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PRIVACY POLICY

(last updated: May 2018) 

Gerety Orthodontic Seminars is committed to protecting your privacy. This Gerety Orthodontic Seminars Privacy Statement applies to data collection and usage on Gerety Orthodontic Seminars website and services; it does not apply to other online or offline Gerety Orthodontic Seminars sites, products or services. Please read the Gerety Orthodontic Seminars Privacy Statement below and also any supplementary information at the end of this statement for additional details about particular Gerety Orthodontic Seminars sites and services that you may use. 

Gerety Orthodontic Seminars is a general audience web site, intended for users of all ages. Personal information of all users is collected, used and disclosed as described in this Privacy Statement. 

Collection of your Personal Information 

Gerety Orthodontic Seminars collects personal information, such as your e-mail address, name, home address, or telephone number for all users purchasing advertisements and opting into email marketing supplied by Gerety Orthodontic Seminars.

If you choose to sign up for said items, Appeal Design will collect additional personal information, in order to authenticate the validity of the purchaser. 

All of the registration information you provide will be stored by Gerety Orthodontic Seminars. 

Gerety Orthodontic Seminars cautions you against providing personal information to strangers online, which they may use for illegal or harmful purposes. 

Gerety Orthodontic Seminars keeps track of the pages our customers visit within Gerety Orthodontic Seminars, in order to determine what Gerety Orthodontic Seminars sites and services are the most popular. 

Gerety Orthodontic Seminars also collects certain information about your computer hardware and software. This information may include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. 

Certain Appeal Design services may be co-branded and offered in conjunction with another company. If you register for or use such services, both Gerety Orthodontic Seminars and the other company may receive information collected in conjunction with the co-branded services. 

Use of your Personal Information 

Gerety Orthodontic Seminars and its operational service partners collect and use your personal information to operate Gerety Orthodontic Seminars and deliver the services you have requested. These services may include the display of customized content and advertising based upon the information Gerety Orthodontic Seminars has collected. 

Gerety Orthodontic Seminars does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, without your explicit consent. Gerety Orthodontic Seminars also uses your personal information to inform you of other products or services available from Gerety Orthodontic Seminars and its affiliates. 

Gerety Orthodontic Seminars may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered. 

Gerety Orthodontic Seminars does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Gerety Orthodontic Seminars may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your personal information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, providing customer support, processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis of our services. We will only provide those companies the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information and are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose. 

Gerety Orthodontic Seminars may access and/or disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: 

(a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Gerety Orthodontic Seminars or the site; 

(b) protect and defend the rights or property of Gerety Orthodontic Seminars, including its Gerety Orthodontic Seminars Web site; or 

(c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Gerety Orthodontic Seminars services or members of the public. 

Personal information collected on this site may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which Gerety Orthodontic Seminars or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using this site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country. Gerety Orthodontic Seminars abides by the safe harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union. 

Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, that is not otherwise publicly available. GOS collects personal information in a variety of ways, including when you sign up to attend our courses; when you subscribe to Gerety newsletters / email notices; and when you register for online membership.

When you register on our website for our products, services or events, we ask for and collect information such as, but not limited to; your name, address, email address, company, job title, country, zip code. For some products and services we may also ask for information about you or your business.

If you are purchasing something from the Gerety Orthodontic website (for example a membership), we need to know personal information such as your name, email address, mailing address, credit card number, CVV, and expiration date. This allows us to process and fulfill your membership. This information may also be used by GOS to notify you of related products and services. Credit card information will not be shared or sold to unaffiliated third parties for any purpose without your express permission, except as necessary to process the transaction.

GOS works hard to keep your personal data safe and maintaining compliance with GDPR.  Measures taken to achieve this include:

  • Assigning of Proper Personnel.  We have assigned Data Processing Officers who will oversee our housed data and its security
  • Policies. We have already updated our Privacy Policy. We are constantly working on our internal policies and practices to ensure that we are aligned with the GDPR requirements.

GOS also continues to monitor the guidance around GDPR compliance from privacy-related regulatory bodies, and will adjust our plans accordingly if it changes.

UPDATE/CHANGE YOUR USER PROFILE OR PREFERENCES

To update your email address or change your email preferences please contact customer-service@orthodonticteaching.com.

Control of your Personal Information

There are some Gerety Orthodontic Seminars services and updates, that send out periodic e-mails informing you of technical service issues, product surveys, new feature announcements and news about Gerety Orthodontic Seminars products and services. You will not be able to unsubscribe to these mailings, as they are considered a part of the service you have chosen. 

Security of your Personal Information 

Gerety Orthodontic Seminars is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer systems with limited access, which are located in controlled facilities. When we transmit highly confidential information (such as a credit card number) over the Internet, we protect it through the use of 128-bit encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. 

Use of Cookies 

Gerety Orthodontic Seminars uses "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalize Gerety Orthodontic Seminars's pages, or register with Gerety Orthodontic Seminars sites or services, a cookie helps Gerety Orthodontic Seminars to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, preferred email address, and so on. When you return to Gerety Orthodontic Seminars, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Gerety Orthodontic Seminars features that you customized. 

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Gerety Orthodontic Seminars services or Web sites you visit. 

Use of Web Beacons 

Gerety Orthodontic Seminars Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons - sometimes called single-pixel gifs - that allow Gerety Orthodontic Seminars to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. Gerety Orthodontic Seminars may include web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or Gerety Orthodontic Seminars Newsletters in order to count how many messages have been opened and acted upon. 

Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the Web beacon resides. Gerety Orthodontic Seminars Web pages may also contain Web beacons placed there by third parties in order to compile aggregated statistics and to help determine the effectiveness of our joint promotional or advertising campaigns. Gerety Orthodontic Seminars prohibits web beacons from being used to access your personal information. 

Use of Third Party Ad Networks 

The majority of the online banner advertisements you see on Gerety Orthodontic Seminars Web pages are displayed by Gerety Orthodontic Seminars. Gerety Orthodontic Seminars maintains relationships with a number of the third-party ad networks currently operating 

Enforcement of this Privacy Statement 

If you have questions regarding this statement, you should first contact Gerety Orthodontic Seminars via e-mail . If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should then contact: 

Gerety Orthodontic Seminars Privacy 
Gerety Orthodontic Seminars
4801 South Chestnut, 
Broken Arrow, OK 74011

Changes to this Statement 

Gerety Orthodontic Seminars will occasionally update this Privacy Statement to reflect company and customer feedback. When Gerety Orthodontic Seminars posts changes to this Statement, you will see the word "updated" next to the Privacy Statement link on the front page of Gerety Orthodontic Seminars. If there are material changes to this Statement or in how Gerety Orthodontic Seminars will use your personal information, Gerety Orthodontic Seminars will prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change. Gerety Orthodontic Seminars encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Gerety Orthodontic Seminars is protecting your information.

Contact Information 

Gerety Orthodontic Seminars welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Statement. If you believe that Gerety Orthodontic Seminars has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Gerety Orthodontic Seminars by telephone, e-mail, or postal mail. 

Gerety Orthodontic Seminars Privacy 

Gerety Orthodontic Seminars 
4801 South Chestnut, 
Broken Arrow, OK 74011