Privacy Policy

Southern Standard Nannies is a Tennessee-based nanny agency. Southern Standard Nannies ("SSN" or "Southern Standard Nannies" or "us" or "we") values the protection of individual privacy. SSN respects its customers' right to privacy. This document sets forth SSN's online privacy policy ("privacy policy") for the website www.southern-standard-nannies.com ("site"). By using the site, you the user ("you") indicate that you have read and agree to be bound by this privacy policy. If you do not agree to this privacy policy, do not use the site in any manner. This privacy policy does not govern privacy practices associated with offline activities.
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We collect no personal information about you when you visit the site unless you choose to provide that information to us and we do not use personal information other than to process the request that required you to submit personal information. We do not make any visitor-provided information available to third parties.

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• ^{If you linked to our website from another website, the address of that website.}

Information that you voluntarily provide

On certain pages of the Southern Standard Nannies website, we may ask you to voluntarily provide personal data such as your name, mailing address, email address, telephone number, and similar information. You may provide a headshot and a resume as well. Southern Standard Nannies may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your:

• Age
• Gender
• Race
• Household Income

That information is collected when you:

• Sign up for services through Southern Standard Nannies
• Apply for a position with Southern Standard Nannies
• Sign up to receive Southern Standard Nannies alerts and/or emails

There are certain instances where a visitor's interaction with the website will automatically cause a visitor to be added to a mailing list. For example, if you apply to use the Southern Standard Nannies network or any service the company offers, your email address will be automatically added to a notification list.

If you provide us with personally identifiable information, for example, by sending an email or by filling out a form and submitting it through the site, we use that information to respond to your message and to help us provide you with the information and services that you request. All uses of that information are described on the web page containing the form.

Southern Standard Nannies may use the information it collects for any lawful purpose, such as to:

• Comply with applicable state, federal, and international law
• Send marketing communications
• Respond to visitors' requests
• Operate and improve the website
• Customize members' website experience
• Identify and correct cybersecurity threats to the website
• Analyze visitors' use of the site and our services
• For other legitimate and lawful business purposes

Submitting voluntary information constitutes your consent to the use of the information for the stated purpose. When you click the "Submit" button on any of the web forms found on the site, you are indicating your voluntary consent for us to use the information you submit for the purpose stated.

If you no longer wish to receive emails from Southern Standard Nannies, you can click the unsubscribe link located at the bottom of the Southern Standard Nannies email you receive from us or email mara@southernstandardnannies.com and ask to be removed from the list.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

Southern Standard Nannies does not sell, rent, or lease its customer lists to third parties.

Southern Standard Nannies may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Southern Standard Nannies, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Southern Standard Nannies may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Southern Standard Nannies or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Southern Standard Nannies; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Southern Standard Nannies, or the public.

Your Tennessee Privacy Rights

Tennessee law provides residents with certain rights regarding their personal information. Tennessee residents may request information about the personal data we have collected about them and how it has been used. To exercise these rights, please contact us at mara@southernstandardnannies.com.

Links to other sites

The site contains links to various other private organizations. Once you link to another website, you are then subject to the privacy policies of the new website. We cannot control nor are we responsible for any such third-party collection or use of your personal information. It is always a good idea to read the Privacy Policy of any website you visit.

Children

The site is a general audience site that is neither designed nor intended to collect personal information from children who are under the age of 13. In order to ensure compliance with the provisions of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), children under the age of 13 should not provide any personal information to the site. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that a child under 13 may have provided us personal information, please contact us at mara@southernstandardnannies.com.

Security

We use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that any information you give to us is stored and maintained in secure servers and not publicly accessible. Southern Standard Nannies protects personal data by only allowing limited, authorized personnel to have access to such personal data. Southern Standard Nannies maintains an encrypted firewall to protect such personal data. Southern Standard Nannies' software provider has level one payment card industry compliance to ensure that online credit transactions are secure. Southern Standard Nannies has technical safeguards such as firewalls, virus and intrusion detection, and authentication protocols. However, despite our best security efforts, no data transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. When personal information is no longer needed, we will securely delete or anonymize it.

Cookies

We may use cookies from time to time to allow us to automate access and the data entry functions of the site such as to tailor the site to your preferences or interests, customize promotions or marketing, or identify which areas of the site are more popular. A cookie is a small, unique text file that a website can send to your computer hard drive when you visit that site. We do not make any cookie information available to third parties. Most web browsers can either alert you to the use of cookies or refuse to accept cookies entirely. If you do not want us to deploy cookies in your browser, you can set your browser to reject cookies or to notify you when a website tries to put a cookie on your computer. Rejecting cookies may affect your ability to use some of the products and/or services at the site.

California Rights

Under California law, visitors are permitted to request Southern Standard Nannies to provide the visitor with instances where Southern Standard Nannies has shared their personal information with a third party. Such requests may be made once per year. Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code requires select businesses to disclose policies relating to the sharing of certain categories of your personal data with third parties. If you reside in California and have provided your personal data to Southern Standard Nannies, you may request information about our disclosures of certain categories of personal data to third parties for direct marketing purposes. Such requests must be submitted to us via email at mara@southernstandardnannies.com.

Privacy Policy Changes

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time at our sole discretion. When we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post the updated policy on this page and update the "Effective Date" below. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the site following any Privacy Policy changes will mean you accept those changes.

Contact Information

If you have difficulty obtaining information from the site, please contact us to get the material in another format. You should provide the URL of the site referencing that information. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for improvement regarding this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:

Southern Standard Nannies
laura@southernstandardnannies.com
615.499.6002

Effective as of January 8th, 2026.