Policy last updated July 1, 2022

Your privacy is important to Doulaing the Doula, LLC (the “Company” “us” or “we”). The Company provides birth doula training and certification services (the “Services”). This Privacy Policy informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal data when you use the Company’s Services, including use of the website, and the choices you have associated with that data.

Information we collect and how we use it

 

When using the Company’s Services, we request that you provide certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). The Company requires only Personal Data that is necessary for us to communicate with you regarding the requested activity or inquiry.

This Personal Data includes:

When you voluntarily provide the above information through our website, for example, to sign up for our news alerts, we use it to determine the best way to address your request. For example, ___________. [OP2] Additionally, the Company uses the Personal Data for the following purposes:

 

When visiting our website, we automatically collect your:

 

We gather this information to analyze trends in the aggregate and administer our website, including to monitor the usage of our Services and website, and to detect, prevent and address technical issues.

Due to Internet communications standards, when you visit or use our website, we automatically receive the URL of the website from which you came and the website to which you go when you leave our site. This information is used to analyze overall trends, to track and aggregate non-personal information, and to deliver and improve our website and Services.

 

The Company uses a third party, PayPal, to process payments for Services. We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to PayPal whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy, which can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full. Please note that PayPal makes their own decisions concerning the purpose and means of processing your personal data.

 

How your information may be shared

 

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Services (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Services or website are used. These Service Providers are authorized to use the data only as necessary to provide the contracted Services and Company evaluates and makes efforts to ensure that all such providers value your privacy as much as we do. The Company utilizes the following Service Providers:

 

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our website. This data is shared with other Google Services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: http:/www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

 

Behavioral Remarketing

The Company uses remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to you after you visited our service. We and our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on your past visits to our Service.

 

Akismet

Akismet is a service aimed at filtering spam comments on websites.

For more information on the privacy practices of Akismet, please visit the Akismet privacy web page: https://automattic.com/privacy/?utm_source=akismet&utm_medium=automattic_referred&utm_campaign=privacy_page.

 

WooCommerce

WooCommerce is an ecommerce platform for WordPress sites.

For more information on the privacy practices of WooCommerce, please visit: https://automattic.com/privacy/.

 

PayPal

See section above “Information we collect and how we use it” for more information about PayPal.

 

The Company reserves the right to use or disclose information provided if required by law or if Company reasonably believes that use or disclosure is necessary to protect Company’s rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process. In these circumstances, and as allowed, Company will contact you in advance of the disclosure.

 

Company does not share, sell, rent, or trade your Personal Data.

 

Links to other sites

 

Our website may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. The Company has no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.

 

Security safeguards

 

Security controls

We are committed to ensuring your Personal Data stays personal. We have put in place technical, physical, and organizational security measures to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure of your data. Our website and Services are designed with security in mind, and all of our staff are aware of and trained on privacy and security principles and best practices.

 

Data retention

It is our policy to retain your data for a period of time which is consistent with the original purpose(s) of collection. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

 

We will retain data regarding how our Services are accessed and used for internal analysis purposes. Such data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen or to improve the functionality of our Services, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

 

Protecting children online

Our website does not address anyone under the age of 13 (“Children”). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

 

Requests with respect to your personal data

You may request to review, correct, delete, or otherwise modify any of the Personal Data that you have previously provided to us. There are a few self-service options available to you:

 

For other requests to access, correct, modify, or delete your data, please review the “Contact Information” section below. We appreciate our customers and would like to continue to communicate with you about news and issues we believe would be of interest to you.

 

Policy maintenance

We may update this Privacy Policy occasionally as we add new products and services, as we improve our existing products and services, and as technologies and laws change. Any changes will become effective upon our posting of the Privacy Policy.

 

We will provide notification of the material change to this Privacy Policy through our website or email at least 30 business days prior to the change taking effect and, where required by law, we will obtain your consent.

 

Contact information

Questions regarding this Privacy Policy or our information practices should be directed to Amy Gilliand at [email protected].

 

 

Cookie Policy

We use cookies and web beacons to make interactions with our website easy, meaningful, and personalized. Cookies are small text files sent by us to your computer or mobile device, which enables features and functionality. They are unique to your account or your browser. Session-based cookies last only while your browser is open and are automatically deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies last until you or your browser delete them or until they expire. You can control the use of cookies within the options functionality of your browser, but if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our website.

 

Company uses the following categories of cookies:

 

Strictly necessary: Used on our website

 

These cookies enable you to navigate our website and use its features. If you have chosen to identify yourself to us by signing up for a Service, we may place cookies containing a unique identifier on your browser. These cookies allow us to identify you when you are logged into our website or Services and to process your online transactions and requests.

 

Performance cookies: Used on our website

 

These cookies allow our website to remember the information you have entered or the choices you have made and provide you with a more personal experience. These cookies also enable you to optimize your use of our website after you have logged in. Performance cookies improve how our website functions and performs. They enhance and customize your interactions with us, and help us provide you with more relevant messages.

 

Company may use third parties to track and analyze the usage and volume of statistical information from website visitors, event attendees, and customers to provide enhanced interactions and more relevant communications, and to track the performance of Company’s advertisements. Company’s third-party partners may also utilize HTML5 local storage. HTML local storage is different from browser cookies because of the amount of, type of, and how data is stored.

 

Advertising cookies: Used on our website

 

We sometimes use cookies delivered by third parties to show you ads for Company that we think may interest you on any devices you may use and to track the performance of our advertisements. For example, in these cases, cookies remember information such as which browsers have visited our website. The information provided to third parties does not include personal data, but this information may be reassociated with personal data after we receive it.

 

Company also contracts with third-party advertising networks that collect IP addresses and other information from web beacons on Company’s website, from emails, and on third-party websites. These technologies may recognize you across the different devices you use, such as a desktop or laptop computer, smartphone, or tablet. You may see these advertisements on other websites or mobile applications on any of your devices. This process helps us manage and track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts.

 

Web beacons: Used on our website and within electronic marketing material

 

Web beacons are used to improve your experience on our website and within our marketing services, including to help us provide you with content customized to your interests. A web beacon is a clear electronic image that can recognize certain types of information on your computer, such as cookies, when you viewed a particular website, or interacted with a service tied to the web beacon. For example, they also help us to understand whether users read email messages and click on the links contained within those messages so that we can deliver relevant content and offers.

 

Do not track

Currently, various browsers — including Edge, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari — offer a “do not track,” or DNT, option that relies on a technology known as a DNT header, which sends a signal to websites visited by the user about the user's browser DNT preference setting. Our website does not collect personal data about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services. Therefore, DNT signals transmitted from web browsers do not apply and we do not alter any of our data collection and use practices upon receipt of such a signal.

 

Opt out of cookies

Some people prefer not to allow cookies, which is why most browsers give you the ability to manage cookies to suit you. In some browsers, you can set up rules to manage cookies on a site-by-site basis, giving you more fine-grained control over your privacy. What this means is that you can disallow cookies from all sites except those that you trust. Some of our services will not function properly when cookies are disabled.