Terms of Use

Please read this agreement carefully before accessing or using this site. By accessing or using the site, you agree to be bound by this agreement.  These terms of use apply to the contents and your use of the entire Whangarei Home Birth Support Group website at www.whangareihomebirth.org.nz. The Whangarei Home Birth Support Group may revise this policy at any time by updating this page so regular visitors should check from time to time to review our current policy. 

Site Content & Liability

All information provided on this website is believed to be correct at the time of the last update to the relevant page and is believed to be based upon current evidence based research.  However the Whangarei Home Birth Support Group assumes no responsibility for any consequence relating directly or indirectly to any action or inaction you take based on the information, services or other material on this site.  While the Whangarei Home Birth Support Group strives to keep the information on this site accurate, complete, and up-to-date we cannot guarantee and will not be responsible for any decision, damage or loss related to, the accuracy, completeness or timeliness of the information. This website is not intended to give medical advice. It is your responsibility to check all information that you choose to use and make your own decision with regard to your options.


Links to other Sites

Links may be provided by the Whangarei Home Birth Support Group to possible sites of interest to pregnant women and their whanau.  Opinions expressed in these links are not necessarily those of the Whangarei Home Birth Support Group and inclusion does not indicate endorsement or recommendation. Instead these links are intended for informational purposes only and may assist in providing option pathways when researching your birthing and parenting choices.  Home Birth Aotearoa does not hold any responsibility whatsoever or accept any liability for the information contained on them. 

The criteria for a link on the Whangarei Home Birth Support Group website is as follows:

1. must promote homebirth

2. must be willing to provide a reciprocal link

3. should provide information/education rather than businesses promoting their services / products (unless they relate directly to homebirth)

4. should be New Zealand based unless they contain information that is relevant to home birthers in New Zealand

5. should be free and regularly updated

Use of the Content of this Website

The design and content of this website (unless stated as from another source) is copyright ©2009 the Whangarei Home Birth Support Group. All rights are reserved.  You are welcome to print unaltered extracts from this website for your own personal non-commercial use provided that the Whangarei Home Birth Support Group (or any individual author named on the site) is recognised as the source.  Otherwise, permission to reprint or electronically reproduce any document or graphic in whole or in part for any reason is expressly prohibited, unless prior written consent is obtained from the Whangarei Home Birth Support Group. 

The Whangarei Home Birth Support Group has made reasonable efforts to check for all known viruses on this website, but shall have no liability for any viruses transmitted to you as a result of your use of this website. 

Privacy Policy

the Whangarei Home Birth Support Group is committed to preserving the privacy of all visitors to our website.  When you use this website, we may collect information about you from messages you post to the website or emails you send to us. This information will only be used to provide you with any information that you have requested.  The only parties to whom we may disclose your information are as follows:

• Our members who process the information for the purposes for which you have made it available to us.

• Third parties in respect of whom you give us permission to disclose to.

• Our advisers, providers and auditors who may have incidental or necessary access to your information in the process of providing services to us, however they will treat your information as confidential.

Unless required to do so by law, we will not otherwise share, sell or distribute any of the information you provide to us without your consent.  

Anti-spam policy

The Whangarei Home Birth Support Group prohibits the use of the www.whangareihomebirth.org.nz site in any manner associated with the transmission, distribution or delivery of any unsolicited bulk or unsolicited commercial e-mail ("Spam"). You may not use any Whangarei Home Birth Support Group site to send or deliver Spam. The Whangarei Home Birth Support Group does not authorise the harvesting, mining or collection of e-mail addresses or other information from or through the www.whangareihomebirth.org.nz site.