Privacy Policy

Consent

Whenever you give Forum4dentists.com personal data, you are consenting to its collection and use in accordance with this privacy policy, including Forum4dentists.com contacting you by e-mail and SMS to let you know about its services and about other goods and services in which you may be interested, for example those of organisations such as professional colleges, DH, GDC, NICE, other government bodies, dental schools, pharmaceutical companies, financial services companies and dental indemnity organisations.

You do, however, have the right at any time to opt out of Forum4dentists.com contacting you in this way for marketing purposes.

How does Forum4dentists.com use your personal data?

In addition to the specific uses mentioned elsewhere in this policy, or for which you have given permission, Forum4dentists.com uses your personal data to provide services to you, to carry out membership administration, to let you know about other goods and services in which you may be interested, to inform you about changes and improvements to the Forum4dentists.com website and services, and for direct marketing purposes (but you do have the right to opt out of this).

Forum4dentists.com may also use personal data to monitor the use of the site, to record traffic flows and to carry out research about member demographics, interests and behaviour. Forum4dentists.com does this to better understand the needs of members.

To whom might Forum4dentists.com disclose your personal data?

Forum4dentists.com has agreements with sponsors and dental information companies, regulating how they may use your personal data.Forum4dentists.com does not charge members for using any of its services. The funds are raised by sponsorship. Forum4dentists.com may provide members personal details to sponsors. If you wish not to forward your details to sponsors please inform Forum4dentists.com at help@forum4dentists.com.

If you choose to participate in certain programmes run on the website (for instance by accessing the materials published in connection with it) your participation in that programme, together with your personal identifier, may be passed on to the sponsor of that programme or its associated companies and data processors. You will always be able to refuse permission for this data to be passed to the sponsor if you so wish. Some of the sponsors may be located outside the European Economic Area.

Sponsors undertake to use such data only for assessing your access (and the frequency of that access) to material provided by them via the Forum4dentists.com website for their internal auditing purposes.

Dental information companies working with Forum4dentists.com undertake to use your personal data only to ensure the accuracy of the information they already hold and to provide you with the opportunity to select how this data is used.

Except as set out above, or with your permission, Forum4dentists.com will not disclose your personal data unless obliged to do so by law, or where Forum4dentists.com needs to do so in order to run its business (for instance where Forum4dentists.com out sources services for the processing of data.)

Confidentiality

Forum4dentists.com respects the confidentiality of members and uses systems to help keep all data secure. Forum4dentists.com protects the confidentiality of information members send and receive by using a system of password protection for the website and a data storage solution with in-built security features. However, members are reminded of the GDC and BDA guidance that they should not send any patient identifiable data across the Internet and you should not post such information in the Forum area.

Security

Forum4dentists.com has security measures in place to help protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of personal data under Forum4dentists.com's control.

Registration

Members set up an account using their GDC number to verify identity. Forum4dentists.com uses additional security details to verify your identity should you request support from the Forum4dentists.com Helpdesk.

Member Directory

The Member Directory on the website is available to all Forum4dentists.com members. This directory provides the user name, profession and the location of Forum4dentists.com members.

Measuring website activity

Statistics are collected on how and when members use Forum4dentists.com in order to administer the website and to improve services.

Website Links

This website contains links to other websites. Please note that Forum4dentists.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.

Cookies

A cookie is a small piece of data or message that is sent from a web server to your browser and is stored on your hard drive. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Cookies do not damage your system.
You can reset your browser so as to refuse any cookie or to alert you to when a cookie is being sent. Forum4dentists.com only uses cookies within its e-mail service to track use of the service and to improve the function of the service for you. However, if you choose not to accept cookies the service will work as effectively for you.

The Forum4dentists.com Forum area

The Forum area is the part of the website where much of the Forum4dentists.com community discuss their views. Comments are always annotated with the username of the member commenting, and cannot be posted anonymously.

Remember that, once a comment has been posted, it cannot be retrieved. Although the website is accessible only to GDC-registered professionals, you must respect other members' and patients' confidentiality. To assist members, the Terms and Conditions for the whole website are available in the Forum area. These specifically ban the advertising of services, and the posting of irrelevant, libellous or malicious information.

Direct Marketing

Forum4dentists.com may contact you by e-mail or SMS to market its goods and services, and other goods and services in which you may be interested, but you may at any time request that Forum4dentists.com stops using your personal data for direct marketing purposes. If you wish to do this please contact help@forum4dentists.com

Communications Data

Forum4dentists.com may retain Communications Data (such as records of the websites you have visited, services you have used, location data, and installation data) in accordance with the Retention Of Communications Data (Code of Practice) Order 2003, as amended from time to time.

Access to Your Personal Data

Individuals have certain rights of access to their personal data. If you want to request any information about your personal data, please contact help@forum4dentists.com

Inaccuracies and Corrections

Forum4dentists.com would like to keep your personal data accurate and up to date. If you become aware of any errors or inaccuracies please let Forum4dentists.com know by contacting help@forum4dentists.com

Contacting Forum4dentists.com

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please e-mail Forum4dentists.com at help@forum4dentists.com