Privacy
Policy

We value your privacy very highly and know that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our Privacy Policy and is bound by the Australian Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988 (Privacy Act).

Your access to and use of the website http://whitersmilesdental.com.au is conditional upon your acceptance of and compliance with this Privacy Policy. When you accept our services, product, contact us, or visit the Whiter Smiles Dental website at www.whitersmilesdental.com.au you agree to the handling of your personal information according to this policy. Note: ‘Whiter Smiles Dental’, ‘We’, ‘Us’, ‘Our’ refers to WHITER SMILES DENTAL ABN 83179573088 and related entities. ‘You’, ‘Your’ refers to patients or individuals who contact WHITER SMILES DENTAL or access the Whiter Smiles Dental website.

If you disagree with any part of the Privacy Policy, then you do not have our permission to access or use the Website.

This Privacy Policy explains how we manage your personal information and the privacy practices we adhere to for our website and you’ll learn all about:

• the data we collect,
• how we use it,
• the controls we give you over your information, and;
• the measures we take to keep it safe.

The Whiter Smiles Dental website collects the following personal information from you in our online forms:

• First and Last name
• Email address
• Phone number (home, work and/or mobile)
• Home/Location Address
• Further personal heath related and health insurance related information.

By entering this information, you are providing personal information that will be used by Whiter Smiles Dental for the sole purpose of scheduling your appointment or returning your contact request.

If you choose to enrol as a subscriber of our website or subscribe to our blog, you will receive the occasional announcement and promotional information via email. These emails will be of a general nature and will in no way disclose your unique health characteristics. At the time you subscribe or any time thereafter, you can choose to opt-out of receiving these emails. You can unsubscribe from the newsletters or blog by simply clicking on the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of our emails and you will be immediately unsubscribed.

To subscribe to our website, we need certain contact information, such as your name and email address. We may also store any provided demographic information (such as occupation, gender and birth date), but it is not required.

Like many other websites, we also automatically collect and log other non-identifying information when you interact with our website:

• Device data:
  We collect data from the devices and applications you use to access the Whiter Smiles Dental website, such as your Internet protocol (IP) addresses, operating system, device type, browser type and timestamps.
• Usage data:
  We collect usage data that may include which Whiter Smiles Dental webpages you visit, what you click on, when you performed those actions, and so on. We do this to measure the effectiveness and performance of the Whiter Smiles Dental website, communication and booking platforms.

Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy or as specifically agreed to by you, Whiter Smiles Dental will not disclose any Personally Identifiable Information (PII) or Personal Health Information (PHI) it gathers from you on our website. We will only release Personally Identifiable Information or Personal Health Information to third parties:

1. to comply with valid legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order.
2. in special cases, such as a physical threat to you or others. In the event that we are legally compelled to disclose your Personally Identifiable Information or Personal Health Information to a third party, we will attempt to notify you unless doing so would violate the law or court order

You may ask us at any time for information about any personal data we hold about you, or ask us to correct or delete that information. We will complete this request within 30 days of the initial request for information being received. Please contact us to start this process.

We share information with third parties who help us provide our services and supply our orders to you; for example —

• PayPal
• Square

We accept payments through Square and PayPal. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to Square or PayPal, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.

• Please see the Square Privacy Policy for more details:
• https://squareup.com/help/au/en/article/3796-privacy-and-security

• Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more details:
• https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

We have implemented the following measures to protect and safeguard your personal information:

• Limiting the amount of personal information that we collect to strictly necessary only;
• Using ssl or other secure connection technologies when receiving or sending personal information beyond internal networks;
• Destroying the personal information that we no longer need;
• Maintaining up-to-date software and safeguards.