Privacy Policy

Birthwise Midwifery Care is committed to the privacy of our Web site visitors. We collect no personal information about you when you visit our Web site unless you choose to provide that information to us. 

Here is how we handle information about your visit to our Web site.
Information Collected and Stored Automatically: If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the Web site, read pages or download information, we may may gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store information like the following concerning your visit.

• The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "publiclibrary.gov" if you connect from a public library's domain).
• Your IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our Web site.
• The type of browser and operating system used to access our site.
• The date and time you access our site.
• The pages you visit; and...
• If you linked to our Web site from another Web site, the address of that Web site.

We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors — to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use.

Information That You Voluntarily Provide.
We do not collect personally-identifiable information unless you choose to provide it to us. If you provide us with personally identifiable information, for example by sending an e-mail or by filling out a form and submitting it through our Web site, we use that information only to respond to your message and to help us provide you with the information and services that you request.

Submitting voluntary information constitutes your consent to the use of the information for the stated purpose. When a user clicks the "Submit" button on any of the Web forms found on our site they are indicating voluntary consent to use of the information they submit for the stated purpose. We do not collect or use information for commercial marketing.

How Information is Used.
The information we collect is used primarily to respond to requests for information about our services. We make every effort here to disclose clearly how information is used so that our visitors can determine for themselves whether they wish to provide the information.

Sharing of Information.
We may share the information you give us with government agencies or authorities only when required to do so by law. Before you submit personally identifiable information, such as on an online form, you are advised to consider how the information may be used.

Links to Other Sites.
This site may have links to other Web sites or organizations. Once you go to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site. It is always a good idea to read the Privacy Policy of any Web site that you visit.

Cookies.
"Cookies" are small bits of text that are either used for the duration of a session ("session cookies"), or saved on a user's hard drive in order to identify that user, or information about that user, the next time the user logs on to a Web site ("persistent cookies"). This Web site does not use persistent cookies or any other persistent tracking technology, but may use session cookies during the visit.

Interaction with Children.
No personally identifiable information is collected from children.