Privacy Policy

Effective Date: March 9, 2004
Last Update: March 9, 2004

Discus Dental Privacy Policy Notice

Keeping customer information secure and using it only as our customers would want us to, are top priorities for all of us at Discus Dental. This notice outlines our Privacy Policy.

Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions

By visiting Discus Dental websites and online stores you are accepting this Privacy Policy. Discus Dental encourages you to read this Privacy Policy Notice and those of all web sites you visit. If you have any concern about privacy at Discus Dental, please contact us at 1-800-442-9448. Our Privacy Notice is subject to change. You should check our web site frequently to see the most recent changes to our Policy. We will notify you of any material changes that make our Policy less protective of personal information collected in the past by sending a notice to your primary e-mail address on file with this website or by placing a prominent notice on our website.

Types and uses of personal information

Your personal information is used in the following ways:

Login: This provides you with access to your account and protected content. Your login includes a personally selected username and password.
Account Information: This feature tells us more about who you are, how to contact you, and other relevant information, such as: type of practice or first and last name, billing and shipping addresses, city, state, zip code, telephone, facsimile and email address.
Credit Card Information: This information is used to process payment for goods purchased. This includes credit card type, number and expiration date.
Automatic information: We collect and analyze information including Internet Protocol address used to connect your computer to the internet; username; password; browser type; Uniform Resource Locator (URL), clickstream to, through, and from our Web site, and date and time. We also use software tools to measure and collect session information, including response time, errors, and network information.

Information Sharing

We are not in the business of selling your information to others.

Agents

We share information with agents that perform functions on our behalf. Examples including fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and email, processing credit card payments, checking credit history, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links, and providing customer service.

Receipt of Information

We receive information from other sources including tracking and delivery date information from carriers; search term and search result information including paid listings such as Overture pay-for-performance and Google sponsored listings; and credit history information from credit bureaus which we use to prevent and detect fraud and offer certain credit terms to some customers.

Business Transfers

As we continue to develop our business, we might buy or sell business units or subsidiaries. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets. In the event that this division of Discus Dental is acquired, customer information will be one of the transferred assets.

Security

We protect the personal information that you share with us. We protect the security of your information during transmission with Secure Sockets Layer software (SSL), which encrypts your information. Access to your information is limited to authorized employees who are trained in the proper handling of customer information. Authorized third party agents may also need access to you personal information, i.e. a shipping company to deliver your package. We provide third party agents with the minimum of information needed to complete the requested service or transaction.

Website links

We provide links to third party sites. Since we do not control these web sites, we encourage you to review the privacy notices posted on these (and all) third party sites.

Accessing and updating information

Account or personal information can be changed or updated by speaking with a customer service representative. Login information such as usernames and passwords can be retrieved electronically to the email address on file by using the password retrieval functionality. Please notify us of changes to your account and personal information.