PRIVACY POLICY
PRIVACY POLICY
Dentistryzone Enterprises Inc. (hereinafter “Dentistryzone”) is committed to protect personal information of others in its possession. This Privacy Policy has been developed to explain how Dentistryzone collects, uses and discloses the personal information it may obtain while carrying on the exploitation of its Website.
Because the laws and regulations applicable in matters of privacy are changing and evolving rapidly, Dentistryzone’s privacy policy may be subject to review and updates on a frequent basis so the said policy may maintain its accuracy and compliance with the evolving law and regulation in the area. This document is current as of the date noted above and it is the member’s responsibility to frequently come back on this Web page to acknowledge any update or modification that shall be made to this Privacy Policy, as the case may be. Your use of the Website following any posted change(s) or update(s) to the privacy policy will be deemed an acceptance of such change(s) or update(s).
Please take note that this Privacy Policy is aimed at completing the terms and conditions of Use of Dentistryzone’s Website.
What is personal information?
Personal information is information, which relates to a person and allows that person to be identified. Examples of personal information include: name, gender, age group, address, telephone number, email address, field of practice, specializations (if any), school of graduation, credit card information, and financial information. Personal Information however may not include your name, business title or business address and business telephone number in your capacity as an employee of an organization/enterprise as well as any financial or credit card information related to a business.
How Personal Information is collected?
We will always collect your Personal Information by fair and lawful means. Your Personal Information is collected via our secured website www.dentistryzone.com. We may collect Personal Information when: i) you register to become a member of the Website; ii) you provide Dentistryzone with Submissions to be added to the Website; iii), you make an online transaction on the Website; iv) you send an email to Dentistryzone via the Website; v) you browse on the Website without disabling the cookies.
How Personal Information is used?
Dentistryzone collects your Personal Information primarily to understand the member’s background in order to provide better services. Dentistryzone does not sell client lists or other Personal Information. Dentistryzone may also use your Personal Information as otherwise permitted by law.
Your Personal Information is kept in a file entitled “Members” (for members), “Advertisers” (for advertisers) and “Companies” (for companies).
To whom do we provide your personal Information?
We identify to whom, and for what purposes, we disclose your Personal Information. For example, we may disclose your Personal Information:
i) internally, to establish, manage gather and exchange useful information on the activities of members on the Website;
ii) to any other organizations/enterprises, when required for services to and for clients, as well as for compliance and insurance obligations;
iii) to third party service providers with whom we have a contractual agreement, which have comparable levels of privacy protection, for the processing related to services rendered to and for clients, and for administrative or management requirements (such as, in all cases, for photocopying, printing and faxing, shredding, storage and other document management, payroll, I.T., including software maintenance, investigations and searches, independent expert matters, collection, bailiffs and other outsourced services;
iv) such other disclosures of Personal Information to such persons for which you provide your consent; and
v) as otherwise permitted by law.
When supplementary disclosure is required, we will identify (at the time we collect such information from you and obtain the requisite consent to such disclosure, unless otherwise permitted by law) the other persons/organizations/enterprises and the other purposes to whom and for which disclosure may occur.
How and when your consent is obtained?
Except when otherwise permitted by law, we obtain the requisite consent prior to collecting and, in any case, prior to using or disclosing your Personal Information for any purpose. You may provide your consent to us either orally or in writing. We will obtain your express consent as often as possible. Your consent may also be intrinsic to the circumstances such as in the case where you have already provided Personal Information to us and you maintain your relationship with us or where you provide our representatives with your phone number so that we can contact you at home. Except when otherwise permitted by law, we will only use the information for the purpose for which it was given. From time to time, we may collect, utilize or disclose your Personal Information based on your consent and as otherwise permitted by law. When your consent is required, you can withdraw consent at any time (unless withdrawing the consent would frustrate the performance of legal obligations), and upon providing us with a 30-day notice. However, the withdrawal of your consent may impact on our ability to serve you and to maintain our relationship.
In certain circumstances, as permitted or required by law, we may collect, use or disclose Personal Information without your knowledge or consent. These circumstances include (where applicable); information on individuals which is publicly available; where collection or use is clearly in the interests of the individual and consent cannot be obtained in a timely way; to investigate a breach of any agreement or a contravention of a law; to comply with a subpoena, court order or as required or otherwise permitted by law.
How do we ensure the privacy of your Personal Information when dealing with third parties?
We take all necessary means to ensure that all Personal Information communicated to third parties for processing is treated safely. As such, we ensure that third parties which are engaged to perform services on our behalf and are provided with Personal Information are required to observe the intent of this Privacy Policy by having comparable levels of security protection or, when required, by ensuring us (through a confidentiality agreement) that they will not use or disclose the Personal Information of the members of the Website for any other purpose that for which the Personal Information was communicated.
Marketing
We don’t sell or rent your Personal Information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. However, we may combine your information with information of other members to generate group statistics. We may combine your information with information we collect from other companies and use it to improve and personalize our services, content and advertising.
Links
Dentistryzone is not responsible for any links to other external Websites. Please make sure you consult these Websites’ privacy policy and terms and conditions.
Cookies and other technologies
Dentistryzone’s Website uses “cookies” and other technologies to understand which parts of the Website is the most popular, in which fields, topics or sections the members are the most interested in, and how much time a member may spend in any particular section of the Website. Dentistryzone also uses cookies and other technologies to study traffic patterns on the Website, to make it even more rewarding as well as to study the effectiveness of communications made via the Website.
If, however, you prefer not to enable cookies, please select the Web options of your operating software system where you can disable cookies. Please note that certain features of the Dentistryzone Website may not be available once cookies are disabled.
As it is customary practice for many Website operators, Dentistryzone may gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. This information, which does not identify individual users, may be used in order to analyze trends, to administer the Website, to track users’ movements around the Website and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. Dentistryzone will not use the information collected to market directly to that person.
Contact Dentistryzone
If you choose to visit Dentistryzone’s Website, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and/or the Terms and Conditions of Use of this Website, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the provincial and federal laws applicable in the province of Quebec. If you have any concern about privacy on this Website, please contact us at info@dentistryzone.com, and we’ll try to resolve it.
Thank you
The Dentistryzone.com team
Dentistryzone Enterprises Inc.
