A birth parent, adult adoptee or anyone whose personal information may be in the adoption records can file a Contact Preference form with the Post Adoption Registry. In this form, you can state whether or not you want to be contacted and how you may be contacted. The form and filing instructions can be found on the Government of Alberta’s webpage for “Preventing release of identifying information from adoption records.” Follow the link below. These contact preferences are not legally binding though. A person applying to the Registry for information will be notified of the other person’s preference. It is up to the person requesting the information to decide whether or not to honour the other person’s contact preference. For example, a birth parent may state they do not want to be contacted. The adoptee will be notified that this is the birth parent’s preference but the adoptee may still contact the birth parent. A Contract Preference form may be cancelled or changed at any time by the individual who filed it. Last Reviewed: June 2021