Effective Date: March 9, 2004
Last Update: March 9, 2004
Discus Dental Privacy Policy Notice:
Keeping customer information secure and using it only as our customers would
want us to, are top priorities for all of us at Discus Dental. This notice
outlines our Privacy Policy.
Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions:
By visiting Discus Dental websites and online stores you are accepting this
Privacy Policy. Discus Dental encourages you to read this Privacy Policy Notice
and those of all web sites you visit. If you have any concern about privacy at
Discus Dental, please contact us at 1-800-442-9448.
Our Privacy Notice is subject to change. You should check our web site
frequently to see the most recent changes to our Policy. We will notify you of
any material changes that make our Policy less protective of personal
information collected in the past by sending a notice to your primary e-mail
address on file with this website or by placing a prominent notice on our
website.
Types and uses of personal information:
Your personal information is used in the following ways:
• Login: This provides you with access to your account and protected content.
Your login includes a personally selected username and password.
• Account Information: This feature tells us more about who you are, how to
contact you, and other relevant information, such as: type of practice or first
and last name, billing and shipping addresses, city, state, zip code, telephone,
facsimile and email address.
• Credit Card Information: This information is used to process payment for
goods purchased. This includes credit card type, number and expiration date.
• Automatic information: We collect and analyze information including Internet
Protocol address used to connect your computer to the internet; username;
password; browser type; Uniform Resource Locator (URL), clickstream to, through,
and from our Web site, and date and time. We also use software tools to measure
and collect session information, including response time, errors, and network
information.
Information Sharing:
We are not in the business of selling your information to others.
Agents:
We share information with agents that perform functions on our behalf.
Examples including fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail
and email, processing credit card payments, checking credit history, providing
marketing assistance, providing search results and links, and providing customer
service.
Receipt of Information:
We receive information from other sources including tracking and delivery
date information from carriers; search term and search result information
including paid listings such as Overture pay-for-performance and Google
sponsored listings; and credit history information from credit bureaus which we
use to prevent and detect fraud and offer certain credit terms to some
customers.
Business Transfers:
As we continue to develop our business, we might buy or sell business units
or subsidiaries. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of
the transferred business assets. In the event that this division of Discus
Dental is acquired, customer information will be one of the transferred assets.
Security:
We protect the personal information that you share with us. We protect the
security of your information during transmission with Secure Sockets Layer
software (SSL), which encrypts your information. Access to your information is
limited to authorized employees who are trained in the proper handling of
customer information. Authorized third party agents may also need access to you
personal information, i.e. a shipping company to deliver your package. We
provide third party agents with the minimum of information needed to complete
the requested service or transaction.
Website links:
We provide links to third party sites. Since we do not control these web
sites, we encourage you to review the privacy notices posted on these (and all)
third party sites.
Accessing and updating information:
Account or personal information can be changed or updated by speaking with a
customer service representative. Login information such as usernames and
passwords can be retrieved electronically to the email address on file by using
the password retrieval functionality. Please notify us of changes to your
account and personal information.