Privacy Policy
Thank you for visiting Southern Charm Dentistry’s website. We prioritize the protection of your personal information and your privacy rights. Should you have any inquiries regarding our privacy practices or the way we manage your personal information, feel free to reach out at southerncharmdentistry@gmail.com.
Our privacy policy is designed to inform you about our commitment to safeguarding your ‘Personally Identifiable Information’ (PII) online. PII, as defined by US privacy laws and information security standards, refers to data that can independently or in conjunction with other data, identify, contact, or locate an individual, or pinpoint an individual in a specific context.
We encourage you to review our privacy policy thoroughly to understand our approach to collecting, using, protecting, and handling your Personally Identifiable Information according to the principles of our website.
Table of Contents
1. Information collected that you disclose to us
2. Information automatically collected
3. How do we protect your information?
4. Do we share your information with third parties?
5. What are my privacy rights?
6. Do we collect information from minors?
7. California online privacy protection act
8. Can-spam act
9. Do we make updates to this policy?
10. Contacting us
1. Information Collected That You Disclose To Us
What Personal Information Do We Collect from the Users That Visit Our Website?
While visiting our website, you may be asked to provide your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, or other details to enhance your experience.
When Do We Collect Information?
We collect information from you when you fill out a contact form, or any other instance where you manually enter information on our site.
How Do We Use Your Information?
In addition to the stated purpose of information gathering, such as newsletter email sign-up, contact request, etc, we may use the information we collect from you to:
1. Personalize your experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
2. Improve our website in order to better serve you.
3. Ask for ratings and reviews of services or products.
2. Information Automatically Collected
When you visit, use, or navigate through our website, we automatically collect information such as:
IP Addresses
Browser and device characteristics
Operating systems
Language preferences
Referring URLs
Device names
Countries
Location information
How and when you use our site
Other technical information
This information is generally used to maintain and operate the security of the website, and for our internal analytics and reporting.
Do We Use ‘Cookies’?
No, we do not use cookies.
3. How Do We Protect Your Information?
Our website is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our site as safe as possible. We are hosted by Flywheel Hosting: the best in secured hosting.
Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all sensitive you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.
We implement a variety of security measures when a user enters and submits their information to maintain the safety of your personal information.
We will only hold onto your personal information as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy.
4. Do We Share Your Information with Third Parties?
We will only share and disclose your personal information in these situations:
Legal Compliance: Your information may be disclosed if we are legally obliged to do so to comply with applicable law, government requests, judicial proceedings, court orders, or legal process.
Vital Interests and Legal Rights: If we believe it is necessary to investigate or take action due to a violation of our policies, suspected fraud, threats of illegal activity, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
Vendors, Consultants, Affiliates, or Business Partners and Other Third Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for you on our behalf. The third party will be bound to this privacy policy with regards to your information.
Business Transfers: We may share or transfer information in connection with any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any reason with your consent.
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.
5. What Are My Privacy Rights?
You have the right to request changes, review, or terminate your data from our records at any time.
Fair Information Practices
In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur: We will notify you via email within 7 business days.
We also agree to the Individual Redress Principle which requires that individuals have the right to legally pursue enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or government agencies to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.
6. Do We Collect Information from Minors?
When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under the age of 13 years old, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, United States’ consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children’s privacy and safety online.
We do not specifically market to children under the age of 18 years old.
7. California Online Privacy Protection Act
CalOPPA is the first state law in the nation to require commercial websites and online services to post a privacy policy. The law’s reach stretches well beyond California to require any person or company in the United States (and conceivably the world) that operates websites collecting Personally Identifiable Information from California consumers to post a conspicuous privacy policy on its website stating exactly the information being collected and those individuals or companies with whom it is being shared.
According to CalOPPA, we agree to the following:
Users can visit our site anonymously.
Once this privacy policy is created, we will add a link to it on our home page or at a minimum, on the first significant page after entering our website.
Our Privacy Policy link includes the word ‘Privacy’ and can easily be found on the page specified above.
You will be notified of any Privacy Policy changes on our Privacy Policy Page.
You can change your personal information at any time by emailing us at southerncharmdentistry@gmail.com.
8. Can-Spam Act
The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.
We collect your email address in order to:
Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.
Send you additional information related to your product and/or service.
Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to our clients after the original transaction has occurred.
To be in accordance with CAN-SPAM, we agree to the following:
Not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.
Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.
Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters.
Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly.
Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can follow the instructions at the bottom of each email or email us at southerncharmdentistry@gmail.com and we will promptly remove you from ALL correspondence.
9. Do We Make Updates to This Policy?
We may from time to time update this privacy policy. When such an update occurs, we will make changes to this page and add a revised date below and will be effective as soon as published. We encourage you to review this privacy policy regularly to be informed on how we handle your personal information
10. How to Contact Us
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the information below.
560 Woodhaven Place NW,
Concord, NC 28027
southerncharmdentistry@gmail.com
704-343-5574
