T&C's and Privacy Policy

T&C’s

Courses must be booked and paid for at the point of booking unless otherwise agreed.

CANCELLATION:

Empowered Birth reserves the right to amend or cancel any course, course times, dates or published prices. Changes to course prices, times, and dates will be advised before the course start date and any course already paid in full will not be subject to the increased prices. Should Empowered Birth need to cancel part of a course, a refund will only be given for the part of the course not yet delivered minus the cost of the course materials.

In case of cancellation by a client for a course, £150 is non-refundable. Further to that, the following cancellation charges will apply:

Days before course start date Cancellation Charge

30 days or more No further cancellation charge

14-29 days 50% of the course fee

13 days or less 100% of course fee

However, in the unlikely event the course date you have chosen is canceled by us, you will be offered an alternative date, if you cannot attend this date I will refund your full course fee.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:

Any recordings or written material included as part of this course are the sole property of Empowered Birth (and where applicable, The Little Birth Company) and may not be used other than for the personal use of the course attendees.

DATA PROTECTION:

The participants also agree Empowered Birth shall hold your personal details on file and on computer securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018. See below privacy policy for more information about how we use your information.

DISCLAIMER:

Using Hypnobirthing techniques is not a substitute for the advice or presence during birth or any part of your pregnancy or labour of a qualified medical practitioner, midwife or obstetrician. It does not represent in fact or otherwise an alternative to appropriate medical care of professional medical advice in any way shape or form. Empowered Birth accepts no responsibility for the inappropriate use of Hypnobirthing techniques or complications or harm to any third party resulting from the use of Hypnobirthing techniques as a substitute for medical advice. Hypnobirthing is intended solely as an ‘aid’ to ‘support’ labour and birth and is not in any way a guarantee or promise of expected, imagined or actual outcome of the labour or birth in any way, shape or form. Participation in Hypnobirthing classes in any part or in total by an person or third party is undertaken with the understanding by any persons or third party that no litigation or legal action whatsoever will be initiated or that no form of compensation or reimbursement or refund will be claims or applied for at any time now or in the future against Empowered Birth or its representatives under any circumstances whatsoever.

AGREEMENT:

Any booking of a Hypnobirthing class assumes full and informed compliance to and agreement with all of these terms and conditions of sale.

PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy sets out how Empowered Birth uses and protects any information that you give Empowered Birth when you use this website. Empowered Birth is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. Empowered Birth may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

This policy is effective from March 2023.

We may collect the following information:

name and job title
contact information including email address
demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers

WHAT WE DO WITH THE INFORMATION WE GATHER

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

INTERNAL RECORD KEEPING

We may use the information to improve our products and services. We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided. From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.

SECURITY

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

HOW WE USE COOKIES

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

CONTROLLING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways: whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes. if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at hayley@empoweredbirthuk.com. We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen. You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 2018. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to hayley@empoweredbirthuk.com. If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.