption-related information (if applicable)

1.2 Usage Information:
In addition to personal information, we may collect certain usage information automatically when you interact with our platform. This may include:

– IP address
– Device information (such as device type, operating system, and browser type)
– Log information (such as access times, pages viewed, and referring URL)
– Cookies and similar technologies (please refer to our Cookie Policy for more information)

2. Use of Information

2.1 Providing Services:
We use the personal information we collect to provide you with the services and features of Adoption Finder. This includes facilitating member interactions, matching adoptees and birth parents, and helping individuals navigate the adoption process.

2.2 Communication:
We may use your personal information to communicate with you about your membership, account updates, important notices, and service-related announcements. We may also send you promotional and marketing communications, but you can opt out of such communications at any time.

2.3 Research and Analysis:
We may use aggregated and anonymized data for research and analysis purposes to improve our services, understand member preferences, and enhance the adoption experience. This data does not personally identify you.

2.4 Legal Compliance:
We may use and disclose your personal information to comply with applicable laws, regulations, or legal processes, as well as respond to requests from government authorities or protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property.

3. Sharing of Information

3.1 Member Interactions:
As a member of Adoption Finder, certain information you provide, such as your profile and adoption preferences, may be shared with other members to facilitate connections and matches. However, we will never disclose your personal contact information without your explicit consent.

3.2 Service Providers:
We may share your personal information with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our platform and providing our services. These service providers are contractually obligated to safeguard your information and are not authorized to use it for any other purpose.

3.3 Legal Obligations:
We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law, court order, or government request, or if we believe that such disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property.

3.4 Business Transfers:
In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our business or assets, your personal information may be transferred as part of the transaction. We will notify you via email or a prominent notice on our website if such a transfer occurs.

4. Data Security

Adoption Finder takes the security of your personal information seriously. We employ industry-standard security measures to protect your data against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

5. Your Choices

5.1 Updating Your Information:
You can access, review, and update your personal information by logging into your account settings. It is your responsibility to keep your information accurate and up to date.

5.2 Opting Out:
You can opt out of receiving.

6. Age Limitation

Adoption Finder is intended for use by individuals who are 18 years of age or older. By accessing or using our services, you represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years old. We do not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under the age of 18. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a user under 18, we will promptly delete the information from our records. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided personal information to us, please contact us immediately at info@adoptionfinder.org.

7. Changes to this Privacy Policy

Adoption Finder reserves the right to modify or update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable laws. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the updated Privacy Policy on our website or by sending you an email notification. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we collect, use, and protect your information.

8. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or comments about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at [contact information]. We will do our best to address and resolve your inquiries in a timely manner.

9. User Conduct and Abuse

Adoption Finder is committed to providing a safe and respectful community for all members. We have a zero-tolerance policy for abusive behavior, including sending inappropriate messages, pictures, or engaging in any form of harassment or misconduct to minors/adults. We reserve the right to take appropriate actions, including but not limited to suspending or terminating the membership of any user found to be in violation of this policy.

9.1 Reporting Abuse:
If you encounter any user who is engaging in abusive or inappropriate behavior, we encourage you to report it to us immediately. You can report abuse by contacting our support team at info@adoptionfinder.org. Please provide as much detail as possible regarding the incident, including the username of the person involved, the nature of the abuse, and any relevant evidence.

9.2 Investigation and Action:
Upon receiving a report of abuse, Adoption Finder will promptly investigate the matter. We may contact both parties involved to gather additional information and assess the situation. If we determine that a user has violated our policies, we will take appropriate action, which may include warning the user, suspending their membership, or permanently terminating their account.

9.3 Confidentiality:
We respect the privacy and confidentiality of all users involved in an abuse report. While we may need to share certain information with relevant parties for investigation and resolution purposes, we will handle all information in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable laws.

9.4 Cooperation with Authorities:
In cases of severe abuse or violation of the law, we may cooperate with law enforcement authorities and provide them with any necessary information to assist in their investigation.

9.5 Member Responsibilities:
As a member of Adoption Finder, it is your responsibility to adhere to our Code of Conduct and to report any abusive or inappropriate behavior that you encounter. By doing so, you contribute to maintaining a safe and supportive environment for all members.

10. Suspension or Termination

Adoption Finder reserves the right to suspend or terminate the membership of any user who violates this Privacy Policy, our Terms of Service, or any applicable laws or regulations. We may take these actions at our discretion, without prior notice or warning, and without any liability.

11. Severability

If any provision of this Privacy Policy is found to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect.

12. Governing Law

This Privacy Policy shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of Texas without regard to its conflict of laws principles.

Last Updated: 7/3/23