Privacy Policy

Identity theft is unfortunately becoming more and more common and SitterCentral, Ltd. and its related entities and franchisees, (hereinafter collectively referred to as “SC”) owner and operator of www.sittercentral.us, understands how important it is to protect your privacy and personal information. We take every precaution to adhere to all federal, state, and industry guidelines in order to provide protection for your identity and personal information. The following policy explains how we handle and protect the personal information that you give us. This policy only applies to the information that you give to SC. It does not apply or provide any protection for personal information that you give to any other members of the SitterCentral network for jobs or placements that you may be responding to or third party websites that you access through our website.

Please carefully read this privacy policy, as well as the terms of use policy, before supplying any personal or identifying information to our website. We reserve the right to update, amend, or otherwise change this privacy policy at any time. Our current privacy policy will always be accessible through our website. Any changes are effective immediately after posting the new policy to our website. If any changes are made to this policy that would affect how we use your personal information, you will have the chance to opt out of that new use or the choice to discontinue using this website. For any questions regarding this policy, please contact us at info@sittercentral.us.

Capture of Your Personal Information

As with many other websites, SC may gather information from you in two ways: actively and passively.

Active Information Collection

We actively collect information from you through your communication with us by email, feedback forms or membership application information given to us by you. Some of the information requested will be personally identifiable, such as name, address, phone, email, etc. In order to register to use our website, you must provide your name, address, phone number, email, gender, date of birth, and payment information. Some membership applications might require additional information when you apply. While it is possible for users to browse the home pages of the website, you must fill out a membership application and be accepted as a member before you can access the rest of the website by entering a user name and password, which is then stored for future use. All members of the SitterCentral network must have a user name and password to access our website. It is your responsibility to protect your user name and password. Use a variety of numbers, letters (both uppercase and lowercase), and symbols to create a secure password. We may use the information provided to contact you for customer service or billing reasons. Regardless of whether you join the SitterCentral network, we may use your email address, if you provide it to us, to respond to you or for other business purposes. We reserve the right to retain any personal information that you provide.

Some areas of this website may require you to submit additional information in order for you to benefit from the specified features (such as newsletter subscriptions or promotional offers). You will be informed at each information collection point what information is required and what information is optional. You always have the option of opting not to use the additional features if you do not wish to supply the requested information.

We do not store credit card information on our website. The SitterCentral website will store the last 4 digits of the credit card number for identification purposes only. The actual credit card information will be stored on a third party website, www.authorize.net, which processes the online payments.

Passive Information Collection

As you navigate through a website, certain information can be passively collected (meaning it is gathered without you actively providing the information) using various technologies and means, such as navigational data collection. This website will track IP addresses, assign internet tags and use both session and persistent cookies. Cookies are small pieces of information (name-value pairs) stored on your computer’s hard drive by a website. The website stores the data and later receives it back. Our website can only receive back the information it has stored on your hard drive and cannot look at any other material on your computer. We use the cookies for personalization, to save member ids and passwords, gather information about areas you visit on our website, or they may be used to deliver material to you that is specific to your interests. Cookies help us to provide you with a better and more useful website. You can adjust your web browser to either accept or deny cookies. However, not accepting cookies can limit your use of our website and possibly make some features unavailable.

Use of Your Information

The information that you provide to SC is used by us to complete and approve your membership application. We also store the information given in a central database. We may use any of your personal information given to contact you regarding new features or new products that we think you may be interested in using or purchasing. We may also provide aggregate statistics about our customers, sales, membership, participation, traffic patterns on our website, or other additional information. Aggregate statistics are generated by combining data from any given or related category or categories. We will also share your personal information in order to (1) comply with a court order or other legal process, (2) protect our rights or privacy, or (3) enforce our terms of use policy.

 Events with Event Directors

SC and www.sittercentral.us may sometimes offer events for registration that utilize a third party Event Director. Event Directors are third parties who are coordinating, sponsoring, or helping to facilitate a specific event. For events with an Event Director, SC will provide to the specific Event Director any personal information submitted by you that is necessary to complete your registration for that particular event. Each Event Director is operating independently of SC and may have different privacy and security policies than those of SC. You have the responsibility to review each Event Directors policies and choose whether to continue to register for their event. SC has no responsibility or liability for the actions of any Event Director to which SC supplies your information for event registration purposes.

Other than the aforementioned reasons, we will not sell, lease, or distribute your personal information to any third parties.

General Privacy Information

This website is not intended for use by children under the age of eighteen. We will not knowingly collect information from or accept membership applications from anyone under eighteen years of age. It is your responsibility to provide accurate and honest information when applying for membership. SC and www.sittercentral.us cannot be held responsible for users who provide inaccurate or incorrect data when applying for membership. We only use the data you provide and have no way of checking the accuracy of the information given.

Our website might contain links to third party websites, such as vendors, other events, etc. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such linked websites. We encourage our users to be aware of this when they leave www.sittercentral.us and to read the privacy statements of each website that collects personal information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by SC from www.sittercentral.us.

Security

SC and www.sittercentral.us have several different types of industry standard security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of the information collected.

1. Identification and Authentication

Access to the data is assigned to specific individuals in order to maintain strict control over access. We do not grant general data access to data within SC or www.sittercentral.us; except as set forth in this Privacy Statement, access to data is not granted to parties outside SC. We also verify the identity of the persons accessing the data by using login name and password. In addition, login sessions time-out after a period of time to prevent unauthorized use.

2. Authorization and Access Control

Only authorized SC personnel have access to restricted data. Access to sensitive data, such as customer financial information and other individually identifiable sensitive information (if any), is revoked in a timely manner for employees or contractors who change function or resign. Non-disclosure Agreements are in place with any person having access to sensitive data.

3. Data Confidentiality

SC and www.sittercentral.us use SSL encryption for data transfer, a security firewall to protect the confidentiality of our customers’ information, and password protected access to the data.

4. Data Integrity and Retention

We implement full database backups by our Information Technology Specialist to establish data consistency and integrity. We also allow members access to their information in order to verify that the data is still accurate and has not been modified or corrupted.

Data is stored on our secure server and backed up daily. Such data is stored to the extent required by state, federal, and local laws. Our servers are located in a secure and environmentally controlled location.

5. Data Management and Monitoring

All employees and contractors of SC are informed of the company’s security policies. New hires are briefed on security and privacy issues.

Protect Yourself

You should always keep your user id and password confidential. If you ever feel like your user id or password has been compromised, you should notify us and change them immediately. You should also periodically check your personal information that has been stored to your account. If you see any discrepancy, you should immediately contact us to request that the error be corrected.

Please read this privacy policy carefully. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF USE OR THE PRIVACY POLICY, YOU MUST NOT CONTINUE TO ACCESS OR USE ANY SC WEBSITE.By choosing to use the website, you are agreeing to the terms and conditions of this privacy policy. If after the posting of any revisions to this policy, you continue to use the website, you are also agreeing to any new terms or conditions contained in the revised privacy policy.

Applicable Law; Governing Law & Jurisdiction

This Privacy Policy shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the state of Texas and the United States of America, and venue for any cause of action arising hereunder shall lie in the state or federal courts of Dallas, Texas. By continuing to use this website, you agree to submit to the jurisdiction of such courts.

Alternative Dispute Resolution

In the event any dispute arises between Company and any Person, the dispute shall be subject to “Alternative Dispute Resolution” (hereinafter referred to as ADR). Under the provisions of this ADR policy and in order to ensure the speedy, impartial resolution of all disputes between the parties which related to, or arise from the party’s relationship and/or operational decisions, the parties hereby agree to forego litigation. The disputing party shall be obligated to provide (within ten business days of the event giving rise to the dispute) written notification to the non-disputing party of the particulars of the dispute. The non-disputing party shall be required to respond to the disputing party’s allegations within ten business days receipt of the disputing party’s notification, then the parties shall submit to binding arbitration to resolve the dispute between the parties. The parties to the arbitration will bear the costs equally. Any binding arbitration procedures shall be conducted in accordance with arbitration rules promulgated by the American Arbitration Association (hereinafter referred to as “AAA”), but an AAA Arbitrator is not mandated by this provision. The final decision of the arbitrator may be appealed only to a judge in a court of competent jurisdiction. Said appeal shall not allow for live testimony and may only be based on written documentation and transcripts of the arbitration proceedings provided to the judge.

Miscellaneous

No consent or waiver, express or implied, by SC with respect to the strict enforcement of any provision included in this Privacy Policy or other incorporated document will be deemed or construed to be a consent or waiver with respect to any future enforcement of the same provision or any other provision of this Privacy Policy or any other incorporated document.

Should any of the terms, conditions or provisions of this Privacy Policy or any other incorporated document be held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, such terms will be deemed to be separable in such jurisdiction and the legality, validity and enforceability of the remaining terms, conditions or provisions will not be affected thereby. Furthermore, in lieu of such illegal, invalid or unenforceable provision, there will be added automatically as a part of this Privacy Policy or any other incorporated document, a provision as similar in its terms to such illegal, invalid or unenforceable provision as may be possible in order to make the provision legal, valid and enforceable. It is the intent and expectation of the parties that each provision of this Privacy Policy and any other incorporated document will be honored, performed, and enforced as it is written.

This Privacy Policy and any other incorporated document may be supplemented, amended, or modified only by SC and only in writing. No course of dealing between you and SC will be construed to have modified, supplemented, or amended this Privacy Policy or any other incorporated document.

Contact Us

If you should have any questions of concerns about this Privacy Policy, or you would like to report a violation of this policy, please do so by contacting us at the following address:

SitterCentral, Ltd.
3026 Mockingbird Lane Suite 161
Dallas, Texas 75205
info@sittercentral.us