I. Introduction
Patterson Dental Supply, Inc. ('Patterson Dental', 'we' or 'us') owns and operates the cerecaccept.com website (the 'site'), which is hosted in the United States. We want you, the visitor ('you' or 'your') to this site, to understand how we collect, use and share data about you. This Privacy Policy below identifies what information we collect, and for what purposes it is used.
We recognize the importance of our customers' privacy. We believe that privacy is an issue of trust and strive to manage your personal information in a fair and respectful manner. This policy describes:
II. Policy Scope
This Privacy Policy applies to customer information obtained by cerecaccept.com in connection with Patterson Dental's operations in the United States and its territories.
III. Information We Collect
We collect personal information about you to deliver the products and services requested and to help improve your experience on cerecaccept.com. We limit the amount of personal information collected to that required to support our specific purpose in requesting it. The following are some examples of the ways in which we may collect information from you:
A. Registration
We collect personal information from those of you who are qualified dental professionals who register to order products and services from cerecaccept.com. During registration, you will be asked to submit your contact information (such as valid email address, name and title). Each of you, as a qualified dental professional, must have a valid Patterson Dental customer number in order to complete registration on cerecaccept.com.
B. Information Request Forms
We collect personal information from you (such as name, phone number, postal code and email) on cerecaccept.com information request forms.
C. Email Updates
We collect personal information (such as name and email address) from you when you choose to receive pattersondental.com marketing-related email updates.
D. Cookies and Web Beacons
We
use cookies to track site usage and trends, to improve the quality of
cerecaccept.com, and to customize your experience on the site. We
save a 'cookie', a small text file on your computer. You
can remove or block cookies using the settings in your browser, but
in some cases doing so may impact your ability to use
cerecaccept.com.
We use one type of cookie, called a
'persistent' cookie, once you have signed in to your
cerecaccept.com account to identify you as a returning visitor to the
site. We use another type of cookie, called a 'session' cookie,
to identify a particular visit to the cerecaccept.com. Session
cookies used by cerecaccept.com expire after you close your Web
browser.
We may use Web 'beacons' to allow us to know if
you visited a certain page, opened an email from us or to determine
if ad banners on our site were effective.
F. Log Files
When you visit cerecaccept.com, we collect the IP ('Internet Protocol') address connected to your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system, the type of browser you are using, mobile device operating system (if you are accessing pattersondental.com using a mobile device), as well as the name of your ISP ('Internet Service Provider') or your mobile carrier. We use this information to analyze overall trends to help improve the site. We do not share with third parties, the linkage between your IP address and your information on cerecaccept.com, unless required by law to do so.
IV. How We Use Your Information
Patterson Dental uses your information to offer and provide you with products and services and to support our core business functions. These include order or service fulfillment, internal business processes, marketing, authentication, fraud prevention and other correlated functions. Some examples include:
To accomplish these purposes, we may combine personal and non-personal information we collect online with offline information, including information from third parties. We may transfer or disclose your information with our affiliated companies for these purposes.
V. Ways We Share Your Information Outside Patterson
We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties. We only disclose your personal information with your prior consent or under the following limited circumstances:
A. Service Providers
We may disclose or otherwise make information about you available to service providers that help with our business operations. Examples are shipping vendors, billing and refund vendors, payment card processors and companies that help us improve our product and service offerings and our websites. Your information may be stored and processed by our service providers in the United States or other locations where the service providers maintain facilities. We require our service providers to keep your information secure. In addition, our service providers may not use or disclose personal information for any purpose other than providing the services on our behalf.
B. Legal Requirements and Protection of Our Company and Others
We may need to disclose your information and/or information about your activities as a user of cerecaccept.com when required by subpoena or other legal process, or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is necessary to:
C. Marketing Purposes
From time to time, we may disclose your information to carefully selected companies that may offer you products and services of interest. You may opt-out of this by clicking the 'unsubscribe' link in the emails you receive or by sending an email to onlineservices@pattersondental.com with the subject line, UNSUBSCRIBE. (who will this go to?)
D. Business Transfers
We may also disclose your information to a third party as part of reorganization or a sale of the assets of Patterson Companies, Inc., or its subsidiaries or divisions. Any third party to which Patterson Dental Supply, Inc. transfers or sells pattersondental.com assets will have the right to continue to use the personal and other information that you provide to us.
VI. Your Information Confidentiality Choices
A. Opting-Out of Email Communications
You
may opt-out of email marketing communications from us at any time by
using any of the methods described in Section A above.
Please
be aware that, even if you have opted-out of receiving marketing
communications from us, we may still contact you for transactional
purposes, such as customer service, product information, service or
reminder notices, or recalls. We may also need to contact you via
email with questions or information regarding your order, such as
regarding order status, shipment or refunds.
VII. Other Websites
Cerecaccept.com may contain links to other sites on the Internet that are owned and operated by third parties. This Privacy Policy does not cover the information practices of those websites linked to our site. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each website that may collect your personal information.
VIII. Children and Minors
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. Children may not use cerecaccept.com, and we request that children under the age of 13 not submit any personal information to the website.
IX. Information Security
Access
to your data cerecaccept.com is password-protected and the site
utilizes 128-bit SSL ('secure sockets layer') encryption to
reduce the risk that others are able to view information passing
between our Web servers and your browser. When you enter a secure
portion of the site, an image of a closed lock or a solid key should
appear in the bottom bar of your browser window as an indicator of
SSL encryption.
We
implement administrative, technical and physical safeguards to
protect the content you post on our servers. However, since the
Internet is not a completely secure environment, we cannot ensure or
warrant the security of any information you transmit to us. There are
no guarantees that information cannot or will not be accessed,
disclosed, altered or destroyed by breach of any of our
administrative, technical or physical controls. It is your
responsibility to protect the security of your sign in information
(your username and password) if that is applicable.
We
constantly strive to comply with industry standards that require
safeguards for handling and securing customer information.
X. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy at any time, with or without advance notice. In the event there are significant changes in the way we handle your information, or in this Privacy Policy document itself, we will display a conspicuous notice on cerecaccept.com and/or send you a service email. By you using our Service after we provide a notice of changes, you consent to the changed terms or practices.
XI. How to Contact Us
If
you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please
email us at
privacy@pattersoncompanies.com
Or, by post:
Patterson Dental Supply, Inc.
Attn:
Corporate Privacy Official
1031 Mendota Heights Road
Saint
Paul, MN 55120
USA
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