Privacy Policy
Dental Hygienics & Decontamination Ltd
(“We”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy together
with our terms of use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the
basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to
us, will be processed by us.
Please read the
following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your
personal data and how we will treat it.
For the purpose of
the Data Protection Act 1998, the data controller is Dental Hygienics & Decontamination Ltd.
Information we may collect from you
We may collect and process the following data about you:
Information that you
provide by filling in forms on our site www.dentalhygienics.com (our site).
This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site,
subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services. We
may also ask you for when you report a problem with our site.
· If you contact us, we
may keep a record of that correspondence.
· Details of your
visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data,
weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own
billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.
· We may collect
information about your computer, including where available your IP address,
operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report
aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our
users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
· Our website uses
cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to
provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows
us to improve our site. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the
purposes for which we use them see our Cookie policy.
The data that we
collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside
the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by staff operating
outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe
engaged in, among other things, the fulfillment of your order, the processing
of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting
your personal data, 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 privacy policy.
Where we have given
you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain
parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.
We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the
transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although
we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the
security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own
risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and
security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Uses made of the information
We use information
held about you in the following ways:
· To ensure that
content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for
your computer.
· To provide you with
information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may
interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
· To carry out our
obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
· To allow you to
participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.
· To notify you about
changes to our service.
· We may also use your
data, to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of
interest to you and we or they may contact you about these.
If you do not want us
to use your data in this way please tick the relevant box situated on the form
on which we collect your data (the order form).
Disclosure of your information
We may disclose your
personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries,
our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159
of the UK Companies Act 2006.
We may disclose your
personal information to third parties:
· In the event that we
sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal
data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
· If Dental Hygienics & Decontamination Ltd
or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case
personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred
assets.
· If we are under a
duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal
obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use or terms and
conditions of supply and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property,
or safety of our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information
with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and
credit risk reduction.
Your rights
You have the right to
ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will
usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data
for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by
checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also
exercise the right at any time by contacting us.
Access to information
The Act gives you the
right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be
exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a
fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information
we hold about you.
Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may
make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where
appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.