Privacy
Helvetic Dental Clinics are committed to protecting the personal information that you provide to us when using the Helvetic Clinic’s website. This privacy policy describes how we treat all user data collected during your visit to our website, both anonymous data and personally identifying data.
User data we collect
We collect two types of user data: (1) anonymous data that is automatically collected from all visitors to the Site; and (2) personally-identifiable data that you voluntarily submit to us (described below under “Personal Data”).
Anonymous data
We automatically collect Internet Protocol addresses and domain names through our server. We also track the number and frequency of hits per page on an aggregate basis.
Personal data
We may collect Personal Data that you voluntarily provide, such as your name and postal address, phone number, email address, and similar information, when you participate in certain activities on the Helvetic Clinics’ website.
Data protection
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with the best and most useful content to help improve your online experience.We collect certain kinds of information about our users for these reasons:
- To provide personalised services unique to individual users.
- To help us to monitor and improve the services we offer.
How we use the data we collect
We use anonymous data to identify the source of user traffic, but we are not able to use this data to identify individual users. We use data on which sections of the site are most visited, so that we can evaluate the popularity of our different web pages and continue to improve the website. We do not link any anonymous data with the personal data you provide to us.
We use your personal data for various purposes, including: to fulfil the request for which you specifically provided the data; to send you e-mail newsletters or action alerts, if you have not opted out of receiving that information.
How long do we keep the data
Your data is kept with us for 36 months (3 years) in case of inactivity. After that duration, your data is automatically deleted.
Third-party sharing
We will not share your personal data with any other brand or clinic than the ones under the Helvetic Clinics brand.
Your ability to choose
When you provide us with your personal data on the Helvetic Dental Clinics sites, you can let us know that you do not wish to receive our emails by opting in or opting out upon registration.
Security
The Personal Data we collect about you is stored on a secure, password protected server. We use industry-standard encryption technologies with respect to the receipt and transfer of Personal Data you submit to us on the Helvetic Dental Clinics site and only authorized personnel have access to your information. Nevertheless, despite our best efforts, no transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
Updating your data
To update your Personal Data or to make corrections, you can do so by sending us the update via email or telephone.
Comments and questions
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about this Online Privacy Policy or our data collection practices or to request that we delete your Personal Data, you can contact us via email
Cookies
By using our websites (through any device) you agree that this Cookie Policy applies to that use in addition to any other terms and conditions which may apply. We reserve the right to make changes to our Cookie Policy. Any such changes shall appear here and become effective immediately. Your continued use of our websites is taken as meaning that you agree to our Policy and any such changes.
What are cookies?
A cookie, also known as an HTTP cookie, web cookie, or browser cookie, is usually a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user’s web browser while a user is browsing a website. When the user browses the same website in the future, the data stored in the cookie can be retrieved by the website to notify the website of the user’s previous activity.
By themselves, cookies pose no risk since they do not contain virus in any form nor do they spy on your PC content to compromise security. They are used to make online surfing faster and easier by make the sites you’ve visited remember who you are, like remembering your IP address or passwords, along with your own preferences such as items similar to what you looked for in your last visit.
Our cookies help us to help:
- Make our website work as you’d expect
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
- Continuously improve our website for you
- Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)
Granting us permission to use cookies
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work, as you would expect.
Third party cookies are set by:
Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Paypal – This provides us with lots of ways to share information with you such as our company details, occasional offers, contact details and for the functionality of our shopping cart.
The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
Visitor statistics cookies – Google Analytics, Ads & Bing Ads
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at and how people reached our sites (e.g. from a search engine) if they have made a purchase and whether they have been here before. No personally identifiable information is collected from this source, the information is merely gathered to help us to continuously improve our website and the services we offer.
Turning cookies off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.
