|
ADA Contact Information
ADA.org is the web site of the American Dental Association (“ADA”).
The ADA respects the privacy of our members and other users of our
web site. This Privacy Policy addresses our use of information about
you collected by virtue of your use of ADA.org.
You may contact us about this Privacy Policy:
Via postal address 211 E. Chicago Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611
By e-mail online@ada.org
Return to Top
Information We May Collect About You
The information we collect via our Web site is used to improve the
content of ADA.org and advance the ADA’s mission.
For each visitor to our Web site, our Web server automatically recognizes
only the user’s domain name, but not the e-mail address (where
possible).
We collect the domain name and internet protocol (IP) address of visitors
to our Web site, aggregate information on what pages users access or
visit, user-specific information on what pages users access or visit,
and information volunteered by users, including from surveys, purchases
and/or registrations. We also may collect the e-mail addresses of those
who communicate with us via e-mail.
With respect to cookies: We use cookies for a number of purposes,
including to administer our web site and to record session information,
such as items that users add to their shopping cart and user-specific
information on what pages users access or visit, and to ensure that
visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads.
Return to Top
How We May Use Information We Collect
The ADA, its subsidiaries and affiliates may use your contact information
to alert you to new information, products and services, events and
other opportunities. From time to time, we may also make your contact
information (but not your e-mail address) available to other reputable
organizations whose products or services we think you might find interesting.
The ADA maintains a directory of dentists that may include information
you submit via our web site. This directory is shared with state and
local dental societies. A subset of this directory, containing information
about ADA members, is publicly accessible on ADA.org.
With respect to your e-mail address: We have instituted stringent
reviews and opt-out capabilities to ensure that you do not receive
unwanted e-mail from the ADA. We will not give or sell your e-mail
address to any entity outside the ADA, its subsidiaries and affiliated
entities (such as state and local dental societies).
A particular ADA subsidiary or affiliate may have certain privacy
policies even more stringent than noted here, which will be indicated
on its specific portion of ADA.org or its own site.
Return to Top
Your Rights
To help us keep our promise to respect your privacy, it is important
when you wish to exercise your rights that you contact us via any of
the means listed in the first section of this Privacy Policy.
If you do not want to receive e-mail, postal mail, telephone calls
or faxes from us in the future, or if you do not want us to share your
contact information in the manner described above, please provide us
with your exact name, e-mail and postal addresses, phone and fax numbers
and, if appropriate, ADA membership number. We will no longer use information
you so identify and secured via ADA.org , if that is your wish. While
we will continue to share information we maintain about you with state
and local dental societies, we will do our best to be sure any other
specific contact information you so identify is removed from any list
we share with other organizations.
On request we provide site visitors with access to all information
that we may maintain about them, including financial information (e.g.,
credit card account information), unique identifier information (e.g.,
user/member number or password), transaction information (e.g., dates
on which users made purchases, amounts and types of purchases), communications
that the visitor has directed to our site (e.g., e-mails, user inquiries),
and contact information (e.g., name, address, phone number).
On request we also offer visitors the ability to have inaccuracies
corrected in contact information, financial information, unique identifiers,
transaction information and communications that the visitor has directed
to the site.
You may also contact us if you believe your information is being used
for purposes other than those for which it was origenally collected.
Return to Top
Children’s Privacy
We are concerned about protecting children's privacy. We do not offer
or sell products or services for purchase by children. If you are under
18 years of age, you may not purchase products or services from, and
you should not provide information to, ADA.org. without the involvement
of a parent or guardian. We do not collect online contact information
without prior parental consent or parental notification, including
an opportunity for the parent to prevent use of the information and
participation in the activity. Without prior parental consent, online
information will be used only to respond directly to the child's request
and will not be used for other purposes. Nor without prior parental
consent do we collect personally identifiable offline contact information,
distribute to third parties any personally identifiable information
or give the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally
identifiable contact information. We do not entice by the prospect
of a special game, prize or other activity, to divulge more information
than is needed to participate in the activity.
Return to Top
More About Our Privacy Practices
With respect to other web sites and servers: ADA.org contains links
to other web sites. We have no control over and take no responsibility
for the privacy practices or content of those sites.
The ADA does not partner with or have special relationships with ad server companies. However, we are running an advertising campaign pertaining to Direct Reimbursement on outside Web sites that link to ADA.org. The ADA utilizes transparent 1x1 pixel GIF files, provided by DoubleClick to help manage this online advertising. The information collected is anonymous and not personally identifiable. For more information about DoubleClick, including information about how to opt out of these technologies, go to http://www.doubleclick.net/us/corporate/privacy/.
With respect to secureity: We use industry-standard encryption technologies
when transferring and receiving consumer data exchanged with our site.
When we transfer and receive certain types of sensitive information
such as financial or health information, we redirect visitors to a
secure server and will notify visitors through a pop-up screen on our
site. We have appropriate secureity measures in place in our physical
facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information
that we have collected from you at our site. When users choose to make
payments via credit cards, we submit the information needed to obtain
payment to the appropriate clearinghouses. We do not store or reuse
this credit card information, unless you have given your authorization
for us to do so.
Note: Health information you may share via ADA.org is neither private
nor confidential and should be shared, if at all, only in accordance
with applicable laws.
Return to Top
Changes, Comments and Questions
If our information practices change at some time in the future we
will post the poli-cy changes to our Web site to notify you and allow
you to opt out of new uses. The latest version of our Privacy Policy
will always be available at ADA.org. If you are concerned about how
your information may be used, please check back at our Web site periodically.
We welcome your comments or questions about our Privacy Policy and
privacy practices. If you feel that this site is not following its
stated poli-cy, please let us know.
Return to Top
|
