In order to better provide you with products and services offered, Smile Center may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:<\/p>\n
\u2013 First and Last Name<\/p>\n
\u2013 E-mail Address<\/p>\n
\u2013 Phone Number<\/p>\n
If you purchase Smile Center products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction.<\/p>\n
We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services. These may include: (a) registering for an account; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and\/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.<\/p>\n
Smile Center collects and uses your personal information to operate and deliver the services you have requested.<\/p>\n
Smile Center may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Smile Center and its affiliates.<\/p>\n
Smile Center does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.<\/p>\n
Smile Center\u00a0 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 unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is transferred to the third party. Smile Center may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Smile Center, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.<\/p>\n
Smile Center may disclose your personal information, without notice, 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 Smile Center or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Smile Center; and\/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Smile Center, or the public.<\/p>\n
In connection with any personal information we may disclose to a third party for a business purpose, you have the right to know:<\/p>\n
\u2022 The categories of personal information that we disclosed about you for a business purpose.<\/p>\n
You have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to opt-out of the disclosure of your personal information. If you exercise your right to opt-out of the disclosure of your personal information, we will refrain from disclosing your personal information, unless you subsequently provide express authorization for the disclosure of your personal information.<\/p>\n
Smile Center may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Smile Center, in order to determine what Smile Center services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Smile Center to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.<\/p>\n
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Smile Center. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Smile Center website.<\/p>\n
The Smile Center website may use \u201ccookies\u201d 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.<\/p>\n
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Smile Center pages, or register with Smile Center site or services, a cookie helps Smile Center to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Smile Center website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Smile Center features that you customized.<\/p>\n
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 Smile Center services or websites you visit.<\/p>\n
Smile Center secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Smile Center uses the following methods for this purpose:<\/p>\n
\u2013 SSL Protocol<\/p>\n
When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.<\/p>\n
We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.<\/p>\n
Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Delete your personal information from our records; and<\/p>\n
\u2022 Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.<\/p>\n
Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;<\/p>\n
\u2022 Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;<\/p>\n
\u2022 Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;<\/p>\n
\u2022 Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;<\/p>\n
\u2022 Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;<\/p>\n
\u2022 Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;<\/p>\n
\u2022 Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;<\/p>\n
\u2022 Comply with an existing legal obligation; or<\/p>\n
\u2022 Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.<\/p>\n
Smile Center does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.<\/p>\n
We respect your privacy and give you an opportunity to opt-out of receiving announcements of certain information. Users may opt-out of receiving any or all communications from third-party partners of Smile Center by contacting us here<\/a><\/p>\n From time to time, Smile Center may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and\/or other general communication.<\/p>\n If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Smile Center, you may opt out of such communications by clicking unsubscribe at the bottom of said emails.<\/p>\n Smile Center reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our website, and\/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of the website and\/or Services available after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.<\/p>\nE-mail Communications<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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