Privacy policy

1. What is Sitly?

Sitly is an online service, the aim of which is to bring together, via the Website, private individuals who wish to organize temporary childcare for their child(ren) by other private individuals or professional persons with private individuals or professional persons who are prepared to offer childcare services to private individuals. Users can form, on the basis of the Profiles, an opinion about the characteristics and qualities of other Users.

Sitly is part of the besloten vennootschap (“Limited Company”) 2Care4Kids Group B.V., also trading under the name Sitly, registered address (1016 DV) Amsterdam, Keizersgracht 229, and registered with the Chamber of Commerce of Amsterdam under registration number 56028458. The manner in which your personal details are stored and used is registered with the College Bescherming Persoonsgegevens (“Board for the Protection of Personal Details”) under registration number m1517431.

2. Key Terms

Account refers to a set of resources and rights within a given computer system assigned to you as the User for the purpose of accessing and/or using the Platform.

Controller refers to an entity (in this case Sitly) that determines the purposes and means of the processing of the Personal Data.

Data Subject refers to any person whose personal data is being collected, held, or processed.

GDPR refers to the Regulation 2016/679 of The European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46/EC.

Personal Data refers to all data mentioned in the section Profile.

Processing refers to the collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination, or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure, or destruction of personal data.

Processor refers to an entity (in this case Sitly) that processes the Personal Data on behalf of the Controller.

User refers to a person acting as a parent, a babysitter, or a nanny who accesses and uses the Platform via the User’s Account.

User Content refers to any content and information posted, uploaded, published, linked to, transmitted, recorded, displayed, or otherwise made available on the Platform and/or transmitted by a User to other Users, including text messages, chats, videos, photographs, and others, whether it is publicly or privately transmitted.

3. Data Controller

Sitly is the controller responsible for the processing of personal data. For all questions concerning the protection of personal data, you can contact us through our contact form on our website.

Sitly does not have a data protection officer.

4. What information is collected and processed by Sitly?


Profile

In order to make contact with other users, you must first create a personal Profile. When you create such a Profile, you will be asked to enter certain information about yourself. You are not obliged to enter all details. The following details are obligatory for all users:

For babysitters, nannies, and childminders, the following details are also obligatory:

Optionally supplemented with:

For parents, the following details are also obligatory:

You can alter the information that you provide at any time. You can also add other information to your profile, such as photo or a link to your website.

Your Profile is, in principle, public. This means that it can be consulted by anyone. You can also set up your profile so that it is only visible by Users who also have a Profile. You can change this setting at any time.

Content

Sitly stores and processes all Content that you make available via Sitly. If you publish Content, for example your Profile, then other Users can make use of or react to the Content.

If you terminate your Profile, then Sitly will immediately make your Profile inaccessible. Upon termination, your data will be stored for a maximum period of six (6) months. Sitly will remove or anonymize the Content, should you request this.

Automatically generated information

In order to ensure the effective operation of Sitly (for example, to ensure that pages are correctly displayed, and in order to ensure the security of the Service), Sitly requires certain information. Therefore, Sitly will collect automatically generated information about your surfing behavior while you are using Sitly. This information consists of your IP address (the number of your computer on the Internet, which makes it possible to recognize your computer), the type of browser (computer program that facilitates the display of web pages), the computer system that you use, and the pages that you visit on the Website.

5. For what purpose does Sitly use information about me?

Purposes

Sitly will use information about you for the following purposes:

Sitly will keep you informed about the development of the Service. If there is, for example, a new extension to the Service or if an update is to take place, then Sitly will inform you about this. Sitly may also keep you informed about and current or future special offers.

Should you not wish to receive e-mail messages from Sitly, you can unsubscribe via the settings on your profile. A link that allows you to unsubscribe is also included in every e-mail send to you by Sitly.

Sitly uses automatically generated data for statistical purposes, and also for the protection and improvement of Sitly. This data may be provided to third parties, provided that it is completely anonymized and thus not traceable to you personally (no personal details).

Use by third parties

Sitly may provide your details to third parties provided that you have explicitly given permission for this to take place; in the case of a particular third party, for example, the processing of payments. It may also do so if these details cannot be traced to you personally (such as automatically generated information, not including your IP address).

Finally, Sitly may provide your details to third parties if obliged to do so by law or regulation, if required by a court case, or if we believe that it is necessary to do so in order to protect the rights of Sitly.

Sitly will not provide your details to third parties for direct marketing purposes (for example for the sending of special offers) without your explicit permission. Sitly may use a rendering of your account to Job Portals to advertise the use of Sitly. The information provided will be anonymized.

The Website can contain hyperlinks that, when clicked, will cause you to leave the Sitly Website and move to the website of another party. Sitly has no influence over the services and/or websites that are linked to from the Sitly Website. It may therefore be that another privacy statement applies to these services and/or websites. The Sitly Privacy Statement only applies to (personal) details obtained via the Service. Sitly accepts no responsibility whatsoever for (the functioning of and/or content of) services and/or websites of third parties.

6. Legal basis of processing

The processing of your personal data is based on the following legal basis:

Consent
Sitly processes personal data based on the consent of our data subjects for one or more specific purposes (article 6, lid 1, sub a GDPR).

Contractual relationship
We process the personal data voluntarily communicated to us for the contractual processing of, for example, the required payments (article 6, lid 1, sub b GDPR).

Legitimate interest
We process personal data given by the data subject because this is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by Sitly (article 6, lid 1, sub f GDPR).

If you want further information concerning this matter, you can contact us at though our contact form on the website.

7. How does Sitly protect your personal information?

Sitly will apply appropriate technical and organizational measures in order to protect your (personal) details against loss and against any form of illegal processing. Among other measures, Sitly will ensure that all personal details are securely stored. Sitly uses enterprise grade cloud providers for this data storage.

8. Rights of Data Subjects

You can request, view, and, if necessary, alter your (personal) details in your Profile at any time. If you wish to know which details Sitly has stored about you, or if you wish to alter details that do not appear in your Profile, then you may make contact with us through our contact form on the Sitly website

You have the right to object to processing of personal data concerning to you, on grounds relating to your particular situation, when the processing of this data is based on our legitimate interests.

You can obtain from Sitly a restriction of processing in case the accuracy of the personal data is contested, in case the processing is unlawful, in case Sitly no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but the personal data is required by you for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims and, finally, in case you object to processing (as mentioned in the above paragraph).

You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller.

You have the right to request the erasure of your personal data without undue delay in case your data is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed, in case you withdraw your consent on which our processing is based, in case you have objected to our processing of your data and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, in case your data has been unlawfully processed, in case the personal data have to be erased for compliance with a legal obligation in Union or Member State law to which Sitly is subject.

To request any of these rights you can contact us through our contact form on the Sitly website.

9. Transfer of data to countries outside the EU

For technical or operational reasons, it may be necessary to transfer your details to (the servers of) companies and/or service providers allied with Sitly in the United States or other countries outside Europe. Sitly ensures that personal details are only transferred to countries where the European Commission has determined this country offers an appropriate level of security for personal details, whether this is based on Art. 45 GDPR, or on EU Standard Contractual Clauses and/or on the EU-US Privacy Shield.

10. May minors make use of Sitly?

You must be at least eighteen (18) years of age to make use of Sitly. If you are younger than eighteen (18), then you can't register at Sitly. 

11. Can this Privacy Statement be amended?

This Privacy Statement may be amended. Such changes will be announced on the Website and/or in a message to you.

12. Questions?

Should you have questions about this Privacy Statement, you can send a message through our contact form on the Sitly website.