Privacy Policy
Introduction
This privacy policy ("Policy") details how USADentalCareGuide ("company," "we," and "our") collects, handles, uses, and disseminates personal data when you utilize our website (the "Website"). We urge you to read the below information meticulously to comprehend our methods related to your personal data and how we manage data.
Personal Data
We collect various forms of data about you, including personal data. In this Policy, "personal data" refers to the definition in the General Data Protection Regulation, consisting of any data that identifies you as an individual, either alone or in conjunction with other data we process about you, such as your name, email address, and phone number.
The Reasons for Collecting Your Personal Data
We process your personal data in compliance with prevailing data protection and privacy laws. We need certain personal data to grant you access to the website. If you sign up with us, you will be requested to agree to supply this information to access our services or view our content. This consent provides us with the legal basis required under applicable law to process your data. You reserve the right to withdraw such consent at any point in time. If you disagree with our use of your personal data in conjunction with this Policy, we request that you refrain from using our website.
We collect data about you in the following ways:
1. The Data You Furnish Us
- the personal data you supply when you sign up to use our website, which may consist of your name, email address, phone number, username, password, and demographic data (such as your gender);
- the personal data you offer when you report a problem with our website or when we extend customer support to you;
- the personal data you give when you converse with us by phone, email, or other means.
2. The Data from Social Networking Websites
Our site may contain interfaces that enable you to connect with social networking sites (each an "SNS"). If you link to an SNS through our website, you authorize us to access, utilize, and retain the data that you permitted the SNS to share with us based on your settings on that SNS. We will access, utilize, and retain that information in accordance with this Policy. You can revoke our access to the data you provide in this way at any time by modifying the relevant settings from within your account settings on the applicable SNS.
3. Data Automatically Collected
We automatically record data about you and your computer or mobile device when you visit our website. For instance, when browsing our website, we record your computer or mobile device operating system name and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, browser language, screen resolution, the website you visited prior to our website, pages you viewed, time spent on a page, access times, and data about your use of and actions on our website. We gather this data about you using cookies.
4. Automated Decision Making and Profiling
We do not leverage your personal data for automated decision-making purposes. However, if required to comply with legal obligations, we may do so and we will notify you of such processing and offer you an opportunity to object.
Cookies
We may gather information using "cookies." Cookies are small data files placed on your computer or mobile device's hard drive by a website. We may utilize both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which remain on your computer or mobile device until you remove them) to offer you a more personalized and interactive experience on our website.
We employ two main categories of cookies: (1) first-party cookies, delivered directly by us to your computer or mobile device, used solely by us to recognize your computer or mobile device when it returns to our website; and (2) third-party cookies, served by service providers on our website, which can be used by these service providers to recognize your computer or mobile device when it visits other websites.
Types of Cookies We Use
Our website uses the following types of cookies for the purposes described below:
1. Essential Cookies
These cookies are crucial to provide you with services available through our website and to enable you to use some of its features. For instance, they allow you to log in to secure areas of our website and help the content of the pages you request load swiftly. Without these cookies, the services that you have requested cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide you with those services.
2. Functionality Cookies
These cookies enable our website to remember choices you make when you use our website, such as remembering your language preferences, login details, and remembering the changes you make to other parts of our website which you can customize. The aim of these cookies is to provide you with a more personalized experience and to prevent you from having to re-enter your preferences every time you visit our website.
3. Analytics And Performance Cookies
These cookies are used to gather information about traffic to our website and how users interact with our website. The information collected does not identify any individual visitor. It includes the number of visitors to our website, the websites that referred them to our website, the pages they visited on our website, what time of day they visited our website, whether they have visited our website before, and other similar information. We use this information to help operate our website more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information, and to monitor the level of activity on our website. We use Google Analytics for this purpose. Google Analytics uses its own cookies. It is only used to improve how our website works. You can find out more information about Google Analytics cookies here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies You can find out more about how Google protects your data here: https://policies.google.com/privacy. You can prevent the use of Google Analytics relating to your use of our website by downloading and installing the browser plugin available via this link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB
4. Targeted And Advertising Cookies
These cookies track your browsing habits to enable us to show advertising which is more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information about your browsing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and with our permission, third party advertisers can place cookies to enable them to show adverts which we think will be relevant to your interests while you are on third party websites. You can disable cookies which remember your browsing habits and target advertising at you by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. If you choose to remove targeted or advertising cookies, you will still see adverts but they may not be relevant to you. Even if you do choose to remove cookies by the companies listed at the above link, not all companies that serve online behavioral advertising are included in this list, and so you may still receive some cookies and tailored adverts from companies that are not listed.
5. Social Media Cookies
These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or “like” button on our website or you link your account or engage with our content on or through a social networking website such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The social network will record that you have done this.
Disabling Cookies
You can typically remove or reject cookies via your browser settings. In order to do so, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the "settings," "help" "tools" or "edit" facility). Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your settings.If you do not accept our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of our website. For example, we may not be able to recognize your computer or mobile device and you may need to log in every time you visit our website.
Advertising Practices
Third-party advertisers may be utilized to display ads when you visit and interact with our website. These entities may gather and utilize data such as click stream information, browser type, date and time, and the subject of ads clicked or scrolled over during your visits to our website and other sites. This data is used to provide ads about products and services that may be of interest to you. These companies typically employ tracking technologies to gather this data. The use of these tracking technologies by other companies is subject to their own privacy policies.
Using Your Personal Data
Your personal information may be used in the following ways:
1. To operate, enhance, and maintain our website, products, and services.
2. To manage your involvement in rewards programs and other promotions you participate in on our website.
3. To address comments and inquiries and provide customer support.
4. To disseminate information including technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages.
5. With your consent, to send you promotional emails about upcoming promotions, and other news, including information about products and services offered by us and our affiliates. You have the option to opt-out of receiving such information at any time. Please note, even if you opt out of receiving promotional emails, we may still send you non-promotional emails. Non-promotional emails include emails about your account with us (if you have one) and our business dealings with you.
6. As we deem necessary or appropriate (a) to comply with applicable laws; (b) to respond to lawful requests and legal process; (c) to enforce our policies; and (d) to protect the rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others.
7. For analysis and study services.
8. As described in the "Distribution of your Personal Information" section below.
Distribution of Your Personal Information
Your personal information may be shared in the following ways:
1. Third Parties Designated by You. We may share your personal information with third parties where you have given your consent to do so.
2. Our Third-Party Service Providers. We may share your personal information with our third-party service providers who provide services such as data analysis, payment processing, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, auditing and other similar services.
3. Third-Party Sites. Our website may contain links to third-party websites and features. This Policy does not cover the privacy practices of such third parties. These third parties have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for their websites, features or policies. Please read their privacy policies before you submit any data to them.
International Data Transfer
Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to, stored at and processed by us outside the country in which you reside, where data protection and privacy regulations may not offer the same level of protection as in other parts of the world. By accepting this Policy, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.
Security Measures
We strive to implement reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures to safeguard personal data within our organization. However, no transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be entirely secure, and transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us.
Data Retention
We will retain your personal data only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
Children's Privacy
Our website is not intended for children under 18. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with information without their consent, he or she should contact us. We will delete such information from our files as soon as reasonably practicable.
Complaints Procedure
We are committed to resolving any complaints about our collection or use of your personal data. If you have any complaints about this policy or our practices relating to your personal data, please contact us at the details listed on our website. We will respond to your complaint as soon as we can. We hope to resolve any complaint brought to our attention, however, if you feel that your complaint has not been adequately resolved, you reserve the right to contact your local data protection supervisory authority.