Website Privacy Statement for Doulas.com

(Effective 05/21/20)

Doulas.com is committed to protecting the privacy and accuracy of confidential information to the extent possible, subject to provisions of state and federal law. Other than as required by laws that guarantee public access to certain types of information, or in response to subpoenas or other legal instruments that authorize access, personally-identifiable information is not actively shared. In particular, we do not re-distribute or sell personal information collected on our web servers.

Information Collected

Doulas.com web servers collect the following information: Internet Protocol (IP) address of computer being used; web pages requested; referring web page; browser used; date and time; and statistics identifying particular IP addresses from which our websites are accessed. Doulas.com does not associate this data to individual user identities.

In addition to the IP address/browser information collected from anonymous visitors to the site, other information is collected and stored when users log in to view restricted content or submit forms.

The Doulas.com website is not intended to handle confidential information. If you need to discuss a confidential matter, contact any of our staff directly.

Use of Cookies for Analytics

Our Doulas.com website uses a third-party analytics provider (Google Analytics) to help us understand how visitors use our site. We use this information to improve our content and your experience visiting our site. Google Analytics relies on cookies to produce this information. Google Analytics does not receive personally identifiable information through these cookies and is prohibited from combining, matching or cross-referencing information from our site with any other information. We have also opted not to have Google Analytics storability to see your full IP address (a feature known as “IP masking”). Please review Google Analytics’ privacy policy(link is external) for additional information. It is also possible to opt-out of Google Analytics(link is external) for those who wish to do so.

Use of Collected Information

Doulas.com will use personal information collected from this site for the purpose of communication back to individuals who contact us via the site and additionally:

Doulas.com uses browser-IP-address information and anonymous-browser history to report information about site accesses and to determine the popularity and effectiveness of content campaigns and placement. This information is used to improve Web presentation and utilization. IP address information may also be used for troubleshooting purposes.

Distribution of Collected Information

We will not disclose, without your consent, personal information collected about you, except for certain explicit circumstances in which disclosure is required by law.

We will not distribute or sell personal information to third-party organizations.

Access to your own information: Questions regarding users’ rights to review, modify or delete their previously provided personal information should be directed to readyforbirth@aol.com. Any disputes will be resolved under existing records regulations applicable to UC Berkeley.

Additional Information

While using the Doulas.com website, you may encounter hypertext links to the Web pages of other websites or organizations not directly affiliated with Doulas.com. Doulas.com does not control the content or information practices of external organizations.  We recommend you review the privacy statements of these organizations.