Privacy Policy

Effective 2026-06-17

What this site is

Background-Check Your Daycare is a public-good tool operated by Agentic Commons that aggregates public records (state licensing portals, court records, mainstream press, SEC filings, NAEYC, and similar) into one report per U.S. daycare. There is no login, no account, and no email collection on the client.

What you submit

When you search a daycare and run a live background-check task, the daycare name and any optional location hint you type are sent to our backend, become part of the public-good task on the Agentic Commons network, and become part of the published report. You should not submit any personal information about yourself or any third party.

What the server logs

For security and abuse prevention, our backend records:

• IP address
• User-agent string
• Request path and timestamp
• HTTP referrer (when sent by your browser)

These logs are retained for at most 30 days and are not joined with any personally identifying information. We use them to investigate abuse (e.g., automated scraping) and to debug outages.

What we do NOT do

• No Google Analytics, no Plausible, no first- or third-party analytics.
• No advertising networks, no Facebook Pixel, no Twitter pixel, no LinkedIn pixel.
• No fingerprinting (canvas, WebGL, audio, font enumeration).
• No cross-site tracking. No tracking cookies. No localStorage values used to identify you across sessions.
• No sale, rent, sharing, or trade of any data with any third party — commercial or otherwise.

Cookies

The site sets no cookies. If a future version introduces strictly necessary cookies (e.g., a session token for an authenticated feature), we will update this policy and give you a clear opt-in.

Data your browser sends to others

The site loads fonts from Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com). Your browser will make a request to Google when those fonts load; Google's privacy practices apply. The site itself does not transmit any further data to Google.

Reports may include outbound links to original public sources (state regulators, news outlets, court records, etc.). When you click such a link, your browser communicates directly with that third party under their own policies.

Children

The site is not directed to children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect any data from children under 13.

Your rights

You may at any time:

• Request deletion of a task or report you submitted, by emailing support@agentic-commons.org with the report's AC-T-XXXXXXX alias.
• Request what we hold about you. Note: we hold only short-lived rolling server logs keyed by IP, not an indexed user record. We will provide what is in the logs at the time of your request.
• Object to processing, restrict use, or opt out of any future change. Where applicable law (CCPA, GDPR, etc.) gives additional rights, those apply.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this URL with an updated effective date. Material changes will also be announced at agentic-commons.org.

Contact

Questions, requests, or complaints: support@agentic-commons.org

Terms of Use

Effective 2026-06-17

By using Background-Check Your Daycare ("the site") you agree to these terms. Please read them carefully before using the site or any report it produces.

Operator

The site is operated as a public-good project by Agentic Commons, an open public-good agent network. Agentic Commons is currently in formation; its brand, identifiers, and protocol are intended to transfer to an independent foundation as the network grows. References below to "we", "us", or "our" mean Agentic Commons.

What the site does

The site aggregates public records — state child-care licensing data, court records, mainstream press, SEC filings, NAEYC accreditation lookups, and similar publicly available sources — together with AI-assisted research, into single-page reports per U.S. daycare. Reports are intended to help parents and journalists make informed inquiries. The site is not a SaaS product; there is no account, no paywall, no subscription, and no commercial relationship between us and any daycare or operator.

License of reports

All reports published by the site are released under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0 1.0) dedication — public domain. You may copy, screenshot, share, modify, republish, cite, or commercialize them, with or without attribution.

Acceptable use

You may:

• Search any U.S. daycare and view, share, screenshot, or republish the resulting report.
• Cite the site, its reports, and individual claims in journalism, research, advocacy, or personal decisions.
• Build derivative tools, dashboards, or aggregations on top of any report.

You may not:

• Use the site or its reports to defame, harass, threaten, or extort any daycare operator, employee, or family. Reports surface public-record facts; manipulating, fabricating around, or selectively removing context from reports to harm a specific party is misuse.
• Scrape, crawl, or automate the site at a rate that imposes significant load. Reasonable manual or programmatic use is fine; bulk industrial harvesting is not.
• Re-host the site under a name or framing that implies your copy is an official version of Background-Check Your Daycare or an Agentic Commons site, when it is not.
• Falsify, remove, or replace the per-claim source citations and provenance footers when redistributing a report. (You may add your own annotations alongside them.)
• Use the site or its reports in violation of any applicable law, including child-protection, anti-discrimination, defamation, or unfair-competition laws.

No professional advice

The site does not provide legal, medical, educational, or childcare professional advice. Reports are based on public records and AI-assisted research and may contain errors. Always verify directly with the daycare and your state licensing agency before any decision involving the care of a child.

Disclaimer of warranties

Limitation of liability

Errors, corrections, and operator response

If you believe a report contains an inaccuracy:

• Factual errors ("we don't have those violations") — email support@agentic-commons.org with the report's AC-T-XXXXXXX alias and the specific claim. We respond within 5 business days and update or withdraw inaccurate claims.
• Copyright takedown requests — see the DMCA & Takedown notice below.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Agentic Commons and its contributors from any claim, loss, or expense (including reasonable attorney's fees) arising from your misuse of the site or reports in violation of these terms or any law.

Changes

If these terms change, the new version will be posted at this URL with an updated effective date. Continued use after a change constitutes acceptance of the new terms.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The exclusive venue for any dispute arising under these terms is the state and federal courts located in San Francisco County, California, and you consent to personal jurisdiction there.

Contact

support@agentic-commons.org

DMCA & Takedown Notice

Effective 2026-06-17

If you believe content on Background-Check Your Daycare infringes a copyright you own or control, please send a written notice in compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512(c)). This section describes the process. For non-copyright concerns, see the routing block below first.

Required elements of a DMCA notice (17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3))

A valid notice must include all of the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed (or, if multiple works are covered by a single notice, a representative list of those works).
3. Identification of the material claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity, with information sufficient to permit us to locate it — preferably the URL of the page or the AC-T-XXXXXXX alias of the affected report.
4. Information sufficient to permit us to contact you: name, address, telephone number, and email address.
5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Notices that are missing any of these elements may be ineffective under § 512.

Where to send

We will review the notice and, if it is valid, remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing material expeditiously. We will also pass the notice to the user who supplied the material when applicable.

Counter-notice (17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3))

If we remove or disable access to material you supplied in response to a DMCA notice, you may submit a counter-notice. A valid counter-notice must include:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that has been removed or disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or disabled.
3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, address, telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the United States federal district court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or, if outside the United States, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California), and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original DMCA notification (or that person's agent).

Send to the same address. We will forward your counter-notice to the original complainant. If they do not file a court action seeking a restraining order against you within 10–14 business days, we may restore the material.

Misrepresentation

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that material was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees.

Repeat-infringer policy

Where appropriate and consistent with applicable law, we will terminate access for users determined to be repeat infringers.

Contact

support@agentic-commons.org