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ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy applies to SITTERS OF THE CARIBBEAN, it governs any and all data collection and usage by us. This privacy policy describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share ("process") personal information when visiting our website https://www.sittersofthecaribbean.com/, platform, mobile application, social media or any other site/application that links to this privacy policy, engaging with us in other related ways, including using our services, bookings, sales, marketing or events, such as what we will or will not do with the information we collect. You are therefore consenting to the data collection procedures expressed in this policy.

We reserve the right to make changes to this policy at any time. If you want to be up to date with the changes of this privacy policy, we encourage you to review this site frequently, to get to know how we are using or protecting your information. This privacy policy does not govern the collection or use of information of other companies external to SITTERS OF THE CARIBBEAN, nor by individuals not employed or managed by us. If you use websites, links or services external from us, be sure to previously review their own privacy policy.

DATA COLLECTION (PURPOSES, PROCESSING, LEGAL BASES)

We collect personal information that you knowingly and willingly provide us when you contact us, request information, book our services or visit our website, platform, mobile application or social media. The information we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us, the services, choices you make and features you use, it may include: all names or last names registered, phone numbers, email addresses, usernames, passwords, likes, dislikes, allergies or medical requirements, contact preferences, accommodation address, billing address and payment information. We collect bank or debit/credit card data necessary to process your payment in order to confirm our services. All payment data is stored by Stripe, you can find their privacy notice link(s) here: 

https://stripe.com/mx/privacy#security-and-retention. Other store options as well can be: Paypal, Zelle or national bank transfer, you can find their privacy notice directly on their webpages. All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete and accurate, you must notify us in advance of any changes to any of the information provided. It is up to you to disclose personally identifiable information to us. However, if you decide not to, we reserve the right not to register you as a user or provide you with our services. We collect personal information provided of all the minors (regardless of the ages), this is initially provided to us by the parents or guardians of the minors who register. We may collect non-personal anonymous demographic information which will help us provide and maintain our quality service, these can be: age, gender, household income, political affiliation, race, religion, as well as the type of browser you use, IP address, device name or characteristics, operating system, language, URLs, country, location, information about how and when you use our services. We may process your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with our services, as well as to send you details about our services, changes to our terms and policies or other similar information. This information may also allow you to communicate with another user. We may also follow sites that our users may frequent, to know what type of services may be the most popular to our target clients. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our services and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes. We may provide you with the option to register with us using your existing third-party social media account details, like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or any other. If you choose to register this way, we may have access to certain information about your profile, this may vary depending on the social media provider, but will often include your name, email address, friends list, profile picture, as well as other information you choose to make public on the platform. We will use the information we receive only for the purposes that are described in this privacy policy or that are otherwise made clear to you on the relevant services. We do not control and are not responsible for other uses of your personal information or privacy preferences by your third-party social media provider. We collect device data such as information about your computer, phone, tablet or any other device you use to access our website, platform, mobile application or social media. We may request access or permission to certain features from your device, including your device’s calendar, reminders, sms messages, social media accounts or any other features. You can opt out of allowing us to collect this information, by refusing access to the information or change your access and permissions on your device´s settings. However, if you choose to opt out, you may not be able to use certain aspects of our services. We may request to send you push notifications regarding your account or certain features of the website, platform or mobile application, to opt out from receiving these types of communications, you may turn them off in your device’s settings. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our website, platform or mobile application, for troubleshooting and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes. We process your information to provide, improve and administer our services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent. We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our services, including to facilitate account creation and authentication and otherwise manage user accounts. We may process your information so you can create and log in to your account, as well as keep your account in working order. We may process your personal information, if you haven given us permission through our Family Child Care Form, to use for specific or promotional purposes. We may process your personal information when we believe it is necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations to you, including providing our services or at your request prior to entering into a contract with you. We may process your information when we believe it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests and those interests do not outweigh your interests and fundamental rights and freedoms, such as in case of accidents or emergencies. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, such as to cooperate with a law enforcement body or regulatory agency, exercise or defend our legal rights or disclose your information as evidence in litigation in which we are involved. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary to protect yours or the children´s vital interests or the vital interests of a third party, such as situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person. In some exceptional cases, we may be legally permitted under applicable law, to process your information if collection is clearly in the interests of an individual and your consent cannot be obtained in a timely way for investigations and fraud detection and prevention. For business transactions provided certain conditions are met. If it is contained in a witness statement and the collection is necessary to assess, process or settle an insurance claim. For identifying injured, ill or deceased persons and communicating with next of kin. If we have reasonable grounds to believe an individual has been, is or may be a victim of domestic, emotional, physical or financial abuse. If disclosure is required to comply with a subpoena, warrant, court order or rules of the court relating to the production of records. If it was produced by an individual in the course of their employment, business or profession and the collection is consistent with the purposes for which the information was produced. If the collection is solely for journalistic, artistic or literary purposes. If the information is publicly available and is specified by the regulations.

DATA USAGE AND SHARING

There are several reasons for which we collect your data, such as: matching families with babysitters, facilitate communication and ensure safety; understand your needs and provide you the required services; to improve our services and the quality and variety of them; to keep you informed of other or new services available for you or information you might like; to contact you about your use of our services, as well as for our marketing purposes, special promotions, to fill in surveys, participate in market research, to request feedback regarding our services or to customize or assist the operation of our website, platform, mobile application or social media. According to your online behavior and personal preferences, to ensure quality and delivery of our services. We may share your information in specific situations or with the following categories of third parties, vendors, consultants, contractors, agents and other third-party service providers who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. We have contracts in place with some of our third parties, which are designed to help safeguard your personal information. This means that they cannot do anything with your personal information, unless we instruct them to do so. They will not share your personal information with any organization apart from us and commit to protect the data they hold on our behalf and to retain it for the period we instruct. We also may need to share your personal information in connection with or during negotiations of any merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company. Our website, platform, mobile application or social media may display a third-party hosted “offer wall´´, this allows third-party advertisers to offer virtual currency, gifts or other items to users in return for the acceptance and completion of an advertisement offer. It may appear and be displayed to you based on certain data, such as your geographic area or demographic information. When you click on it, you will be brought to an external website belonging to other persons and will leave our site. A unique identifier, such as your user ID, will be shared with the offer wall provider, in order to prevent fraud and properly credit your account with the relevant reward. We will keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined, unless otherwise required by law and for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information or if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from further processing, until deletion is possible.

 

DATA SECURITY

We aim to protect your personal information through a system of appropriate and reasonable organizational and technical security measures, designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal or modify your information. We do our best to protect your personal information. You can verify this by looking at the lock icon in the address bar of our website and at the ´´https´´ at the beginning of the address of our webpage. Transmission of personal information to and from our services is at your own risk. You should only access our sites and services within a secure environment. We also protect your information offline, only collaborators who need your information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. We may process your information as part of our efforts to keep our services safe and secure, including fraud monitoring, prevention, to save or protect an individual’s vital interest or to prevent harm. We process your information to authorize our babysitting services, as well as to disclaim SITTERS OF THE CARIBBEAN agency or our babysitters. We only process your personal information when we believe it is necessary and we have a valid legal reason to do so under applicable law, to comply with laws, to provide you with services to enter into or fulfill our contractual obligations, to protect your rights, to protect children rights or to fulfill our legitimate business interests. We may rely on legal bases to process your personal information.

ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS

By using our website, platform, mobile application, social media or services, you are accepting our terms and conditions stipulated when filling in and signing the Family Child Care Form. If you are not in agreement with our terms and conditions, you should not use our website, platform, mobile application, social media or services. Your continued use of our website, platform, mobile application, social media or services, including any updates or changes to our terms and conditions, means that you agree and accept them.

YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS

By requiring our services or using our website, platform, mobile application or social media, you confirm that you are at least 18 years old or that you are the parent or guardian of such minors and consent to them the use of our services. If you have an account with us or have sent us any personal information, you may review, edit or delete your account at any time. You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you or to erase any personal data collected from you. This does not include any data that we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes. To exercise your rights, you can submit a data subject access request or contact us. We will consider and act upon any request, in accordance with applicable data protection laws. You can unsubscribe from our marketing and promotional communications at any time, by clicking on the link in the emails that we send or by contacting us. However, we may still communicate with you (for example), to send you service-related messages that are necessary for the administration and use of your account, to respond to service requests or for other non-marketing purposes. If you would, at any time, like to review or change the information in your account or delete your account, you can log in to your account settings and update your user information. Upon your request to delete it, we will do so or deactivate it, such as the information from our active databases, but we may retain some information in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our legal terms and/or comply with applicable legal requirements. There is information automatically collected when visiting our website, platform, mobile application or social media, which may include: cookies, third-party technologies and server logs, these are used  to collect and store your information by default. You can choose to set your browser to remove or reject cookies. However, if you do so, this could affect our services or certain features.

OUR PRIVACY RIGHTS

Our website, platform, mobile application and social media, contain content that is owned by or licensed to SITTERS OF THE CARIBBEAN. This material may include, but is not limited to our logo, design, layout, look, appearance and graphics. Reproduction is prohibited, unless otherwise stated in writing and granted by SITTERS OF THE CARIBBEAN. All trademarks published on this website, platform, mobile application or social media that are not property of or licensed to SITTERS OF THE CARIBBEAN are acknowledged.

CONTACT US

This privacy notice will help you understand our policies, your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with them, you should not use our services. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy, you may contact us by email at: info@sittersofthecaribbean.com or by phone (call, SMS or Whatsapp)                       at: +52 984 165 9568. 

SITTERS OF THE CARIBBEAN

Tulum, Q. Roo. 77760

Mexico.