Privacy Policy

 

Australasian Society of Lingual Orthodontists respects your privacy and we are committed to protecting the personal information that you give us.  This statement explains our policies and practices regarding the use and disclosure of your personal information.  Please note that we periodically review and update this policy, as needed and without notice, so it’s a good idea to review it every so often to make sure that you’re aware of how our website collects and uses personal information.
 

By using our website, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information, as explained below:

1.Personal Information

You have complete control over your personal information.  You can visit our website without providing us with any personal information.  However, there are instances where we need your personal information to give you access to any protected or secured areas. This information may include registration data (your name, address, email address, phone number, title, etc.), information request data and response data ("User Information"). When you receive your confirmation email or when you receive an email from the list server, you will also receive instructions on how to remove yourself from the list.
 

2.  Use of User Information

We use your information to support your relationship with us by designing a website that is suitable to your needs and alerting you to new products and services as they become available. This User Information may be retained by us to keep track of the domains from which people visit us, to create a user profile to better serve you, or to contact you electronically or otherwise. If you decide that we should not use your personal User Information to contact you, please let us know and we will not use that information for such purpose. Please do not submit any User Information if you are under 18 years of age.  
 

3.  Disclosure of User Information

Australasian Society of Lingual Orthodontists does not sell, trade or transfer User Information to third parties. However, we may share User Information with our business partners for marketing, advertising or product and service offering purposes.  For example, we provide User Information to our service providers for direct emailing of our newsletters, online surveys or notifications of services and products. We also disclose User Information if: we have your consent; we need to share it to provide you with the products and/or services you requested. You may separately agree to provide your personal information to third parties that provide content for our offerings, to access and/or use their products and/or services. If you agree to provide such information to these third parties, then your personal information will be subject to their privacy policies.
 

4.  Accuracy and Security

The accuracy and security of your User Information is important to us.  To review and request updates to your User Information, please get in touch.  If you contact us to correct or update your User Information, we’ll aim to make these changes in a timely way. Australasian Society of Lingual Orthodontists is concerned with the security of your User Information and we are  committed to taking reasonable steps to protect it from unauthorised access and use. We put in place physical, electronic and managerial policies and procedures to secure your personal User Information. We also continue to implement procedures to maintain accurate, complete and current User Information.
 

5.  Usernames and Passwords

Access to certain website content may be allowed under a written agreement between us, and will require a username and/or password.  In some cases, failure to provide personal information may restrict you from accessing certain website(s) containing certain confidential information, products, services or promotional offers. By accessing and using our protected and secured website(s), you agree to keep the username and password you selected, confidential.
 

6.  Cookies

Australasian Society of Lingual Orthodontists’ website uses "cookies". A cookie is a small data file that a web site can transfer to a visitor's hard drive to keep records of the visits to such site. A cookie contains information such as your username and password that helps us recognise the pages you have visited and improve future visits.  The only personal information a cookie can contain is the information that you provide.  A cookie cannot read data from your hard drive or read cookie files created by other sites.  Information stored in cookies may be encrypted, however, we do not store your credit card number in cookies. If you prefer not to accept a cookie, you can set your web browser to warn you before accepting cookies or you can refuse all cookies by turning them off in your web browser.  Access to some of our secured website(s) may require the use of cookies. You can still access most of our website features even without accepting a cookie.
 

7.  External Links

Australasian Society of Lingual Orthodontists’ website can provide links to other third party websites. Even if the third party is affiliated with us through a business partnership or otherwise, we are not responsible for the privacy policies, practices or content of such external links. These links are provided for convenience only and you access them at your own risk.
 

9.  General

If you have questions regarding our Privacy Statement, please Contact Us.