Terms & Conditions
UPDATED March 4, 2025
This website is owned and operated by Community Doula Alliance (“Community Doula Alliance” or “CDA”), 1820 SW Vermont St A, Portland, OR 97219, United States. It is provided for general informational, educational, and awareness purposes and other various services, subject to the Terms and Conditions (“Terms”) set forth in this document.
As used in these Terms and Conditions, the term “Website” or “Site” refers to the website located at www.communitydoulaalliance.com as well as online services that may include, but are not limited to, CDA’s email newsletters, blog, events, archives, job board, social media, online content, and online discussion forums. Community Doula Alliance does not control, and is not responsible for, any third-party site or content to which the website links.
By accessing, browsing and/or using this Site, you agree to comply with and are bound by these Terms and Conditions and the provisions of the Privacy Policy. CDA reserves the right to change or modify the Terms and Conditions or Privacy Policy without notice at any time by posting the amendments on the Site. Your continued use of this website constitutes your agreement to be bound by the revised Terms. If you do not agree with the Terms or the Privacy Policy in their entirety, please do not use this website.
Site Functionality, Maintenance and Use
The materials contained on the website are provided by Community Doula Alliance as a service to you for your use on an “as is, as available” basis. You acknowledge that you are using the website at your own risk. Community Doula Alliance assumes no responsibility for error or omissions in these materials. Community Doula Alliance makes no commitment to update the information contained herein.
Community Doula Alliance periodically schedules system downtime for maintenance and other purposes. Unplanned outages also may occur. Community Doula Alliance shall have no liability for the resulting unavailability of the website or for any loss of data or transactions caused by planned or unplanned system outages, or any outages of webhost providers or the Internet infrastructure and network external to the website.
Limitation of Warranty
Community Doula Alliance does not warrant or make any representations regarding the use or the results of the use of the materials at the website in terms of their correctness, accuracy, timeliness, reliability, or otherwise. Under no circumstances shall Community Doula Alliance or any of its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, advisors or their respective partners, officers, directors, employees, or agents be held liable for any damages, whether direct, incidental, indirect, special, or consequential, and including, without limitation, lost revenues or lost profits, arising from or in connection with your use, reliance on, or performance of the information on the website.
Community Doula Alliance is not responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any information given, or of any statement made, by the companies, organizations, experts or users whose profiles are on this website, or for the content, services, products, or advertising on or available from their websites, or for the availability and operations of their websites. Any companies or organizations that Community Doula Alliance selects as featured services providers offer products and services that site visitors may find useful. Community Doula Alliance in certain cases may have a business relationship with certain third parties that it selects as featured service providers. Community Doula Alliance is not responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any advice or information given, or of any statement made, by the companies, organizations or individuals providing featured services, or for the content, services, products, or advertising on or available from their websites, or for the availability and operations of their websites.
No Endorsement
The listing of any subscriber, consultant, expert or other resource on this site does not imply that Community Doula Alliance endorses that vendor in any way. You agree to conduct your own diligence in connection with evaluating any resource, consultant, vendor or expert.
Links from Other Sites
From time to time, other websites may provide hypertext links to the Site. No such links shall imply any relationship or connection between the Community Doula Alliance and the operator of the website containing the link to CDA’s website. CDA has no liability to you arising out of your use of any website that provides links to the Site.
As a convenience to you, this website may periodically provide links to third party websites where we feel it is appropriate. Lists of links are not complete lists of relevant and/or useful internet resources. Our decision to link to a third-party website is not an endorsement of the content in that linked third-party website. We are not responsible for the content of any third-party web site, nor do we make any warranties or representations, express or implied, regarding the content (or the accuracy, currentness, or completeness of such content) on any third-party web sites, and CDA shall have no liability of any nature whatsoever in relation to any of the foregoing. You should take precautions when downloading files from any and all websites to protect your computer from viruses and other destructive programs. If you decide to access linked Third-Party Sites, you do so at your own risk. You should direct any concerns to the Third-Party Sites’ administrator or webmaster.
Trademarks
The trademarks, logos and service marks (“Marks”) displayed on the website are the property of Community Doula Alliance or other third parties. You are not permitted to use these Marks without the prior written consent of Community Doula Alliance or such third party which may own the Mark.
Copyright
All materials published on the website are protected by copyright laws, and may not be reproduced, republished, distributed, transmitted, resold, displayed, broadcast, scraped, or otherwise exploited in any manner without the express written permission of either the Community Doula Alliance or, in the case of third-party content, the entity that is credited as the owner of such content. CDA authorizes you to view and use the content on this Site solely for your personal, noncommercial use, without altering or removing any trademark, copyright, or other notice from such material. The use of the content on any other site, including by linking or framing, or in any networked computer environment for any purpose is prohibited without CDA’s prior written approval.
For permission to use content from this website or from a newsletter or any written material owned or authored and distributed by CDA, request written permission and provide full attribution. Permission should be requested by contacting CDA via email at [email protected]
Limitation of Liability
Under no circumstances will any of the Community Doula Alliance, or its officers, directors, employees or agents, be liable for any loss or damage caused by your reliance on information obtained through the content on the website. It is your responsibility to evaluate the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information or any content available through the website.
In no event shall any of the Community Doula Alliance, or its officers, directors, employees or agents, be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages arising out of or relating to the content, service, or this agreement, whether based on warranty, contract, tort, or any other legal theory.
Because some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for negligence, consequential or incidental damages, in such jurisdictions CDA’s liability is limited to the greatest extent permitted by law.
Your sole and exclusive remedy for dissatisfaction with this site is to stop using this site.
User Generated Content & Podcast Guest Interviews
Community Doula Alliance may provide users an opportunity to post content to the website. The Community Doula Alliance does not necessarily endorse, support, sanction, encourage, or agree with content posted by users.
You shall not post or transmit any unlawful threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, or indecent information of any kind, including without limitation any transmissions constituting or encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate and local, state, national, or international law, or infringe upon another’s copyright or trademark, and that any such posting or transmission may result in a suspension or cancellation of your privileges at the sole discretion of Community Doula Alliance.
You understand that all information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, video, messages, or other materials posted on this site, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, is the sole responsibility of the person from whom such content originated. This means that you, and not Community Doula Alliance, are entirely and solely responsible for all content that you access, upload, download, post, or otherwise transmit via the website. Community Doula Alliance cannot review 100% of the content posted by users and is not responsible for such content. However, Community Doula Alliance shall have the right, but not the obligation, to delete, move, or edit any content that violates this agreement or is otherwise objectionable as determined by CDA at its sole discretion and without notice.
If you upload, post, or otherwise transmit content to the website, you acknowledge that any such submissions may be edited, removed, modified, published, transmitted, and displayed by Community Doula Alliance in any medium now existing or hereinafter invented, and for any purpose, including commercial uses.
You agree to indemnify the Community Doula Alliance and its parents, subsidiaries, and affiliates, and each of their respective partners, officers, directors, employees, and agents, against, and to hold each of them harmless from, any and all claims and liabilities (including attorney’s fees) that may arise from your submissions, from your unauthorized use of material obtained from the website, from your breach of these Terms and Conditions, and from any such acts arising through your use of the website.
Jurisdiction
You agree that any claim, action, or proceeding arising out of these Terms and Conditions, or your use of the website, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Oregon applicable to contracts to be wholly performed therein, and any action based on or alleging a breach of this Agreement must be brought in a state or federal court in Oregon. In addition, you agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts.
Modifications
We may amend this policy from time to time; please review it periodically. We maintain the option to modify this policy at any time by electronic notice posted on our website. Your continued use of our website after the date that such notices are posted will be deemed to be your agreement to the changed terms.
For More Information
If you have any questions, concerns or comments about privacy at our website, please send us a description of your concern via email to [email protected]
ADA Accessibility Compliance
Notice of Accessibility – Community Doula Alliance is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually improving the user experience of this website. We understand that individuals with varying disabilities may seek information on our website, and it is our goal to provide such individuals access to the content and functionality available through our website. We will continue to implement reasonable changes to improve accessibility to the content and functionality of our website, according to relevant accessibility standards.
HIPAA Compliance, Information and Consent
Notice for HIPAA – Community Doula Alliance is committed to ensuring HIPAA Compliance and Consent as it relates to all of your personal information. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) provides safeguards to protect your privacy. Implementation of HIPAA requirements officially began on April 14, 2003. Many of the policies have been our practice for years. Specifically, there are rules and restrictions on who may see or be notified of your Protected Health Information (PHI).
These restrictions do not include the normal interchange of information necessary to provide you with office services. HIPAA provides certain rights and protections to you as the patient. We balance these needs with our goal of providing you with quality professional service and care. Additional information is available from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
We have adopted the following policies:
1. Patient information will be kept confidential except as is necessary to provide services or to ensure that all administrative matters related to your care are handled appropriately. This specifically includes the sharing of information with other healthcare providers, laboratories, health insurance payers as is necessary and appropriate for your care. Patient files may be stored in open file racks and will not contain any coding which identifies a patient’s condition or information which is not already a matter of public record. The normal course of providing care means that such records may be left, at least temporarily, in administrative areas such as the front office,
examination room, etc. Those records will not be available to persons other than office staff . You agree to the normal procedures utilized within the office for the handling of charts, patient records, PHI and other documents or information.
2. It is the policy of this office to remind patients of their appointments. We may do this by telephone, e-mail, U.S mail, or by any means convenient for the practice and/or as requested by you. We may send you other communications informing you of changes to office policy and new technology that you might find valuable or informative.
3. The practice utilizes a number of vendors in the conduct of business. These vendors may have access to PHI but must agree to abide by the confidentiality rules of HIPAA.
4. You understand and agree to inspections of the office and review of documents which may include PHI by government agencies or insurance payers in normal performance of their duties.
5. You agree to bring any concerns or complaints regarding privacy to the attention of the office manger or the doctor.
6. Your confidential information will not be used for the purposes of marketing or advertising of products, goods or services.
7. We agree to provide patients with access to their records in accordance with state and federal laws.
8. We may change, add, delete or modify any of these provisions to better serve the needs of the both the practice and the patient.
9. You have the right to request restrictions in the use of your protected health information and to request change in certain policies used within the office concerning your PHI. However, we are not obligated to alter internal policies to conform to your request. We will continue to implement reasonable changes and protections, according to relevant HIPAA privacy standards.
Please reference our HIPAA Information and Consent Form along with the extended more complete policy text as posted in the office.