Last Updated: August 28, 2026
Sitting Made Simple® respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you provide to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you use the Sitting Made Simple® website, platform, services, and communications.
By using our website or services, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
We collect information that you voluntarily provide when using Sitting Made Simple®. Depending on your relationship with us and the services you use, this information may include your name, email address, telephone number, account information, contact information, scheduling or booking information, and other information necessary to provide our services.
Families using Sitting Made Simple® may also provide information necessary to arrange childcare services, including information about household members, children, service locations, scheduling needs, and care instructions.
Sitters and other service providers may provide information necessary to establish and maintain an account, determine eligibility to participate on the platform, communicate availability, coordinate services, and fulfill other requirements of the Sitting Made Simple® platform.
When you visit or use our website, certain information may be collected automatically through your browser, device, or website technologies. This information may include your IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, pages visited, referring website, approximate location based on your IP address, and information about how you interact with our website.
We may use this information to operate and maintain our website, understand how our services are used, troubleshoot technical issues, analyze trends, improve performance, and enhance the user experience.
Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to help operate the site, remember preferences, understand website usage, and improve our services. Cookies are small data files stored on your computer or mobile device by your web browser.
We may also use third-party analytics and technology providers to help us understand website traffic, usage, and performance. These providers may collect information through cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own privacy practices.
Most web browsers allow you to control or disable cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of portions of our website.
We may use information we collect to:
We may also use aggregated or de-identified information for analytics, business operations, service improvement, and other purposes where the information does not reasonably identify an individual.
Sitting Made Simple® does not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing or promotional purposes.
We may share information with service providers that perform services on our behalf or help us operate the Sitting Made Simple® platform. These may include providers supporting payment processing, website hosting, data storage, email delivery, telecommunications and text messaging, analytics, technical services, and other essential business functions.
These providers receive information only as reasonably necessary to provide their services to us and are expected to handle that information appropriately.
We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is required by law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or other legal process. We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to investigate fraud or misuse of our services, enforce our policies or agreements, respond to legal claims, or protect the rights, property, safety, or security of Sitting Made Simple®, our users, or others.
By providing your mobile telephone number and consenting to receive text messages from Sitting Made Simple®, you agree to receive SMS messages related to our services and your relationship with Sitting Made Simple®.
Messages may include account notifications, booking and scheduling information, sitter or family communications, service updates, reminders, support messages, and other operational communications.
Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply.
You may opt out of receiving SMS messages at any time by replying STOP to a message. After opting out, you may receive a final confirmation message indicating that you have been unsubscribed.
For assistance, reply HELP or contact Sitting Made Simple® through our website.
Consent to receive SMS messages is not a condition of purchasing goods or services.
No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.
Information may be shared with telecommunications providers and other service providers when necessary to deliver and support our messaging services. SMS opt-in information and consent will not be shared with third parties or affiliates for their own marketing or promotional purposes.
We may use your email address to send information related to your account, bookings, services, support requests, company updates, and other communications related to Sitting Made Simple®.
Where applicable, promotional email communications will provide a method to unsubscribe from future promotional emails. Unsubscribing from promotional communications does not prevent us from sending transactional, account, booking, security, or other service-related communications when necessary.
We do not sell, rent, or trade your email address to unaffiliated third parties for their own marketing purposes.
Sitting Made Simple® provides childcare-related services, and parents or guardians may provide information about children as necessary to arrange and provide those services. This may include information such as a child's name, age, care needs, scheduling information, or other information reasonably necessary to coordinate childcare services.
Sitting Made Simple® accounts and services are intended to be established and managed by adults. Children under 18 are not permitted to independently create accounts or provide personal information through our website without the involvement of a parent or legal guardian.
Information about children provided by a parent or guardian is used and disclosed only as reasonably necessary to provide, coordinate, support, and maintain Sitting Made Simple services or as otherwise required by law.
We take reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, loss, or misuse.
However, no method of transmitting information over the Internet or storing information electronically can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of information transmitted to or maintained by Sitting Made Simple®.
Our website or platform may contain links to websites or services operated by third parties. Sitting Made Simple® does not control the privacy practices of those third-party websites or services, and this Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected directly by them.
We encourage you to review the privacy policies of third-party websites and services before providing personal information to them.
You may choose not to provide certain personal information; however, some information may be necessary to create or maintain an account, arrange childcare services, process bookings, or use certain features of the Sitting Made Simple® platform.
You may update certain account information through your account or contact us for assistance with your personal information. You may also manage communications from us using the opt-out methods described in the SMS and Email Communications sections of this Privacy Policy.
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our services, business practices, technology, or legal requirements. When we make changes, we will update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page.
Material changes may also be communicated through our website, platform, email, or other appropriate means.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, our privacy practices, or our SMS messaging practices, please contact Sitting Made Simple® through the contact information provided on our website.
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www.sittingmadesimple.com