PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: January 2025

East Idaho Orthodontics is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you visit our website, use our services, or interact with us.

Information We Collect

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Personal Information (Contact Forms)

Name
Email Address
Phone Number
Mailing Address
Date of Birth
Medical or Dental History

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How We Use Your Information

We use your information to:

Provide orthodontic services and communicate about your care.
Schedule appointments and manage your account.
Respond to inquiries or customer service requests.
Improve our website and services.
Send promotional materials, newsletters, or updates (only if you have opted in)

How We Protect Your Information

We implement industry-standard security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. These measures include:

Secure servers and encrypted communication (SSL).
Regular website and security audits.
Restricted access to personal data for authorized personnel only.

Sharing Your Information

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information. We may share your information only in the following circumstances:

With service providers who assist us in delivering services (e.g., appointment reminders).
To comply with legal obligations or protect our rights.
With your consent for specific purposes.

We will not share your opt-in to an SMS campaign with any third party for purposes unrelated to providing you with the services of that campaign. We may share your Personal Data, including your SMS opt-in or consent status, with third parties that help us provide our messaging services, including but not limited to platform providers, phone companies, and any other vendors who assist us in the delivery of text messages.

All of the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.

Your Rights

You have the right to:

Access, update, or delete your personal information.
Opt-out of receiving promotional communications.
Request details about how your information is used.

To exercise these rights, please contact us at the information below.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us