Last updated: March 01, 2023
We at BrightSmile Avenue Dental Clinics pledge to safeguard the personal information of our patients. To provide you with quality dental services, we may ask for information about you and your health. At times that we may also need to receive information from other providers. These providers may have been or are currently involved with the dental care you need.
Our data privacy policy describes the type of personal information we use and collect . About why we need such information and how we keep it and what we do with it. Our team is wholly responsible for keeping your personal information secured. Only those involved in your treatment have access to your information. Dentists and other dental professionals involved with care and treatment are accountable in accessing your information. As well as lobby staff in charge of scheduling your appointments, processing payments and managing your records.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
We will only collect necessary patients information to meet the following purposes:
To verify identity;
To verify creditworthiness;
To identify [client, customer, member] preferences;
To understand the [financial, banking, insurance] needs of our [clients, customers, members];
To open and manage an account;
To deliver requested products and services
To provide [medical, dental, counselling services;
To ensure a high standard of service to our [clients, customers, members];
To meet further regulatory requirements;
Usage Data may include information such as a Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.
Use of Your Personal Data
We may use a Patients’ Personal Data for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage and improve upon our Dental Service.
- For the performance of our service: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the dental services You have chosen.
- To contact You: To contact You by email, phone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
- To provide You with news and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer unless You have opted not to receive such information.
- To manage Your requests: To attend and manage a Patients’ requests to Us
We may share Your personal information in the following situations:
- With Service Providers: We may share a Patient’s personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Dental Service, to contact You.
- With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.
Retention of Your Personal Data
We will retain a Patient’s Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
We will retain and use a Patient’s Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Our operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.
Access of Your Personal Data
Patients have a right to access their personal information (subject to limited exceptions).
Request to accessing one’s personal information must be in form of a written document. Providing adequate detail to identify the personal information.
Upon request, we will also tell patients how we use their personal information. As well as notifying the disclosure of their information to whomsoever, if applicable.
We will make the requested information available within 30 business days. Provide a written notice of an extension where further time would need to fulfill the request.
Minimum fees may be billed for providing access to personal information. If a fee needs to be utilized, we will inform the patients of the cost. A request further direction from the patients on whether we should proceed with the request, or cancel altogether.
If a request is refused in full or in part, we will notify the patients in writing. Providing the reasons for refusal and the recourse available to the patients.
Law enforcement
Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Other legal requirements
We may disclose a Patient’s Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
Compliance with a legal obligation
Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
Protect the personal safety of Patients of the Service or the public
Protect against legal liability
Security of Your Personal Data
We are committed to ensuring the security of a patients personal information in order to protect it from unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification or disposal or similar risks.
The following security measures will be followed to ensure that a patients personal information is appropriately protected: the use of user IDs, passwords, encryption, firewalls; restricting employee access to personal information as appropriate (i.e., only personnel that need to know will have access;
We will use appropriate security measures when discarding a patients personal information such as shredding documents, deleting electronically stored information.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:
