Privacy policy
Last Updated 4th March 2022
This privacy policy for The Wholistic Midwife (“Company”, “We”, “Us”, or “Our”) describes how and why we may collect, store, use and/or share (“process”) your information when you use our services (“services”), such as when you:
Visit our website, or any website of ours that links to this privacy policy
Engage with us in other related ways - including any sales, marketing or events,
Questions or concerns? Reading this privacy policy will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our services. If you have any questions or concerns please contact thewholisticmidwife@outlook.com.
Summary of key points
This summary provides key points from our privacy policy, but you can find out more details about any of these topics below.
What personal information do we process? When you visit, use or navigate our services, we may process personal information depending on how you interact with The Wholistic Midwife and the services, the choices you make and the products and features you use.
Do we process any sensitive personal information? We may process sensitive personal information when necessary with your consent or as permitted by applicable law.
Do you receive information from third parties? We do not receive information from third parties.
How do you process my information? We process your information to provide, improve and administer our services, communicate with you for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes, with your consent. We process your information only when we have a valid legal reason to do so.
In what situations and with which parties do we share your personal information? We may share information in specific situations and with specific third parties.
How do we keep your information safe? We have organisational and technical processes and procedures in place to protect your personal information. However, no electronic transmission over the internet of information storage technology can be 100% secure, so we cannot promise to guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorised third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly access, steal, or modify your information.
What are your rights? Depending on where you are located geographically, the applicable privacy law many mean you have certain rights regarding your personal information.
How do I exercise my rights? The easiest way to exercise your rights is by emailing thewholisticmidwife@outlook.com. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data laws.
Table of contents
1.What information do we collect?
We contact information that you voluntarily provide to us when you express an interest in our products and services.
Personal information provided by you. The personal information that we collect depends on the interactions with us and our services. The personal information that we may collect includes:
Names, telephone numbers, email addresses, home address, contact preferences, contact or authorisation data, billing addresses, debit/credit card numbers.
Sensitive data may be collected and stored to include health data and/or information revealing religious and/or philosophical beliefs.
All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify of us of any changes to such personal information.
Information automatically collected
We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use or navigate the services. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like you name of contact details) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating systems, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our services, and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
2. How do we process your information?
We process your information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our services include to deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the user. To respond to user enquiries/offer support to users. To send administration information to you. To save or protect an individual’s vital interests.
3. What legal basis do we rely upon to protect your information?
If you are located in the EU/UK this section applies to you;
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal basis we rely on in order to process your personal information. As such, we may rely on the following legal basis to process your personal information:
Consent We may process your personal information if you have given us permission to use your information for specific purposes. You can withdraw your consent at any time.
Performance of a contract We may process your personal information when we believe it necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations to you, including providing our services or at your request to entering into a contract with you.
Legal obligations We may process your personal information where we believe it is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, such as to cooperate with a law enforcement body or regulatory agency, exercise or defend our legal rights, or disclose your information as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
4. When and with whom do we share your personal information?
We may need to share your information for business transfers in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
5. How long do we keep your information?
We will only keep your personal information for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention policy is required or permitted by law. No purpose in this policy will require us keeping you information for longer than 2 years.
6. How do we keep your information safe?
We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organisational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed 100% secure. We will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our services is at your own risk. You should only access the services within a secure environment.
7. Do we collect information from minors?
We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 16 years of age. By using the services, you represent that you are at least 16 years of age or that you are the parent/guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependant’s use of the services. If we learn that personal information from users less than 16 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from anyone under 18 years of age please contact us at thewholisticmidwife@outlook.com
8. Transferring information outside of the EU?
The information you provide to us through this website may be transferred to countries outside of the European Union ("EU") as part of our services. We may experience this if one of our servers is sometimes located in a country outside of the EU. These countries may not have data protection laws similar to those in the UK. If you submit your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing, or processing. In the event that your information is transferred outside the EU in this manner, we will take necessary precautions to ensure that the privacy rights that are described in this Policy are protected. In order to provide you with our services while you are outside the EU, your information may be transferred outside the EU.
9. Do we make updates to this notice?
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. This will be indicated with a “revised date” and the updated version will be applicable as soon as it is accessible.