Privacy Policy
This Privacy Notice explains how the District of Columbia Dental Society and its charities and affiliated entities (collectively, “DCDS,” “we," “us” or “our”) collect information about you through our website and how this information is then used or disclosed.
DCDS Contact Information
You may contact us about this Privacy Notice:
Via postal address:
District of Columbia Dental Society
Attn: Executive Director
2001 K Street, NW, 3rd Floor North
Washington, DC 20006
By email: info@dcdental.org
How We May Use Information We Collect
The information we collect via our website may be used and disclosed to improve the content of dcdental.org and advance the DCDS/American Dental Association’s (ADA) mission. For example, the DCDS may use this information for purposes such as:
- Registering you for, or providing you with information, programs and services you have requested
- Processing, fulfilling and following up on your orders or membership application
- Providing access to publications
- Responding to your emails or online requests
- Sending you information you request
- Sending and processing surveys and continuing education quizzes
- Publishing membership directories and registration lists
- Sharing with companies to offer you products and services that may be of interest to you
- Sharing your email address with companies to deliver communications on our behalf
- Sharing information about you with members and state and local dental societies
- Sharing information about you with service providers, vendors and other companies we do business with
- Sharing with third parties as required by law
- Sharing demographic information for research purposes
- Sharing your email address as described below
We collect information such as the internet protocol (IP) address of visitors to our website, 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 email addresses of those who communicate with us via email. Our system can recognize the identity of individuals who sign in using their usernames and passwords.
With respect to cookies: We use cookies for a number of purposes, including to administer our website and to record session information, such as items that users add to their shopping carts and user-specific information on what pages users access or visit.
Advertising on dcdental.org may be served through a vendor that uses IP addresses for purposes such as controlling ad frequency.
The DCDS, its charities, and affiliates may use or disclose individual's contact information and other information about you, such as your occupation, specialty, member status, graduation date and dental school, to alert you to new information, products and services, events and other opportunities. From time to time, we may also make your contact information and other information about you available to other organizations we believe to be reputable, such as companies whose products or services we think you might find interesting. If you register on dcdental.org to attend an event, the DCDS may provide an attendee list to other attendees and to entities that collaborate with the DCDS on the event.
With respect to email addresses: We generally do not knowingly disclose individual's e-mail address without the individual's express or implied consent outside the DCDS, its service providers, subsidiaries and affiliated entities, DCDS/ADA members, and state and local dental societies. However, we may disclose your e-mail address in certain situations; for example, if you serve in a leadership capacity or if you provide your e-mail address in connection with an event or an attendee list.
The DCDS/ADA maintains directories of dentists that may include information you submit via our website. These directories are shared with DCDS/ADA members and state and local dental societies. A directory containing information about DCDS/ADA members is publicly accessible on MouthHealthy.org; members may elect to provide additional information, such as email address and photo, through the expanded profile option.
The DCDS may share or license information about you to a third party if, in our sole discretion, we believe that it is (1) reasonably necessary to perform a service or deliver a product or publication; (2) authorized by you or as set forth in any applicable agreement (whether express or implied) between you and DCDS, or with your consent; (3) permitted under this Privacy Notice; (4) required by statute or regulation; (5) of interest to dentists, dental students, members of the dental team, or consumers of dental services, or (6) in the good-faith belief that such action is appropriate for reasons of security or legal compliance.
The DCDS also occasionally hires other individuals and entities to provide services on our behalf, including, but not limited to, hosting of online resources, processing credit card transactions, packaging, order fulfillment, answering customer questions about products or services, consulting services, data modeling, printing, sending postal mail and processing membership and event registration. We will provide those companies with information they need to deliver the service. Third parties may collect information such as your IP address that may indicate your online activities over time or across different websites when you use our websites. At this time, this website does not respond to do-not-track signals.
Certain sensitive personal information is protected by security measures (that may include computer safeguards and secured files and buildings security) to protect the information from unauthorized access and use. If such information is disposed of, it will be done securely.
Your Rights and Responsibilities
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 Notice.
While the DCDS takes measures to protect your personal information, no security measure or network is entirely secure. Your password to access dcdental.org should be complex and should never be shared with anyone, and should be changed from time to time. After you access dcdental.org, you should log off and exit your browser so unauthorized persons cannot access the site.
If you do not want to receive postal mail, telephone calls 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 and postal addresses, phone and fax numbers and, if appropriate, ADA membership number to info@dcdental.org. It may take up to four weeks for your opt out to become effective. While we will continue to share information we maintain about you with our service providers, subsidiary and affiliates, and with state and local dental societies, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that any other specific contact information you so identify is removed from lists we share with other organizations.
On request we may provide you with access to information that you submitted via dcdental.org, such as certain transaction information (e.g., dates on which you made purchases, amounts and types of purchases), communications that you have directed to our site (e.g., emails, user inquiries), and contact information (e.g., name, address, phone number).
On request we may also offer the ability to have inaccuracies corrected in contact information, financial information, unique identifiers, transaction information and certain other data.
You may also contact info@dcdental.org if you believe your information is being used improperly.
You may provide consent to additional uses and disclosures; for example, in connection with a product or service offered by the DCDS, an affiliated entity, or a third party.
Children's Privacy
We do not knowingly solicit data online from, or market online to children under the age of 13.
More About Our Privacy Practices
With respect to other websites and servers: dcdental.org contains links to other websites. We have no control over and take no responsibility for the privacy practices or content of those sites.
We use Google Ad Manager to serve ads on our site.
When users choose to make payments via credit cards, those payments are processed by a third-party service provider. We do not store or reuse credit card information unless you have given us your credit card information directly and authorized us to do so.
Changes, Comments and Questions
If our Privacy Notice changes at some time in the future we will post the revised Privacy Notice to our website to notify you, and those changes will be effective on the day that we post the revised privacy notice. The latest version of our Privacy Notice will always be available at dcdental.org.
We welcome your comments or questions about our Privacy Notice and privacy practices. If you feel that this site is not following its stated policy, please let us know.
