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Southwest Dental
Group, Ltd. (“Southwest Dental Group”) takes seriously the
confidentiality of your personal information. The
following Privacy Policy sets forth our information gathering
and dissemination practices for this website. BY
ACCESSING OR USING THIS WEBSITE, YOU HEREBY AGREE TO THE TERMS
OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND CONSENT TO THE COLLECTION AND USE OF
INFORMATION AS DISCUSSED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO
NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, DO NOT ACCESS
THIS WEBSITE.
Southwest Dental
Group respects your privacy. We strive to make your
dealings with us as private, easy and secure as possible.
We do not sell, rent or loan any of your personally identifiable
information to any third party. We may use and share
information with those persons and third-party entities
specifically involved in the processing of your request for
information or services from Southwest Dental Group; in
addition, we may use and share aggregated information when it
enables us to improve and enrich our services and website
content.
The effective
date of this Privacy Policy is October 1, 2005. Southwest
Dental Group reserves the right to modify or amend this Privacy
Policy at any time. All changes will be effective
immediately upon their posting to this website. Material
changes will be conspicuously posted on this website. By
accessing or using this website after such changes are posted
you agree and consent to all such changes.
Personally Identifiable Account Information
Southwest Dental
Group may collect information you voluntarily share with us in
submitting a request for information or services, as well as
other information, for example through Internet Protocol (“IP”)
addresses and the use of “cookies”, which may be placed on your
computer when you access the website. (See the sections on IP
Addresses and Cookies below.)
Southwest Dental
Group may collect any content, record, or electronic
communication of any kind, including without limitation your (1)
contact information, (2) financial information, (3) demographic
information, (4) date of birth and (5) other personal
information required to process your request for information or
services from Southwest Dental Group, so that we may provide you
with the information or services that you request, and so that
we may communicate with you and send you information and
materials for marketing and other purposes, subject to
applicable laws. Your personal information may also be
used by Southwest Dental Group to contact you when necessary
regarding your request for information or services; e-mail or
other written correspondence may be sent to you to inform you of
the status of your request for information or services.
Southwest Dental
Group maintains full rights to any information collected on this
website, and may freely collect, use and disclose such
information unless prohibited by this Privacy Policy or
applicable law. In the event of a change in control of
Southwest Dental Group or sale by Southwest Dental Group of
substantially all of its assets, any information owned by or in
the control of Southwest Dental Group may be transferred to such
Southwest Dental Group successor, who will comply with the terms
of this Privacy Policy.
IP
Addresses
Southwest Dental
Group logs IP addresses for systems administration purposes.
IP addresses are not used to track a user’s session. This
information only helps us determine how often different areas of
our site are visited. We do not link IP address to any
information that is personally identifiable.
Cookies
Southwest Dental
Group may use cookies to track the use of our website and to
facilitate and enhance your experience on our website.
“Cookies” are small pieces of information that are stored by
your browser on your computer’s hard drive. Our cookies
enable us to facilitate access to different aspects of our
website. For example, by showing when and how you and
others visit our website, cookies help us to see which pages of
the website are popular and which are not. Cookies can
also help us to improve your enjoyment of this website, for
example, by remembering your address or other personal
information when you request information or services on the
website.
Most web
browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can disable this
function so that your browser will not accept cookies.
Please be aware that disabling this function may impact your use
and enjoyment of this website.
E-mail Communication
Southwest Dental
Group may use your personal information to send you promotional
communications. You have the opportunity to opt-out of
receiving such promotional communications from us at any time.
To discontinue your receipt of such promotional communications,
simply reply to the email you receive with the word “Remove” in
the subject line. However, Southwest Dental Group may
still send you non-promotional service email or other written
correspondence regarding your request for information or
services from Southwest Dental Group.
Security
We limit access
to personally identifiable information about you to our
employees and third-party agents, who we reasonably believe need
to have access to your information to provide you with the
information or services you request from Southwest Dental Group.
This website has
security measures in place to help protect against the loss,
misuse and alteration of the information under our control.
While we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration to
data will not occur, Southwest Dental Group uses industry
standards, such as Secure Socket Layers (“SSL”) technology, to
help safeguard against such occurrences. In certain areas,
the information passed between your browser and our system is
encrypted with SSL technology to create a protected connection
between you and our website to ensure confidentiality. In
the event that a breach into our security systems occurs and
there is a possibility that an unauthorized person acquires your
personal information, Southwest Dental Group will notify you of
such a breach under applicable law.
Access to Your Personal Information
If you wish to have access to your personal information in our
records, please contact us with your request in writing at:
6601 S. Rural Rd., Tempe, AZ 85283. You may also request,
in writing, that we update your personal information or correct
any factual errors that you believe may exist regarding this
information.
Third-Party Websites
This website may
link to, or be linked to, other websites not maintained by or
related to Southwest Dental Group. Southwest Dental Group
is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any
third parties or third-party websites, including any linked or
linking websites. To the extent that you disclose
personally identifiable information to any such third parties,
different rules may apply to their use and disclosure of
personal information that you disclose to them. We
encourage you to review the privacy policies of such websites
before disclosing your personal information to them.
Contacting Us
If you have any
questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please
contact us at:
Southwest Dental
Group
Attention:
IT Department, Web Privacy
6601 S. Rural
Rd.
Tempe, AZ 85283
Voice:
480-456-0821
Fax:
480-456-0826
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