Privacy Policy

1.       Introduction

Protecting your privacy

Your privacy and maintaining the confidentiality of your personal information is important.  We view it as an extension of our commitment to building a safe place for the visitors of Women & Motherhood that honours and respects them in full.

This Privacy Policy sets out how we care for your personal information.

2.       Collection of your personal information

2.1       What kinds of personal information do we collect?

The extent and type of personal information that we collect and hold about you will vary depending on whether you are only visiting the website, using our contact form or signing up for the newsletter.

The personal information that we hold about you may include:

• your name and email address.

By voluntarily providing us with information about you, you are consenting to our use of it in accordance with this Privacy Policy, but only in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

2.2       Do we collect sensitive information?

No, we don’t.

2.3       How do we collect personal information?

We may collect personal information from you in a range of ways, including:

• when you contact us via email or online;
• when you sign up for our newsletter.

2.4       If you do not provide us with your personal information

If you do not provide us with the personal information we have asked you for, we may be unable to support you with what you are requesting.

3.       Use and disclosure of your personal information

3.1       How do we use your personal information?

We will use your personal information only in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

If you give us your personal information for a certain reason, we may use the personal information in connection with the reason for which it was provided.  For instance, if you contact us by email, we will use the personal information you provide to answer your question or respond to your request.

We may use this information to contact you in the future to tell you about services that we believe will be of interest to you. If at any time you do not wish to receive any future communications or to have your name deleted from our mailing lists, you can contact us at any time to let us know.

Our contact details are at the end of this policy.

3.2       How do we store personal information and for how long?

We will take all reasonable care to ensure that your personal information is protected, remains confidential and is stored securely. 

 4.       Your privacy online

4.1       Online data collection and use

When you access our website, we collect certain anonymous technical information about user activities on the website.  This information which is collected using various technologies cannot be used specifically to identify you.  The information collected may include information such as the type of browser that you use to access our website and the pages that you have visited.

We may store such information ourselves or such information might be included in databases owned and maintained by our service providers.  We may use this this information and pool it with other information to track, for example, the total number of users of our online services, the number of visitors to each page of our website, the domain names of visitors’ Internet service providers, and how our users use and interact with our website and online services.

4.2       Cookies and analytics

In operating our website and online services, we may use a technology called “cookies.”  A cookie is a piece of information that the computer that hosts our services gives to your browser when you access our services.  Cookies in themselves do not identify the individual user, just the computer used.

Using cookies helps provide additional functionality to our website and helps us analyze usage of our services more accurately. For instance, setting a cookie on your browser allows you to access our services without needing to enter a password more than once during a visit to our site.  It will also allow us to determine which pages are of most interest for people visiting our site.  In all cases in which we use cookies, we will not collect personal information except with your permission.

On most web browsers, you will find a “help” section on the toolbar.  Please refer to this section for information on how to receive notification when you are receiving a new cookie and how to turn cookies off.  If you decide not to display cookies, then you may not be able to gain access to all the content and facilities of this website.  Accordingly, we recommend you leave cookies displayed.

5.       Contacting us

5.1       Your feedback

If you have any questions, feedback or concerns about this policy or how your information is handled by us, or you require further information relating to privacy and our website, you can contact us at any time.