Privacy.
We collect information you voluntarily submit, such as listing submissions, correction reports, claims, newsletter signups and contact messages. Public business information may be displayed in the directory after review.
Individual community-service providers
We do not ask individual babysitters, nannies, tutors or similar providers to publish a private home address. City and service area are sufficient.
Forms and security
We use a session cookie to protect forms against unauthorized submissions. To limit spam, the server keeps a short-lived hashed network-address identifier and request count. Entries expire after ten minutes and are removed on a subsequent submission. Hosting logs may also record network addresses and requests.
Claimant emails and submitter contact details are available to moderators and are not included in public listing responses. Newsletter signup saves your preferences; repeated signup does not silently undo an unsubscribe.
Typography
This site loads fonts from Google Fonts. Your browser contacts Google to retrieve those font files.
Analytics and vendors
Production deployment may use privacy-conscious analytics, email delivery, payment processing and security vendors. This page should be updated before enabling any vendor that introduces cookies, tracking or additional data processing.
Contact
Privacy questions: Use the contact form.
Community accounts, reviews and newsletter
Creating a member account requires a valid email address and email confirmation. Confirmation and password recovery links are single-use and expire after ten minutes. Your public display name appears beside your reviews; your account email stays private. Accounts are specific to this website.
You may leave one editable star rating and comment per business, based on your own honest experience. Do not post fabricated reviews, impersonation, harassment, threats, discriminatory content, advertisements, links, private contact details or unsupported accusations. Do not use multiple accounts to manipulate ratings. Reviews represent the reviewer’s opinion, not an endorsement by this directory. Ordinary reviews are published automatically. Suspicious content may be held, and we may hide reviews or suspend accounts for misuse. Members can report a review for moderator attention.
The community newsletter is optional. You can separately choose to receive community news and business recommendations. Accepting these terms or creating an account does not subscribe you. Newsletter consent is recorded separately and becomes active after your email is confirmed. Withdraw it at any time through the newsletter preference in your account; future newsletters will also include an unsubscribe option. Advertisers do not receive member email addresses through this feature.
To operate these features, we store your private email, public display name, securely hashed password, confirmation timestamps, reviews and newsletter consent records. Necessary session cookies keep you signed in. We use rate limits and a keyed hash of your network IP address to detect repeated abuse; we do not obtain your device’s MAC address. Shared networks are not treated as proof that members are the same person. A daily maintenance process clears identifying security-counter and expired-link data after 30 days, and review network hashes after 90 days. Account, review and consent records are retained while needed to operate the service and manage requests. Use the contact form for account deletion, data access, correction or other privacy requests.