Privacy Policy

Dentist Merrillville, IN

Last updated: August 9, 2023

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information
when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and
use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The
following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

  • Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our
    Service.
  • Company (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers
    to Premier Dental, 7891 Broadway, Suite C, Merrillville, Indiana 46410.
  • Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device
    by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
  • Country refers to: United States
  • Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a
    digital tablet.
  • Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
  • Service refers to the Website.
  • Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the
    Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the
    Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to
    assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
  • Third-party Social Media Service refers to any website or any social network website
    through which a User can log in or create an account to use the Service.
  • Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the
    Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
  • Website refers to Premier Dental, accessible from https://dentistmerrillvillein.com/
  • You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal
    entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be
used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address
  • First name and last name
  • Phone number
  • Usage Data

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type,
browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those
pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically,
including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of
Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device
identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the
Service by or through a mobile device.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information.
Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and
analyze Our Service.

You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do
not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service.

Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile
device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close your web browser.

We use both session and persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

  • Necessary / Essential Cookies
    Type: Session Cookies
    Administered by: Us
    Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and
    to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent
    use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be
    provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.
  • Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies
    Type: Persistent Cookies
    Administered by: Us
    Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
  • Functionality Cookies
    Type: Persistent Cookies
    Administered by: Us
    Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as
    remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide
    You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time
    You use the Website.
  • Tracking and Performance Cookies
    Type: Persistent Cookies
    Administered by: Third-Parties
    Purpose: These Cookies are used to track information about traffic to the Website and how users use
    the Website. The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as
    an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a
    pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the Website. We may also use
    these Cookies to test new pages, features or new functionality of the Website to see how our users
    react to them.
  • Targeting and Advertising Cookies
    Type: Persistent Cookies
    Administered by: Third-Parties
    Purpose: These Cookies track your browsing habits to enable Us to show advertising which is more likely to
    be of interest to You. These Cookies use information about your browsing history to group You with other
    users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and with Our permission, third party
    advertisers can place Cookies to enable them to show adverts which We think will be relevant to your
    interests while You are on third party websites.

For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy or
the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
  • To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal
    Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You
    as a registered user.
  • For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the
    purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us
    through the Service.
  • To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of
    electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative
    communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security
    updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
  • To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods,
    services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired
    about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
  • To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

  • With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to
    monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to show advertisements to You to help support and maintain Our
    Service, to advertise on third party websites to You after You visited our Service, to contact You.
  • For Business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection
    with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a
    portion of our business to another company.
  • With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will
    require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other
    subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control
    with Us.
  • With Business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer
    You certain products, services or promotions.
  • With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public
    areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.
    If You interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, Your contacts on
    the Third-Party Social Media Service may see Your name, profile, pictures and description of Your activity.
    Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of Your activity, communicate with You and view
    Your profile.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy
Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for
example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our
legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a
shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of
Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other places
where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to—and
maintained on—computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where
the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to
that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance
with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country
unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will
provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law
or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • Comply with a legal obligation
  • Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
  • Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
  • Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
  • Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the
Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to
protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal Data

Service Providers have access to Your Personal Data only to perform their tasks on Our behalf and are obligated not
to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

  • Google Analytics
    Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic.
    Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other
    Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own
    advertising network. You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google
    Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google
    Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about
    visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy
    & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Advertising

We may use Service providers to show advertisements to You to help support and maintain Our Service.

  • Google AdSense & DoubleClick Cookie
    Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our Service. Google’s use of the
    DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our
    Service or other websites on the Internet. You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick Cookie for
    interest-based advertising by visiting the Google Ads Settings web page: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/

Behavioral Remarketing

The Company uses remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to You after You visited our Service. We
and Our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on Your past visits to our Service.

Available third-party opt-out tools include: the Digital Advertising Alliance and the Network Advertising
Initiative.

Usage, Performance and Miscellaneous

We may use third-party Service Providers to provide better improvement of our Service.

  • Invisible reCAPTCHA
    We use an invisible captcha service named reCAPTCHA. reCAPTCHA is operated by Google. The reCAPTCHA
    service may collect information from You and from Your Device for security purposes. The information
    gathered by reCAPTCHA is held in accordance with the Privacy Policy of Google: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
  • Google Places
    Google Places is a service that returns information about places using HTTP requests. It is operated by
    Google. Google Places service may collect information from You and from Your Device for security purposes.
    The information gathered by Google Places is held in accordance with the Privacy Policy of Google: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

Your California Privacy Rights (California’s Shine the Light law)

Under California Civil Code Section 1798 (California’s Shine the Light law), California residents with an
established business relationship with us can request information once a year about sharing their Personal Data with
third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes.

If you’d like to request more information under the California Shine the Light law, and if you are a California
resident, You can contact Us using the contact information provided below.

California Privacy Rights for Minor Users (California Business and Professions Code Section 22581)

California Business and Professions Code section 22581 allow California residents under the age of 18 who are
registered users of online sites, services or applications to request and obtain removal of content or information
they have publicly posted.

To request removal of such data, and if you are a California resident, You can contact Us using the contact
information provided below, and include the email address associated with Your account.

Be aware that Your request does not guarantee complete or comprehensive removal of content or information posted
online and that the law may not permit or require removal in certain circumstances.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You
will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You
visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third
party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy
Policy on this page.

We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and
update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are
effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us by email: [email protected]