PAhomebirth.com (referred to as "Pennslyvania Homebirth," "we," "us," or "our") recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of certain information ("Information") collected about our customers and prospective customers (referred to as "Customers," "you" or "your"). This privacy statement discloses what information we gather, how we use it, and how to correct or change it. At PA Homebirth, it is our intention to give you an understanding about how we collect your Information and the use we make of it in the course of our business.

To that end, PA Homebirth gathers two types of information about Customers: data that Customers provide through optional, voluntary registration on our sites; and data www.pahomebirth.com gathers through aggregated tracking, mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites.

How does PA Homebirth collect Information?

Optional, voluntary registration

You may provide personal information when communicating with us either via telephone or electronically.

You may give your name, e-mail address, delivery address, telephone number, credit or debit card number, and expiration date when ordering a product or service so that we can process your order and deliver your products/services to you.

You may give your name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address when completing a survey or entering a competition or promotion.

You may give to us details of credit or debit cards or bank accounts in order to make payments to us. Any such information ("confidential financial information") will be dealt with as described below.


Aggregate tracking

Usage tracking:

Use of Internet Protocol ("IP") Addresses

An IP address is a unique number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you're surfing the Internet so that your computer can be identified by the main computers, known as "Web servers," that "serve up" Web pages.

PA Homebirth and/or its affiliates collect IP addresses for the purposes of system administration and to audit the use of our site. When Customers request pages PA Homebirth's and/or its affiliates' sites, our servers log the Customers' IP addresses. We do not normally link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means that a Customer's session will be logged, but the Customer will remain anonymous to us. We can and will use IP addresses to identify a Customer when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our site terms of use or terms of service or to protect our service, site, customers or others.

Use of Cookies

What are cookies? Cookies are small pieces of information that a Web site sends to your computer for record-keeping purposes, which information is stored in a file on your computer. Cookies make Web surfing easier for you by saving your preferences so that we can use the saved information to facilitate your use of our Web site when you return to the site. Cookies do not tell us your individual identity unless you have chosen to provide it to us. We never save passwords or credit card information in cookies. The use of cookies is an industry standard, and as such, you'll find that most major Web sites use them.

Most cookies expire after a defined period of time, or you can delete your cookie file at any time. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, note that some parts of PA Homebirth and/or its affiliates' services will not function if you refuse cookies. For example, without cookies, you will not be able to set personalized preferences, and/or may have difficulty completing marketing transactions or return to previously viewed pages without re-entering data.

With whom does PA Homebirth share my Information?

As a general rule, PA Homebirth will not disclose any specific personal information that you submit to us about you ("Personal Information") in a manner that connects you with the Personal Information, except when we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or under the circumstances described below. The following describes how your Personal Information may be disclosed.

PA Homebirth also discloses account Information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this Information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating NPA Homebirth 's terms of use or terms of service, or may be causing injury to or interference (either intentionally or unintentionally) with any of PA Homebirth's rights or property, PA Homebirth's Customers, or anyone else PA Homebirth may disclose or access account Information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it and for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain, service, and improve our products and services.

We may provide aggregate statistics about our sales, customers, traffic patterns and other site information to third parties, but these statistics will not include any information that could personally identify you. For example, we may disclose that a certain percentage of our users are female and of a certain age, but we will not disclose personal information with an unrelated third party without your consent.

www.pahomebirth.com reserves the right to access and disclose individually identifiable information to comply with applicable laws and lawful government requests, to operate its systems properly or to protect itself or its users.

www.pahomebirth.com has strict security procedures covering the storage and disclosure of your information in order to prevent unauthorised access and to comply with the Data Protection Act 1998. This means that sometimes we may ask you for proof of identity before disclosing any personal information to you.

What happens when you link to a third party site?

You should be aware that when you are on PA Homebirth's and/or its affiliates' sites you could hyperlink or be directed to other sites that are beyond our control and/or outside our service. For example, if you "click" on a banner advertisement or a www.pahomebirth.com search result, the "click" may transfer you off the PA Homebirth site. These other sites may include sites of advertisers, sponsors and partners that may use PA Homebirth's and/or its affiliates' logo as part of a co-branding agreement. These other sites may send their own cookies to Customers, collect data, or solicit Information.

PA Homebirth and its affiliates do not control such sites, and, therefore, are not responsible for their contents or the hyperlinks or advertising they choose to place on such sites PA Homebirth's and/or its affiliates' inclusion of hyperlinks to these sites do not imply any endorsement of the material on such sites or any association with their operators. PA Homebirth's policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in the operation of the Internet, which is PA Homebirth's and its affiliates' control.

Please keep in mind that whenever you give out information online (for example, via message boards or chat) that information can be collected and used by people you don't know. PA Homebirth and its affiliates strive to protect their Customers' information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose online, and you disclose such information at your own risk.

Is my Information secure from others using the PA Homebirth site?

The security of all information associated with our Customers is an important concern to us. We exercise care in providing secure transmission of your information from your computer to our servers. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your information, PA Homebirth and its affiliates cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, PA Homebirth uses industry standard efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of your information, such as firewalls and Secure Socket Layers. However, "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet.

YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS

By using this site, you signify your agreement to PA Homebirth's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use Agreement. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS POLICY, DO NOT USE THIS SITE. Your continued use of PA Homebirth's and/or its affiliates' sites following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.