Birth Care Website Privacy
Policy
Privacy Statement
Birth Care & FHS is committed
to protecting your privacy and developing
technology that gives you the most powerful
and safe online experience. This Statement
of Privacy applies to the Birth Care & FHS
Web site and governs data collection and
usage. By using the Birth Care & FHS
website, you consent to the data practices
described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal
Information
Birth Care & FHS collects
personally identifiable information, such as
your e-mail address, name, home or work
address or telephone number. Birth Care &
FHS also collects anonymous demographic
information, which is not unique to you,
such as your ZIP code, age, gender,
preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information
about your computer hardware and software
that is automatically collected by Birth
Care & FHS. This information can include:
your IP address, browser type, domain names,
access times and referring Web site
addresses. This information is used by Birth
Care & FHS for the operation of the service,
to maintain quality of the service, and to
provide general statistics regarding use of
the Birth Care & FHS Web site.
Please keep in mind that if
you directly disclose personally
identifiable information or personally
sensitive data through Birth Care & FHS
public message boards, this information may
be collected and used by others. Note: Birth
Care & FHS does not read any of your private
online communications.
Birth Care & FHS encourages
you to review the privacy statements of Web
sites you choose to link to from Birth Care
& FHS so that you can understand how those
Web sites collect, use and share your
information. Hollywood Birth Center is not
responsible for the privacy statements or
other content on Web sites outside of the
Birth Care & FHS.
Use
of your Personal Information
Birth Care & FHS collects
and uses your personal information to
operate the Birth Care & FHS Web site and
deliver the services you have requested.
Birth Care & FHS also uses your personally
identifiable information to inform you of
other products or services available from
Birth Care & FHS and its affiliates. Birth
Care & FHS may also contact you via surveys
to conduct research about your opinion of
current services or of potential new
services that may be offered.
Birth Care & FHS does not
sell, rent or lease its customer lists to
third parties. Birth Care & FHS may, from
time to time, contact you on behalf of
external business partners about a
particular offering that may be of interest
to you. In those cases, your unique
personally identifiable information (e-mail,
name, address, telephone number) is not
transferred to the third party. In addition,
Birth Care & FHS may share data with trusted
partners to help us 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 Birth Care & FHS, and they are required
to maintain the confidentiality of your
information.
Birth Care & FHS does not
use or disclose sensitive personal
information, such as race, religion, or
political affiliations, without your
explicit consent.
Birth Care & FHS keeps track
of the Web sites and pages our customers
visit within Birth Care & FHS, in order to
determine what Birth Care & FHS services are
the most popular. This data is used to
deliver customized content and advertising
within Birth Care & FHS to customers whose
behavior indicates that they are interested
in a particular subject area.
Birth Care & FHS Web site
will disclose your personal information,
without notice, only 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 Birth Care & FHS or the
site; (b) protect and defend the rights or
property of Birth Care & FHS; and, (c) act
under exigent circumstances to protect the
personal safety of users of Birth Care & FHS,
or the public.
Use
of Cookies
The Birth Care & FHS Web
site use "cookies" to help you personalize
your online experience. A cookie is a text
file that is placed on your hard disk by a
Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to
run programs or deliver viruses to your
computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to
you, and can only be read by a web server in
the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes
of cookies is to provide a convenience
feature to save you time. The purpose of a
cookie is to tell the Web server that you
have returned to a specific page. For
example, if you personalize Birth Care & FHS
pages, or register with Birth Care & FHS
site or services, a cookie helps Birth Care
& FHS to recall your specific information on
subsequent visits. This simplifies the
process of recording your personal
information, such as billing addresses,
shipping addresses, and so on. When you
return to the same Birth Care & FHS Web
site, the information you previously
provided can be retrieved, so you can easily
use the Birth Care & FHS features that you
customized.
You have the ability to
accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers
automatically accept cookies, but you can
usually modify your browser setting to
decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose
to decline cookies, you may not be able to
fully experience the interactive features of
the Birth Care & FHS services or Web sites
you visit.
Security
of your Personal Information
Birth Care & FHS secures
your personal information from unauthorized
access, use or disclosure. Birth Care & FHS
secures the personally identifiable
information you provide on computer servers
in a controlled, secure environment,
protected from unauthorized access, use or
disclosure. When personal information (such
as a credit card number) is transmitted to
other Web sites, it is protected through the
use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket
Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes
to this Statement
Birth Care & FHS will
occasionally update this Statement of
Privacy to reflect company and customer
feedback. Birth Care & FHS encourages you to
periodically review this Statement to be
informed of how Birth Care & FHS is
protecting your information.
Contact
Information
Birth Care & FHS welcomes
your comments regarding this Statement of
Privacy. If you believe that Birth Care &
FHS has not adhered to this Statement,
please contact Birth Care & FHS at dave@birthcaremidwives.com.
We will use commercially reasonable efforts
to promptly determine and remedy the
problem.