Shawn Gallagher owns and operates www.childbirthjoy.com.
I am committed to protecting and respecting the privacy and confidentiality of personal information belonging to all clients and customers.
This privacy policy will be regularly updated to meet any changes that are necessary, or required by law.
ChildbirthJoy.com does not rent, sell or trade your name, mail address, email address or phone numbers.
Your email and/or phone number is used only to respond to your questions, for placing your orders, or in response to requests you have made.
PLEASE NOTE: if you prefer to not use the online INTAKE FORM, contact me and I will forward a Word document that you can complete and email back. Or, we can find another way. :)
Participants of the ChildbirthJoy Prenatal Hypnosis Series will be provided a Follow-Up Form online that may be completed after the birth. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary and helps with aggregate data collection and personal information is kept strictly confidential.
When you visit or order from ChildbirthJoy.com, you will have the option of adding your name to our mailing list.
This list is only for ChildbirthJoy.com mailings and periodic announcements about new offerings.
At any point if you wish to have your name removed from the mailing list, please contact us with your request.
When you book a private appointment or workshop, you will receive an email confirmation.
Questions or requests may also be responded to by email.
As a Board Certified Hypnotist providing a service to the general public, I am not a part of a regulated or licensed profession.
Fees
Services are not covered as a medical expense by the Federal government and most (probably all) insurance plans do not reimburse hypnosis receipts.
Receipts are provided that detail the H.S.T. number for this business and any other relevant information.
Confidentiality
For your safety and protection, I adhere to strict ethical standards of confidentiality. Hypnosis sessions are confidential and identifying information is not shared outside of the appointments. Files are kept in a locked cabinet.
In the rare circumstance that records are requested by law, hypnotists are required to comply.
Clients Requesting Pain Relief
Clients requesting hypnosis for pain relief are asked to provide a letter from a medical doctor to me stating that hypnosis is an acceptable approach in their case.
For the ChildbirthJoy Prenatal Hypnosis series, I request permission to mail a letter to your careprovider.
As hypnosis is designed to mask pain, and as pain is considered a highly relevant to the appropriate diagnosis of active labour, your careproviders should be aware that hypnosis is being used.
To omit this information could result in care that is not the best for you and your baby.
It has been my experience that all the Registered Midwives and Physicians have found the standard form letter helpful. Please contact me if you have any questions or comments in this regard.
Conditions Requiring Medical Treatment
For their own safety, I do not accept anyone with Multiple Personality Disorder, schizophrenia or other conditions under the care of a psychiatrist. I am not trained in handling serious mental health issues. In general, hypnosis encourages dissociation and anyone who has challenges remaining oriented to everyday reality is in better care with a mental health professional.
The research for epilepsy and hypnosis is unclear- in practice, people are fine with hypnosis as long as it does not include flashing lights, which I do not use.
I reserve the right to refer any clients to professional medical care.
I always recommend that clients work with their identified health professional when using hypnosis, NLP or EFT or other modalities provided.
I never provide advice on medication use - this is between you and your primary HealthCare Provider.
My belief is that we are each responsible for our health and my job is to assist clients in tapping into their own best health and well-being.
For Your Safety
Participants confirm that the information provided is correct and that no key health condition has been omitted. Hypnosis is not a replacement or substitute for medical treatment and participants agree not to discontinue medical treatment without prior discussion and/or approval of the healthcare provider (midwife or physician).
Participants are informed that hypnosis may greatly assist the birthing process, but does not guarantee a pain-free birth or the prevention of medical intervention.
Privacy
In the spirit of confidentiality, class participants are asked to refrain from discussing any details presented by other participants to anyone outside of the series. The instructor is bound by confidentiality and does not client information in any way without client consent.
Cancellation Policy
In the event of cancellation prior to two weeks of the first class, $198.50 plus $25.80 HST of the course fee covers the materials provided and administrative costs and is non-refundable. Your materials are yours to keep.
If cancellation happens within the two weeks before the start of the series, the full fee is non-refundable. Every attempt will be made to ensure space availability in another series, but as noted below, once a booking is made, I ensure that your space is held for you. It is extremely rare for people to book prenatal classes last minute, so a cancellation means that the class size is reduced.
If changing dates, an administrative fee ($100) is applicable.
Cancellation prior to the course start as a result of medical reasons will be taken into consideration. A letter from the midwife or physician will assist this process.
Hypnosis for Pain Management
As noted above, in regards to the use of hypnosis for pain management: as per the National Guild of Hypnotist’s ethical guidelines, hypnotists helping clients with pain management are required to inform the medical careprovider.
Because the intent of hypnosis is to mask the sensation of pain, participants understand that your primary careprovider (Midwife, Physician, other) should be informed about the use of hypnosis as it may be relevant to your clinical care. Healthcare Providers incorporate the level of pain experienced by person in order to make an appropriate diagnosis. For your safety and protection, it is in your best interest to ensure that your healthcare team is aware of your use of hypnosis.
thank you,
Shawn Gallagher
September 2022
All appointments are available online.
I am a practitioner at ALIVE Holistic Health at 416 591 1535. I see ALIVE clients online.
My home office space in south-west Toronto is available for select appointments only - please contact me for further information. Please note that I am not "up-to-date" with Covid shots.
At ChildbirthJoy.com, we recognize that your privacy is important, and value confidentiality and disclosure as paramount. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use ChildbirthJoy.com website as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.
ChildbirthJoy.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our customers', consumers' and online visitors' privacy on our website.
Personal Information
ChildbirthJoy.com collects personally identifiable information from the visitors to our website only on a voluntary basis. Personal information collected on a voluntary basis may include name, postal address, email address, company name and telephone number.
This information is collected if you request information from us, participate in a contest or sweepstakes, and sign up to join our email list or request some other service or information from us. The information collected is internally reviewed, used to improve the content of our website, notify our visitors of updates, and respond to visitor inquiries.
Once information is reviewed, it is discarded or stored in our files. If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. Personal information received from any visitor will be used only for internal purposes and will not be sold or provided to third parties.
Use of Cookies and Web Beacons
We may use cookies to help you personalize your online experience. Cookies are identifiers that are transferred to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize the sites pages, or register with any of our site's services, a cookie enables ChildbirthJoy.com to recall your specific information on subsequent visits.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying your Web browser; however, if you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.
A web beacon is a transparent image file used to monitor your journey around a single website or collection of sites. They are also referred to as web bugs and are commonly used by sites that hire third-party services to monitor traffic. They may be used in association with cookies to understand how visitors interact with the pages and content on the pages of a web site.
We may serve third-party advertisements that use cookies and web beacons in the course of ads being served on our web site to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. No personally identifiable information you give us is provided to them for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information on our web site.
Some third-party advertisements may be provided by Google, which uses cookies to serve ads on this site. Google uses the DART cookie, which enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visits to this site and other sites on the Web. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
Browsers can be set to accept or reject cookies or notify you when a cookie is being sent. Privacy software can be used to override web beacons. Taking either of these actions shouldn't cause a problem with our site, should you so choose.
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
This website is directed to adults; it is not directed to children under the age of 13. We operate our site in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, and will not knowingly collect or use personal information from anyone under 13 years of age.
Non-Personal Information
In some cases, we may collect information about you that is not personally identifiable. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. The information collected is used solely for internal review and not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes.
Release of Information
If ChildbirthJoy.com is sold, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale in order that the service being provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make of us.
How You Can Correct or Remove Information
We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personal information. If you have submitted personal information through our website and would like that information deleted from our records or would like to update or correct that information, please use our Contact Us page.
Updates and Effective Date
ChildbirthJoy.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that our privacy practices have changed and provide a link to the new privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.
Agreeing to Terms
If you do not agree to the ChildbirthJoy.com Privacy Policy as posted here on this website, please do not use this site or any services offered by this site.
Your use of this site indicates acceptance of this privacy policy.