By visiting Dentalygo.org and any of its subdomains (hereinafter referred to as “Dentaly Go” or the “Website”), viewing our content, attending or viewing any of our events or programs and/or using any of our services, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy operates in addition to our General Terms and Conditions of Use.
What Does This Privacy Policy Cover?
This Privacy Policy covers the treatment of user information, including Personally Identifiable Information (defined below), obtained by Dentaly Go, including information obtained when you access or log in to Dentaly Go, and/or register for content or services provided by Dentaly Go.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Dentaly Go does not own or control, or to individuals whom Dentaly Go does not employ or manage, including any of the third parties to which Dentaly Go may disclose user information as set forth in this Policy.
What Types of User Information Does Dentaly Go Obtain?
Dentaly Go may obtain the following types of information from you or concerning your computer or device (“Information”), including information provided by you on a form on the Website, which may include information that can be used to identify you as specified below (“Personally Identifiable Information”):
- Name
- Email Address
- Telephone Number(s)
- Social Networking Handle or Username
- Photographs
- Medical records
- Demographic Information (e.g., age, gender, interests, and preferences)
- Activities or Content Viewed on Dentaly Go
- Information Collected Automatically detailed below
- Information Received from Third Parties, detailed below
In certain cases, we may request that you provide some of the Information identified above in order to obtain specific products or services. If you choose not to provide the Information we request, you may still use Dentaly Go, but you may be unable to access certain features or services.
When you register to receive any products or services from Dentaly Go or provide information to Dentaly Go in any other manner, you agree to provide only true, accurate, current and complete information.
Information Collected Automatically
Dentaly Go may automatically receive and log certain types of information when you visit or interact with our websites, services, mobile applications or other products, including:
- Browser Information
- Operating System Information
- Mobile Device Information (e.g., device identifier, mobile operating system, etc.)
- IP Address
- Internet Service Provider
- Content Viewed
- Geographic Location
- Connection Speed
- Time of Visit
- Referring Site, Application, or Service
- Registration Time
Information Received From Third Parties
Third Party Websites/Social Networking Sites
If you choose to use any third party website or service that is integrated with Dentaly Go, including a third party social networking or blogging site, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or WordPress (“Third Party Websites”) – or if you use any Dentaly Go application provided through any Third Party Website – we may receive Information, including Personally Identifying Information, from such Third Party Websites, including, but not limited to:
- Name
- Nickname or Username
- Photo or Graphic Avatar
- Unique Third Party Website Identifier (e.g., Facebook User ID)
- Biographical or Demographic Information (e.g. professional title, gender, college attended, etc.)
- Likes and Interests
- Contacts/Friends/Associations
- Any Information That Is Publicly Available on Third Party Websites
For example, Dentaly Go may offer the ability to use certain Third Party Websites to facilitate your registration on Dentaly Go. We may also use information about your profile and connections on Third Party Websites to allow you to share or connect with your friends and contacts on Dentaly Go or to personalise your experience. In addition, Dentaly Go offers “plug ins” and “widgets” from various Third Party Websites that allow you to share Dentaly Go content off of our service, as discussed in “Disclosure of Information to Third Parties”.
Your decision to use, or share with, a Third Party Website when accessing or using Dentaly Go products and services is completely voluntary. Dentaly Go is not responsible for compliance with the policies or practices of any Third Party Website. You should ensure that you are comfortable with the information such Third Party Websites may make available to Dentaly Go by reviewing those Websites’ privacy policies and service terms, and by modifying your privacy settings and preferences on those Services.
Any information we receive from Third Party Websites will be governed by this Privacy Policy.
How Do We Use This Information?
We use the Information we obtain from or concerning you or your computer or device to provide Dentaly Go products and services, fulfill your requests, improve our products and services, personalise and tailor your experience on Dentaly Go, operate our business, and understand how users are engaging with Dentaly Go.
In addition, we may use Information from or concerning you or your computer or device to facilitate the delivery of content or advertisements that we believe may be of interest to you, or to communicate with you about new or existing products and services or special offers. For example, we may periodically send promotional materials or notifications related to our products and services to the email address associated with your account.
Dentaly Go’s Use of Cookies
Dentaly Go may place “cookies” on your computer or device that may contain anonymous Information that is associated with you. Cookies are small text files a website uses to recognise users, and are typically placed on your hard disk by a web server. Cookies contain information that can later be read by a web server in the domain (here, Dentaly Go) that issued the cookie to you or that, in some cases, can be read by a third party domain.
Our cookies may record Information about your use of Dentaly Go so that we can provide a continuous and more personalised experience for you, including for one or more of the following purposes: to help identify visitors; assess usage patterns; identify preferences; control the display of ads; diagnose problems with our servers; gather demographic information; analyse trends and usage patterns; conduct research; deliver editorial content; record registration and personalised information; and otherwise administer Dentaly Go products and services.
If you do not wish to have Dentaly Go place and use cookies on your computer, you should set your browser preferences to refuse cookies before accessing Dentaly Go. Dentaly Go is not responsible for any failure by you or your browser to accurately implement or communicate your browser preferences or settings. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to sign in or use other interactive features of Dentaly Go that depend on cookies.
Dentaly Go does not control and is not responsible for the use of cookies by its third party partners or advertisers. The use of cookies by some of these third parties is discussed below (see “Analytics Services”).
Reviewing and Modifying Your Personally Identifying Information
You may update Personally Identifying Information that is obtained and stored by Dentaly Go, or change your account preferences, in the following ways:
- You may unsubscribe to any of our e-mail updates or products by following the unsubscribe instructions in the body of any message (see “Email or Text Message Communications”)
- You may contact us at contact@dentalygo.org
Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
Dentaly Go may disclose Information (including Personally Identifying Information) from or concerning you or your computer or device to third parties in the circumstances described below. By visiting, accessing, attending or using Dentaly Go’s products, services or events, you consent to the disclosure of your Information to certain categories of third parties in the manner described below. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the policies or practices of any of these third parties.
Service Providers
Dentaly Go relies on third party vendors and service providers to provide support and assistance for its products, services and events (“Service Providers”), and we may disclose your Information (including Personally Identifying Information) to these Service Providers to the extent necessary to support our products, services or events, or as otherwise set forth below.
Web Hosts
Dentaly Go website services are hosted by TMD Hosting, a webhosting platform. All Information obtained and stored by Dentaly Go’s websites (see “What Types of User Information Does Dentaly Go Obtain?”) is processed and stored on servers that are owned and operated by TMD Hosting.
Third-Party Partners
If you have elected to request a quotation, thereby providing Dentaly Go with Information (including Personally Identifying Information), you implicitly consent to your Information being shared with third-party Partners for the purposes of providing your quotations and any subsequent activity that may follow.
Third Party Websites
Dentaly Go offers the ability to share Dentaly Go content on Third Party Websites, including social networking and blogging services such as LinkedIn or Facebook, through “plugins” or “widgets” (such as LinkedIn’s “in” button or Facebook’s “Like” button). When you elect to share content and information with others on Third Party Websites, Dentaly Go may transmit your Information (including Personally Identifying Information) to such Third Party Websites. This Information may be visible on the Third Party Website to anyone who has access to that content or Information. Your decision to share information in this manner is completely voluntary. You should ensure that you are comfortable with how Third Party Websites may share your Information by reviewing their privacy policies and/or modifying your privacy settings directly on those Third Party Websites.
URL/Referrer Header Information
When you visit Dentaly Go websites, certain information about the content or activities you have engaged in on Dentaly Go may be reflected in the Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) for the page you are viewing on Dentaly Go (i.e., the Internet “address,” commonly displayed in the browser window). For example, the date or title of an article you are viewing may appear in the URL for that page. In addition, if you are logged into a Dentaly Go account, certain account information (may be visible in the URL when you visit your account on Dentaly Go. If you leave Dentaly Go to visit a third party website, including when you click on an advertisement or link or when you share information through a social plug-in (like the Linked In “in” button), the information contained in the URL may be transmitted to the third party website by your browser.
Advertisers and Analytics Services
As discussed in “Third Party Advertising on Dentaly Go”, Dentaly Go uses third party advertisers, including ad networks, to provide advertising on its websites. In addition, as discussed “Analytics Services”, Dentaly Go uses third party analytics products to obtain information about how users are using and interacting with Dentaly Go. These third parties may receive Information (including Personally Identifying Information) from Dentaly Go as discussed in greater detail in “Security and Protection of Personally Identifying Information”.
Law Enforcement/Legal Process
We may disclose your Information (including Personally Identifying Information) when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to comply with any law, regulation or legal request; enforce, apply, or investigate breaches of our terms of use and other agreements; respond to public requests; or protect the rights, property, user experience or safety of Dentaly Go, our employees, our users, or others. This can include exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Comments and Public Posts; Sharing on Third Party Websites
Dentaly Go encourages active participation by users, including through comments on Dentaly Go. However, please be aware that if you voluntarily disclose Information, personal or otherwise, on Dentaly Go, that Information can be viewed, collected and used by others, including other users, search engines, advertisers, third party applications developers, and anyone with access to Dentaly Go has no control over the use, collection or disclosure of any Information that you post publicly on Dentaly Go.
Change of Control
If Dentaly Go, or substantially all of its assets, is acquired by another company or party, user Information will be one of the assets transferred or acquired by the purchaser. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any purchaser of Dentaly Go or its assets may continue to collect, use and disclose your Information as set forth in this Policy.
Third Party Advertising on Dentaly Go
Dentaly Go may allow third party advertising serving companies, including ad networks (“Advertisers”), to display advertisements or provide other advertising services on Dentaly Go. Any such advertisements are clearly separated from our editorial content and identified with the term ‘Advertisement’. These third party Advertisers may use techniques other than HTTP cookies to recognise your computer or device and/or to collect and record demographic and other Information about you, including your activities on or off Dentaly Go. These techniques may be used directly on Dentaly Go. Please keep in mind that your web browser may not permit you to block the use of these techniques, and that browser settings that block conventional cookies may have no effect on such techniques.
Advertisers may use the information collected to display advertisements that are tailored to your interests or background and/or associate such information with your subsequent visits, purchases or other activities on other websites. Advertisers may also share this information with their clients or other third parties.
Dentaly Go has no responsibility for the technologies, tools or practices of the Advertisers that provide advertising and related services on Dentaly Go. This Privacy Policy does not cover any collection, use or disclosure of Information by Advertisers who provide advertising and related services on Dentaly Go. These Advertisers’ information gathering practices, including their policies regarding the use of cookies and other tracking technologies, are governed entirely by their own privacy policies, not this one.
For European Economic Area Residents
If you reside in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), then under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws you have the rights, among other things, to access your personal data, have us erase it, and/or restrict its further processing. If you wish to access or delete your personal data (if any) maintained by us, you can email contact@dentalygo.org
Analytics Services
In addition, Dentaly Go uses third party analytics providers and products to obtain, compile and analyse Information (that may include Personally Identifying Information) about how users are using and interacting with Dentaly Go. Dentaly Go may provide Information (including Personally Identifying Information) to these analytics providers for the purpose of obtaining statistics and other information about how users are using and interacting with Dentaly Go. These analytics providers may use tracking techniques other than HTTP cookies to recognise your computer or device and/or to collect or compile this information. These techniques may be used directly on Dentaly Go. Dentaly Go has no responsibility for the technologies, tools or practices of the third parties that providing analytics products and services to Dentaly Go. Please also keep in mind that your web browser may not permit you to block the use of these techniques, and that browser settings that block conventional cookies may have no effect on such techniques.
Security and Protection of Personally Identifying Information
We have implemented reasonable security measures and practices in an effort to protect the confidentiality of your Personally Identifying Information (other than Personally Identifying Information that you have elected to disclose to others). However, no security system is impenetrable. It may be possible for third parties to intercept or access information you provide to Dentaly Go. Dentaly Go cannot guarantee the security of your Personally Identifying Information, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to Dentaly Go. It is important for you to protect against unauthorised access to your password(s) and computer or device, and to log off when using any shared computer.
Email or Text Message Communications
We may contact you by e-mail, text message or other equivalent electronic communications if you access Dentaly Go products or services or register for events, webinars or other content or services provided by Dentaly Go. By visiting or using Dentaly Go content, products or services, or registering for or attending Dentaly Go events or webinars, you specifically consent to the receipt of these e-mail or text message communications. If you do not want to receive emails, text messages or other communications from us, please notify us by email to contact@dentalygo.org and include sufficient information for us to identify your account, including your Name, Email Address (or phone Number) and the specifics of your request. If you unsubscribe, Dentaly Go may still contact you via email or text message for administrative purposes or concerning any products, services or events for which you have registered or are using.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
Dentaly Go retains the discretion to amend or modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. Use and disclosure of Information we obtain is subject to the later of: (1) the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such Information is collected or (2) any subsequent Privacy Policy of which you have notice. If we make material changes to the way we collect, use or disclose Personally Identifying Information, we will notify you by posting a clear and prominent announcement on Dentaly Go or through a direct communication. Your continued access to or use of Dentaly Go following notice of material changes to this Privacy Policy shall constitute consent to any amendments and/or modifications. Your use of Dentaly Go is entirely voluntary, and you may discontinue use of Dentaly Go at any time.
How to Contact Us
Dentaly Go welcomes any questions or comments you may have regarding this Privacy Policy or its implementation. Any such questions or comments should be submitted to contact@dentalygo.org. We will undertake reasonable efforts to resolve or address your concern.