PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: September 11, 2026
Last Updated: September 11, 2026

Babysitters Unite Inc. ("Babysitters Unite," "we," "us," or "our") respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information when you visit our website, submit an application or inquiry, request or receive childcare services, communicate with us, or otherwise interact with our business.

By using our website or providing personal information to us, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect the following categories of information:

Information You Provide Directly

• Name, mailing address, email address, and telephone number
• Account, profile, login, and contact-preference information
• Childcare-service information, including requested dates, times, locations, household details, children's ages, allergies, accessibility needs, care instructions, and emergency-contact information
• Caregiver, applicant, and employee information, including work history, references, availability, qualifications, certifications, training records, identity and work-authorization information, payroll and tax information, and other onboarding information
• Information needed to conduct identity verification, background screening, driving-record checks, or other legally permitted screening
• Payment, billing, transaction, and invoicing information
• Messages, emails, telephone calls, text messages, survey responses, feedback, and other communications with us
• Any other information you choose to provide

Please do not provide information about a child unless you are the child's parent or legal guardian, or you are otherwise authorized to provide it.

Information Collected Automatically

When you use our website, we and our service providers may automatically collect information such as your IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, referring pages, pages visited, dates and times of visits, and general interaction data. We may use cookies and similar technologies to operate, secure, and improve our website.

Information From Other Sources

We may receive information from families, caregivers, applicants, employees, references, business clients, childcare-benefit providers, background-screening providers, identity-verification providers, payroll providers, scheduling platforms, payment processors, and other service providers or business partners, as permitted by law.

2. How We Use Personal Information

We may use personal information to:

• Respond to inquiries and provide customer support
• Process childcare requests and coordinate, schedule, and manage caregiver assignments
• Communicate with families, caregivers, applicants, employees, and business clients
• Recruit, evaluate, screen, onboard, schedule, and manage caregivers, applicants, and employees
• Verify identity, qualifications, references, certifications, eligibility, and background information
• Process payments, payroll, reimbursements, invoices, and business records
• Send service-related notices, scheduling updates, shift opportunities, appointment reminders, onboarding communications, and other authorized text messages
• Maintain, personalize, secure, and improve our website, services, and business operations
• Prevent fraud, protect safety and security, enforce our policies and agreements, and resolve disputes
• Meet legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, employment, and recordkeeping obligations
• Carry out any other purpose disclosed when the information is collected or with your consent

3. Text Messaging and SMS Privacy

If you provide your mobile number and consent to receive text messages from Babysitters Unite Inc., we may send messages related to caregiver recruitment, applications, onboarding, shift opportunities, scheduling, assignment updates, childcare requests, service notifications, appointment reminders, and customer support. Message frequency may vary. Message and data rates may apply.

You may opt out at any time by replying STOP to any message. After you opt out, we may send one confirmation message. For assistance, reply HELP or contact us at babysittersuniteus@gmail.com

Consent to receive text messages is not a condition of purchasing any goods or services.

No mobile information, including phone numbers, mobile opt-in data, or consent to receive text messages, will be shared, sold, rented, or disclosed to third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.

We may disclose mobile information to service providers that help us deliver text messages, such as telecommunications and messaging-platform providers, solely as necessary to provide the messaging service. Those providers are not permitted to use the information for their own marketing purposes. We may also disclose information when required by law.

4. How We Disclose Personal Information

We may disclose personal information in the following circumstances:

• Service providers: To companies that support our operations, such as website hosting, scheduling, communications, identity verification, background screening, payment processing, payroll, accounting, analytics, IT support, and data security
• Childcare coordination: To families, caregivers, employees, business clients, or childcare-benefit partners when reasonably necessary to evaluate, arrange, provide, or manage childcare services
• Legal and safety purposes: To comply with law, legal process, or government requests; enforce agreements; protect rights, property, safety, or security; prevent fraud; or respond to emergencies
• Business transactions: In connection with a merger, financing, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar business transaction, subject to appropriate confidentiality protections
• With your direction or consent: When you ask us to disclose information or otherwise authorize the disclosure

We do not sell personal information for money. We do not share mobile opt-in data or text-message consent with third parties or affiliates for their marketing or promotional purposes.

5. Cookies and Website Analytics

Our website may use cookies and similar technologies that are necessary for site functionality, security, performance, and analytics. You may be able to manage cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect how the website functions.

6. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to provide services, manage employment and caregiver records, comply with legal and contractual obligations, resolve disputes, protect safety, and enforce agreements. Retention periods vary depending on the type of information and applicable requirements.

7. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information. However, no website, electronic transmission, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You should use care when sending sensitive information electronically.

8. Your Privacy Choices and Rights

Depending on where you live and subject to applicable law, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of certain personal information; receive a copy of certain information; or withdraw consent where processing is based on consent. Some information may be exempt from a request or retained as required or permitted by law.

To make a privacy request, email babysittersuniteus@gmail.com with the subject line Privacy Request. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. Authorized agents may submit requests where permitted by law, but we may require proof of authorization and identity verification.

You may unsubscribe from promotional emails by using the unsubscribe link included in the email. To stop text messages, reply STOP. Transactional or legally required communications may still be sent when permitted by law.

We will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising an applicable privacy right.

9. Children's Privacy

Our website and services are intended for parents, legal guardians, adult caregivers, job applicants, employees, business clients, and other adults. They are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13 through our website. Parents or guardians may provide information about their children when requesting or receiving childcare services. If you believe a child has submitted personal information directly to us without appropriate authorization, please contact us so we can review and address the matter.

10. Third-Party Websites and Services

Our website or communications may contain links to websites or services operated by others. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies, and we are not responsible for those practices.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the "Last Updated" date at the top of the policy. Material changes may also be communicated through our website or by other appropriate means.

12. Contact Us

For questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, contact:

Babysitters Unite Inc.
Email: babysittersuniteus@gmail.com