The Pill effectiveness?

I just got the pill, and I have been on it before but never trusted it as birth control on its own, because I can't figure out how it's effective when I don't take them for a week or there's no hormones in them for a week. is it less effective during the first week of a pack and if I were to have sex during my period would it be totally ineffective??

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