Important info.
Disclaimer
Hi there, mama! I want to share some important stuff with you. While I've had two amazing births myself, I'm not a doctor or healthcare provider. The insights and stories shared on this website and the Happy Birth Secrets Instagram account are intended for general informational purposes only and should not be considered a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
Please remember, I’m a mum sharing experiences and information I’ve found helpful. The content, including inspiring birth stories from other women and tips from birth experts, reflects personal opinions and experiences. These are not necessarily representative of my views or endorsements of any products, birth tools, or techniques mentioned. I do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information provided.
I strongly encourage you to consult with your healthcare provider regarding any health questions or decisions you make for yourself and your baby. If you have any health-related concerns, please contact a qualified healthcare professional or visit the nearest emergency facility immediately.
While I strive to ensure the information provided is accurate and current, it is presented "as is" without any warranties of any kind, either express or implied. Happy Birth Secrets and I expressly disclaim any liability for any loss or damage incurred as a result of the use of this site or its content. Your reliance on any information provided is solely at your own risk.
By using this website, you agree that you are responsible for assessing the relevance and accuracy of any content, and you accept these terms of use.
Privacy policy
Your privacy is important to us. By using this site and the Happy Birth Secrets Instagram page, you agree to the Internet Privacy Policy of this website, which is set out on this website page. The Internet Privacy Policy relates to the collection and use of personal information you may supply to us through your conduct on the website.
We reserve the right, at our discretion, to modify or remove portions of this Internet Privacy Policy at any time. This Internet Privacy Policy is in addition to any other terms and conditions applicable to the website. We do not make any representations about third-party websites that may be linked to the website.
We recognise the importance of protecting the privacy of information collected about visitors to our website, in particular information that is capable of identifying an individual (“personal information”). This Internet Privacy Policy governs the manner in which your personal information, obtained through the website, will be dealt with. This Internet Privacy Policy should be reviewed periodically so that you are updated on any changes. We welcome your comments and feedback.
Personal Information
Personal information about visitors to our site is collected only when knowingly and voluntarily submitted. For example, when you submit your birth story or when we may need to collect such information to provide you with further services or to answer or forward any requests or inquiries. It is our intention that this policy will protect your personal information from being dealt with in any way that is inconsistent with applicable privacy laws in Australia.
Use of information
Personal information that visitors submit to our site is used only for the purpose for which it is submitted. The secondary purposes are related to the primary purpose unless we disclose other uses in this Internet Privacy Policy or at the time of collection. Copies of correspondence sent from the website, that may contain personal information, are stored as archives for record-keeping and backup purposes only.
Disclosure
Personal information may be disclosed in special situations where we have reason to believe that doing so is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against anyone damaging, injuring, or interfering (intentionally or unintentionally) with our rights or property, users, or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities. Also, we may disclose personal information when we believe in good faith that the law requires disclosure.
We may engage third parties to provide you with goods or services on our behalf. In that circumstance, we may disclose your personal information to those third parties in order to meet your request for goods or services.
Security
We strive to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of personal information submitted to our sites, and we review and update our security measures in light of current technologies. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure. However, we will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information you may transmit to us or from our online products and services. Once we do receive your transmission, we will also make our best efforts to ensure its security on our systems.
In addition, our employees and the contractors who provide services related to our information systems are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by us. However, we will not be held responsible for events arising from unauthorised access to your personal information.
Cookies
Cookies are data that a website transfers to an individual’s hard drive for record-keeping purposes. The cookies are industry standard and are used by most websites. This includes those operated by us, which can facilitate a user’s ongoing access to and use of a site. They allow us to customise the website to your needs. If you do not want information collected through the use of Cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allow you to deny or accept the Cookie feature. But you should note that Cookies may be necessary to provide you with some features of our online services.
Access to Information
We will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to keep secure any information which we hold about you. We will keep this information accurate and up to date. If at any time, you discover that information held about you is incorrect, you may contact us.
In addition, our employees and the contractors who provide services related to our information systems are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by us.
Links to other sites
We provide links to websites outside of our websites, as well as to third-party websites. These linked sites are not under our control. We cannot accept responsibility for the conduct of companies linked to our website. Before disclosing your personal information on any other website, we advise you to examine the terms and conditions.
Problems or questions
If we become aware of any ongoing concerns or problems with our website/ LinkedIn page we will take these issues seriously. Happy Birth Secrets will work to address these concerns. If you have any further queries relating to our Privacy Policy, please contact us.
More privacy information
For more information about privacy issues in Australia and protecting your privacy, visit the Australian Federal Privacy Commissioner’s website www.privacy.gov.au.
If you have any questions/comments about privacy on Happy Birth Secrets website, you should contact us.
Terms and conditions
Please read these terms and conditions of use carefully before using this website/ Happy Birth Secrets Instagram page
If you continue to browse and use this website/ the Happy Birth Secrets Instagram page, you’re agreeing to comply with, and be bound by, the following terms and conditions of use, which together with our privacy policy and disclaimer, govern Happy Birth Secrets’/Birth Secrets’ relationship with you in relation to your use of this website/ Instagram page.
You also signify your acceptance of these Terms and Conditions of use. For the purposes of these terms and conditions, “Us”, “Our” and “We” refers to the Happy Birth Secrets website (www.happybirthsecrets.com.au) and Happy Birth Secrets Instagram page, and Birth Secrets, the Australian business that runs these, and “You” and “Your” refers to you, the visitor, website, Instagram page user or person using our website/Instagram page.
This website/Happy Birth Secrets Instagram page is not for use by any minors (defined as those who are not at least 18 years of age), and you must not use this website if you a minor.
No medical or personal advice
The information and any services we provide on and through this website/Instagram Page is for general information and educational purposes only and is not a substitute for any professional or medical attention, treatment, examination, advice or diagnosis. You are responsible for consulting a medical professional before using any of the information or materials contained on or accessed through our website/ Instagram page, before commencing any new regimes, making alterations to your diet, trying any treatment or taking any course of action that may directly or indirectly affect your health or wellbeing.
You take full responsibility and risk for making any decision based on information on our website or in using our services. You hereby agree to irrevocably release and waive any claims you may have now or in the future against us and we take no responsibility or liability whatsoever for any loss, damage or injury that may arise from any person acting on any statement or information contained on this website/ Instagram page and all such liabilities are expressly disclaimed.
‘Services’ includes any online materials and all goods and services that may be accessed through our website from time to time.
Amendment of terms
We reserve the right to change, modify, add or remove portions of these terms at any time. Please check these terms regularly prior to using our website to ensure you are aware of any changes. We will endeavour to highlight any significant or substantive changes to you where possible. If you choose to use our website then we will regard that use as conclusive evidence of your agreement and acceptance that these terms govern your and Happy Birth Secrets rights and obligations to each other.
Limitation of liability
It is an essential pre-condition to you using our website/Instagram page that you agree and accept that Happy Birth Secrets (Australian business name: Birth Secrets) is not legally responsible for any loss or damage you might suffer related to your use of the website/ Instagram page, whether from errors or from omissions in our documents or information, any goods or services we may offer or from any other use of the website. This includes your use or reliance on any third party content, links, comments or advertisements. Your use of, or reliance on, any information or materials on this website is entirely at your own risk, for which we shall not be liable.
It shall be your own responsibility to ensure that any products, services or information available through this website/Instagram page meet your specific, personal requirements. You acknowledge that such information and materials may contain inaccuracies or errors and we expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Link to other websites
Happy Birth Secrets may from time to time provide on its website, links to other websites, advertisements and information on those websites for your convenience. This does not necessarily imply sponsorship, endorsement, or approval or arrangement between Happy Birth Secrets and the owners of those websites. We take no responsibility for any of the content found on the linked websites.
The Happy Birth Secrets website/Instagram page may contain information or advertisements provided by third parties for which The Birth Space accepts no responsibility whatsoever for any information or advice provided to you directly by third parties. We are making a ‘recommendation’ only and are not providing any advice nor do we take any responsibility for any advice received in this regard. Sometimes we may provide links to products or services we genuinely think are great and we may sometimes gain a small commission from this - we will provide information about this to make it clear next to the information about the product or service to make it clear if we are receiving a commisson from the recommendation.
Affiliate links
This website may include “affiliate links,” wherein we receive a small commission if you make a purchase using the link. However, all opinions are our own and we only endorse or link to products and services that we genuinely recommend.
Exclusion of competitiors
If you are in the business of creating similar documents/information/ books or services for the purpose of providing them for a fee to users, whether they be business users or domestic users, then you are a competitor of Happy Birth Secrets and this expressly excludes and does not permit you to use or access our website, to download any documents or information from its website or obtain any such documents or information through a third party. If you breach this term then Happy Birth Secrets will hold you fully responsible for any loss that we may sustain and further hold you accountable for all profits that you might make from such unpermitted and improper use.
Copyright, trademark and restrictions of use
This website/ Happy Birth Secrets Instagram page contains material that is owned by or licensed to us. This material includes, but is not limited to, the design, layout, look, appearance, trademarks and graphics. You are not permitted to reproduce the documents, information or materials on the website for the purposes of sale or the use by any third party. In particular you are not permitted to republish, upload, transmit electronically or otherwise or distribute any of the materials, documents or products that may be available for download from time to time on this website.
Happy Birth Secrets (Australian business name: Birth Secrets) expressly reserves all copyright and trademark in all documents, information and materials on our website/Instagram page and we reserve the right to take action against you if you breach any of these terms.
Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than the following: you may print or download to a local hard disk extracts for your personal and non-commercial use only; and you may copy the content to individual third parties for their personal use, but only if you acknowledge the website/Instagram page as the source of the material.
You may not, except with our express written permission, distribute or commercially exploit the content. Nor may you transmit it or store it in any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system.
Your content
In these Terms And Conditions, “Your content” shall mean any audio, video, text, images or other material you choose to display on this website or the Happy Birth Secrets Instagram page. With respect to your content, by displaying it, you grant Birth Secrets a non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute it in any and all media.
Your content must be your own and must not be infringing on any third party’s rights. Birth Secrets reserves the right to remove any of your content from this website/Happy Birth Secrets Instagram page at any time, and for any reason, without notice.
Whole agreement
These terms and conditions represent the whole agreement between you and Birth Secrets concerning your use and access to Happy Birth Secrets website/ Instagram page and your use and access to the documents and information on it. No other term is to be included in this agreement except where it is required to be included by any legislation of the Commonwealth or any State or Territory. All implied terms except those implied by statute and which cannot be expressly excluded are hereby expressly excluded.
Exclusion of unenforcable terms
Where any clause or term above would by any applicable statute be illegal, void, or unenforceable in any State or Territory then such a clause shall not apply in that State or Territory and shall be deemed never to have been included in these terms and conditions in that State or Territory. Such a clause if legal and enforceable in any other State or Territory shall continue to be fully enforceable and part of this agreement in those other States and Territories. The deemed exclusion of any term pursuant to this paragraph shall not affect or modify the full enforceability and construction of the other clauses of these terms and conditions.
This agreement and this website/Instagram page are subject to the laws of New South Wales (NSW) and Australia. If there is a dispute between you and Birth Secrets that results in litigation, then you must submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of NSW.