Privacy Policy

What Does This Privacy Policy Cover?

This Privacy Policy covers the treatment of user information, including Personally Identifiable Information (defined below), obtained by BUDentalCenter.com, including information obtained when you access or log in to BUDentalCenter.com, and/or register for content or services provided by BUDentalCenter.com.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that BUDentalCenter.com does not own or control, or to individuals whom BUDentalCenter.com does not employ or manage, including any of the third parties to which BUDentalCenter.com may disclose user information as set forth in this Policy.

What Types of User Information Does BUDentalCenter.com Obtain?

BUDentalCenter.com may obtain the following types of information from you or concerning your computer or device (“Information”), which may include information that can be used to identify you as specified below (“Personally Identifiable Information”):

  • Name
  • Email Address
  • Mailing Address
  • Telephone Number(s)
  • Blog or Website URL
  • Social Networking Handle or Username
  • Photo
  • Medical records
  • Demographic Information (e.g., age, gender, interests, and preferences)
  • Professional Title
  • Company
  • Industry
  • Activities or Content Viewed on BUDentalCenter.com
  • Information Collected Automatically detailed below
  • Information Received from Third Parties, detailed below

In certain cases, we may request that you provide some of the Information identified above in order to obtain specific products or services. If you choose not to provide the Information we request, you may still use BUDentalCenter.com, but you may be unable to access certain features or services.

When you register to receive any products or services from BUDentalCenter.com or provide information to BUDentalCenter.com in any other manner, you agree to provide only true, accurate, current and complete information.

Information Collected Automatically

BUDentalCenter.com may automatically receive and log certain types of information when you visit or interact with our websites, services, mobile applications or other products, including:

  • Browser Information
  • Operating System Information
  • Mobile Device Information (e.g., device identifier, mobile operating system, etc.)
  • IP Address
  • Internet Service Provider
  • Content Viewed
  • Geographic Location
  • Connection Speed
  • Time of Visit
  • Referring Site, Application, or Service
  • Registration Time

Information Received From Third Parties

Third Party Websites/Social Networking Sites

If you choose to use any third party website or service that is integrated with BUDentalCenter.com, including a third party social networking or blogging site, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or WordPress (“Third Party Websites”) – or if you use any BUDentalCenter.com application provided through any Third Party Website – we may receive Information, including Personally Identifying Information, from such Third Party Websites, including, but not limited to:

  • Name
  • Nickname or Username
  • Photo or Graphic Avatar
  • Unique Third Party Website Identifier (e.g., Facebook User ID)
  • Biographical or Demographic Information (e.g. professional title, gender, college attended, etc.)
  • Likes and Interests
  • Contacts/Friends/Associations
  • Any Information That Is Publicly Available on Third Party Websites

For example, BUDentalCenter.com may offer the ability to use certain Third Party Websites to facilitate your registration on BUDentalCenter.com. We may also use information about your profile and connections on Third Party Websites to allow you to share or connect with your friends and contacts on BUDentalCenter.com or to personalize your experience. In addition, BUDentalCenter.com offers “plug ins” and “widgets” from various Third Party Websites that allow you to share BUDentalCenter.com content off of our service, as discussed in “Disclosure of Information to Third Parties”.

Your decision to use, or share with, a Third Party Website when accessing or using BUDentalCenter.com products and services is completely voluntary. BUDentalCenter.com is not responsible for compliance with the policies or practices of any Third Party Website. You should ensure that you are comfortable with the information such Third Party Websites may make available to BUDentalCenter.com by reviewing those Websites’ privacy policies and service terms, and by modifying your privacy settings and preferences on those Services.

Any information we receive from Third Party Websites will be governed by this Privacy Policy.

How Do We Use This Information?

We use the Information we obtain from or concerning you or your computer or device to provide BUDentalCenter.com products and services, fulfill your requests, improve our products and services, personalize and tailor your experience on BUDentalCenter.com, operate our business, and understand how users are engaging with BUDentalCenter.com.

In addition, we may use Information from or concerning you or your computer or device to facilitate the delivery of content or advertisements that we believe may be of interest to you, or to communicate with you about new or existing products and services or special offers. For example, we may periodically send promotional materials or notifications related to our products and services to the email address associated with your account.

BUDentalCenter.com’s Use of Cookies

BUDentalCenter.com may place “cookies” on your computer or device that may contain anonymous Information that is associated with you. Cookies are small text files a website uses to recognize users, and are typically placed on your hard disk by a web server. Cookies contain information that can later be read by a web server in the domain (here, BUDentalCenter.com) that issued the cookie to you or that, in some cases, can be read by a third party domain.

Our cookies may record Information about your use of BUDentalCenter.com so that we can provide a continuous and more personalized experience for you, including for one or more of the following purposes: to help identify visitors; assess usage patterns; identify preferences; control the display of ads; diagnose problems with our servers; gather demographic information; analyze trends and usage patterns; conduct research; deliver editorial content; record registration and personalized information; and otherwise administer BUDentalCenter.com products and services.

If you do not wish to have BUDentalCenter.com place and use cookies on your computer, you should set your browser preferences to refuse cookies before accessing BUDentalCenter.com. BUDentalCenter.com is not responsible for any failure by you or your browser to accurately implement or communicate your browser preferences or settings. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to sign in or use other interactive features of BUDentalCenter.com that depend on cookies.

BUDentalCenter.com does not control and is not responsible for the use of cookies by its third party partners or advertisers. The use of cookies by some of these third parties is discussed below (see “Analytics Services”).

Reviewing and Modifying Your Personally Identifying Information

You may update Personally Identifying Information that is obtained and stored by BUDentalCenter.com, or change your account preferences, in the following ways:

  1. You may unsubscribe to any of our e-mail updates or products by following the unsubscribe instructions in the body of any message (see “Email or Text Message Communications”)
  2. You may contact us at usa.contact@BUDentalCenter.com

Disclosure of Information to Third Parties

BUDentalCenter.com may disclose Information (including Personally Identifying Information) from or concerning you or your computer or device to third parties in the circumstances described below. By visiting, accessing, attending or using BUDentalCenter.com’s products, services or events, you consent to the disclosure of your Information to certain categories of third parties in the manner described below. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the policies or practices of any of these third parties.

Service Providers

BUDentalCenter.com relies on third party vendors and service providers to provide support and assistance for its products, services and events (“Service Providers”), and we may disclose your Information (including Personally Identifying Information) to these Service Providers to the extent necessary to support our products, services or events, or as otherwise set forth below.

Web Hosts

BUDentalCenter.com website services are hosted by PlanetHoster, a webhosting platform. All Information obtained and stored by BUDentalCenter.com’s websites ( see “What Types of User Information Does BUDentalCenter.com Obtain?”) is processed and stored on servers that are owned and operated by PlanetHoster.

Third Party Sponsors

If you have elected to access research or content or use assessment tools from BUDentalCenter.com, we may share your Information (including Personally Identifying Information) with business partner(s) and/or sponsor(s) of the assessment tool, research and/or content. You agree that these sponsor(s) and/or business partner(s) may use your Personally Identifying Information to contact you to provide additional information about their products or services.

Third Party Websites

BUDentalCenter.com offers the ability to share BUDentalCenter.com content on Third Party Websites, including social networking and blogging services such as LinkedIn or Facebook, through “plugins” or “widgets” (such as LinkedIn’s “in” button or Facebook’s “Like” button). When you elect to share content and information with others on Third Party Websites, BUDentalCenter.com may transmit your Information (including Personally Identifying Information) to such Third Party Websites. This Information may be visible on the Third Party Website to anyone who has access to that content or Information. Your decision to share information in this manner is completely voluntary. You should ensure that you are comfortable with how Third Party Websites may share your Information by reviewing their privacy policies and/or modifying your privacy settings directly on those Third Party Websites.

URL/Referrer Header Information

When you visit BUDentalCenter.com websites, certain information about the content or activities you have engaged in on BUDentalCenter.com may be reflected in the Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) for the page you are viewing on BUDentalCenter.com (i.e., the Internet “address,” commonly displayed in the browser window). For example, the date or title of an article you are viewing may appear in the URL for that page. In addition, if you are logged into a BUDentalCenter.com account, certain account information (may be visible in the URL when you visit your account on BUDentalCenter.com. If you leave BUDentalCenter.com to visit a third party website, including when you click on an advertisement or link or when you share information through a social plug-in (like the Linked In “in” button), the information contained in the URL may be transmitted to the third party website by your browser.

Advertisers and Analytics Services

As discussed in “Third Party Advertising on BUDentalCenter.com”, BUDentalCenter.com uses third party advertisers, including ad networks, to provide advertising on its websites. In addition, as discussed “Analytics Services”, BUDentalCenter.com uses third party analytics products to obtain information about how users are using and interacting with BUDentalCenter.com. These third parties may receive Information (including Personally Identifying Information) from BUDentalCenter.com as discussed in greater detail in “Security and Protection of Personally Identifying Information”.

Law Enforcement/Legal Process

We may disclose your Information (including Personally Identifying Information) when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to comply with any law, regulation or legal request; enforce, apply, or investigate breaches of our terms of use and other agreements; respond to public requests; or protect the rights, property, user experience or safety of BUDentalCenter.com, our employees, our users, or others. This can include exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Comments and Public Posts; Sharing on Third Party Websites

BUDentalCenter.com encourages active participation by users, including through comments on BUDentalCenter.com. However, please be aware that if you voluntarily disclose Information, personal or otherwise, on BUDentalCenter.com, that Information can be viewed, collected and used by others, including other users, search engines, advertisers, third party applications developers, and anyone with access to BUDentalCenter.com has no control over the use, collection or disclosure of any Information that you post publicly on BUDentalCenter.com.

Change of Control

If BUDentalCenter.com, or substantially all of its assets, is acquired by another company or party, user Information will be one of the assets transferred or acquired by the purchaser. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any purchaser of BUDentalCenter.com or its assets may continue to collect, use and disclose your Information as set forth in this Policy.

Third Party Advertising on BUDentalCenter.com

BUDentalCenter.com may allow third party advertising serving companies, including ad networks (“Advertisers”), to display advertisements or provide other advertising services on BUDentalCenter.com. Any such advertisements are clearly separated from our editorial content and identified with the term ‘Advertisement’. These third party Advertisers may use techniques other than HTTP cookies to recognize your computer or device and/or to collect and record demographic and other Information about you, including your activities on or off BUDentalCenter.com. These techniques may be used directly on BUDentalCenter.com. Please keep in mind that your web browser may not permit you to block the use of these techniques, and that browser settings that block conventional cookies may have no effect on such techniques.

Advertisers may use the information collected to display advertisements that are tailored to your interests or background and/or associate such information with your subsequent visits, purchases or other activities on other websites. Advertisers may also share this information with their clients or other third parties.

BUDentalCenter.com has no responsibility for the technologies, tools or practices of the Advertisers that provide advertising and related services on BUDentalCenter.com. This Privacy Policy does not cover any collection, use or disclosure of Information by Advertisers who provide advertising and related services on BUDentalCenter.com. These Advertisers’ information gathering practices, including their policies regarding the use of cookies and other tracking technologies, are governed entirely by their own privacy policies, not this one.

BUDentalCenter.com currently may be using one or more of the following Advertisers to provide advertising and related services on BUDentalCenter.com. BUDentalCenter.com uses the Standard Terms and Conditions set forth by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB).

Advertising Privacy Statement

This Site is affiliated with Mediavine for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site. Mediavine uses standard and widely-available tools for the placement and serving of ads, including those provided by Google, Inc. and its affiliates. We publish interest-based advertisements on the Site; that is, ads that are tailored to reflect your interests. To help understand your interests, Mediavine, Google and our other advertising partners will track your behaviour on our website and on other websites across the Internet using cookies.

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

By using this Site, you consent to the use of such cookies and the sharing of data captured by such cookies with Mediavine, Google, and our other third party partners. You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting: https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of the network cookie using those settings or using the Network Advertising Initiative’s multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org. However, these opt-out mechanisms themselves use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be maintained.

For European Economic Area Residents

If you reside in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), then under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws you have the rights, among other things, to access your personal data, have us erase it, and/or restrict its further processing. If you wish to access or delete your personal data (if any) maintained by us, you can contact us here.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising

For information regarding data collection by Mediavine ad partners including how to opt out of data collection, please click here

Analytics Services

In addition, BUDentalCenter.com uses third party analytics providers and products to obtain, compile and analyze Information (that may include Personally Identifying Information) about how users are using and interacting with BUDentalCenter.com. BUDentalCenter.com may provide Information (including Personally Identifying Information) to these analytics providers for the purpose of obtaining statistics and other information about how users are using and interacting with BUDentalCenter.com. These analytics providers may use tracking techniques other than HTTP cookies to recognize your computer or device and/or to collect or compile this information. These techniques may be used directly on BUDentalCenter.com. BUDentalCenter.com has no responsibility for the technologies, tools or practices of the third parties that providing analytics products and services to BUDentalCenter.com. Please also keep in mind that your web browser may not permit you to block the use of these techniques, and that browser settings that block conventional cookies may have no effect on such techniques.

Security and Protection of Personally Identifying Information

We have implemented reasonable security measures and practices in an effort to protect the confidentiality of your Personally Identifying Information (other than Personally Identifying Information that you have elected to disclose to others). However, no security system is impenetrable. It may be possible for third parties to intercept or access information you provide to BUDentalCenter.com. BUDentalCenter.com cannot guarantee the security of your Personally Identifying Information, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to BUDentalCenter.com. It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password(s) and computer or device, and to log off when using any shared computer.

Email or Text Message Communications

We may contact you by e-mail, text message or other equivalent electronic communications if you access BUDentalCenter.com products or services or register for events, webinars or other content or services provided by BUDentalCenter.com. By visiting or using BUDentalCenter.com content, products or services, or registering for or attending BUDentalCenter.com events or webinars, you specifically consent to the receipt of these e-mail or text message communications. If you do not want to receive emails, text messages or other communications from us, please notify us by email to us at contact@BUDentalCenter.com and include sufficient information for us to identify your account, including your Name, Email Address (or Cellphone Number) and the specifics of your request. If you unsubscribe, BUDentalCenter.com may still contact you via email or text message for administrative purposes or concerning any products, services or events for which you have registered or are using.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

BUDentalCenter.com retains the discretion to amend or modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. Use and disclosure of Information we obtain is subject to the later of: (1) the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such Information is collected or (2) any subsequent Privacy Policy of which you have notice. If we make material changes to the way we collect, use or disclose Personally Identifying Information, we will notify you by posting a clear and prominent announcement on BUDentalCenter.com or through a direct communication. Your continued access to or use of BUDentalCenter.com following notice of material changes to this Privacy Policy shall constitute consent to any amendments and/or modifications. Your use of BUDentalCenter.com is entirely voluntary, and you may discontinue use of BUDentalCenter.com at any time.

How to Contact Us

BUDentalCenter.com welcomes any questions or comments you may have regarding this Privacy Policy or its implementation. Any such questions or comments should be submitted to usa.contact@BUDentalCenter.com. We will undertake reasonable efforts to resolve or address your concern.

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