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Caretaker/foster contact information is only made public under the following conditions:

1. The Caretakercaretaker's contact record is selected as Caretaker Info Public. See Understanding Contact Fields in your service guide for more information.
2. The contact fields are selected as public. See Managing animal caretakers and fosters in your service guide for more information.

This way you You have control over both which contact fields will be shared (first name, email address, etc) and the specific contacts that who will have their information shared.

Public/shared animal statuses

By default, only the Available and Adopted animal statuses are public. At any time, you may change the public animal statuses.

Please see the Managing animal status section of your service guide for additional information.

Animal Locations

Each animal can have a specific location selected. The location information is shared if the Location is set as Public on the animal record.

See the About locations section for additional information.

Animal fields

Many of the animal fields are private and never shared.  See About animal settings for additional information.

The private fields include (but not limited to):

• Internal ID
• Origin
• Journal entries (except when optionally exported for contracts)
• Colony
• Transferred To
• Owner
• Foster Notes

Animal-specific privacy

Each individual animal can be selected to be not accessible to the public.  This can be accomplished in one or more of the following ways:

1. Change the animal's status to one that is not selected as Public (see Public/shared animal statuses above).
2. Change the Do Not Sync option.
3. Deselect the Adopt-a-Pet.com and/or Petfinder export account (the animal will still be exported via the RescueGroups.org API).

Animal Network

Only organizations that you approve can view your shared pets in the Animal Network. See Using the network feature and About partnerships sections for additional information.

An Animal Network Partner may be able to see animal statuses that you have not specifically marked as public. Only the animals that you have marked as Shared will be visible to your approved Partnerships in the Animal Network.

Do Not Adopt list

Your organization can select if they would like to share their Do Not Adopt (DNA) list. See the About contact groups section (the DNA group is a contact group) in your service guide.

If you would like to share your organization's DNA list with other RescueGroups.org organizations, go to Contacts > Settings and enable the option, Share your organization's Do Not Adopt list.