Legal notice

Legal Notice & Educational Disclaimer

1. About The Elephant Shop

The Elephant Shop is an online store offering digital educational resources designed to help individuals and families learn about pregnancy, labor and birth, postpartum recovery, infant feeding, newborn care, and related parenting topics.

Our resources are informed by perinatal education and practical experience. They are intended to support learning, preparation, informed conversations, and personal decision-making.

Business name: Elephant Song Doula Services
Business location: Pennsylvania, United States
Website: https://shopelephantsong.shopify.com
Customer support: ElephantSongDoulas@gmail.com

2. Educational Disclaimer

All educational materials sold through The Elephant Shop, including courses, handbooks, workbooks, study guides, videos, and digital bundles, are provided for general informational and educational purposes only.

Our products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or medical condition. They do not replace individualized medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, or care from a qualified healthcare professional.

Purchasing or accessing our materials does not establish a healthcare provider-patient relationship, a doula-client relationship, or any other professional relationship with The Elephant Shop or its creators.

3. Pregnancy, Birth, Postpartum, and Infant Feeding

Pregnancy, labor, birth, postpartum recovery, breastfeeding, chestfeeding, bodyfeeding, and newborn care can involve individual circumstances and medical considerations.

Our resources may help you prepare questions, understand general concepts, explore available options, and participate in conversations with your healthcare team. They are not a substitute for care tailored to your personal medical history, health conditions, circumstances, or your baby's needs.

Information about birth preferences, interventions, feeding methods, milk supply, infant behavior, recovery, and newborn care is general in nature. Individual experiences and outcomes vary.

Always consult an appropriately qualified healthcare professional about medical concerns, symptoms, treatment decisions, feeding difficulties, or questions about your own health or your baby's health.

For urgent or emergency symptoms, seek immediate medical attention. Do not delay or disregard professional medical advice because of information found in our products.

4. No Guarantee of Outcomes

The Elephant Shop makes no guarantee that using our educational resources will produce a particular pregnancy, birth, postpartum, feeding, or parenting outcome.

Our materials are designed to inform and support preparation. They cannot control individual circumstances, clinical decisions, unexpected events, or the outcomes of medical care.

Any examples, scenarios, or personal experiences included in our materials are provided for educational purposes and should not be interpreted as promises of a particular result.

5. Accuracy and Updates

We make reasonable efforts to provide useful, clear, and relevant educational information. However, recommendations, research, clinical practices, and available resources may change over time.

We do not guarantee that every item of information will remain current, complete, or applicable to every individual circumstance. We may revise or update our products when appropriate.

Customers should verify time-sensitive or medically significant information with qualified professionals and reliable, current sources.

6. Intellectual Property and Permitted Use

Unless otherwise stated, the digital products, written content, graphics, worksheets, videos, branding, and other materials sold through The Elephant Shop are owned by The Elephant Shop, its operator, or the applicable content creator and are protected by applicable intellectual property laws.

Purchasing a digital product grants the purchaser a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the materials for personal, noncommercial educational purposes.

Unless expressly authorized in writing, purchasers may not:

Reproduce, redistribute, resell, sublicense, or publicly share purchased files.
Upload purchased materials to public websites, file-sharing platforms, or commercial resource libraries.
Copy or adapt the materials for commercial use.
Present the materials as their own original work.
Remove copyright notices or other ownership information.
Use the materials to create or sell competing products.

A purchase does not transfer ownership or copyright in the materials. Separate written permission is required for uses outside the permitted license.

7. Third-Party Resources and Links

Our products or website may reference third-party websites, organizations, tools, products, or educational resources.

These references are provided for convenience or informational purposes. The Elephant Shop does not control third-party websites and is not responsible for their content, availability, privacy practices, or services.

A link or reference does not necessarily constitute an endorsement. Customers should review the applicable third party's policies and information before using its services.

8. Limitation of Responsibility

To the extent permitted by applicable law, The Elephant Shop is not responsible for decisions made solely on the basis of general educational materials without appropriate consideration of individual circumstances or professional advice.

Nothing in this notice excludes or limits any responsibility or consumer right that cannot legally be excluded or limited under applicable law.

9. Privacy and Payment Information

Purchases made through our online store are processed using the applicable Shopify checkout and payment services. Personal information is handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy and the policies of relevant service providers.

Please review our Privacy Policy for information about how personal information is collected, used, disclosed, and protected.

10. Applicable Law

This notice is intended to be interpreted consistently with applicable laws of the United States and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, where relevant. Mandatory consumer protection laws that apply to a customer's purchase remain in effect.