Why do I have to create an account?

The minimum amount of information required to search for child care on CareFind is your full name, valid email address, username and password. This allows for a seamless experience interacting with your child care providers.

How much does your service cost?

CareFind is a free service for parents and guardians.

What is your screening process for child care providers?

CareFind works with accredited, licensed and regulated child care centers, preschools, out of school care and approved dayhomes providers.

How do I choose a child care provider? What questions do I ask?

We strongly encourage parents and guardians to do your own research, ask questions, obtain information, and schedule a tour prior to making a decision. CareFind helps you find child care, but does not endorse any child care providers. Check out our blog on Questions to Ask Your Child Care Provider (https://carefind.ca/questions-to-ask-your-child-care-provider/).

How do I get in contact with a child care provider?

Parents and guardians will have the opportunity to call, email, message their child care providers and more.

How do I get in contact with a CareFind representative?

You can reach us at (587) 577-5086 or email us at info@carefind.ca

Privacy Policy | CareFind

Name: CareFind
Address: Calgary Alberta Canada, AB
Telephone: (587) 577-5086

Last Revised: October 21st, 2020

Version: 1.0

Your privacy is important to CareFind Ltd. (referred to as "we" or "us" in this privacy policy) and the purpose of this privacy policy is to tell you about how we collect, use, and share your personal information when you use our website, app and services, including https://carefind.ca/ (collectively, services).

What does this privacy notice cover?

This privacy policy sets out how we handle personally identifiable information (“personal information”) that we gather when you are using our services. It does not cover the practices of individuals, companies and entities we do not own, control or manage. Please note that contact information that is for communicating with you in relation to your employment, business or profession is not personal information. Where the law permits or requires us to collect, use or disclose your personal information, we may do so irrespective of what is stated in this privacy policy.

Will we ever change this privacy policy?

We’re always trying to improve, and part of that means we may need to change this privacy policy from time to time. We will alert you to changes by posting the revised privacy policy and changing the “Last Revised” date at the top. When we make a significant change, we will also send you an email to the last email address you provided to us, unless we do not have your email address. Please check back here periodically to review this privacy policy.

What personal information do we collect?

Information You Provide To Us

We collect personal information you provide to us.

When you register with us to receive the services, we may collect some or all of the following
personal information:

your name, address and telephone number;
email address and facsimile number;
your occupation;
your date of birth;
similar information about other members of your family, including your children in respect of whom you use the services;
your credit card number;
your workplace;
your location;
photographs and videos that you upload;
health information (for example, relevant medical information about your child); and other reasonably necessary information about your child for the purpose of providing the services (and for our child care partners to provide childcare services), including in relation to food preferences, allergies, behavioural issues, learning abilities and other information.
If you provide to us the personal information of a minor, you warrant to us that you are the parent or legal guardian of that minor.

We also collect non-personal, technical information regarding the performance of the services, as well as information about how you use our services.

If you provide your third-party account credentials to us (for example, when you use our application, your login credentials for third-party applications, such as Facebook), we may receive some content and information from those accounts in your account with us if you authorize such transmissions. This privacy policy covers that personal information. The third party that maintains your account credentials may provide you with the option to change your login credentials or disconnect them from the services.

We may add to our records from personal information we collect from other sources, including from our child care partners.

Information Collected Automatically

Whenever you interact with our services, we may automatically receive and record information on logs and databases from your browser, application, services or device(s).

Other information collected automatically may include your IP address, location details, “cookie” information, mobile device, operating system, the type of browser, demographic information, application and/or device(s) you're using to access our services, click through paths, the identity of the page or feature you are requesting or interacting with, time on page of feature, and other indicators of how you are interacting with the services. “Cookies” are identifiers we transfer to your device that allow us to recognize your browser, application or device and tell us how and when various pages and features in our services are visited or used and by how many people. You may be able to change the preferences on your browser, application or device to prevent or limit your device's acceptance of cookies, but this may prevent you from taking advantage of some of our features. We may associate the information we collect from your different devices, which helps us provide consistent services across devices.

We may deliver a file to you through the services (known as a “web beacon”) from an ad network. Web beacons allow ad networks to provide anonymized, aggregated auditing, research and reporting for us and for advertisers. Web beacons also enable ad networks to serve targeted advertisements to you when you visit other websites. Because your web browser must request these advertisements and web beacons from the ad network's servers, these companies can view, edit, or set their own cookies, just as if you had requested a web page from their site.

Our third party partners, including advertising partners, may also use web beacons, or transmit cookies to and read cookies from your browser, application or device when you visit or use our services. If you click on a link to a third party website or service, such third party may also transmit cookies to you. This privacy policy does not cover personal information collected by third parties, including through cookies and web beacons.

Although we would like to honor browsers set with do not track ("DNT") signals, at this time, our services do not respond to DNT signals or other mechanisms that might enable users to opt out of tracking on our services. For more information about DNT, please visit: https://allaboutdnt.com/.

How do we use your personal information?

We may use your personal information for a number of purposes, including to provide, maintain, protect and improve our services, to develop new services and to protect our users. Specifically, we use your personal information to:

to assess and recommend child care services that are relevant to your needs;
to respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests;
to send administrative information to you, for example, information regarding the services and changes to our terms, conditions and policies;
to send you communications that we believe may be of interest to you, including advertising from us and our partners;
to improve current and future delivery of the services (for example, to monitor and evaluate how our services are used);
to help our child care partners understand how their services are used and how they could be improved, such as by analyzing the personal information to determine what childcare service providers can do to improve their services, respond to customer preferences (such as location and specific services);
for our business purposes, such as data analysis, audits, fraud monitoring and prevention, developing new products, enhancing, improving or modifying the services, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and operating and expanding our business activities; and
as we determine necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

Electronic communications

Occasionally, in compliance with Canada's Anti-Spam Law (CASL), we may send electronic communications to you with information that may be useful to you, including information about CareFind and other third parties with whom we have a relationship. We will include instructions on how to unsubscribe and inform us of preferences if you decide you do not want to receive any future emails from us. You can also change your subscription by emailing our Privacy Officer at the details set out below with your name and your electronic addresses. Even where you unsubscribe, the law still allows us to send you some kinds of electronic messages, such as invoices, without your consent.

Sometimes we have to share your personal information

We do not sell your personal information to third parties.

Regardless of any choices you make regarding your personal information in accordance with this privacy policy, we may disclose personal information if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary (a) in connection with any legal investigation; (b) to comply with relevant laws or to respond to subpoenas or warrants served on us; (c) to protect or defend our rights, our property or users of the services; or (d) to investigate or assist in preventing any violation or potential violation of the law, this privacy policy, or any legal agreement we have with you.

We share the personal information that you provide to us as required in order to provide you with the services. This might include disclosing your information to certain service provider organizations, including childcare providers and facilities. We may also share the personal information that you provide to us with our business partners, including contractors who assist us in providing our services, such as marketers, developers and customer support; and internally with any of our affiliates, in which case our affiliates will handle your personal information in accordance with this privacy policy.

We may anonymize or aggregate your personal information so that you are not identifiable, and use that anonymized or aggregated information in various ways. We may provide that information to our partners or use that information for marketing or promotional items. However, except as otherwise described in this privacy policy, we do not disclose aggregate information in a manner that would identify you personally as an individual.

The security of your personal information is important to us

We endeavor to protect the privacy of your account and other personal information we hold in our records, but we cannot guarantee complete security. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors, may compromise the security of user information at any time.

If we believe any incident has occurred that involves the loss of or unauthorized access to or disclosure of personal information that is under our control, in cases where a reasonable person would consider that there exists a real risk of significant harm as a result, we will investigate the situation and, where appropriate, notify you. We will take all other steps which we believe are appropriate or legally required.

We may process your personal information in other countries (for example, our third party service providers may store your personal information in the United States) where laws regarding processing of personal information may be less stringent than those in Canada (for example, it may be accessible by a foreign government).

How long do we keep your personal information?

We retain your personal information only as long as we require it to provide you with the services and to maintain an appropriate historical record of our relationship with you. If there are legal requirements relating to the period of time for which we must retain your personal information, we comply with those requirements.

What if you want to limit the use of your personal information?

Most of the personal information we collect is necessary for us to provide you with the services. If you do not want us to use or disclose your personal information in a particular way, please contact using the contact information at the bottom of this privacy policy and we will be pleased to discuss with you how we can limit collection, use or disclosure of your personal information.

You may request access and changes to your personal information

You may request a copy of your personal information that is in our control and request corrections if you believe that personal information is inaccurate. If you wish to access your personal information, contact us using the contact information at the bottom of this privacy policy.

Changes to our business

We may also share some or all of your personal information in connection with or during the negotiation of any merger, financing, acquisition or dissolution transaction or proceeding involving the sale, transfer, divestiture, or disclosure of all or a portion of our business or assets.

If we sell part of our business, we will retain a copy of your personal information and provide a copy to the buyer, who will only use and disclose your personal information as set out in this privacy policy.

Questions? Concerns?

If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy or about our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information please contact our Privacy Officer at [email protected] and we will try to address your concerns: