We collect both “Personal Information” and “Non-Personal Information” about Help Seekers and Help Providers. In this Privacy Policy, Personal Information has the meaning given to it in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and includes information that personally identifies you, such as your name and email address and information that is linked to information that personally identifies you. “Non Personal Information” is information that does not personally identify you and is not linked to information that personally identifies you and includes passively collected information about your activities on our site, such as anonymous usage data.
A. Personal Information
Visitors can access and browse the site without disclosing most Personal Information, although, like most websites, we do record your IP address and web browser user agent when you browse the Site. Visitors who access and browse the Site without registering are “Site Visitors”. In order to utilise some of the services offered by Mums Village Coast to Coast (“Services”), such as utilising our online platform to contact individual Help Providers who have posted their profile, you must register for Mums Village Coast to Coast. All users who register for Mums Village Coast to Coast are “Members”. Users who register and also choose to pay for a subscription that will allow access to additional features are considered “Premium Members.” Unless otherwise specified, all references in this Privacy Policy to “Members” refer to both Premium Members and Members.
1. Personal Information you voluntarily provide to us about yourself in writing on the Site or by email or postal mail
Regardless of whether you are a Site Visitor or a Member, all Personal Information that you provide to us when registering, posting a job, posting a profile, or that you otherwise provide us on the Site or by email or postal mail will be stored by us. You may provide us with this Personal Information in various ways, including:
2. Personal Information Provided by Registering for a Membership.
Users of the Site can register to become Mums Village Coast to Coast Members in two ways. First, you can register directly through Mums Village Coast to Coast. Second, you can register on Mums Village Coast to Coast by connecting through Facebook’s application programming interface (API).
Direct Registration through Mums Village Coast to Coast. When you register directly through Mums Village Coast to Coast , we will collect and store the information that you provide to us directly on our online forms, including but not limited to the following to the extent provided:
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- your first and last name
- your email address
- your home address
- your gender
- your birthday
- your phone number
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Registering through Facebook. Using Facebook Connect
Mums Village Coast to Coast offers you the opportunity to register on the website using your existing Facebook profile data. For this we use the Facebook Connect service provided by Facebook Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA (“Facebook”). If you use this feature you will be redirected to Facebook and prompted to log in using your username and password. We then use your Facebook credentials to log into your Mums Village Coast to Coast account, but we do not retain them. If you are already logged in to Facebook, this step is skipped. After your email address and your public profile information (particularly name, profile picture, birth dates, number of friends, sex, language and country) is transmitted to us, you must confirm the “Login with Facebook” process by clicking the button. Afterwards, a permanent link is established between your Mums Village Coast to Coast and Facebook account. For more information about Facebook Connect, including the setting options available to protect your privacy, please review the privacy policies of Facebook
By registering at Mums Village Coast to Coast through Facebook, you are authorising Mums Village Coast to Coast to collect, store, use and disclose in accordance with this Privacy Policy any and all information you agreed that Facebook could provide to Mums Village Coast to Coast through its API. Your agreement (and our access to your information) takes place when you instruct, accept or allow Facebook to register you for a Mums Village Coast to Coast account. The information you allow Mums Village Coast to Coast to access is affected by the privacy settings you establish on Facebook. For example, Mums Village Coast to Coast may access and store certain of your information, as allowed by you, Facebook’s API, and your preferences, including but not limited to the following:
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- your first and last name
- your profile picture
- your email address
- your gender
- your birthday
- your location (i.e. city)
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3. Personal Information Provided When Choosing to Purchase paid services/products.
If you choose to purchase paid Services, Mums Village Coast to Coast will also collect your credit card type, number, expiration date, and security code as well as your billing address for payment purposes.
4. Personal Information Provided When Help Seekers Post a Job
We collect and store all of the additional information that Help Seekers provide to us on your job posting, including but not limited to:
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- the type of care you are looking for, schedule, location, hourly rate, number of children, ages, narrative job description, requirements for a Help Provider (such as the ability to drive)
- pictures you choose to provide
- health information, if you choose to provide it
- references, if you choose to provide them
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5. Personal Information Provided When Help Providers Post a Profile
We collect and store all of the additional information that Help Providers provide to us in their profile, including but not limited to:
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- details on the care you offer, including for example the type of care you provide, your availability, your location, your level of education, languages you speak, your ability to drive
- related services you provide
- pictures you choose to post
- health information, if you choose to provide it
- references, if you choose to provide them
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6. Personal Information otherwise provided through the Site or by Email or Postal Mail
Members may post Personal Information on the Site through other Site features and offerings including our online communications platform that Members may use to communicate with one another. In some cases, Site Visitors may have the ability to provide us with Personal Information through the Site, such as contact information. In addition, both Members and Site Visitors may choose to provide us with additional Personal Information by email or postal mail. We collect and store all of the Personal Information you provide to us through these channels.
7. Information provided to Mums Village Coast to Coast by Site Visitors and Other Members.
Mums Village Coast to Coast also captures and collects information that Site Visitors and Members provide about each other. For example, Help Providers may invite Site Visitors or Members to indicate their relationship to the Help Provider. Additionally, Mums Village Coast to Coast Members may post reviews about any individual Help Provider. Members may also communicate directly with each other through the Mums Village Coast to Coast platform. Mums Village Coast to Coast captures and stores all of the reviews, exchanges, and references that are carried out on its Site.
8. Additional Personal Information Mums Village Coast to Coast collects from Third parties
a. Publicly available information.
Mums Village Coast to Coast may also obtain publicly available Personal Information, such as demographic data, and other information to enable it to comply with regulatory requirements, ensure the accuracy of data, better understand your likely interests, prevent fraud, etc.
b. Verification Checks
In order to increase the quality of our service and to further develop trust amongst our users; Mums Village Coast to Coast offers our registered users that are helpers the ability to carry out certain verification checks on themselves. Verification checks can be conducted by a service of our choice.
In addition to the information you provide to Mums Village Coast to Coast, or we otherwise obtain in accordance with this Privacy Policy, Mums Village Coast to Coast reserves the right for its service providers to use your Personal Information to scan a variety of sources, which may include certain media streams, terrorist watch lists, criminal and fugitive watch lists, fraud watch lists, law enforcement reports, sex offender registries and other data in order to provide Mums Village Coast to Coast information to evaluate your suitability for Mums Village Coast to Coast membership, on an ongoing basis (“Verification Checks”). The results of these checks will be made available to Mums Village Coast to Coast but will not be made available to any Site Visitor or Member. IF YOU DO NOT WANT THESE VERIFICATION CHECKS TO BE PERFORMED, YOU SHOULD NOT USE MUMS VILLAGE COAST TO COAST.
BY AGREEING TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND MUMS VILLAGE COAST TO COAST ’S TERMS OF USE, YOU AGREE TO ALLOW MUMS VILLAGE COAST TO COAST TO PERFORM VERIFICATION CHECKS AS DESCRIBED HEREIN. NO FURTHER CONSENT FROM YOU IS REQUIRED FOR THESE VERIFICATION CHECKS TO BE PERFORMED.
B. Non-Personal Information
In addition to the Personal Information you voluntarily provide to Mums Village Coast to Coast, in an effort to improve the quality of Mums Village Coast to Coast’s service, we record and process information provided to us by your browser when you view the site, such as the web site you came from (known as the “referring URL”), what keywords drive traffic to the Site, the type of browser you use, and the time and date of access. We may assign you a unique identifier, which may be correlated with your Personal Information if you are a Registered Member. As is the case with most websites, we collect this information passively from all visitors to the site, whether or not they are registered Members who have also provided Personal Information in direct interactions with Mums Village Coast to Coast. We do so through various mechanisms, including:
1. Cookies
Mums Village Coast to Coast may send one or more cookies to your computer that uniquely identify your browser. A cookie is a small text file composed of alphanumeric characters, including an anonymous unique identifier, that is sent to a user’s browser from our servers and is stored on the user’s computer hard drive. Doing so allows us to administer and customise our service and to better understand, on an aggregate basis, how users interact with our Site. For example, Mums Village Coast to Coast may use cookies to compile the following information:
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- the number of times a user views a website page
- the type of service a user searches for
- the links on the Site that a user clicks
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Users are able to control their browser settings to limit the collection of cookies by Mums Village Coast to Coast. The controls available to you will depend upon the browser you use, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, or Firefox Mozilla. However, if you choose to disable cookies, you may not be able to use certain features of the Site. For example, we require that you have cookies enabled to enrol in our service or to log in to your account. We do not store any personally identifying information in cookies. If you do not wish to share this information with themumsvillage.com.au, then you should take steps to limit the passive collection of data about your activities on our site, for example, by changing your browser settings to disable cookies
2. Tracking Pixels/Web Beacons
We and/or our third-party affiliates may employ “tracking pixels” (also referred to as “web beacons”) to count the number of users that visit a page on our Site that includes these tracking pixels. Tracking pixels are used to analyse the effectiveness of advertising campaigns and to better understand the way that users interact with our Site. These tracking pixels do not identify individual users and analysis of data obtained by these tracking pixels is performed on an aggregate basis. One of the third parties we use for this purpose is Google Analytics. Google Analytics provides an opt-out option, which can be found here.
3. Tracking of Non-Personal Information by Third-Party Advertising Companies
We may also use third-party advertising companies, such as Google, to serve or track ads on our website and other websites. These companies may use passively collected information about your visits to Mums Village Coast to Coast and other websites in order to measure advertising effectiveness and to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. Furthermore, if you buy a new computer or mobile device, change web browsers or delete the opt-out cookie, you will need to perform the opt-out task again. To find out more about the use of cookies and the information-gathering practises and opt-out procedures of Google specifically, please click here.