Mains Drive Dental Website Privacy & Cookie Policy

This privacy policy sets out how we at Mains Drive Dental Practice use and protect any information that you supply us with when you use this website.

We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

What we collect

We may collect any information that you submit to us via email or through any of the submission forms on the website.

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

At present, we do not use our own cookies on our website.

Third Party Cookies

Please note that when you access this website, cookies may be placed by third party service providers, such as Google. These are required to allow elements of the site to work correctly. These third-party cookies may be used to track you on other websites that use these services, however we have no control over this. Please see the relevant third-party site for more information.

Google Analytics

At present, our website does not use Google Analytics to help analyse how visitors use this website. However, we may choose to add this at a later date and will update this document accordingly. For more information about how Google uses this information, please see: http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html

Other collected data

As with almost every other website, we will log information about your visit such as IP address, browser type, operating system, server errors generated by your visit, etc. We use this information to ensure that our site is running correctly and cannot control this data collection on a per user basis. If you do not wish us to collect this data, please leave this site immediately.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting but only if you tell us that you wish this to happen – we have an in-practice procedure to obtain this consent first.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) 2018. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please contact us.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to us or email us as soon as possible. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect. For more detail on these subjects, please see the Privacy Notice on our website.