Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 10, 2026

Partnership for Strong Families respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we may collect, use, protect, and share information when you visit https://www.pfsf.org/, submit a form, request information, contact us, make a donation through a third-party platform, sign up for updates, interact with our website, or use links and features available through our website.

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

Who We Are

Our website address is: https://www.pfsf.org/.

Partnership for Strong Families is a community-based care lead agency contracted with the Florida Department of Children and Families. Partnership for Strong Families provides child welfare services designed to protect local children from abuse, neglect, and abandonment and assists in establishing safe and permanent homes with their own families, partner families, or adoptive parents.

Organization name: Partnership for Strong Families
Headquarters: 2850 NW 43rd Street, Suite 200, Gainesville, FL 32606
Phone: (352) 244-1500
Website: https://www.pfsf.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 submit a website form, contact us, request caregiver support, request client records information, ask about foster care or adoption, make a donation through a third-party platform, sign up for a newsletter, apply to volunteer, ask about events, inquire about employment, or otherwise communicate with us. This may include:

• Name
• Email address
• Phone number
• Mailing address, if provided
• Organization, agency, or employer name, if provided
• Caregiver, foster parent, adoptive parent, kinship caregiver, volunteer, donor, applicant, or community partner status, if provided
• Information related to a question, concern, request, or inquiry
• Information included in caregiver support requests
• Names of children or family members if you choose to provide them through a form or request
• Client record request information, if submitted through applicable forms or linked processes
• Donation-related information submitted through third-party donation platforms
• Volunteer, intern, employment, or event-related information, if provided
• Files, documents, forms, photos, or other materials you choose to submit or send to us
• Any other information included in your message, form submission, email, phone call, or communication

Because Partnership for Strong Families works in areas involving children, families, caregivers, child welfare, foster care, adoption, kinship care, and community 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, case-specific, 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, advertising tools, accessibility 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, or display preferences, where applicable
• Interactions with forms, embedded content, donation links, newsletter links, videos, maps, social media links, or external platforms, where applicable

How We Use Information

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

• To respond to questions, comments, concerns, and general inquiries
• To route caregiver support requests, client record requests, tuition waiver inquiries, foster care inquiries, adoption inquiries, kinship care inquiries, volunteer inquiries, donation inquiries, employment inquiries, and other requests to the appropriate team or process
• To provide information about our programs, services, resource centers, training, events, newsletters, foster care, adoption, kinship care, caregiver support, and community resources
• To communicate with caregivers, families, donors, volunteers, community partners, vendors, job applicants, and website visitors
• To process newsletter subscriptions, event interest, volunteer interest, or other community engagement communications
• To support donations, fundraising, events, and community partnership opportunities through internal or third-party platforms
• To maintain, operate, secure, and improve the website
• To support website accessibility, usability, and display preferences
• To understand general website usage and performance
• To measure outreach, campaign, advertising, or communication performance, if such tools are enabled
• To help protect the website from spam, abuse, bots, unauthorized access, fraud, and security threats
• To comply with applicable legal, contractual, governmental, child welfare, 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, Client Records, and Confidential Information

Partnership for Strong Families works in areas that may involve confidential child welfare, caregiver, foster care, adoption, kinship care, family support, and client-related information.

Information related to client records, protected child welfare information, foster care records, adoption records, caregiver information, court-related information, 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 or protected information.

Website Forms and Communications

Our website may include forms for general questions, comments, concerns, caregiver support requests, volunteer interest, newsletter interest, event interest, and 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 retained for follow-up and administrative purposes.

By submitting a website form or inquiry, you agree that Partnership for Strong Families may contact you by email, phone, mail, or text message regarding your inquiry, request, application, donation, event, newsletter subscription, 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.

Caregiver Support Requests

Our website may include caregiver support request forms or links for kinship caregivers, licensed foster parents, adoptive parents, and others seeking assistance.

Information submitted through caregiver support features may include personal information, contact information, caregiver status, names of children, and details about needs, questions, or concerns. This information may be used to review, route, and respond to the request.

Caregiver support requests may involve sensitive information. Please provide only the information needed to allow the appropriate team to understand and respond to the request.

Client Records Requests and Related Forms

Our website may link to client records request forms, tuition waiver forms, caregiver support forms, or other forms and resources.

Information submitted through client records request processes or linked forms may be subject to separate verification, authorization, legal, confidentiality, and recordkeeping requirements.

Partnership for Strong Families may use information submitted through such forms to verify, process, evaluate, route, respond to, or document the request in accordance with applicable requirements.

Foster Care, Adoption, Kinship Care, and Resource Center Information

Our website provides information about foster care, adoption, kinship care, caregiver support, resource centers, family support, training, professional development, community services, and related opportunities.

If you submit information related to foster care, adoption, kinship care, caregiver support, or family services, we may use that information to respond to your inquiry, provide general information, connect you with appropriate staff or resources, and support related administrative processes.

Donations and Third-Party Donation Platforms

Our website may include links to third-party donation platforms, fundraising pages, event registration pages, or payment services.

If you make a donation or payment 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, reporting, accounting, fundraising, tax, and recordkeeping purposes.

Newsletter, Events, Media, and Community Engagement

Our website may allow visitors to sign up for newsletters, view news updates, learn about events, access videos, submit interest forms, or interact with community engagement opportunities.

If you subscribe to a newsletter, register interest in an event, or provide contact information for updates, we may use that information to send relevant communications. You may ask to stop receiving non-essential communications at any time.

Our website may display photos, videos, stories, newsletters, articles, event information, and other public-facing content. Photos, videos, names, stories, testimonials, and other media may be used only where permitted by appropriate authorization, agreement, law, policy, or public availability.

Employment, Volunteers, Interns, and Training

Our website may include links or forms related to employment opportunities, volunteer opportunities, internships, training, professional development, or related involvement.

Information submitted through employment, volunteer, internship, training, or professional development processes may be used to review, process, communicate about, and administer the applicable opportunity.

Some employment or volunteer processes may be handled through third-party platforms or separate application systems. Those platforms may have their own privacy policies, terms, and security practices.

Google reCAPTCHA and Spam Prevention

Our website may use Google reCAPTCHA or similar CAPTCHA tools to help protect website forms 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, 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, 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, and Remarketing Tools

Depending on the tools enabled on the website, we may use marketing, advertising, conversion tracking, social media pixel, or remarketing technologies to understand general website performance, measure campaign effectiveness, or show relevant outreach content.

These tools may use cookies, pixels, tags, 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.

Facebook Pixel and Social Media Tracking

Depending on the current website configuration, our website may use Meta/Facebook Pixel or similar social media tools to measure outreach, advertising, website traffic, or campaign effectiveness.

These tools may collect information about website activity and may associate that information with data held by the applicable social media platform, subject to that platform’s privacy policy, settings, and terms.

You can review Meta’s Privacy Policy here:

https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/

Microsoft, Employee Login, and Third-Party Work Platforms

Our website may include links to employee login pages, Microsoft services, job platforms, training platforms, or other third-party work-related systems.

These systems are controlled by third parties or separate administrative environments and may collect, process, and protect information according to their own privacy policies, security practices, and terms.

External Websites, Resource Links, and Embedded Content

Our website may include links to third-party websites or embedded content, including donation platforms, foster care resources, adoption resources, the Heart Gallery, Microsoft login pages, social media platforms, videos, maps, government resources, partner organizations, resource centers, 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, and similar technologies to support website functionality, security, spam prevention, accessibility features, 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, 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 WordPress login and administrator sessions
• Measuring website traffic and performance, if analytics are enabled
• Measuring outreach, advertising, or campaign performance, if advertising tools are enabled
• Helping pages load more efficiently
• Remembering accessibility, language, or display preferences
• Supporting embedded videos, maps, social links, donation links, forms, 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.

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, requesting support, signing up for updates, or using available resources.

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

Accessibility Tools

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

Accessibility-related 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, accessibility, performance, analytics, advertising, SEO, cookie consent, embedded content, donation links, newsletter functionality, 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.
• Google reCAPTCHA or similar CAPTCHA tools: used to help protect website forms 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.
• Facebook Pixel, Meta tools, or similar advertising tools: used only if enabled to measure campaign performance or support outreach.
• Donation, event, and volunteer platforms: used to support fundraising, community engagement, event registration, or volunteer opportunities.
• Social media and embedded content providers: used to display or link to social media content, videos, resources, maps, or other external content.
• Accessibility tools: used to provide accessibility features and may remember accessibility-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, malware scanning, spam prevention, bot protection, CAPTCHA or reCAPTCHA tools, access controls, and review of suspicious activity.

No website, server, email system, online form, donation platform, employee login 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 visitor accounts or public comment areas for general website visitors.

If public comments or visitor account registration 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, and spam-prevention data.

Media Uploads and File Metadata

If you upload or send files, photos, documents, forms, records, 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, respond to inquiries, manage donations, support events, send newsletters, administer volunteer or employment inquiries, maintain security, analyze website usage if enabled, manage cookie preferences, provide accessibility 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, donation platforms, event platforms, newsletter platforms, job or volunteer platforms, embedded content providers, and website maintenance providers.

We may also share information with employees, contractors, service providers, community partners, agencies, vendors, resource providers, government entities, legal representatives, auditors, accountants, or other appropriate parties when needed to respond to a request, administer programs, comply with legal obligations, protect children and families, support services, process donations, coordinate resources, or fulfill our 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 Partnership for Strong Families, children, families, caregivers, 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, caregiver support, client records requests, foster care or adoption inquiries, volunteer inquiries, employment review, donation administration, newsletter communications, event administration, website administration, legal compliance, accounting, tax, grant reporting, audit, fraud prevention, security, and recordkeeping purposes.

Client records, child welfare records, caregiver records, foster care records, adoption records, employee records, volunteer records, donor 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, 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, client record, grant, audit, court, governmental, or legitimate retention requirements.

Requests involving client records, child welfare records, foster care records, adoption records, caregiver records, employee 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

Partnership for Strong Families serves children, families, caregivers, foster families, adoptive families, kinship caregivers, and the community. However, the general website is intended primarily for adults seeking information, resources, support, donations, volunteer opportunities, employment opportunities, or community engagement.

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, families, caregivers, foster care, adoption, kinship care, or child welfare services may be subject to separate confidentiality, records, 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, 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:

Partnership for Strong Families
2850 NW 43rd Street, Suite 200
Gainesville, FL 32606
Phone: (352) 244-1500
Website: https://www.pfsf.org/