Terms and Conditions

Terms and Conditions Overview

This Agreement contains all of the terms and conditions between BabysittersRegistry.com, and you (“Care Seekers/Care Providers and/or any other user”) and governs the use of the service offered at the BabysittersRegistry.com Website. Please read this Agreement before using the Site. Use of the Site constitutes an agreement with the Terms of Use (this “Agreement”), whether or not you register as a member of BabysittersRegistry.com (“Member”). If you wish to become a Member and make use of the BabysittersRegistry.com service (the “Service”), then please read this Agreement. By using this Site, all users do hereby represent, warrant, understand, agree to and accept all terms and conditions contained herein. If you object to anything in this Agreement or the BabysittersRegistry.com Privacy Policy, do not use the Site or the Service. The Terms of Use are subject to change by BabysittersRegistry.com at any time, effective upon posting on the BabysittersRegistry.com Website, and your use of the Site or the Service after such posting will constitute acceptance by you of such changes.

How we help you find a caregiver or a job

The Site is a communications platform for enabling the connection between individuals seeking home or care services (“Care Seekers”) and/or individuals or companies providing home or care services (“Care Providers”). BabysittersRegistry.com does not take part in the interaction between Care Seekers and Care Providers. except if necessary to collect payments on the behalf of Parents/Care Seekers and Care Providers for venue services through the Site. Users do hereby represent, understand and expressly agree that BabysittersRegistry.com does not have control over the quality, timing, legality or any other aspect whatsoever of the services actually delivered by the Care Providers, nor of the integrity, responsibility or any of the actions whatsoever of the Care Seekers. BabysittersRegistry.com makes no representations about the suitability, reliability, timeliness, and accuracy of the services provided by Care Providers or Care Seekers through the Site whether in public, private or offline interactions. BabysittersRegistry.com does not assume any responsibility for the accuracy or reliability of any information provided by Care Providers or Care Seekers on this Site. BabysittersRegistry.com does not assume and expressly disclaims any liability that may result from the use of this information. BabysittersRegistry.com is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any user of the Site or Member of the Service. All users including both Care Seekers and Care Providers do hereby expressly agree not to hold BabysittersRegistry.com (or BabysittersRegistry.com’s officers, directors, investors, subsidiaries, agents, assignees, representatives, advertisers, marketing partners, licensors, independent contractors, recruiters, corporate partners, or employees, or your employer, if you become a Member through your employer, hereinafter “Affiliates”) liable for any instruction, advice or services delivered which originated through the Site and BabysittersRegistry.com and its Affiliates expressly disclaims any liability whatsoever for any damage, suits, claims, and/or controversies that have arisen or may arise, whether known or unknown therefrom.

Who is eligible

Our services are available only to individuals and companies that can form legally binding contracts under applicable law. Without limiting the foregoing, our services are not available to minors under the age of eighteen (18) or to anyone who may not legally work within the jurisdiction of the United States. This Site is currently available only to United States citizens and/or any individuals who are legally in the jurisdiction of the United States and may legally work within its jurisdiction. By requesting to use, registering to use and/or using the Site, you represent and warrant that you have the right, authority and capacity to enter into this Agreement and you commit to abide by all of the terms and conditions hereof. In addition, you represent and warrant that you and each member of your household (1) have never been the subject of a complaint, restraining order or any other legal action involving, arrested for, charged with, or convicted of any felony, any criminal offense involving violence, abuse, neglect, fraud or larceny, or any offense that involves endangering the safety of others, and (2) have not been and are not currently required to register as a sex offender with any government entity. You hereby authorize BabysittersRegistry.com to verify your representations and warranties herein, and you acknowledge that BabysittersRegistry.com reserves the right, but not the obligation, to verify such representations and warranties, which may include, without limitation, conducting criminal background checks and using other available public records, and to take action it deems appropriate in its sole discretion, including but not limited to terminating your membership, should it determine, in its sole opinion, that you have violated any representation or warranty or any other provision of these Terms of Use.

NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, BABYSITTERSREGISTRY.COM DISCLAIMS ANY LIABILITY WHATSOEVER FOR ANY MISSTATEMENTS AND/OR MISREPRESENTATIONS MADE BY ANY OF THE USERS OF ANY SITE. ALL USERS DO HEREBY REPRESENT, UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO HOLD BABYSITTERSREGISTRY.COM HARMLESS FOR ANY MISSTATEMENTS AND/OR MISREPRESENTATIONS MADE BY ANY USERS OF THIS SITE.

Your Responsibilities

Care Seekers may seek the services of a Care Provider through the use of the Site and Care Providers may submit proposals to Care Seekers regarding their services. In the event that a Care Seeker and a Care Provider agree on the provision of services such agreement is 100% between the Care Seeker and the Care Provider; BabysittersRegistry.com is not a involved in any such agreement. Any issues concerning the services received by the Care Seeker or payment due to the Care Provider must be resolved directly by the Care Seeker and the Care Provider. BabysittersRegistry.com will not be held responsible and expressly disclaims any liability whatsoever for any claims, demands or damages direct or indirect of every kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way connected with such issues. By using this Site, you do hereby represent, understand, and expressly agree to hold BabysittersRegistry.com harmless for any claim or controversy that may arise from any disputes between you and any other user(s) of the Site. BabysittersRegistry.com will use its reasonable efforts to monitor Care Provider and Care Seeker profiles, actions, comments, and general usage of the Site and suspend privileges to any Care Seeker or Care Provider not adhering to the policies of the Site. You must agree to take reasonable precautions in all interactions with other users of the Site, particularly if you decide to meet offline or in person. In addition, you agree to review the BabysittersRegistry.com Safety Tips prior to using the Service. By using this Site, you do hereby agree to report any alleged improprieties of any users therein to BabysittersRegistry.com immediately by notifying BabysittersRegistry.com of the same via electronic correspondence. Your account is for your sole and personal use, you may not authorize others to use your account, and you may not assign or otherwise transfer your account to any other person or entity. In order to protect the integrity of the Site and the Service, BabysittersRegistry.com reserves the right at any time in its sole discretion to block users from certain IP addresses from accessing the Site. We reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to all or part of the BabysittersRegistry.com Site, to remove your profile and/or any content posted by or about you, from the Site, and/or to terminate your membership in BabysittersRegistry.com, for any reason or no reason, with or without notice. Following any termination of any member’s use of the Site, BabysittersRegistry.com reserves the right to send a notice thereof to other members which whom you have corresponded.

You assume all risk when using the Services, including but not limited to all of the risks associated with any online or offline interactions with Members of the site. You agree to take all necessary precautions, including but not limited to following the recommendations set forth in BabysittersRegistry.com’s Safety Tips, when interacting with others Members of the site.

Sales/Payment Policy

Individual Parents and other Care Seekers are obligated to pay for the service of the Site, unless specifically notified/stated otherwise during the registration process. Care Seekers that sign up agree to pay BabysittersRegistry.com all charges at the prices then in effect for any use of the Site. In addition, Care Seekers authorize BabysittersRegistry.com to charge their chosen payment provider for use of the Site. BabysittersRegistry.com reserves the right to correct any errors or mistakes that it makes even if it has already requested or received payment. BabysittersRegistry.com may offer limited-time free trial subscriptions to Care Seekers from time-to-time. Care Seekers who sign up for BabysittersRegistry.com on a free trial basis may have limited access to the features of the Site. If a Care Seeker continues their subscription after the end of the free trial period, the Care Seeker will be charged the price then in effect for a monthly subscription to the Service. To avoid being charged for the service of the Site, a Care Seeker with a free trial subscription must cancel their subscription prior to the end of the free trial period. The subscriptions of Care Seekers will be automatically extended for successive renewal periods of the same duration as the subscription term originally selected, at the then-current non-promotional subscription rate, unless specifically notified otherwise. To cancel your subscription, contact BabysittersRegistry.com Member Care or edit your account settings. If you cancel your subscription, you may use your subscription until the end of your then-current subscription term; your subscription will not be renewed after your then-current term expires. No refunds or credits will be provided for account cancellation requests received after the account has been billed. In addition, no refunds will be granted for any donations to third-party organizations that are made while enrolling or using the Site. At BabysittersRegistry.com’s sole discretion, refunds or credits may be granted in extenuating circumstances, as a result of specific refund guarantee promotions, or to correct any errors made by BabysittersRegistry.com. No refunds or credits for Background checks or identity verification will be provided for background check cancellation requests after the account has been billed.

Our liability

A. Incidental Damages and Aggregate Liability. In no event will BabysittersRegistry.com be liable for any indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages, losses or expenses arising out of or relating to the use or inability to use the Site, including without limitation damages related to any information received from the Site, removal of content from the Site, including profile information, any email distributed to any user or any linked web site or use thereof or inability to use by any party, or in connection with any termination of your subscription or ability to access the Site, failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus or line or system failure, even if BabysittersRegistry.com, or representatives thereof, are advised of the possibility of such damages, losses or expenses. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL BABYSITTERSREGISTRY.COM’S AGGREGATE LIABILITY, IN ANY FORM OF ACTION WHATSOEVER IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR THE USE OF THE SERVICES OR THE SITE, EXCEED THE PRICE PAID BY YOU FOR YOUR ACCOUNT, OR, IF YOU HAVE NOT PAID BABYSITTERSREGISTRY.COM FOR THE USE OF ANY SERVICES, THE AMOUNT OF US $5.00 OR ITS EQUIVALENT.

B. No Liability for non-BabysittersRegistry.com Actions. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL BABYSITTERSREGISTRY.COM BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, WHETHER DIRECT, INDIRECT, GENERAL, SPECIAL, COMPENSATORY, CONSEQUENTIAL, AND/OR INCIDENTAL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE CONDUCT OF YOU OR ANYONE ELSE IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OF THE SITE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, BODILY INJURY, EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, AND/OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES RESULTING FROM INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF THE SITE, WHETHER ONLINE OR OFFLINE. THIS INCLUDES ANY CLAIMS, LOSSES OR DAMAGES ARISING FROM THE CONDUCT OF USERS WHO HAVE REGISTERED UNDER FALSE PRETENSES OR WHO ATTEMPT TO DEFRAUD OR HARM YOU.

C. In addition to the preceding paragraphs of this section and other provisions of this Agreement, any advice that may be posted on the Site is for informational purposes only and is not intended to replace or substitute for any professional financial, medical, legal, or other advice. BabysittersRegistry.com makes no representations or warranties and expressly disclaims any and all liability concerning any treatment, action by, or effect on any person following the information offered or provided within or through the Site. If you have specific concerns or a situation arises in which you require professional or medical advice, you should consult with an appropriately trained and qualified specialist.

Contact Information Access Limitations

For security and the protection of our users, access to caregiver contact information has some reasonable limitations. You may only access the contact information of fifteen new caregivers ever day. Access to caregiver contact information and references may or may not be limited to a thirty (30) mile radius of your sign-up address. You may be required to send a message to a caregiver, rather than accessing their direct contact info. This is for security purposes, so that the communication can be moderated to prevent spam and abuse of our system. This is especially true for free members. Paid members may or may not have such restrictions. Caregiver contact information and references are available to paying members on caregiver profiles by default, but caregivers have the ability to require that you request their permission first before accessing that information.

Background Checks and Identity Verification

BabysittersRegistry.com may use a third-party verification service available to Care Seekers and Care Providers. Care Seekers and Care Providers may use this service to verify information such as, but not limited to, name, address, social security number, and criminal background. Use of a third-party verification service is voluntary. If you decide to use or access information provided by a third-party verification service offered through the Site, you do hereby represent, understand and expressly agree that BabysittersRegistry.com is a conduit for the third-party verification service and does not have control over or assume any responsibility for the quality, accuracy, or reliability of the information provided by the third-party verification service. In addition, you understand that BabysittersRegistry.com may review the information provided by the third-party verification service and that BabysittersRegistry.com retains the right to terminate your BabysittersRegistry.com membership based on the information.

An emblem will appear directly on a caregiver’s profile when the background check is clean. If it is not clean, BabysittersRegistry.com’s staff will decide whether to put the emblem on a caregiver’s profile based on the seriousness of the items in your background check. The emblem or the way in which we show users that you have a background check may change in the future.

Some details of your background check will be made available to users of the site. Each user that would like in depth details of your background check will be required to ask for your permission electronically before access to those details will be provided.

If a caregiver you are interested in doesn’t have a Background Check and/or Identity Verification, you can ask the sitter to complete one or both. You can also optionally pay for the Background Check and/or Identity Verification for the caregiver. You credit card will be authorized, but not charged until the caregiver submits the necessary information to process the request. Once you authorize this credit card transaction, we will allow you to cancel it unless the caregiver has already begun to fill out the request to submit it.

COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

If you believe any materials accessible on or from Site infringe your copyright, you may request removal of those materials (or access thereto) from this Site by contacting BabysittersRegistry.com’s copyright agent using our contact form.

1. Identification of the copyrighted work that you believe to be infringed. Please describe the work, and where possible include a copy or the location (e.g., URL) of an authorized version of the work.
2. Identification of the material that you believe to be infringing and its location. Please describe the material, and provide us with its URL or any other pertinent information that will allow us to locate the material.
3. Your name, address, telephone number and (if available) e-mail address.
4. A statement that you have a good faith belief that the complained of use of the materials is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
5. A statement that the information that you have supplied is accurate, and indicating that “under penalty of perjury,” you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.
6. A signature or the electronic equivalent from the copyright holder or authorized representative.

Accuracy

We strive to do our best in keeping this site as up to date as possible. 3rd party offers on this site our current as of the last update, but should be verified when you click through to the merchant web site. BabysittersRegistry.com assumes no responsibility in the accuracy of the offers or reviews presented on this site. Promotions do change on a regular basis and do our best to keep you updated, but it is possible offers can change before we get the knowledge or opportunity to update out information.

Trademarks

The trademarks used on this site are registered and owned by the company they represent. All content and logos of BabysittersRegisrty.com are owned by BabysittersRegisrty.com and is protected by copyright. Any unauthorized use or reproduction of the material or information on this site is strictly prohibited.

Disclaimer

Babysitters Registry accepts no responsibility of any kind for any actions or information presented by other sites that we link to. The information provided on this site is presented “as is” without any guarantee of any kind. Even though our partners are deemed trustworthy and responsible, please make sure you verify and completely understand information presented to you from our partner sites.

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you may contact us using our contact form.