Privacy Policy

The Solano Heart Gallery receives information from and manages information for children who are waiting for adoption, families approved for adoption, and prospective adoptive families for the sole purpose of facilitating quality recruitment, data management, securing placements, and establishing permanency for children waiting for adoption. Therefore, demographic and profile data may be collected at this site. Any information provided to us will be stored in a secure environment and will not be misused.

The Solano Heart Gallery has a strong commitment to user privacy as demonstrated by this statement and our gathering and dissemination practices for this website.

For each visitor to this website, our server automatically recognizes the customer's internet Protocol (IP) Address and domain name. This information does not identify you personally.  This information is used to improve the content of the web services and to help us understand how people are using our services so that the web site may be improved to better serve the public. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer this website.

We may collect information volunteered by the visitor, such as survey information.  The information we collect through surveys is used to make improvements to the web site and collect demographic information on web site use.  Information provided voluntarily may be shared with reputable adoption agencies at the request of the consumers and/or their social workers, case managers and approved agency staff to respond to the visitor’s request.

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, County of Solanosupported computer systems employ software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or otherwise cause damage.  Except for authorized law enforcement investigations and the security purposes mentioned in this notice, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their individual usage habits.

If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by:

o        Sending an e-mail to:  Heartgallery@solanocounty.com

o       Calling the following number:  707-784-8686

This site may contain link to other websites. The Solano Heart Gallery is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.

Information regarding the children participating in the Solano County Heart Gallery is confidential under California state law and can not be released to anyone except as expressly provided by state law.  (Welfare & Institutions Code § 827.)

If you feel that this site is not following its stated privacy policy or if you have any questions about this statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with the Solano Heart Gallery, please contact:. 

o        Heartgallery@solanocounty.com