Privacy Policy

Last updated November 7, 2026

Berkshire Acupuncture & Wellness (“we”, “us”) is the practice of Michelle Manto, DACM, at 291 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230. This policy explains what information this website collects, why, and what choices you have. It covers berkshireacupuncture.com only.

Information you give us

When you use our contact form, we collect your first and last name, email address, subject and message. We use this only to reply to you and to help with scheduling. The form is protected by Google reCAPTCHA, which checks that submissions come from a real person.

Please don’t send detailed health or medical information through the website form or by email. We’re happy to talk through your health history by phone or in person at your appointment. Patient and treatment records are kept separately from this website and are not covered by this policy.

Information collected automatically

With your consent, we use Google Analytics (through Google Site Kit) to understand how visitors find and use the site, such as which pages are viewed and roughly where visits come from. This helps us improve the site. We don’t use it to identify you personally, and we don’t use advertising or remarketing cookies.

Like most websites, our hosting provider also keeps standard server logs (such as IP address, browser type and the pages requested) for security and to keep the site running.

Cookies

When you first visit, a banner lets you accept or decline non-essential cookies, and you can change your choice at any time. Our Cookie Policy lists the cookies we use and what each one does.

Who we share information with

We don’t sell or rent your personal information. We only share it with the service providers that run this website, and only as needed for them to do so:

  • WP Engine, which hosts the website
  • Google, for Analytics and reCAPTCHA
  • our email provider, which delivers contact form messages to us

We may also disclose information if the law requires it.

How long we keep it

We keep contact form messages only as long as we need them to respond to you and for our ordinary records. You can ask us to delete them at any time.

Your choices

You can ask to see, correct or delete the personal information you’ve sent us through this website by contacting us using the details below. You can decline or withdraw consent to analytics cookies through the cookie banner or the Cookie Policy page.

Links to other sites

This site links to other websites, such as our Facebook and LinkedIn pages. Their own privacy policies apply when you visit them.

Children

This website isn’t directed to children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect their information online.

Changes to this policy

If we update this policy, we’ll post the new version here and change the date at the top.

Contact us

Questions about this policy or your information? Reach us at berkshireacupuncture@hotmail.com, call 413-644-9488, or use our contact page.