Dental Hygiene Direct

Privacy Policy  

The web site located at dentalhygienedirect.com (the "Site") is owned and operated by Dental Hygiene Direct, LLC ("Dental Hygiene Direct"). As part of the normal operation of the Site, we collect and may disclose certain information about you. We are the sole owners of the information collected on the Site. To help protect your privacy, we provide this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") explaining our information collection and disclosure practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used.  

This Privacy Policy applies only to the use and collection of personal information about you ("Personal Information") collected by this Site and does not apply to any other data collected by us online or offline. By using or accessing the Site, you represent and warrant that you accept the terms and practices described in this Privacy Policy. 

Information Gathering and Use:

For each visitor to the Site, Dental Hygiene Direct’s web server may automatically recognize the visitor's domain name and IP address. In order to use the Site, a user must first complete the registration process. During registration a user is required to give certain information, which is used to communicate with you about the services on the Site in which you have expressed interest. We collect the e-mail addresses of those who become registered users of our service in order to facilitate communications. We also aggregate information on what pages are accessed and information volunteered by the user, such as survey responses and/or registration information, which may include your name, address, phone number, email address, work history and professional skills. The information we collect is used to improve the content of the Site or to notify users about updates to the Site and is only shared with affiliated organizations if the user opts into such sharing during registration.  
 
We may use “cookies” (a piece of data stored on a site visitor's hard drive) to help us improve your access to the Site and to record session information, such as services that users register for. We use cookies to determine how many visitors we have to the Site and how often they visit various sections of the Site. Additionally, cookies enable us to customize your experience as a return user, but they do not contain any personally identifiable information. You can remove or block cookies using the settings in your Internet browser, however, if you do so your experience at the Site may be limited and some features of the Site may not work as intended.

All User Content (as defined in the Dental Hygiene Direct Terms of Service) posted or stored on the Site by you will be considered non-confidential public information and Dental Hygiene Direct is under no obligation to afford such User Content the privacy protections provided herein.  
 
Dental Hygiene Direct does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 18 or knowingly allow such persons to register for services available at the Site. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a person under age 18, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a person under the age of 18, please contact us at the address noted below.

We do not share or otherwise disclose Personal Information except as follows:

• Job opening details, including the prospective employer’s name and contact information, are available to all registered users and may be viewed by anyone with access to the Internet.
• On-line job application details, including the prospective employer’s name and contact information, are available only to registered users.
• Posted resume details, including name and contact information, are only available to registered dentists.

All of the above information may be shared with, or licensed to, our affiliates and/or certain unaffiliated third parties at any time without notice to you.  
 
Personal Information that you have voluntarily entered electronically is delivered to servers located in the United States. By using the Site, you consent to the transfer of this data to such servers, and to our use of such data as outlined in this Privacy Policy.

We may be required to disclose Personal Information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. Additionally, we may share registration or other Personal Information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the Site. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.  
 
If the ownership of all or substantially all of the Dental Hygiene Direct business, or control of the corporation, were to change, or in the event of a reorganization, dissolution or bankruptcy, your user information may be transferred to a new owner or trustee as applicable. In any such transfer of information, your Personal Information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy.

Permission Based Communications:

Registering on the Dental Hygiene Direct web site constitutes an explicit agreement to receive communications from us, including advertising, resumes, surveys, and any other information that Dental Hygiene Direct chooses to send via facsimile or email. If such communication is not desired, the user should contact us via email at the address below to unsubscribe or with the facsimile numbers to which communications should not be sent. 
 
From time to time, we make opt-in users of our system accessible to other reputable organizations whose products or services we think you might be interested in by sharing email addresses of those who access our site and opt-in to such sharing. By default users are NOT opted in to receive special offers from these organizations; the user must opt-in during the registration process to be included in such offers. We may also have relationships with other companies that we allow to place ads on the Site. As a result of your visit to the Site, ad server companies may collect information such as your domain type, your IP address and clickstream information. 
 
If you supply us with your postal address on-line you will only receive the information for which you provided us your address. Persons who supply their telephone numbers on-line will only receive telephone contact from us with information regarding orders they have placed on-line.  We will not share your postal address or telephone number with unregistered users of the Site.

The Site may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Policy Change Notification:

Dental Hygiene Direct reserves the right to change our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use at any time. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will contact you before we use your data for any new purposes to notify you of the policy change and to provide you with the ability to opt out of the new uses. If we make changes, we will post them and will indicate at the bottom of this page the Privacy Policy's new effective date.

Changing Personal Information:

Upon request we provide site visitors with access to all information [including proprietary information] that we maintain about them, unique identifier information (e.g., customer number or password) that we maintain about them and contact information (e.g., name, address, phone number) that we maintain about them. We will also happily provide a description of information that we maintain about them. Consumers can access this information by calling us at the above telephone number. Additionally, users can have this information corrected by calling us at the above telephone number.

Security:

With respect to security, we utilize reasonable security measures to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at the Site. Whenever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. 
 
Contacting Us:

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices used by the Site, or if you feel that Dental Hygiene Direct is not following its stated privacy policy, you may contact us at the following address or phone number:  

Dental Hygiene Direct

[insert address]

Customer Service:

757-635-5369

privacy@dentalhygienedirect.com
 
This Privacy Policy was last revised and is effective as of August 2010.