By visiting Dentaly.org and any of its subdomains (hereinafter referred to as “Dentaly”), viewing our content, attending or viewing any of our events or programs and/or using any of our services, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy operates in addition to our General Terms and Conditions of Use and Advertising and Affiliate Policy.
What Does This Privacy Policy Cover?
This Privacy Policy covers the treatment of user information, including Personally Identifiable Information (defined below), obtained by Dentaly, including information obtained when you access or log in to Dentaly, and/or register for content or services provided by Dentaly.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Dentaly does not own or control, or to individuals whom Dentaly does not employ or manage, including any of the third parties to which Dentaly may disclose user information as set forth in this Policy.
What Types of User Information Does Dentaly Obtain?
Dentaly may obtain the following types of information from you or concerning your computer or device (“Information”), which may include information that can be used to identify you as specified below (“Personally Identifiable Information”):
- Name
- Email Address
- Mailing Address
- Telephone Number(s)
- Blog or Website URL
- Social Networking Handle or Username
- Photo
- Medical records
- Demographic Information (e.g., age, gender, interests, and preferences)
- Professional Title
- Company
- Industry
- Activities or Content Viewed on Dentaly
- Information Collected Automatically detailed below
- Information Received from Third Parties, detailed below
In certain cases, we may request that you provide some of the Information identified above in order to obtain specific products or services. If you choose not to provide the Information we request, you may still use Dentaly, but you may be unable to access certain features or services.
When you register to receive any products or services from Dentaly or provide information to Dentaly in any other manner, you agree to provide only true, accurate, current and complete information.
Information Collected Automatically
Dentaly may automatically receive and log certain types of information when you visit or interact with our websites, services, mobile applications or other products, including:
- Browser Information
- Operating System Information
- Mobile Device Information (e.g., device identifier, mobile operating system, etc.)
- IP Address
- Internet Service Provider
- Content Viewed
- Geographic Location
- Connection Speed
- Time of Visit
- Referring Site, Application, or Service
- Registration Time
Information Received From Third Parties
Third Party Websites/Social Networking Sites
If you choose to use any third party website or service that is integrated with Dentaly, including a third party social networking or blogging site, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or WordPress (“Third Party Websites”) – or if you use any Dentaly application provided through any Third Party Website – we may receive Information, including Personally Identifying Information, from such Third Party Websites, including, but not limited to:
- Name
- Nickname or Username
- Photo or Graphic Avatar
- Unique Third Party Website Identifier (e.g., Facebook User ID)
- Biographical or Demographic Information (e.g. professional title, gender, college attended, etc.)
- Likes and Interests
- Contacts/Friends/Associations
- Any Information That Is Publicly Available on Third Party Websites
For example, Dentaly may offer the ability to use certain Third Party Websites to facilitate your registration on Dentaly. We may also use information about your profile and connections on Third Party Websites to allow you to share or connect with your friends and contacts on Dentaly or to personalise your experience. In addition, Dentaly offers “plug ins” and “widgets” from various Third Party Websites that allow you to share Dentaly content off of our service, as discussed in “Disclosure of Information to Third Parties”.
Your decision to use, or share with, a Third Party Website when accessing or using Dentaly products and services is completely voluntary. Dentaly is not responsible for compliance with the policies or practices of any Third Party Website. You should ensure that you are comfortable with the information such Third Party Websites may make available to Dentaly by reviewing those Websites’ privacy policies and service terms, and by modifying your privacy settings and preferences on those Services.
Any information we receive from Third Party Websites will be governed by this Privacy Policy.
How Do We Use This Information?
We use the Information we obtain from or concerning you or your computer or device to provide Dentaly products and services, fulfill your requests, improve our products and services, personalise and tailor your experience on Dentaly, operate our business, and understand how users are engaging with Dentaly.
In addition, we may use Information from or concerning you or your computer or device to facilitate the delivery of content or advertisements that we believe may be of interest to you, or to communicate with you about new or existing products and services or special offers. For example, we may periodically send promotional materials or notifications related to our products and services to the email address associated with your account.
Dentaly’s Use of Cookies
Dentaly may place “cookies” on your computer or device that may contain anonymous Information that is associated with you. Cookies are small text files a website uses to recognise users, and are typically placed on your hard disk by a web server. Cookies contain information that can later be read by a web server in the domain (here, Dentaly) that issued the cookie to you or that, in some cases, can be read by a third party domain.
Our cookies may record Information about your use of Dentaly so that we can provide a continuous and more personalised experience for you, including for one or more of the following purposes: to help identify visitors; assess usage patterns; identify preferences; control the display of ads; diagnose problems with our servers; gather demographic information; analyse trends and usage patterns; conduct research; deliver editorial content; record registration and personalised information; and otherwise administer Dentaly products and services.
If you do not wish to have Dentaly place and use cookies on your computer, you should set your browser preferences to refuse cookies before accessing Dentaly. Dentaly is not responsible for any failure by you or your browser to accurately implement or communicate your browser preferences or settings. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to sign in or use other interactive features of Dentaly that depend on cookies.
Dentaly does not control and is not responsible for the use of cookies by its third party partners or advertisers. The use of cookies by some of these third parties is discussed below (see “Analytics Services”).
Reviewing and Modifying Your Personally Identifying Information
You may update Personally Identifying Information that is obtained and stored by Dentaly, or change your account preferences, in the following ways:
- You may unsubscribe to any of our e-mail updates or products by following the unsubscribe instructions in the body of any message (see “Email or Text Message Communications”)
- You may contact us at [email protected]
Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
Dentaly may disclose Information (including Personally Identifying Information) from or concerning you or your computer or device to third parties in the circumstances described below. By visiting, accessing, attending or using Dentaly’s products, services or events, you consent to the disclosure of your Information to certain categories of third parties in the manner described below. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the policies or practices of any of these third parties.
Service Providers
Dentaly relies on third party vendors and service providers to provide support and assistance for its products, services and events (“Service Providers”), and we may disclose your Information (including Personally Identifying Information) to these Service Providers to the extent necessary to support our products, services or events, or as otherwise set forth below.
Web Hosts
Dentaly website services are hosted by PlanetHoster, a webhosting platform. All Information obtained and stored by Dentaly’s websites ( see “What Types of User Information Does Dentaly Obtain?”) is processed and stored on servers that are owned and operated by PlanetHoster.
Third Party Sponsors
If you have elected to access research or content or use assessment tools from Dentaly, we may share your Information (including Personally Identifying Information) with business partner(s) and/or sponsor(s) of the assessment tool, research and/or content. You agree that these sponsor(s) and/or business partner(s) may use your Personally Identifying Information to contact you to provide additional information about their products or services.
Third Party Websites
Dentaly offers the ability to share Dentaly content on Third Party Websites, including social networking and blogging services such as LinkedIn or Facebook, through “plugins” or “widgets” (such as LinkedIn’s “in” button or Facebook’s “Like” button). When you elect to share content and information with others on Third Party Websites, Dentaly may transmit your Information (including Personally Identifying Information) to such Third Party Websites. This Information may be visible on the Third Party Website to anyone who has access to that content or Information. Your decision to share information in this manner is completely voluntary. You should ensure that you are comfortable with how Third Party Websites may share your Information by reviewing their privacy policies and/or modifying your privacy settings directly on those Third Party Websites.
URL/Referrer Header Information
When you visit Dentaly websites, certain information about the content or activities you have engaged in on Dentaly may be reflected in the Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) for the page you are viewing on Dentaly (i.e., the Internet “address,” commonly displayed in the browser window). For example, the date or title of an article you are viewing may appear in the URL for that page. In addition, if you are logged into a Dentaly account, certain account information (may be visible in the URL when you visit your account on Dentaly. If you leave Dentaly to visit a third party website, including when you click on an advertisement or link or when you share information through a social plug-in (like the Linked In “in” button), the information contained in the URL may be transmitted to the third party website by your browser.
Advertisers and Analytics Services
As discussed in “Third Party Advertising on Dentaly”, Dentaly uses third party advertisers, including ad networks, to provide advertising on its websites. In addition, as discussed “Analytics Services”, Dentaly uses third party analytics products to obtain information about how users are using and interacting with Dentaly. These third parties may receive Information (including Personally Identifying Information) from Dentaly as discussed in greater detail in “Security and Protection of Personally Identifying Information”.
Law Enforcement/Legal Process
We may disclose your Information (including Personally Identifying Information) when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to comply with any law, regulation or legal request; enforce, apply, or investigate breaches of our terms of use and other agreements; respond to public requests; or protect the rights, property, user experience or safety of Dentaly, our employees, our users, or others. This can include exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Comments and Public Posts; Sharing on Third Party Websites
Dentaly encourages active participation by users, including through comments on Dentaly. However, please be aware that if you voluntarily disclose Information, personal or otherwise, on Dentaly, that Information can be viewed, collected and used by others, including other users, search engines, advertisers, third party applications developers, and anyone with access to Dentaly has no control over the use, collection or disclosure of any Information that you post publicly on Dentaly.
Change of Control
If Dentaly, or substantially all of its assets, is acquired by another company or party, user Information will be one of the assets transferred or acquired by the purchaser. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any purchaser of Dentaly or its assets may continue to collect, use and disclose your Information as set forth in this Policy.
Third Party Advertising on Dentaly
Dentaly may allow third party advertising serving companies, including ad networks (“Advertisers”), to display advertisements or provide other advertising services on Dentaly. Any such advertisements are clearly separated from our editorial content and identified with the term ‘Advertisement’. These third party Advertisers may use techniques other than HTTP cookies to recognise your computer or device and/or to collect and record demographic and other Information about you, including your activities on or off Dentaly. These techniques may be used directly on Dentaly. Please keep in mind that your web browser may not permit you to block the use of these techniques, and that browser settings that block conventional cookies may have no effect on such techniques.
Advertisers may use the information collected to display advertisements that are tailored to your interests or background and/or associate such information with your subsequent visits, purchases or other activities on other websites. Advertisers may also share this information with their clients or other third parties.
Dentaly has no responsibility for the technologies, tools or practices of the Advertisers that provide advertising and related services on Dentaly. This Privacy Policy does not cover any collection, use or disclosure of Information by Advertisers who provide advertising and related services on Dentaly. These Advertisers’ information gathering practices, including their policies regarding the use of cookies and other tracking technologies, are governed entirely by their own privacy policies, not this one.
Dentaly currently may be using one or more of the following Advertisers to provide advertising and related services on Dentaly. Dentaly uses the Standard Terms and Conditions set forth by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB).
Advertising Privacy Statement
This Site is affiliated with Mediavine for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site. Mediavine uses standard and widely-available tools for the placement and serving of ads, including those provided by Google, Inc. and its affiliates. We publish interest-based advertisements on the Site; that is, ads that are tailored to reflect your interests. To help understand your interests, Mediavine, Google and our other advertising partners will track your behaviour on our website and on other websites across the Internet using cookies.
A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
By using this Site, you consent to the use of such cookies and the sharing of data captured by such cookies with Mediavine, Google, and our other third party partners. You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting: https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of the network cookie using those settings or using the Network Advertising Initiative’s multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at: . However, these opt-out mechanisms themselves use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be maintained.
For European Economic Area Residents
If you reside in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), then under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws you have the rights, among other things, to access your personal data, have us erase it, and/or restrict its further processing. If you wish to access or delete your personal data (if any) maintained by us, you can contact us here.
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising
For information regarding data collection by Mediavine ad partners including how to opt out of data collection, please click here
Analytics Services
In addition, Dentaly uses third party analytics providers and products to obtain, compile and analyse Information (that may include Personally Identifying Information) about how users are using and interacting with Dentaly. Dentaly may provide Information (including Personally Identifying Information) to these analytics providers for the purpose of obtaining statistics and other information about how users are using and interacting with Dentaly. These analytics providers may use tracking techniques other than HTTP cookies to recognise your computer or device and/or to collect or compile this information. These techniques may be used directly on Dentaly. Dentaly has no responsibility for the technologies, tools or practices of the third parties that providing analytics products and services to Dentaly. Please also keep in mind that your web browser may not permit you to block the use of these techniques, and that browser settings that block conventional cookies may have no effect on such techniques.
Security and Protection of Personally Identifying Information
We have implemented reasonable security measures and practices in an effort to protect the confidentiality of your Personally Identifying Information (other than Personally Identifying Information that you have elected to disclose to others). However, no security system is impenetrable. It may be possible for third parties to intercept or access information you provide to Dentaly. Dentaly cannot guarantee the security of your Personally Identifying Information, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to Dentaly. It is important for you to protect against unauthorised access to your password(s) and computer or device, and to log off when using any shared computer.
Email or Text Message Communications
We may contact you by e-mail, text message or other equivalent electronic communications if you access Dentaly products or services or register for events, webinars or other content or services provided by Dentaly. By visiting or using Dentaly content, products or services, or registering for or attending Dentaly events or webinars, you specifically consent to the receipt of these e-mail or text message communications. If you do not want to receive emails, text messages or other communications from us, please notify us by email to [email protected] and include sufficient information for us to identify your account, including your Name, Email Address (or phone Number) and the specifics of your request. If you unsubscribe, Dentaly may still contact you via email or text message for administrative purposes or concerning any products, services or events for which you have registered or are using.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
Dentaly retains the discretion to amend or modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. Use and disclosure of Information we obtain is subject to the later of: (1) the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such Information is collected or (2) any subsequent Privacy Policy of which you have notice. If we make material changes to the way we collect, use or disclose Personally Identifying Information, we will notify you by posting a clear and prominent announcement on Dentaly or through a direct communication. Your continued access to or use of Dentaly following notice of material changes to this Privacy Policy shall constitute consent to any amendments and/or modifications. Your use of Dentaly is entirely voluntary, and you may discontinue use of Dentaly at any time.
How to Contact Us
Dentaly welcomes any questions or comments you may have regarding this Privacy Policy or its implementation. Any such questions or comments should be submitted to [email protected]. We will undertake reasonable efforts to resolve or address your concern.