Privacy Notice

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for Gateway Surrogacy Agency. This notice applies solely to information collected by this website and describes how such information may be used and disclosed and how you can access and control your information. Specifically, when applying to our database, we want you to know:

1. What limited information we collect from you through the website, which is only the initial online application to view the database.
2. The security procedures we keep in place to protect your information.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

Your registration application is the property of Gateway Surrogacy Agency, but the information in the application belongs to you. We access and collect only the information that you voluntarily provide to us.

We may use your information for the limited purposes of responding to you regarding the reason you contacted us (including informing you of services you may be interested in), reviewing and improving the quality of the services we provide, meeting our professional and legal obligations to operate our services, defending ourselves if you bring a legal proceeding against us, and to avert a serious and imminent threat to health or safety. We may also use your information to provide you with offers, information, and promotional materials regarding our services and products.

We may use and disclose your information as required by a law, but we will limit such use and disclosure to the relevant requirements of the law. For example, we may be obligated to report abuse, neglect, or domestic violence, or comply with orders from law enforcement officials or judicial or administrative proceedings.

In the event of an unauthorized disclosure of your personally identifiable information, we will notify you to the extent so required by law.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

If Gateway Surrogacy Agency is sold or merged with another organization, your information will become the property of the new owner but will remain subject to your right to access and control (described below).

What we will not do with your information

We do not collect information about you from other sources except the extent necessary to confirm your identity and the accuracy of any representation you may have provided to us.  We do this to ensure this to help ensure the integrity of the services we offer.

We will not sell or rent your information to anyone.

We will not share your information with any third party, other than as necessary to fulfill your request (e.g., to connect you with services), and then only under terms requiring that such parties protect the confidentiality and security of your information. This, however, does not extend to publicly available information or information we may obtain about you from other sources (unless we know that those sources are subject to obligations to maintain the confidentiality of the information we receive.

Your Access to and Control of Your Information

Except as described in this Notice, we will not use or disclose your information without your authorization. Further, your authorization may be revoked in writing at any time.

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. By contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website, you may:

• See what data we have about you if any
• Change or correct any data we have about you
• Have us delete any data we have about you
• Express any concern you have about our use of your data

Security

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit your information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

We encrypt sensitive information transmitted online. We protect your information offline by limiting access to only those employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service). Further, computers and servers that store information are kept in a secure environment.

Changes to this Notice

We reserve the right to amend this notice at any time. A revised notice will apply to the information we maintain, regardless of when it was created or received. We will keep a copy of the current notice posted on our website.

If you have questions or feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, please contact us immediately via telephone at (866) 365-0621 or via email at:  

info@gatewaysurrogacy.org