Last Updated 5/28/2021

Sitting for a Cause (referred to as "Sitting for a Cause," "sittingforacause.com," “we,” “our,” or “us”) respects your privacy and provides this Privacy Policy to inform you of our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use and disclosure of information we receive from our users, visitors, subscribers and customers (collectively "you" or "your”).

We know you value your privacy and we want to help make your experience with Sitting for a Cause (the “Site”) and other services we may offer (referred to collectively as our “Service”) secure and satisfying. This Privacy Policy applies only to information that you provide to us through the Site.

This Privacy Policy may be updated to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any material changes we will post the revised policy on this Site prior to the change becoming effective. We recommend you periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms of Service. Any revised Privacy Policy will apply to information we already have about you at the time of the change and any information created or received after the change takes effect. Your continued use of the Site after any changes or revisions to this Privacy Policy will imply your acceptance of the terms of the revised Privacy Policy.

By voluntarily accessing or using the Site and providing us with Personal Information, you acknowledge and agree to this Privacy Policy and also agree to the Terms of Service located at sittingforacause.com/terms. We may share information with or among our affiliates, authorized third parties, or sites that we own or control, but sharing of information is governed under the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Our primary goals in collecting information are to provide and improve our Site, Services, content, and features and to enable users to enjoy the Site. When you create an account we will set up a Sitting for a Cause account for you. The account will generally contain your first name, last name and contact information.

Certain information you enter on the Sitting for a Cause site will be public. For example, Pet Care Professionals who create a public profile to allow Pet Owners to find them will have the information in the profiles listed publicly. Pet Owners who publish a Job Posting will have their Listing and all information on it publicly listed. Again, these profiles will be made available publicly throughout the Site.

As used in this policy, the terms "using" and "processing" information include using cookies on a computer, subjecting the information to statistical or other analysis and using or handling information in any way.

1. Personal Information

When you register with us through the Site and become a Sitting for a Cause User, when you choose to post a job opportunity, when you choose to post a profile, or when you choose to release your contact information to another Sitting for a Cause User through the Site, we will collect personally identifiable information. We collect personal information and other information you provide in connection with the delivery or enhancement of the Site. If you provide Personal Information for a certain reason, we may use the Personal Information in connection with the reason for which it was provided. When you utilize the Site, we may collect payment information which is necessary to fulfill your order and taxpayer identification numbers to fulfill obligations under applicable state or federal laws or regulations. All personally identifiable information shall be collectively referred to as "Personal Information." If you fill out a Contact Us form or email us, we will use that information to respond to your request.

Your Personal Information will not be distributed or shared with third parties unless it is:

A. To conduct business as you have contracted us to do or otherwise to provide the Site
B. To comply with state or federal laws or regulations, legal processes or obligations and/or law enforcement requests, protect and defend the rights or property of Sitting for a Cause, act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Site or the public, or protect against legal liability
C. To conduct business as we, in our sole discretion, consider reasonable
D. In connection with a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution or similar event in which Personal Information is part of the transferred assets.

In addition, as noted above, any Personal Information included in your profile or job posting will be available to the public and we may share your Personal Information with our affiliates.

We also collect other information that you provide as part of registration and the administration and personalization of your profile webpage and individual preferences or demographic information ("Non-Identifying Information"). Non-Identifying Information includes Personal Information that we aggregate or otherwise render anonymous.

We may use your Personal Information to authenticate your identity, for fraud prevention, derive other information about you, to impose the Terms of Service and protect the integrity of our Site, or to confirm information you provided to us or included in your profile. We may also verify your profile information through other methods.

We also use your Personal Information to contact you with Sitting for a Cause newsletters, promotional or marketing materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of these communications. Please note that we may use your Personal Information to contact you with information related to your use of the Site; you may not opt out of these notifications.

We collect and store Personal Information automatically and in the aggregate. We use the information we collect to provide and maintain the Site as we, in our discretion, deem appropriate. When you visit or use the Site, we may store some or all of the following:

• The IP address from which you accessed the Site
• The date and time you accessed the Site
• The IP address of the website from which you linked to the Site
• The name of the file or words you searched on our Site
• Items clicked on a page and the browser and operating system used

This information is used to measure the number of visitors to the sections of our Site and identify system performance.

2. Communication Sent Via a Siting for a Cause Account

As part of the Site, Pet Owners who use the Sitting for a Cause site may release their contact information to Pet Care Professionals. PET OWNER'S USE OF THIS FEATURE OF THE SITE OR THE JOB POSTING FEATURE CONSTITUTES BOTH THEIR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THAT INFORMATION SENT USING THESE FEATURES IS NOT PRIVATE, AND YOUR CONSENT FOR US TO REVIEW, SAVE, EDIT, DECLINE TO TRANSMIT, AND OTHERWISE USE THE COMMUNICATIONS OR THEIR CONTENTS OR DISCLOSE THEIR CONTENTS TO THIRD PARTIES, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION.

3. Information Sharing and Disclosure

Sitting for a Cause is intended to allow Pet Care Professionals who provide pet care related services and Pet Owners who wish to find care for their pets to share information with one another in order to arrange for the provision of pet care services. Listings posted by Pet Care Professionals, ratings and reviews of Pet Care Professionals, and the Profile Information of Pet Care Professionals are visible to any visitor to the site. Job Postings published by a Pet Owner are visible to any visitor to the site. If a Pet Owner decide grants the Sitting for a Cause website permission to release their contact information (either their phone number, email address or both as determined by the Pet Parent) to a Pet Care Professional, that information will be released to the Pet Care Professional as approved by the Pet Owner.

If you post any of your information to a public area of our Site, it is no longer Personal Information for the purposes of this policy and we or anyone else may use the information without restraint. If you provide access to Personal Information or other information, Sitting for a Cause has no control over how others may use, collect, or disclose that information.

4. Sitting for a Cause Members and Users

When you register through the Site and submit your Personal Information to create a profile, Sitting for a Cause Users will see your name so be careful as to what information you put as your name. You can choose what other Personal Information you provide as part of your profile or what information you release to other users. We will display your Information on your profile page for Pet Care Professionals, on Job Postings for Pet Owners, elsewhere on the Site, and on third party sites. Information you choose to provide should reflect how much you want other Sitting for a Cause Users to know about you. We encourage you to guard your anonymity and sensitive information. We request you think carefully about what information you disclose on your profile (for Pet Care Professionals) or on your job postings (for Pet Owners). You can revise and review your profile information at any time.

If you post a profile or a job posting, we may publish that profile anywhere on the Site and may enable third parties to publish your listing on their site through the use of an HTML "widget". We may also display the geographical location of your listing on a map so potential guests can see the general area and neighborhood of your listing, but your actual street address will not be disclosed. Note that Users will never have access to your Billing Information.

5. Cookies and Web Beacons

We use cookies to collect information. We utilize persistent cookies to save your registration ID and login password for future logins to the Site, to understand how you interact with the Site, to monitor usage by Sitting for a Cause users, and to monitor web traffic routing on the Site. Third party advertisers on the Site may also place or read cookies on your browser. You can instruct your browser, by changing its options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit. If you do not accept cookies, however, you may not be able to use all portions of the Site or all functionality of the Service.

Our Site contains electronic images known as Web beacons. These are used along with cookies to compile statistics to determine how our Site is used. They may be used in some of our emails to let us know which emails and links have been opened by recipients. This allows us to monitor the effectiveness of our customer communications and marketing campaigns.

6. Log Data

When you visit our Site, whether as a user or a non-registered user just browsing, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website ("Log Data"). We use this information to monitor and analyze use of the Site and the Service and for the Site's technical administration, to increase our Site's functionality and user-friendliness, and to better tailor it to our visitors' needs. We also use this information to verify that visitors to the Site meet the criteria required to process their requests.

7. Third Party Service Providers

We may utilize third party companies and individuals to advertise, facilitate and promote our Site, to perform Site-related services, to provide the Site on our behalf, or to assist us in analyzing how our Site and Services are used. These third parties may have access to your Personal Information. If they do, this access is only so that they may perform these tasks on our behalf and they are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose. We may also provide Personal Information to our business partners or other trusted entities for the purpose of providing you with information on services or gods we think will be of interest to you. You can, at any time, opt out of receiving such communications. We may use your Identity Information, alone or in conjunction with any content you submit to the Site, to promote and advertise the Site and the pet care services you provide without limitation, and may provide your Identity Information and/or your submitted content to third party service providers in connection with promotion and advertising.

8. Aggregate Information and Non-Identifying Information

We may share aggregated information that does not include Personal Information and we may disclose Non-Identifying Information and Log Data with third parties for industry analysis, demographic profiling and other purposes. Any aggregated information shared in these contexts will not contain your Personal Information, unless such Personal Information is Non-Identifying Information.

9. Children

If you are under 18 years old, you may not use the Site. We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 18 nor do we allow such persons to use our Site. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with any information whatsoever, he or she should contact us at info@sittingforacause.com. If we become aware that someone under the age of 18 has provided us with any information, we will delete that information from our files.

10. International Visitors

The Site is hosted in and provided from the United States. If you use the Site from other regions with laws governing data use and collection that may differ from United States law, note you are transferring your personal data to the United States. The United States does not have the same data protection laws as the EU and other regions. By providing your personal information, you agree to the transfer of your personal data to the United States and the use of your personal information in agreement with this policy.

11. Security

We have put in place electronic, physical, and managerial procedures to secure the information we collect to protect the Personal Information submitted to us. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure since data transported over an open network such as the Internet or email may be accessible to anybody. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

When disclosing personal information through an open network, you should remain mindful that it could be accessible to others and can be collected and used by others without your permission. Your data may be lost during transmission or may be retrieved by unapproved parties. We are not liable for direct or indirect losses as regards the security of your Personal Information or data during its transfer via Internet. Use other means of communication if you think this is necessary.

For security purposes and to ensure our Site remains available to all users, we may employ software programs to monitor traffic and classify unapproved attempts to upload or change information, or cause damage. All payment information is transmitted via PayPal.

We will attempt to make any legally required disclosures of any breach of the confidentiality, security, or integrity of your unencrypted electronically stored personal information to you via email or posting on this Site, so long as it is consistent with measures necessary to determine the extent of the breach and restore the integrity of the data system or the needs of law enforcement.

12. Phishing

Identity theft and "phishing" are of huge concern to Sitting for a Cause. Safeguarding information to help protect you from identity theft is a top priority. We do not and will not request your credit card information, account ID, login password, or national identification numbers in a non-secure or unsolicited e-mail or telephone communication. Visit the Federal Trade Commission's website at http://www.ftc.gov for more information about phishing.

13. External Site Links

Sitting for a Cause contains links to third party websites or services which may include or offer third party services or products. If you choose to visit an advertiser by clicking on an advertisement or if you click on another third party link, you will be directed to that third party's website and when you access a linked site you may be disclosing private information. It is your responsibility to keep such information confidential. Third party sites have independent and separate privacy policies. We encourage you to read the privacy policies or statements of the other websites you visit.

Sitting for a Cause does not guarantee or control the relevance, accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of information contained on a third party website or service and does not have responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these websites or services. If you click a link to a third party website or service, you will leave the Site and are subject to the security and privacy policies of the third party website or service and not this Privacy Policy. Sitting for a Cause cannot approve the use of copyrighted materials contained in linked websites or services. Users must request such authorization from the sponsor of the linked website or service. Sitting for a Cause is not responsible for transmissions users receive from linked websites or services.

The fact that we link to a website or present a banner ad or other type of advertisement is not an endorsement, authorization or representation of our affiliation with that third party, nor is it an endorsement of their privacy or information security policies or practices.

14. Prohibitions

Sitting for a Cause will not willfully or intentionally link to any website that exhibits hate, discrimination, or bias. Sitting for a Cause has the right to deny or remove any link for any reason.

15. Exclusions

This Privacy Policy does not apply to any Personal Information collected by Sitting for a Cause other than Personal Information collected through the Site. This Privacy Policy shall not apply to any unsolicited information you provide to Sitting for a Cause through the Site or by any other means. All Unsolicited Information will be deemed non-confidential and Sitting for a Cause is free to reproduce, disclose, distribute, and use Unsolicited Information to others without attribution or limitation.

16. DISCLOSURE SPECIFIC TO GOOGLE

Sitting for a Cause uses Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses cookies. You can choose to opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and manage Google Display Network ads using Google Ads Settings. We use the information provided by this service to improve the usability of the Site and Service, and to deliver more relevant content.

17. Business Transfers

Sitting for a Cause may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of its assets, including your Personal Information, in connection with a acquisition, merger, sale or reorganization of assets or in the event of bankruptcy.

18. Changing or Deleting Your Information

All Members may update, review, or correct the Personal Information in their registration profile by editing the relevant part of their profile.

19. Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement

Sitting for a Cause accommodates law enforcement and government officials as well as private parties to enforce and obey the law. We will disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal processes, to protect the property and rights of Sitting for a Cause or a third party, to protect the safety of the public or any specific person, in the event of a dispute, or to prevent or stop activity we may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, any unethical, illegal or legally actionable.

20. Consent and Opt Out

By using our Services, you consent to our Privacy Policy. If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, or you want to Opt Out from receiving any messages we may send you, please contact us at info@sittingforacause.com.