Privacy Policy - The Forum Dental Studio
Privacy Policy

The Forum Practice

The Forum Dental Studio is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to our website, subscribers to our newsletters, and those providing contact information. In addition, The Forum Dental Studio is opposed to unauthorized commercial e-mail delivery, otherwise known as spam. Please read the following Privacy Policy to understand how your personal information is treated. From time to time, The Forum Dental Studio may offer new information or services that may affect this policy. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please send an e-mail to info@theforumpractice.com.

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT & HOW IS IT USED?

Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website

We may collect personal information from you such as your name, e-mail address, and phone number. For example, you may voluntarily submit personal information to The Forum Dental Studio by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form. In addition, upon making certain purchases described herein, we may ask you to create a user profile, which would allow you to create a username and password. We will store the username, but your password will not be visible in our records.

Information We Collect from Others

We may receive information about you from other sources. For example, if you use a third-party software through the site, they may transfer information to us for fulfillment.

Automatically-Collected Information

We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access The Forum Dental Studio. For example, when you use The Forum Dental Studio, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using The Forum Dental Studio, such as links clicked.

Cookies

We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by The Forum Dental Studio. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the website.

The following list includes examples of specific ways we collect personal information from our website visitors and the type of information collected:

Electronic Newsletter

To register online for our electronic newsletters, we request the following required information: (i) name, and (ii) e-mail address. The provision of an e-mail address is mandatory in order to receive our newsletter.

Contact Forms

To contact The Forum Dental Studio for the purposes of evaluating or engaging our services or to answer your questions, we utilize numerous forms throughout our site. Required information varies depending on the form and at most includes (i) name, and (ii) e-mail address. The provision of this information is mandatory in order to receive a response from The Forum Dental Studio. The provision of the remaining information requested on the registration form is optional.

Online Purchases

When you purchase a product from The Forum Dental Studio, we may utilize a third-party online shopping system, which is described more fully below. To process your payment, certain standard required information includes address and credit card information. Transactions are secured via SSL encryption and credit card details will never be e-mailed. Credit information is purged from our systems on a regular basis.

HOW YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION MAY BE USED

The Forum Dental Studio may use your personal information in the following ways:

  • To operate and maintain the website;
  • To create your account, identify you as a user of the website, and customize the website to your account;
  • To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each e-mail newsletter will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings by unsubscribing;
  • To send you administrative communications, such as administrative e-mails, confirmation e-mails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
  • To respond to your comments or inquiries;
  • To provide you with user support;
  • To track and measure website performance;
  • To process payment for purchases you make through The Forum Dental Studio;
  • To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity;
  • To review the effectiveness of our marketing programs and analyze other general demographic trends;
  • To notify you of new information or services that may be of interest to you; or,
  • To send promotional materials.

DOES The Forum Dental Studio SHARE MY INFORMATION?

The Forum Dental Studio will not share, rent, or sell your personally identifiable information with third-parties. We may, however, share your information with third-parties when we are authorized to share such information.

Additionally, The Forum Dental Studio may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policy. The Forum Dental Studio currently uses the following third-party service providers:

Tracking

The Forum Dental Studio uses various marketing tools that help us create a better user experience for people visiting our site. These tools allow us to look at aggregated data such as scrolling patterns, clicks, and allow us to run tests to determine which pages result in the best actions. However, your personally identifiable information is not used by any of these tools. We use the following third-party service providers for tracking:

Google Analytics:

Privacy Policy

Remarketing

The Forum Dental Studio uses remarketing tracking cookies and conversion pixels from vendors such as Google and Facebook to present special offers to you for our products or services over the Google Content Network and via social networks. This means you may see an ad for one of our products or services as a result of visiting our website. In addition, The Forum Dental Studio uses custom audiences based on e-mails and phone numbers of subscribers and customers. This allows us to present special offers for our products and services to you via Facebook and Google. However, your personally identifiable information is not used by any remarketing service other than to present you special offers from us. We use the following third-party service providers for remarketing:

Facebook:

Opt-out of Facebook remarketing here

Google:

Opt-out of Google remarketing here

Contact Information and Website Support

We offer multiple ways to contact The Forum Dental Studio, including contact forms, e-mails. If at any time, you attempt to contact us through a contact form, the information you provide will be stored.

At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time in The Forum Dental Studio’s sole discretion.

Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your e-mail address(es) or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through The Forum Dental Studio to third-parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.

ANONYMOUS DATA

From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.

PUBLICLY VISIBLE INFORMATION

If you create a user profile on The Forum Dental Studio or the Social Media Marketing Society or leave a comment on The Forum Dental Studio, certain information may be publicly visible.

COOKIES

The Forum Dental Studio uses cookies to: store visitors’ preferences; record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit; ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads; or customize our content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein.

At any time, you may prevent the setting of cookies by the website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of The Forum Dental Studio may be entirely usable.

WHAT IF THERE ARE CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY AND SPAM POLICY?

If we change our Privacy and Spam Policy, we will post those changes on our privacy page at https://theforumpractice.com/privacy-policy/.

RIGHTS RELATED TO YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Opt-out

You may opt-out of future e-mail communications by following the unsubscribe links in our e-mails. You may also notify us at info@theforumpractice.com to be removed from our mailing list.

Access

You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to info@theforumpractice.com.

Amend

You may contact us at info@theforumpractice.com to amend or update your personal information.

Forget

In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to info@theforumpractice.com.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.

SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to The Forum Dental Studio. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

SPAM POLICY

The Forum Dental Studio is strongly opposed to spam. We will only send e-mail to users that have explicitly requested to receive an e-mail from The Forum Dental Studio. Examples may include:

  • Opt-in subscribers to the The Forum Dental Studio Newsletter
  • Users that complete a contact form

All communication will be related and relevant to what you have requested.

WEB LINKS

The Forum Dental Studio contains links to other sites. Please be aware that The Forum Dental Studio is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy and spam policies of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy and Spam Policy applies solely to information collected by The Forum Dental Studio.

HOW DO I CONTACT The Forum Dental Studio?

If you have any further questions or comments regarding the The Forum Dental Studio website or this Privacy Policy, you may contact info@theforumpractice.com.

LEGAL DISCLAIMER

We may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with a legal process served on our site.