Abbots Oak Dental Practice Privacy Policy

By visiting www.abbotsoakdental.co.uk, you are accepting the practices outlined in this policy. This policy details how Abbots Oak Dental Practice electronically collects personal information via our website and how it is used. Abbots Oak Dental Practice do not collect any sensitive, personal information about you e.g. gender, ethnicity etc.

Data Protection Act 2018

Abbots Oak Dental Practice will only ask you to submit information via our online contact forms. Under the Data Protection Act 2018, only data that is needed for a specific purpose is requested. For example, our contact forms only require you to provide your name and email address and in some cases, your company name and phone number. This information is sufficient for Abbots Oak Dental Practice to process an enquiry. Any information submitted via our contact forms is kept only for as long as necessary to complete the specified purpose. Data will only be retained if continued dialogue between an individual and the company occurs or if business commences. Only employees who are authorised by the company to process data can access it and details will never be passed to third parties without consent.

Google Analytics

Abbots Oak Dental Practice uses Google Analytics cookies to collect information about the traffic to, and the use of, our website. We use Google Analytics with the sole purpose of making improvements to our website and the user experience. This tool helps us to understand the journey visitors take through our site and how they engage with it, in order for us to identify areas which need improving and to ensure that content is relevant. Google Analytics cookies collect information such as a visitors IP address, when they visited the site, which pages were viewed, for how long and also which terms were used in a search engine to find our site. For more information on how Google collects and uses information via analytics please visit: http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html?rd=1

Turning Off Cookies

Most websites use cookies. Cookies can be disabled by changing your browser settings, however this may limit the functionality of websites you visit.

Changes To This Policy

Abbots Oak Dental Practice may update this policy at any time and any amendments will be uploaded to our website.

Contact

The data controller of this website is Abbots Oak Dental Practice 187 Greenhill Road, Coalville, Leicestershire, LE67 4UF. Please send any questions or comments regarding this policy to the Company Secretary at the above address.

Who we are

Suggested text: Our website address is: https://abbotsoakdental.co.uk.

Comments

Suggested text: When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

Suggested text: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

Suggested text: If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Suggested text: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

Suggested text: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

Suggested text: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

Suggested text: If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Suggested text: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.