This privacy policy describes how the National Midwifery Institute ("we", "our", "us" or the "school") collects, processes, and protects personal information about you through our website and all other school websites that link to this policy.

AUTHORITY AND RESPONSIBILITY

The Director of Operations & Administration is responsible for the overall management and development of the Privacy Policy.

DEFINITIONS

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POLICY

National Midwifery Institute (NMI) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Policy.

This Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.nationalmidwiferyinstitute.com (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This Policy applies to information we collect:

On this Website.
In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
Through mobile and desktop applications you download from this Website, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website.
When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this Policy.

It does not apply to information collected by:

NMI offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by the University or any third party; or
Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from the school’s Website.

Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Policy may change from time to time (see Continuing Evaluation and Adjustment). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates.

NMI students and employees should also refer to Acceptable Use Policy, which outlines NMI’s internal policy for the use and protection of NMI computer resources.

NMI is committed to respecting your privacy. As an unregistered user, you can visit most of nationalmidwiferyinstitute.com without revealing any personal information. However, in order to personalize your view of our site and gain access to certain information systems, you must register and provide some personal information. We do not collect any personal information about you unless you provide that information voluntarily. Any personal information you choose to provide us will only be used by NMI to conduct official NMI business. NMI does not sell, rent, loan, trade or lease personal information collected on this site.

For purposes of this policy, “personal information” means any information concerning a natural person which, because of name, number, symbol, mark or other identifier, can be used to identify that natural person.

Information we Collect About You and How We Collect It

Some of NMI’s site(s) and service(s) collect personally identifiable information to further personalize your experience within a site. Some site(s) and service(s) require that you provide personally identifiable information in order to participate in the activities and offerings within.

National Midwifery Institute collects several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, social security number or other personal information; and/or
About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.

We collect this information:

Directly from you when you provide it to us;
Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies.

For each visitor to our Web pages, our Web server automatically recognizes your domain, service provider, operating system, and internet browser. Our Web server additionally records usage of pages by our visitors. We use this information, in aggregate, for our research reports and performance surveys. We sometimes use this non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our site and to enable us to personalize your Internet experience.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website.
Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
Your search queries on the Website.

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, "posted") on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, "User Contributions"). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). Our website offers the ability to opt out of behavioral tracking on this website and how we respond to web browser signals and other mechanisms that enable consumers to exercise choice about behavioral tracking.

The information we collect automatically does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
Speed up your searches.
Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website. To enhance and personalize your experience, some of our web pages use “cookies.” Cookies are text files that your Web browser places on your computer’s hard drive to store your preferences. When using cookies, we do not store personally identifiable information within the cookie.
Strictly Necessary Cookies. These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
Web Beacons. Pages of our the Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.

Third-Party Use of Cookies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

How We Use Your Information

We may use the information you provide about yourself, including any personal information:

To present our Website and its contents to you.
To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide through it. Most of our communications provide an “opt out” feature.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose with your consent.

Disclosure of Your Information

National Midwifery Institute may disclose information about our users and information that does not identify any individual without restriction:

To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger or acquisition with another educational institution, in which personal information held by NMI about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.

National Midwifery Institute may also disclose your personal information: :

To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply the terms of any of our user agreements. and
To protect the rights, property, or safety of the National Midwifery Institute, our users, or others.

Your California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your California privacy rights, visit here.

California's "Shine the Light" law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our App that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to nmioffice@nationalmidwiferyinstitute.com.

Your FERPA Rights

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (“FERPA” or the “Act”) affords eligible students certain rights with respect to their education records. An eligible student under FERPA is a student who is 18 years of age or older or who attends a postsecondary institution at any age. Persons who unsuccessfully applied for admission to the University or who are offered admission but never attended the University are not covered by the Act. To learn more about FERPA rights, visit here.

Your General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Rights.

The National Midwifery Institute is the controller of your personal data. Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), consumers located in the European Economic Area (European Union, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland), have the rights listed below:

Right to Access Personal Information in a Portable Format. You can request to review the Personal Information that we retain about you and receive a copy of it in a commonly used electronic format.
Right to Correct Your Personal Information. You can ask the University to make corrections to any information that we maintain about you when you believe it to be incorrect.
Right to Restrict Our Processing Your Personal Information. You can request that we restrict the processing of your Personal Information, including sending you communications that may be considered direct-marketing materials.
Right to Deletion of Your Personal Information. You can request that we delete your Personal Information upon request or have your PI automatically deleted when we are no longer required to maintain it.
Right to Object to Automated Decision-Making and Profiling. You can request not to be subject to decisions that are based solely on the automated processing of your Personal Information.
Right to Withdraw Consent. You may withdraw your consent to allow us to process your Personal Information.
Right to Complain to a Supervisory Authority. If you feel that your rights have not been recognized by the Academy or are unsatisfied with our response, you have the right to complain to or seek advice from a supervisory authority. Click here for a list of Supervisory Authorities.

You may exercise your GDPR rights by submitting a verifiable consumer request by emailing us at nmioffice@nationalmidwiferyinstitute.com.

PROCEDURE

How We Protect Your Information

NMI has put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online. We secure information transmission, storage, and retrieval.

On our secure server(s), we use industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer ("SSL") technology to guarantee the confidentiality of online transactions made on our site. SSL authentication and encryption of the information that you send to us over the Internet helps protect your online transaction information from third party interception.

We never display your sensitive information such as your full Social Security Number or credit card number once it has been entered. We will only reveal the last four digits of your credit card for verification purposes.

We urge you to protect your own privacy. We recommend that you do not share any account information or passwords used to access our site(s) or service(s). We would never request your password from you.

Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this privacy policy.

Unfortunately, despite all of our efforts, there is always a risk that third parties may unlawfully intercept transmissions. This reality is true of all Internet use. As a result, we cannot ensure the security of any information you transmit, and you transmit all information at your own risk.

Your Consent

By using our Web site, you consent to the collection and use of your information by NMI.

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, or the content or practices of our website,

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy via our Notification of Policy Changes. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, NMI will update its webpage. The date the privacy policy was last revised is in the Continuing Evaluation and Adjustment portion of this document. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, you can contact the Director of Operations & Administration at:

nmioffice@nationalmidwiferyinstitute.com
1-800-231-1540

To register a complaint or concern, please file a complaint online here.

IMPLEMENTATION

The policy is to be implemented via induction and training of staff and distribution to students and NMI’s community via the website and other publications.

CONTINUING EVALUATION AND ADJUSTMENT

This Privacy Policy will be subject to periodic review and adjustment. Continued administration of the development, implementation, and maintenance of the plan will be the responsibility of the Director of Operations & Administration who will assign specific responsibility for implementation and administration as appropriate.

The Director of Operations & Administration, in consultation with the Executive Director(s), will review the standards set forth in this policy and recommend updates and revisions as necessary.

Date	Updates since last Change
May 30, 2024	Policy updated format and inclusion of CA Privacy Rights and GDPR rights.
April 17, 2023	Policy Created

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