About Us - Help Me Find

About Us

HelpMeFind.org.uk was specifically designed to assist with the process of finding a loved one. Initially, to assist all adopted, fostered and missing family individuals, who wish to find or be found.

The site is not a direct matching or tracing service, but our Search Condenser will assist you in the actual physical search. A user's search will trigger results based on the criteria they specified, or the nearest criteria held on the portal, at that time. The advanced search can be used to widen or narrow the search's accordingly.

It is up to the user, upon viewing the search results, to make a decision on the likelihood that a particular Profile is potentially owned by the lost contact/target they are seeking. Should they then wish to make contact, they simply post a message, we vet that message and remove all contact details before remotely contacting the profile owner, that there is a message received.

As HelpMeFind.org.uk continually evolves, the site offers more search criteria to improve the user experience, for example by searching for categories or dates or key words such as names.

HelpMeFind is a dedicated web based community orientated company for the assistance of fostered, adopted and split families.

All of the information on HMF is on a "free to access" basis and there are no charges incurred by either party. Three independant, UK based, privately owned companies formed HMF and offer their services free on an on-going basis.

There are no registration fees or annual subscriptions, this services is totally free to use and all of your details will remain strictly private. There is no marketing or third party access to your files. All your personal files have been encrypted

The site went live in May 2005; we now have over 6000 members and over 4,000,000 hits to date.

HMF is a totally non-profit based company, with a Processing and Administration office in Canvey Island, Essex.

HMF conforms to the UK Data Protection Act and is currently preparing for charitable status, which we hope to have by early 2014.

Our staff offer their input and time, on a purely voluntary basis and all administration costs are covered by the aforementioned UK based companies.

HMF operates via its website: www.helpmefind.org.uk