Privacy Policy

The Dental Studio (We) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy (together with our Terms of Website Use 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 Act), the data controller is The Dental Studio of 236 Bergholt Road, Colchester, Essex, CO4 5AS.

We may collect and process the following data about you (or any third party for whom you are acting):

1. Information that you (or any third party using our site on your behalf) provide by filling in forms on our site https://the-dental-studio.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 information when you report a problem with our site. By permitting a third party to add information to our site and/or carry out any transactions or make enquiries on the site on your behalf, you hereby confirm that such third party has your consent to do so.
2. Information collected from the General Dental Council's public register of dental professionals.
3. If you (or any third party for whom you are acting) contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
4. We may also ask you (or any third party for whom you are acting) to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you (or any third party for whom you are acting) do not have to respond to them.
5. Details of transactions or enquiries you make through our site (and any third party makes on your behalf) and of the fulfilment of your orders (whether made by you or made on your behalf by a third party). You must ensure that you have the consent of all third parties on whose behalf you carry out transactions or make enquiries or place orders through our site. You must ensure also that these third parties are aware of the terms of this Privacy Policy. You will be required to make a declaration when you carry out transactions or make enquiries or place orders through our site that you have the consent of all third parties on whose behalf you are making the transaction, enquiry or order and we shall accept no liability for any failure to do so on your part.
6. 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. For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:

1. To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
2. To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests.
3. To speed up your searches.
4. To recognise you (or any third party for whom you are acting) when you return to our site.

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site. Please note that our advertisers may also use cookies, over which we have no control.

The data that we collect from you (or any third party for whom you are acting) will not be transferred to, or stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. 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.

We use information held about you (or any third party for whom you are acting) in the following ways:

1. To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
2. To provide you (or any third party for whom you are acting) with information, products or services that you (or any third party for whom you are acting) request from us or which we feel may interest you (or any third party for whom you are acting), where you (or any third party for whom you are acting) have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
3. To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you (or any third party for whom you are acting) and us.
4. To allow you (or any third party for whom you are acting) to participate in interactive features of our service, when you (or any third party for whom you are acting) choose to do so.
5. To notify you (or any third party for whom you are acting) about changes to our service.

We may also use your data (or that of any third party for whom you are acting), or permit selected third parties to use your data, to provide you (or any third party for whom you are acting) with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you (or any third party for whom you are acting) and we or they may contact you (or any third party for whom you are acting) about these by post or telephone. Information about you that has been entered into our system by a third party for the making of transactions or enquiries through our site on your behalf and of the fulfilment of your orders will be collected and used for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. Information about any third party for whom you are acting that has been entered into our system by you for the making of transactions or enquiries through our site on their behalf and of the fulfilment of their orders will be collected and used for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. Information collected from the General Dental Council's public register of dental professionals may be used to verify the personal details you enter when you register to use our site. The information may be used to pre-populate some of the forms in the registration screen and/or login screen and/or any order form you may complete. In addition, such information may be displayed on publicly accessible parts of our site and/or parts of the site only accessible via secure login. If you (or any third party for whom you are acting) are an existing customer, we will only contact you (or any third party for whom you are acting) by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you or to any third party who carried out the transaction on your behalf. If you (or any third party for whom you are acting) are a new customer, and where we permit selected third parties to use your data (or that of any third party for whom you are acting), we (or they) will contact you (or any third party for whom you carried out the transaction) by electronic means only if you (or any third party for whom you are acting) have consented to this. If you do not want us to use your data (or the data of any third party for whom you are acting) in this way, or to pass your details (or the details of any third party for whom you are acting) on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data (the order form or registration form). We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users (for example, we may inform them that 500 men aged under 30 have clicked on their advertisement on any given day). We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target (for example, women in SW1). We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you (whether your own or that of any third party for whom you are acting) to enable us to comply with our advertisers' wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience.

We may disclose your personal information (or that of any third party for whom you are acting) to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 736 of the UK Companies Act 1985. We may disclose your personal information (or that of any third party for whom you are acting) to third parties:

1. 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
2. If the Dental Studio 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.
3. 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 Website Use or Terms and Conditions of Supply and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Dental Studio, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

You (or any third party for whom you are acting) 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 or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party 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 (or any third party for whom you are acting) can also exercise the right at any time by contacting the Data Protection Officer at dpo@the-dental-studio.com. Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

The Act gives you (or any third party for whom you are acting) the right to access information held about you (or any third party for whom you are acting). Your right of access (or that of any third party for whom you are acting) 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 (or any third party for whom you are acting).

Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you (or any third party for whom you are acting) by e-mail.

Questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy are welcomed and should be addressed to the Data Protection Officer at dpo@the-dental-studio.com.