Global Smile© Privacy Policy
Please read and review the following Privacy Policy carefully before accessing, using or subscribing this web site. By accessing, using or subscribing the site, you agree to be bound to this agreement. If you do not agree, please exit and disregard the information contained herein.
Welcome to Global Smile©!
General
Global Smile, Ltd. is a Portuguese Private Limited Company which owns and operates the www.Global-Smile.com web site, Global Smile© is the name we use to refer to our entire company, even though our formal corporate name is Global Smile, Ltd. When we refer to ourselves as "we" or "Global Smile©", we mean our company, Global Smile, Ltd., including any subsidiary that we control. We may share information among our subsidiaries that we own or control, but it is always protected under the terms of this policy. Global Smile© recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of information we collect from our on-line community. It is our intent to balance legitimate business interests in collecting and using information received from and about you with your expectations of privacy. The following is the way we handle information learned about you from your visit to our website.
Laws that Govern this Agreement
Global Smile, Ltd., a Portuguese Private Limited Company which owns and operates the www.Global-Smile.com web site, adheres to the highest standards of privacy. We follow the European Union (EU) Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995, and the Data Protection (Amendment) Act 2003 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on medical/ health information privacy. We undertake the responsibility to honor or even exceed the Portuguese and the European Union (EU) legal requirements for medical/ health information privacy. Global Smile© is committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of visitors to our Web site and does not sell or otherwise share any individually identifiable information about our users to third parties.
About this Privacy Policy
Global Smile© strives to develop innovative services to better serve our users. We recognize that privacy is an important issue, so we design and operate our services with the protection of your privacy in mind. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information we gather when you use our services, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard it.
It is required that you provide us with personally identifiable information in order to have ongoing access to our Web site and to participate in the services and activities that we provide. By accessing our Web site, you expressly consent and agree to the terms and conditions of this privacy policy, including our use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, then please do not use or access our Web site.
This privacy policy applies only to the Global Smile© Web site. You should read the privacy policy at each Web site that you visit after you leave our site. We are not responsible for the privacy policies of other Web sites, including without limitation, sites that link to or from our site, once you leave www.Global-Smile.com.
Cookies
Cookies are a technology used by the Global Smile© Web site to identify a user as the user moves through the Web site. A "cookie" is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. Your browser allows us to place some information on your computer's hard drive that identifies the computer you are using.
Global Smile© uses cookies to improve the quality of our service and to provide content based on certain criteria. Additionally we track usage statistics to better understand how people interact with the site. Upon loading Global Smile© a session cookie is sent to your computer that identifies your browser to our servers.
Your Web browser can be set to allow you to control whether you will accept cookies, reject cookies, or to notify you each time a cookie is sent to you. If your browser is set to reject cookies, Web sites that are cookie-enabled will not recognize you when you return to the Web site, and some Web site functionality may be lost. The Help section of your browser will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting cookies.
Although cookies do not normally contain personally identifiable information, if you are a registered user we may associate your registration information with cookies our Web site places on your computer's hard drive. Associating a cookie with your registration data allows us to offer increased personalization and functionality. For example, you can select to have our Web site "remember" you. Without cookies, this functionality would not be possible.
We may use your personal information to provide to you advertisements, promotions and information relevant to your use of the Web site. If you do not want to receive email communications, you should update your profile.
Third Party Cookies
We have no access or control of the use of cookies by third parties (e.g., advertisers) concerning specific space on the pages of our Web site that are placed by third parties.
Information We Collect from Unregistered Visitors
Visitors to our Web site can access the Web site's home page and browse the site without disclosing any personally identifiable information. We do track information provided to us by your browser, including the Web site you came from (known as the "referring URL"), the type of browser you use, the time and date of access, and other information that does not personally identify you.
Information We Collect When You Register
Visitors registering on our Web site are asked to provide us with personally identifying information, such as name, contact information, and other identifying information. On our registration screens, we label which information is required for registration, and which information is optional and may be given at your discretion.
Changing Your Information
You may review and change your personally identifiable information by logging onto our Web site and entering in the new information. You must promptly update your personal information if it changes or is inaccurate.
Global Smile© is the sole owner of the information collected on www.Global-Smile.com. We collect personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our Web site. Upon your written request (by email, fax or letter), we will deactivate your account and remove your personally identifiable information from our active database, but we can maintain your personally identifiable information in our records to be used for purposes such as fraud protection and to resolve disputes.
Children's Privacy
While health and wellness topics related to children are covered under the Global Smile© site, this Web site is designed and intended for use by adults only, and is not intended for, nor is designed to be used by citizens under the age of 18. Persons under the age of 18 should not submit any personal information to us.
Surveys or Contests
From time-to-time Global Smile© may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code).
We use this information to classify your response as it relates to other members of the Global Smile© community. We measure response rate to a particular survey and use the contact information to follow up with participants who have requested further information related to the survey or poll.
Bulletin Boards/ Chat Rooms/ Articles
Currently Global Smile© provides community functionality in the form of comments and feedback specific to topic pages. You should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users placed in forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. Global Smile© is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. Global Smile© reserves the rights to terminate the accounts of visitors who are abusive, use profanity or in any other way behave in a manner inconsistent with the Global Smile© Terms of Use.
Links to Other Sites
As a resource to our visitors, Global Smile© may provide links to other websites. We try to carefully choose websites which we believe are useful and meet our high standards. However, because websites can change so quickly, we can't guarantee the standards of every website link we provide or be responsible for the content of non- Global Smile© sites.
· The sites displayed as search results or linked to by Global Smile's services are developed by people over whom Global Smile© exercises no control. These other sites may place their own cookies on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information.
· Global Smile© may present links in a format that enables us to understand whether they have been followed. We use this information to understand and improve the quality of Global Smile's search technology. For instance, this data helps us determine how often users are satisfied with the first result of a query and how often they proceed to later results.
Uses We Make of Information
In this section of our privacy policy, we identify the ways we may use information about you that we have collected.
Aggregate Data
We create aggregate data about visitors to our Web site for activity development and improvement. We also use it for market analysis. We may provide information from our Web site in aggregate form, with no identifying information, to third parties. For example, we may tell a third party what percentage of our registered users resides in a particular geographical area. When aggregated information is provided, we pool it from any individual records and strip it of any data that could be used to identify an individual before it is used. Any third party that receives aggregated data must agree not to attempt to re-identify the people it belongs to.
Information sharing
We will not rent, share or sell personally identifiable information to other companies or individuals for commercial purposes, without permission from the user.
· We may store and process personal information collected on our site in Portugal or any other country in which Global Smile© or its agents maintain facilities. By using our services, you consent to the transfer of your information among these facilities, including those located outside your country.
· We may share aggregated information with others. Examples of this include the number of users who searched for "Acupuncture" or how many users clicked on a particular sponsored link.
· We reserve the right to use the clinical data and images presented to Global Smile© for didactic and scientific purposes.
· We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Third Parties
In addition to aggregate information (discussed previously), we may share some information with third parties as described below. If we transfer a business unit (such as a subsidiary) or an asset (such as a Web site) to another company, we will require them to honor the applicable terms of this privacy policy.
Protection of Information
In this section of our privacy policy, we discuss the security measures we take to protect information that we have collected about you.
General Policies
We have implemented technology and security policies, rules and other measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from unauthorized access, improper use, alteration, unlawful or accidental destruction, and accidental loss. We also protect your information by requiring that all our employees and others who have access to or are associated with the processing of your data respect your confidentiality. In addition, we have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss or misuse of information at our site that we have collected from you.
Global Smile© Employees
Global Smile © employees are required to keep user information confidential, as a condition of their employment with the company. Only selected, authorized Global Smile © employees are permitted to access your registration information.
Employees are required to sign a confidentiality agreement. All employees and contractors must abide by our privacy policy, and those who violate that policy are subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of their employment or contract and legal action.
Law Enforcement
We also provide your personally identifiable information in response to a verified request by law enforcement or other government officials relating to a criminal investigation or alleged illegal activity. We also can release your personally identifiable information in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy or other unlawful activity.
Service-related Announcements
We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email.
Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account.
Recommend Global Smile to a Colleague
When you use our “Recommend Global Smile to a Colleague”feature, a link will be sent from the inputted email to your Colleague, this information is not collected by Global Smile ©.
Changes in this Privacy Statement
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. Users should check this policy to keep abreast of any changes. Your access or use of our Web site after the posting of such changes shall constitute acceptance of any such changes.
Feedback
If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can email us at interact@Global-Smile.com.