Legal
Website disclaimer and privacy notice
Last Updated: 5 October 2026
This Website Disclaimer and Privacy Notice applies to the website and online services operated by Virevelle, LLC (“Birth Navigation,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).
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Website disclaimer
1. No Medical Services
Birth Navigation provides birth navigation, educational information, planning support, and related non-clinical guidance. Birth Navigation does not provide medical care, medical diagnosis, medical treatment, midwifery services, nursing services, mental-health treatment, emergency medical services, or any other licensed healthcare service.
Birth Navigation does not prescribe medication, order or interpret medical tests, monitor fetal or maternal health, assess medical risk, manage labor or delivery, provide clinical instructions, or make medical decisions for clients.
2. Education and Planning Purposes Only
All sessions written materials, website content, communications, checklists, planning tools, and other information provided by Birth Navigation are for general education, informational support, and personal planning purposes only.
Birth Navigation may help you identify topics to consider, questions to ask, preferences to discuss, and planning options to review with your healthcare providers. Birth Navigation’s services and materials are not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, or care.
3. Consult Your Own Healthcare Provider
You should consult your own physician, obstetrician, midwife, pediatrician, mental-health professional, or other licensed healthcare provider before making any medical, pregnancy-related, birth-related, postpartum, infant-care, medication, treatment, nutrition, exercise, or health-related decision.
You remain solely responsible for seeking medical advice from your own licensed healthcare providers and for making decisions about your care in consultation with them.
4. Not Emergency Advice
Birth Navigation does not provide emergency medical advice or emergency response services. If you believe you, your baby, or another person may be experiencing a medical emergency, call emergency services immediately, go to the nearest emergency department, or contact your licensed healthcare provider without delay.
Do not use this website, any sessions, email, text message, scheduling tool, or other Birth Navigation communication to seek emergency medical assistance.
5. No Provider-Patient Relationship
Your use of this website, your submission of information through this website, or your participation in a Birth Navigation session does not create a physician-patient, clinician-patient, therapist-client, or other licensed healthcare provider relationship with Birth Navigation.
Birth Navigation does not assume clinical responsibility for your care, your pregnancy, your birth plan, your medical decisions, or any health outcome.
6. No Guarantees
Birth Navigation does not guarantee any pregnancy, birth, postpartum, infant-care, medical, hospital, insurance, provider, financial, or personal outcome. Individual experiences and outcomes vary and depend on circumstances outside Birth Navigation’s control.
7. Geographic Limitation - California Residents Only
Birth Navigation provides services, sessions, consultation, educational information, and planning support exclusively to individuals who are physically located within the State of California at the time services are received. Birth Navigation does not offer or provide services to individuals located outside the State of California.
By using this website, scheduling a session, or participating in any Birth Navigation service, you represent and warrant that you are physically located within the State of California. If you are located outside of California, you may not access or receive Birth Navigation services. Birth Navigation reserves the right to decline, cancel, or terminate services immediately if it determines or suspects that a client or user is located outside of California.
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Privacy notice
8. Privacy Notice
Birth Navigation respects your privacy. This Privacy Notice explains how we may collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect personal information through our website, intake process, sessions, and related communications.
A. California Privacy Law Status
Birth Navigation is not currently a “covered business” under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, based on its current operations. Accordingly, the statutory consumer rights created by those laws, including formal rights to know, delete, correct, opt out, or limit certain uses of sensitive personal information, do not currently apply to Birth Navigation.
Even though Birth Navigation is not currently covered by those laws, we provide this notice to explain our privacy practices and to describe practical choices available to individuals who interact with us.
B. Personal Information We May Collect
Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect the following categories of personal information:
Contact information, such as your name, email address, telephone number, mailing address, and preferred communication method.
Scheduling and session information, such as session details, service preferences, planning goals, questions, and information you choose to provide in intake forms or sessions.
Payment and transaction information, such as billing details, payment status, purchase history, and records of services requested or provided.
Communications, such as emails, text messages, form submissions, session notes, and other messages you send to us.
Website and device information, such as browser type, device information, pages viewed, referring pages, general usage data, and similar technical information collected through ordinary website tools.
Other information you choose to provide, including pregnancy-related, birth-related, postpartum, family, or planning information that you voluntarily submit.
Please do not submit emergency requests or urgent medical information through the website or ordinary business communication channels.
C. How We Use Personal Information
Birth Navigation may use personal information for the following purposes:
To respond to inquiries and communicate with you.
To schedule, administer, and provide educational and planning sessions.
To prepare for sessions and maintain client records.
To process payments and manage billing.
To operate, maintain, secure, and improve our website and services.
To send administrative, service-related, or informational communications.
To send marketing communications where permitted and consistent with your communication preferences.
To comply with legal, tax, accounting, insurance, dispute-resolution, and business recordkeeping obligations.
To protect Birth Navigation, its clients, website users, and others from misuse, fraud, unauthorized access, or unlawful activity.
D. Disclosure of Personal Information
Birth Navigation may disclose personal information as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this notice, including to:
Service providers that help us operate our business, such as scheduling providers, payment processors, email or communications providers, website hosting providers, technology vendors, bookkeeping providers, and administrative support providers.
Professional advisors, such as accountants, legal advisors, insurance providers, and other advisors assisting Birth Navigation.
Government authorities, courts, insurers, or other third parties when reasonably necessary to comply with law, respond to legal process, protect rights, prevent misuse, or address safety or security concerns.
Other persons or entities at your direction or with your consent.
Birth Navigation does not authorize service providers to use personal information for their own independent purposes except as permitted by their service relationship with Birth Navigation or as otherwise allowed by law.
E. No Sale or Sharing of Personal Information
Birth Navigation does not sell personal information and does not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
For purposes of this notice, “sell” means disclosing personal information to a third party for money or other valuable consideration. “Share” means disclosing personal information to a third party for targeted advertising based on your activity across different businesses, websites, applications, or services.
Birth Navigation does not knowingly sell or share the personal information of individuals under 16 years of age.
F. Practical Privacy Choices
Although Birth Navigation is not currently subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, you may contact us to make a privacy-related request. Depending on the nature of the request and our legal, business, and recordkeeping obligations, we may be able to help you:
Request access to certain personal information you have provided to us.
Request correction of inaccurate contact or account information.
Request deletion of certain personal information, subject to information we need to retain for legitimate business, legal, tax, accounting, insurance, security, or dispute-resolution purposes.
Opt out of non-essential marketing communications.
Ask questions about how we collect, use, disclose, or retain personal information.
To make a privacy request, contact us at:
Email: shakkaura@virevelle.com
Telephone: 510-519-1747
Mailing Address: Virevelle LLC, 28 Geary St, Suite 650, PMB 372, San Francisco, CA 94108
We may need to verify your identity before responding to certain requests. We may decline or limit a request where we cannot verify your identity, where the request conflicts with legal or business obligations, where the request would affect another person’s privacy, or where we are otherwise permitted to retain or use the information.
G. Communications and Marketing Choices
If you receive marketing emails from Birth Navigation, you may opt out by following the instructions in the message or by contacting us at shakkaura@virevelle.com. Even if you opt out of marketing communications, we may still send you non-marketing communications, such as scheduling messages, service-related notices, billing communications, or responses to your inquiries.
If you communicate with Birth Navigation by text message, standard message and data rates may apply. You may ask us to stop sending non-essential text communications by contacting us at shakkaura@virevelle.com or by following any opt-out instructions included in the message.
H. Cookies and Website Technologies
Our website may use cookies, analytics tools, or similar technologies to operate the website, understand website usage, improve services, maintain security, and support basic communications or marketing activities.
Birth Navigation does not use cookies, pixels, analytics tools, or similar technologies to sell personal information or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
Your browser or device may allow you to manage cookies or similar technologies. If you disable certain technologies, some website features may not function properly.
I. Retention
Birth Navigation retains personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this notice, including to provide services, maintain business records, comply with legal, tax, accounting, insurance, and recordkeeping obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and protect our rights.
When personal information is no longer reasonably needed, Birth Navigation may delete, de-identify, archive, or securely retain it in accordance with its ordinary business practices and applicable law.
J. Security
Birth Navigation uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards appropriate to the nature of its business and the information it collects. No website, email system, text message, online form, or electronic communication method is completely secure, and Birth Navigation cannot guarantee absolute security of information transmitted online.
K. HIPAA Notice
Birth Navigation is not a medical provider and does not provide medical services. Birth Navigation is not acting as your physician, hospital, health plan, or other healthcare provider. Information you provide to Birth Navigation may not be protected health information under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 unless Birth Navigation is legally required to treat it that way in a specific relationship.
Even where HIPAA does not apply, Birth Navigation will use reasonable measures appropriate to its business to protect personal information submitted through its website, intake process, sessions, and related communications.
L. Children’s Privacy
Birth Navigation’s website and services are intended for adults. Birth Navigation does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through this website. If you believe a child has provided personal information to Birth Navigation, please contact us at shakkaura@virevelle.com.
M. Updates to This Notice
Birth Navigation may update this Website Disclaimer and Privacy Notice from time to time. The updated version will be identified by the “Last Updated” date above and will apply as of the date posted, unless otherwise stated.