Last Modified on: July 29, 2024
Prospective Place Childcare (“Prospective Place Childcare,” “we,” “us” and “our”) provides this Privacy Policy to inform you about our practices concerning the collection, use and disclosure of your information. By using the website located at https://prospectiveplacechildcare.com/ (including all subdomains) (the “Website”) or the software or services provided by Prospective Place Childcare(collectively, including the Website, the “Service”), you consent to the information practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, you must immediately cease all access or use of the Website and Service.
1. Information We Collect
1.1. Personal Information
When you use the Service, we may collect certain information from you which can be used to contact or identify you, including, but not limited to, your name and email address (“Identity Information”). If you place an order for products or services, we may collect additional payment and billing information from you, including, but not limited to, your credit/debit card information, and postal address (“Billing Information”). Together, your Identity Information and Billing Information are referred to as “Personal Information.”
1.2. Usage Data
We also automatically collect certain non-personally identifiable information regarding your access to and use of the Website and Service. This information includes, but is not limited to, your IP address, browser type, referring website URLs, log files, pages on the Website that you visit, and links you click on ("Usage Data").
1.3. Cookies
Like many websites, we utilize devices to recognize you when you visit the Website, track your interactions with the Website, and personalize your experience. These include devices such as cookies, web beacons, pixels and similar devices. Cookies are small data files we transfer to your computer hard drive. We utilize some cookies that remain on your computer after you leave the Website so that we can recognize you when you return and provide a more personalized and helpful experience. We also utilize session cookies to enable certain features of the Website, to better understand how you interact with the Website and to monitor the use of the Website by Prospective Place Childcare users and web traffic routing on the Website. Session cookies are deleted from your computer when you log off from the Website and close your browser. You maintain control over some of the information we collect through the use of cookies, and you can set your preferences regarding the use of cookies through your browser settings. If you choose not to accept cookies, you may not be able to access portions of the Website or all functionality of the Service.
2. Use of Information We Collect
2.1. Operation and Improvement of Our Business
We use your information, including personal information, primarily to operate our business and provide the service to you. We use such information to personalize the Service we provide to you. We may use your information to verify your identity, for fraud prevention, to enforce the Terms of Use and to protect the integrity of the website. We may also use your information to develop new features or services and to improve the quality of the Service.
2.2. To Process Payments
We use your information in connection with processing payments for products or services you order, including by sending emails, invoices, receipts, and alerts regarding payment failure. We use third parties for secure debit/credit card transaction processing, and we send billing information to those third parties to process your orders and debit/credit card payments.
2.3 Customer Service and Technical Support
We may use your information, including Personal Information, to respond to questions you have regarding the use of our Service or to provide technical assistance.
2.4. Communications with You
We may contact you using the contact information you provide in order to respond to inquiries you send to us, to communicate with you regarding our Service and the services of our partners, and to market our Service, or those of our partners, to you. We may send you emails advertising or promoting our Service. If you do not wish to receive such emails, you can choose to opt-out of receipt using the unsubscribe link within each email.
2.5. Research
We may use non-personally identifiable information about you and other users, in aggregate form, for our own internal research and analytical purposes. For example, we may use certain types of your non-personally identifiable information to understand which features of our Service are being used most frequently.
3. Information Sharing and Disclosure
3.1. Upon Consent
We may share your information, including Personal Information, with third parties if you provide us with authorization to do so.
3.2. Service Providers
We may share your information, including Personal Information, with third-party service providers who assist us in providing our Service and operating our business. For example, if you register your child for care, we will share your Personal Information with third-party payment processors. If we share your Personal Information with third-party service providers, we require those service providers to maintain the confidentiality of the Personal Information we provide to them, and to not use the Personal Information we share with them for purposes other than the services they are providing to us.
3.3. Responses to Legal Process, Subpoenas or Court Orders
We may disclose your information, including Personal Information, to meet legal requirements, including complying with court orders, valid discovery requests, valid subpoenas, and other appropriate legal mechanisms.
3.4. To Protect Prospective Place Childcare or Others
We may disclose your information, including Personal Information, if we believe it is necessary to protect the property and rights of Prospective Place Childcare, you, or a third party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or in the event of a legal dispute.
3.5. Business Transfers
We may sell, assign, transfer or otherwise share some or all of our assets, including your Personal Information, in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, consolidation, sale of assets or in the event of bankruptcy.
4. Policy Regarding Children
The Service is not intended for persons under 18 years of age, and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from persons under 18 years of age. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided us with Personal Information without your consent, please contact us at info@propsectiveplacechildcare.com. If we become aware that a person under 18 years of age has provided us with Personal Information, we will delete such information from our files.
5. Security
We have put in place physical, electronic and managerial procedures to protect the security of the information we collect, both during transmission and once received. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of storage is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent our computer systems from being accessed illegally, nor can we guarantee that the information on our computer systems will not be viewed or stolen. ACCORDINGLY, PROSPECTIVE PLACE CHILDCARE DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR THE THEFT, INTERCEPTION, LOSS, OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO DAMAGE TO YOUR INFORMATION. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
6. Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to collect information about the use of the Website. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit the Website, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other websites they used prior to coming to the Website. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to improve the Website and Service. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or other Personal Information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser.
7. Changes to Privacy Policy
Prospective Place Childcare may make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make any material changes, we will notify you via email (sent to the email address specified in your account) or by posting the revised Privacy Policy on the Website before any changes become effective. You should review our Privacy Policy each time you access the Website or use the Service. Your continued use of the Service following the posting of any changes or notice to you of the changes constitutes your agreement to such changes.
8. Retention of Personal Information
At a minimum, we will retain your Personal Information for as long as it may be needed to provide you Service and as needed to comply with our legal obligations. Upon request, Prospective Place Childcare will inform you about whether we hold any of your Personal Information. You may terminate your account and request deletion of your Personal Information by contacting us at info@ prospectiveplacechildcare.com. In some situations, we may be legally required to retain your Personal Information or for other reasons will not be able to comply with a request to delete data.
9. Questions
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@ prospectiveplacechildcare.com.