Dulce Dental & Orthodontics is committed to protecting your online privacy. We feel it is important for you to know how we handle the information we receive from you via the Internet. You can visit the Dulce Dental & Orthodontics website without revealing any personal information. However, you are required to provide basic contact information if you wish to use the site to request an appointment, ask a question or subscribe to a newsletter, or apply for a position as an employee. If you wish to request an appointment, you will be asked what type of dental services you wish to obtain. If you wish to apply for a position as an employee, you will be asked to submit your current resume.
How we and our affiliates collect and use personal information
The website of Dulce Dental & Orthodontics may contain links to websites operated by third parties. Dulce Dental & Orthodontics has no control over the privacy policies and practices of such third-party sites, and if you have any concerns, you are urged to review the terms of those sites for more information about the policies applicable to those sites.
IP Addresses
We collect and log the IP address of all visitors to Dulce Dental & Orthodontics. An IP address is a number automatically assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet. IP addresses allow computers and servers to recognize and communicate with one another. We collect IP address information so that we can properly administer our system and gather aggregate information about how our site is being used, including the pages visitors are viewing. To maintain your anonymity, we do not associate IP addresses with records containing personal information. We will use IP address information, however, to personally identify you in order to enforce our legal rights or when required to do so by law enforcement authorities.
How we use cookies
“Cookies” are small pieces of information that some websites store on your computer’s hard drive when you visit them. Like many other websites at times, the website of Dulce Dental & Orthodontics may use cookies to provide us with information relating to the sources of our site traffic. Collecting this information, however, does not allow us to personally identify you. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but allow you to modify security settings so that you can approve or reject cookies on a case-by-case basis. Our site will work best if JavaScript is enabled. If you reject cookies from our site, some parts of the site may not work properly for you.
How we protect your personal information
Once your data reach our servers, the same state-of-the-art security software that guards our company’s essential business data protects your data as well. In addition to using the most secure technology available, we do identify all data before they are used in any aggregate reporting that may be done.
What we provide to third parties
Except as noted above for our surveys, Dulce Dental & Orthodontics does not provide any third party access to your IP address and contact information. We may provide third parties with aggregate statistics about our visitors, traffic patterns and related site information. These data reflect site-usage patterns gathered during visits to our website each month, but they do not contain behavioral or identifying information about any individual member unless that member has given us permission to share that information.
Aggregate Information
We use general traffic, site usage and length-of-stay information in reports to third parties with which we have a business relationship. This sort of information is shared only in aggregate and does not personally identify you.
Children’s Privacy
This site is intended for adults age 18 or older. It is not intended for or designed to attract people under the age of 18. We do not collect personally identifiable information from any person we actually know to be under the age of 18.
Email communication that you send to us via the email links on our site may be shared with a customer service representative, employee, dental expert or agent that is most able to address your inquiry. We make every effort to respond in a timely fashion once communication are received. Once we have responded to your communication, it is discarded or archived, depending on the nature of the inquiry. The email functionality on our site does not provide a completely secure and confidential means of communication. It’s possible that your email communication may be accessed or viewed by another Internet user while in transit to us. If you wish to keep your communication private, do not use our email. You may decide at some point that you no longer wish to receive communications from our site. To stop receiving communications, contact us at any time.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
We will occasionally update this Privacy Policy. We recommend that you check back here often to see any changes that have been made, and how our policies may have changed with regards to your personal information, how we store it and use it to help give you the best online experience possible.
Suggested text: When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
Suggested text: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
Suggested text: If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Suggested text: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
Suggested text: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
Suggested text: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
Suggested text: If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Suggested text: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.