Privacy Policy
This Privacy Notice is effective as of (September 23, 2023)
At Texas Dent Company (“TDC”), we recognize the importance of protecting your personal information and are committed to processing it responsibly and in compliance with applicable data protection laws in all countries in which we operate.
In the normal course of its business activities, TDC collects, uses, and sometimes shares personal information of various individuals and organizations in order to run its day-to-day operations. This Privacy Notice describes TDC’s general privacy practices that apply to such personal information collection and use.
This Notice does not apply to personal information relating to employees, applicants for employment, and temporary contractors providing services to TDC, including others in relationships with such persons that are relevant to their relationship with TDC (such as for emergency contact and benefits purposes). For information regarding TDC’s processing of such data, see the TDC Staff Privacy Notice.
TYPES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
In describing our collection, use, and sharing of information in this Notice, we refer to our collection and use of “Personal Information.” “Personal Information,” as used in this Notice, is any information related to an identified or identifiable natural person. Examples of Personal Information include first and last name, mailing 1700 Surveyor Blvd. Suite 100, email 1700 Surveyor Blvd. Suite 100, billing information, IP 1700 Surveyor Blvd. Suite 100, other online contact information, or telephone number.
HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We collect Personal Information in three ways:
- We collect the information you provide to us in optional, voluntary submissions, such as in registration forms, user profiles, promotional signups, sweepstakes/contest entries, requests for customer service, software, and mobile application downloads.
- We may collect some Personal Information automatically. This is described below in “Passive Data Collection.”
- We may also obtain information, including Personal Information, from third-party sources. If we directly combine information from third parties with Personal Information that we have collected, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information and handle it in accordance with this Notice. In addition, please note that we may solicit third parties to collect Personal Information on our behalf, such as social media platform providers, and in such cases, we instruct those third parties to comply with this Notice and all applicable data protection laws.
What information do we actively collect?
We collect information from you when you register on our site, place an order, or subscribe to our newsletter.
When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, and email at 1700 Surveyor Blvd. Suite 100, mailing 1700 Surveyor Blvd. Suite 100, phone number, or credit card information. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.
What do we use your information for?
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:
; To personalize your experience
(your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)
; To improve our website
(we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you)
; To improve customer service
(your information helps us to respond to your customer service requests and support needs more effectively)
; To process transactions
Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested.
; To send periodic emails
The email 1700 Surveyor Blvd. Suite 100 you provide for order processing may be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order, in addition to receiving occasional company news, updates, related product or service information, etc.
Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.
PASSIVE DATA COLLECTION
Location-Based Services
We may collect, use, and share (with TDC partners, service providers, and licensees) precise location data, including the real-time location of your mobile or fixed-location device.
Analytics Tools
We use analytics tools and other third-party technologies, such as Google Analytics, Facebook Analytics, and DoubleClick Cookies, to collect non-personal information in the form of various usage and user metrics when you use the TDC website or use our services (the TDC website and our services are referred to as “Sites and/or Services” in this Notice). These tools and technologies collect and analyze certain types of information, including cookies, IP 1700 Surveyor Blvd. Suite 100es, device and software identifiers, referring and exit URLs, onsite behavior and usage information, feature use metrics and statistics, usage and purchase history, MAC 1700 Surveyor Blvd. Suite 100, mobile unique device ID, and other similar information.
The third-party analytics companies who collect information on our Sites and/or Services and other online products and/or services may combine the information collected with other information they have independently collected from other websites and/or other online or mobile products and services relating to your activities across their network of websites as well as online and/or mobile products and services. Many of these companies collect and use information under their privacy policies.
In addition to our use of technologies as described herein, we may permit certain third-party companies to help us tailor advertising that we think may be of interest to you based on your use of our Sites and/or Services and to otherwise collect and use data about your use of our Sites and/or Services. For more information about this practice, please see the “Third Party Advertising Technologies” section below.
You may opt-out of the DoubleClick cookie by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page, or you may opt-out of Google Analytics by visiting the Google Analytics opt-out page.
Google has additional information available about their Remarketing Privacy Guidelines and Restrictions.
You may view a list of other third-party service providers who collect information and/or opt-out of such collection of information about you by visiting http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ or http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
How do we protect your information?
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit, or access your personal information.
We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems and are required to? Keep the information confidential.
After a transaction, your private information (credit cards, social security numbers, financials, etc.) will not be stored on our servers.
DO WE USE COOKIES?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information that are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit or to another website that recognizes that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognize a user’s device. You can find more information about cookies at: http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving the user experience. They can also help to ensure that advertisements you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.
The cookies used on our Sites and/or Services have been categorized based on the categories found in the ICC UK Cookie guide. The cookies used on our Sites and/or Services by category are described below.
Cookie Settings
Performance Cookies
TDC collects cookies on our Sites and/or Services to capture information about page visits (e.g. “performance cookies.”) This information is anonymous, and TDC uses this information only internally to deliver the most effective content to our visitors. Information from the cookie is used to gauge page popularity, analyze traffic patterns on our Sites and/or Services, and guide the development of other improvements to our Sites and/or Services.
Targeting, Performance, and Functionality Cookies
In our email programs, TDC employs some tracking methods (e.g., “targeting, performance, and functionality cookies”). We track “opens” via a tracking pixel in the email- meaning we track who opens our email messages and when you open our email messages, and we track “clicks” via encoded URLs-meaning we track whether you click on the links contained in our email messages. This information is used internally to help us deliver relevant messaging and is not shared with third parties.
Functionality and Necessary Cookies
TDC does not require that you accept cookies, and you may withdraw your consent to our use of cookies at any time by adjusting your browser’s privacy settings; however, some functionality on our Sites (e.g. “functionality cookies”), our product, or service check-out process, and Services may be disabled if you decline to accept cookies ( e.g. “necessary cookies”).
Opting Out of Cookies
By using the Sites and Services, you consent to the placement of the cookies referenced above. You can, however, set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. Where applicable, you may also change your cookie settings through preference options in our Sites and/or Services. We will indicate that upon selecting your preferences, we will use a cookie to remember your preferences.
Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect our or others’ rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
In addition to using cookies and related technologies as described above, we also may permit certain third-party companies to help us tailor advertising that we think may be of interest to users and to collect and use other data about user activities on our Sites and/or Services (e.g., to allow them to tailor ads on third party services). These companies may deliver ads that might also place cookies and otherwise track user behavior. These companies may use information about user behavior in order to provide customized advertisements across various services and products. In the course of providing these services, and products or placing advertisements, these third-party companies may place or recognize a unique cookie on your computer and may record information to these cookies based upon your activities on any of our Sites and/or Services and on third-party websites. Each of these companies uses this cookie information according to their own privacy and security policies. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving your targeted ads, you may opt-out as indicated in this Notice. Please note this does not opt you out of being delivered advertising. You will continue to receive generic ads.
California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
Because we value your privacy, we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We, therefore, will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.
As part of the California Online Privacy Protection Act, all users of our site may make any changes to their information at any time by logging into their control panel and going to the ‘Edit Profile’ page.
Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
We comply with the requirements of COPPA (Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act); we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products, and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.
HOW TO ACCESS AND CONTROL YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
You may access and review the Personal Information TDC stores about you and correct any factual errors. Most of your Personal Information may be accessed and corrected by navigating to https://texasdentcompany.com/my-account/ to submit, update, or remove your data from our system.
If you are an EU resident, you have the following data protection rights:
- You may access, correct, update or request deletion of your personal information.
- You can object to processing your personal information, ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information, or request portability of your personal information.
- You can opt out of marketing communications we send you at any time. You can exercise this right by clicking on the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” link in our marketing emails.
- Similarly, if we have collected and processed your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted before your withdrawal, nor will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
- You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more information, please get in touch with your local data protection authority. (Contact details for data protection authorities in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and certain non-European countries (including the US and Canada) are available here.)
You can exercise your rights by contacting us using the information provided in the “How to contact us” section heading below.
We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
NOTICE REGARDING AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING AND PROFILING
In some instances, our use of your personal information may result in automated decisions being taken (including profiling).
Automated decisions mean that a decision concerning you is made automatically on the basis of a computer determination (using software algorithms), without our human review. For example, we use automated decisions to provide targeted advertising on our Services that may be of interest to you. You can opt out of targeted advertising by contacting us using the information provided in the “How to contact us” section heading below.
NOTICE REGARDING THIRD-PARTY PRIVACY PRACTICES & SOCIAL MEDIA
This Privacy Notice applies solely to our Site and/or Services. Our site includes links to other unaffiliated websites. If you access those sites and submit personal information, you are subject to the privacy notices applicable to those sites. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy notice of any website you visit.
Online Privacy Policy Only
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.
Your Consent
By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will update the Privacy Policy modification date below.
HOW TO CONTACT US
To exercise your data subject rights, fill out the form:
CLICK HERE to submit, update, or remove your data from our system.
If you have a privacy-related concern, complaint, or question, please get in touch with us at:
Or, you may reach us using the following information:
Texas Dent Company c/o Privacy Matters
1700 Surveyor Blvd. Suite 100
Carrollton TX, 75006, USA
CHANGES TO NOTICE
Please note that this Privacy Notice may change from time to time. If there are material changes to this Privacy Notice or in how we use your personal information, we will post a notice on our home page that this Privacy Notice has changed. You are also encouraged to review this Privacy Notice periodically to stay informed on how we protect your personal information.
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