This privacy policy applies to www.Care4s.com and the "Sites" (or "Site") which are owned and operated by Care4s.com, Inc. It also applies anywhere it is linked. It does not apply to third-party websites, services that provided by third-party companies. Please review the privacy policies of third-party companies on their websites and applications directly to understand their privacy practices. As part of our online registration, your explicit consent to this privacy policy is required. This privacy policy describes how Care4s.com collects and uses the personal information that you voluntarily submit on our websites. It is committed to keeping any and all personal information collected of those individuals that visit our website and make use of our on-line platform is accurate, confidential, secure, and private. Care4s.com, Inc maintains compliance with U.S. State and Federal laws, and the California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”) that applies to California residents.
This privacy policy applies to:
• Care4s.com, Inc and our affiliates (“Care4s.com,” “we,” “us,” “our”).
• Care4s.com online properties, including our websites, and websites or mobile applications that link to it, and our social media pages or handles.
• Care4s.com online platform available in USA and India or International countries (collectively with the above, “Online Services”).
We may change this Policy from time to time. If we do, we will notify you by posting the updated version.
Collection of Information
This website collects various types of information, such as:
• Voluntarily provided information which may include your first and last name, birthdate, physical address, age, gender, hobbies or interests, email address, billing and/or credit card information etc., which may be used when you purchase products and/or services and to deliver the services you have requested.
• Information required to perform a background check, you make available to us via a social media platform and submit to inquire about or apply for a job with us.
• Information contained in your communications to us, including call recordings of customer service calls.
• Sensitive personal information, including racial or ethnic origin; political opinions; religious or philosophical beliefs; physical or mental health information; sexual orientation; and any information relating to a criminal offense.
• Any other information you submit to us.
• Information automatically collected when visiting our website, which may include cookies, third party tracking technologies and server logs.
Please rest assured that this site shall only collect personal information that you knowingly and willingly provide by way of surveys, completed membership forms, and emails. It is the intent of this site to use personal information only for the purpose for which it was requested, and any additional uses specifically provided on this site.
On our profile (my profile and view profile) pages, you may be asked for information necessary for the recruiting process such as your name, address, phone, and other contact information, along with your photo, professional information, summary, experience, skills, availability for different work shifts and your preferences. Before you can submit your information you must explicitly consent to the following uses of your personal information you provide to Care4s.com: (A) Care4s.com its affiliates, and agents will store, access, and use the information you provide in any jurisdiction, including jurisdictions whose privacy laws may be different and less protective than those of your home jurisdiction; and (B) Care4s.com, its affiliates, and agents, may use this information to evaluate your eligibility for employment and to contact you for recruiting purposes. Please note that people under 18 years old are not authorized to submit recruiting information. Care4s.com collected information is securely stored by physical and electronic means. Further, Care4s.com collected data will be shared with third parties only in ways that are described in this privacy policy and will not be sold or rented on an individual basis to independent third parties without your knowledge or permission. By accepting the Care4s.com Terms of Use, you acknowledge and grant permission to Care4s.com to use your Personal Contact Information as specifically stated under Uses of Personal Contact Information, herein, through Care4s.com online services and its websites.
Information we collect automatically
Care4s.com, Inc and our partners working on our behalf may use log files, cookies, or other digital tracking technologies to collect the following information from the device you use to interact with our online Services. We also create records when you make purchases or otherwise interact with the Services.
• Device information, including IP address, device identifiers, and details about your web browser.
• Analytical information, including details about your interaction with our website, app, and electronic newsletters.
• Diagnostic information, including web traffic logs.
• Advertising information, including special advertising and other unique identifiers that enable us or third parties working on our behalf to target advertisements to you. Please be aware that our advertising partners may collect information about you when you visit third-party websites or use third-party apps. They may use that information to better target advertisements to you on our behalf.
• Business record information, including records of your purchases of products and services.
The following is a list of our partners who collect the information described above. Please follow the links to find out more information about the partner’s privacy practices.
| Partner | Information Type Collected |
|---|---|
| Bing Ads | Advertising information |
| Analytical information | |
| Google AdSense | Advertising information |
| Google Analytics | Analytical and diagnostic information |
| Meta | Advertising and Analytical information |
Information we collect from other sources
We may collect the following information about you from third-party sources:
• Any personal information you provide to International Cooperators or Hosts in order to use our online services. In addition, sensitive personal information, including physical or mental health information.
• Background check results provided by third-party company. Also, information about your interests, activities, and employment history from social networks and other places where you choose to share information publicly.
• Information about your interaction with advertisements on our Services, or ads that we place on third-party websites, from online advertising companies. Moreover, contact information, demographic information, and information about your interests and purchases, from consumer data providers.
• If you decide to invite others to the Services, we will collect your and the other persons’ names, email addresses, and/or phone numbers to send an email or text message and follow up with the other person. You agree that you will obtain the other person’s consent before giving us their contact information. You also agree that you will not send us the contact information of a minor. We will inform any other person you invite that you gave us their information in the invitation email.
Use of Information we collected
We may collect and may make use of personal information to assist in the operation of our website and to ensure delivery of the online services you need and request. At times, we may find it necessary to use personally identifiable information meant to inform you of other possible products and/or services that may be available to you from Care4s.com and its subsidiaries. We may also be in contact with you with regards to completing surveys and/or feedback related to your opinion of current or possible new services that are offered or may be offered. We use personal information to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our Terms of Use, which may include providing your information to government and law enforcement officials as required by law.
We may from time to time, may feel it necessary to make contact with you on behalf of other external business partners with regards to a specific offer which may be of interest to you. If you consent or show interest in presented offers, then, at that time, specific identifiable information, such as name, email address and/or telephone number, may be shared with the third party. Those third parties shall be strictly prohibited from making use of your personal information, other than to deliver those services which you requested, and as such they are thus required in accordance with this agreement to maintain the confidentiality of all your information.
The information you provide during registration may also be used to enable us to process, validate and verify services or membership subscription purchases. We may also provide advertisers with aggregate - never individual - information about our member base and usage patterns. We may also use the aggregated information to develop new features and services to better meet member needs. Internally we may use aggregated and personally identifiable information to improve our marketing efforts, to statistically analyze site usage, to improve our content and product offerings as well as to customize our site's content and layout. We believe these uses allow us to improve our site and better tailor your online experience to meet your needs.
We may use any of the information we collect for the following purposes.
Our functionality: To provide you with our products and online services, including to take steps to enter a contract for our services, process payments, send communications (including renewal reminders), and conduct general business operations, such as accounting, recordkeeping, and audits. The lawful basis of processing is performance of a contract. In addition, we may collect citizenship information and passport information where the lawful basis of processing for this information is explicit consent.
Our improvement: To improve and grow our online services, including to develop new products and services and understand how our services are being used, our customer base and purchasing trends, and the effectiveness of our marketing. The lawful basis of processing is our legitimate interest.
Personalization: To offer you recommendations and tailor the online services to your preferences. The lawful basis of processing is our legitimate interest.
Advertising and marketing: To send you marketing communications, personalize the advertisements you see on our website and third-party online websites or links, and measure the effectiveness of our advertising. We may share your information with business partners, online advertising partners, and social media platforms for this purpose. The lawful basis of processing is consent and our legitimate interest.
Security: To protect and secure our services, assets, network, and business operations, and to detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be fraudulent or illegal. The lawful basis of processing is compliance with legal obligations and our legitimate interest.
Legal compliance: To comply with legal process, such as warrants, subpoenas, court orders, and lawful regulatory or law enforcement requests and to comply with applicable legal requirements. The lawful basis of processing is compliance with legal obligations.
Sensitive Personal Information: We may use this information for legal compliance; and to provide our services (such as to facilitate matching with Hosts). The lawful basis of processing is consent, for compliance with a legal obligation, and/or as necessary to protect the vital interests of a data subject.
We may disclose your personal information, without prior notice to you, only if required to do so pursuant to applicable laws and/or in a good faith belief that such action is deemed necessary or required to:
I. Conform to decrees, laws and/or statutes or in an effort to comply with any process which may be served upon Care4s.com, Inc and/or its website;
II. Safeguard and/or preserve all the rights and/or property of Care4s.com, Inc; and
III. Perform under demanding conditions in an effort to safeguard the personal safety of users of Care4s.com, Inc and/or the general public.
How we share your Information
We may share any of the information we collect with the following recipients.
Affiliates: We share information with other members or group and other companies.
Service providers: We engage vendors to perform specific business functions on our behalf, and they may receive information about you from us or collect it directly. These vendors are obligated by contract to use information that we share only for the purpose of providing these business functions, which include:
Supporting Service functionality, such as, customer service and customer relationship management, postal mailings, and communications (email, fax).
Auditing and accounting firms, such as firms that assist us in the creation of our financial records.
Professional services consultants, such as firms that perform analytics, assist with improving our business, provide legal services, or supply project-based resources and assistance.
Analytics and marketing services, including entities that analyze traffic on our online properties and assist with identifying and communicating with potential customers.
Security vendors, such as entities that assist with security incident verification and response, service notifications, and fraud prevention.
Information technology vendors, such as entities that assist with website design, hosting and maintenance, data and software storage, and network operation.
Marketing vendors, such as entities that support distribution of marketing emails.
Business partners: Based upon your interactions with our services, we may share your personal information with unaffiliated third parties, such as business partners who provide products and services that we think you may be interested in.
Online advertising partners: We partner with companies that assist us in advertising our services, including partners that use cookies and online tracking technologies to collect information to personalize, retarget, and measure the effectiveness of advertising.
Social media platforms: If you interact with us on social media platforms, the platform may be able to collect information about you and your interaction with us. If you interact with social media objects on our Services (for example, by clicking on a Facebook “like” button), both the platform and your connections on the platform may be able to view that activity. To control this sharing of information, please review the privacy policy of the relevant social media platform.
Government entities/Law enforcement: We may share information when we believe in good faith that we are lawfully authorized or required to do so to respond to lawful subpoenas, warrants, court orders, or other regulatory or law enforcement requests, or where necessary to protect our property or rights or the safety of our employees, our customers, or other individuals.
Other businesses in the context of a commercial transaction: We may change our ownership or corporate organization while providing the Services. We may transfer to another entity or its affiliates or service providers some or all information about you in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, acquisition, sale of assets or any line of business, change in ownership control, or financing transaction. We cannot promise that an acquiring party or the merged entity will have the same privacy practices or treat your information as described in this policy.
Children Under Age of 18
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of eighteen (18) without verifiable parental consent. If it is determined that such information has been inadvertently collected on anyone under the age of eighteen (18), we shall immediately take the necessary steps to ensure that such information is deleted from our system’s database. Anyone under the age of eighteen (18) must seek and obtain parent or guardian permission to use this website.
Unsubscribe or Opt-Out
All users and/or visitors to our website have the option to discontinue receiving communication from us and/or reserve the right to discontinue receiving communications by way of email or newsletters. To discontinue or unsubscribe to our website please send an email that you wish to unsubscribe to info@care4s.com. If you wish to unsubscribe or opt-out from any third-party websites, you must go to that specific website to unsubscribe and/or opt-out.
Links to Other Web Sites
Our website does contain links to affiliate and other websites. We do not claim nor accept responsibility for any privacy policies, practices and/or procedures of other such websites. Therefore, we encourage all users and visitors to be aware when they leave our website and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personal information. The aforementioned Privacy Policy Agreement applies only and solely to the information collected by our website.
Special Offers and Updates
We will occasionally send you information on special services or promotions. You may receive these emails from us as part of your registration. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe. At the bottom of every Special Offer email, you will find an "Opt-out" link at the bottom, which if clicked, will remove your name from the list of recipients for future mailings of that type.
Newsletters
If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter, we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe. At the bottom of every newsletter, you will find an "Opt-out" link at the bottom, which if clicked, will remove your name from the list of recipients for future Newsletters.
Service-related AnnouncementsWe will send you service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate or cancel your account.
Security
We use a combination of physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect the information we collect through the services. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number, driver's license number, national ID number and/or social security number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using industry standard encryption and transmission methods such as SHA256 or AES and/or secure socket layer technology (SSL). While we use these precautions to safeguard your information, we cannot guarantee the security of the networks, systems, servers, devices, and databases we operate or that are operated on our behalf. We shall take every precaution to maintain adequate physical, procedural and technical security with respect to its offices and information storage facilities so as to prevent any loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure or modification of the user’s personal information under our control.
The company also uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) for authentication and private communications in an effort to build users’ trust and confidence in the internet and website use by providing simple and secure access and communication of credit card and personal information.
Password
You may not disclose your password to any third parties or share it with any third parties. If, despite the foregoing, you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personal information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password.
Referral
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. We do store and only uses this information for the sole purpose of sending this email.
Agents/Service Providers
We use third parties such as a credit card processing company to bill you for services. When you sign up for our service, we will share only that specific personal information as necessary for the third party to provide that service. These third parties are prohibited from using your personal information for promotional purposes.
Special Information for job applicants
When you apply for a job with us and/or site, we may collect information from you, including:
• Information you provide in connection with your application or profile.
• Information that you make available in your social media accounts.
• Information about you that is available publicly.
• Information that you authorize us to collect via third parties, including former employers or references.
In certain circumstances, you may submit your application and/or share your profile for employment through our site that displays our job posting. We do not control the privacy practices of other employers and/or care seekers who are seeking to get services via our website. Please review their privacy policies carefully prior to submitting your application materials and/or your profile to them.
Other Important Information
• Data Retention
We may store information about you for as long as we have a legitimate business need for it and/or your account is active or as needed to provide you services. If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you services contact our customer support team by email, phone or U.S. mail. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
• Cross border data transfer
We may collect, process, and store your information in the United States and other countries. The laws in the United States regarding information may be different from the laws of your country. Any such transfers will comply with safeguards as required by relevant law.
• Log files
We gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, browser version, internet service provider (ISP), ISP region, referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data. We may combine this automatically collected log information with other information we collect about you. We do this to improve services we offer you and site functionality.
Changes to this privacy policy
We reserves the right to update, modify, and/or change the terms of our privacy policy at any time, and as such we will post those change to our website, so that our users and/or visitors are always aware of the type of information we collect, how it will be used, and under what circumstances, if any, we may disclose such information. If at any point in time we decide to make use of any personal information on file, in a manner vastly different from that which was stated when this information was initially collected, the user or users shall be promptly notified you here or by email. Users at that time shall have the option as to whether or not to permit the use of their information in this separate manner. So, please review it frequently.
Acceptance of Terms
Through the use of this website, you are hereby accepting the terms and conditions stipulated within the aforementioned Privacy Policy Agreement. If you are not in agreement with our terms and conditions, then you should refrain from further use of our sites. In addition, your continued use of our website following the posting of any updates or changes to our terms and conditions shall mean that you are in agreement and acceptance of such changes.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the Privacy Policy Agreement related to our website, please feel free to contact us at the following email, telephone number or mailing address.
Email: info@care4s.com
Telephone: 630-362-8590
Mailing Address: 1355 S Route 59, Suite 201B Naperville, IL 60564