Privacy Statement

This website is an official online publication of the Ontario Dental Association.

The Ontario Dental Association is the voluntary, not-for-profit professional association that represents the dentists of Ontario, supports members in the provision of exemplary oral health services, and promotes the attainment of optimal health for the people of Ontario. It must collect and retain certain personal information in order to provide services to you. Protecting your privacy is important to us. Accordingly, we have established a Privacy Policy, as well as Confidentiality Standards for our employees, to ensure that your personal information is protected by appropriate security safeguards.

Why We Require Personal Information

We also collect personal information that you choose to share with us in the registration and interactive portions of this website. This information may include personal information, e-mail addresses and your answers to questions. This information is only collected with your permission. We collect this information, should you decide to provide it to us, to provide you with the services and information being offered in accordance with ODA’s main Privacy Policy.

E-mail Communications, Newsletters And Related Services

We may occasionally send you informational e-mails or surveys. These e-mails may include links to this website or to the websites of other organizations. To enable this website to tailor our communications to your interests, we may track the web links that you click on. This tracked information will only be used to analyze your interest in our communications, and in keeping with website’s main Privacy Policy, will not be shared with any other organizations. Alternatively, if you wish to remain anonymous, you can access the web pages referenced in those e-mails and your visit will not be tracked. To stop receiving e-mail communications, e-mail your request to unsubscribe from web site’s electronic news service to info@oda.ca.

Protecting Your Personal Information

We will provide specific notice before collecting any of your personal information (details that can identify you as an individual, such as your name and address). We will explain what information is being collected and how it will be used. You have the right to decline to have this information collected or transferred for marketing purposes. We collect no personal information about you unless you choose to provide that information to us. We do not use techniques that collect personal information about you without your knowledge. Any personally identifiable data about our customers or Web site visitors is stored securely.

How We Use Non-Personal Information

ODA’s Web site operating system may automatically record some general information about your visit, such as:

  • The Internet domain for your Internet service provider, such as “company.com” or “service.ca” and the IP address of the computer accessing the website, such as “ppp-55”. An IP address is a number automatically assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet. IP addresses allow computers and servers to recognize and communicate with one another. IP addresses are used to properly administer our system and to gather aggregate information on visitors to our site and how our site is being used, including the pages visitors are viewing. To maintain your anonymity, we do not associate IP addresses with records containing personal information. We will use IP address information, however, to personally identify you when necessary to enforce our legal rights or when required to do so by law enforcement authorities.

  • The type of browser (such as “Netscape version x” or “Internet Explorer version x”) you are using

  • The type of operating system you are using (such as Macintosh, Unix, or Windows)

  • The date and time you visit our site and the web pages that you visit on our site, along with the address of the previous website you were visiting, if you linked to us from another website. We use this information for e.g. billing, customer support, customer contact, to make you aware of additional products and services which may be of interest to you, to contact you regarding site changes, statistical analysis, etc., and to help us make our site more useful to visitors.

E-commerce

Some areas of our site may allow you to conduct e-commerce transactions. In connection with these transactions, we securely collect data necessary to complete the transaction and that is furnished by you.

We may disclose this non-personal information to a third party in order to facilitate the transaction or to other third parties such as sponsors, clients or advertisers and/or use it for auditing purposes under contractual privacy obligations to website. This tracking system does not record personal information about individuals or link this information to any personal data collected.

Cookies

We may use “cookies” that identify you as a return visitor. A cookie is a piece of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then store the cookie on your hard drive. These cookies automatically identify your browser to our server whenever you interact with the website. So, when you come back to visit us again, we can tailor information to suit your individual preferences. The goal is to save you time and provide you with a more meaningful visit and to measure website activity. Cookies do not contain any personally identifying information. Most browsers automatically accept these cookies, however browsers such as Netscape allow you to disable cookie collection if you wish, or inform you when a cookie is being stored on your hard drive.

We use general traffic, site usage, and length of stay information in reports to advertisers and firms with which we have a business relationship. This sort of information is shared only on an aggregated basis and does not personally identify you.

We do not permit registration by, nor collect personally identifiable information from any person we know to be under the age of 18.

The ODA will be pleased to inform you of the existence, any use, and disclosure of personally identifying information, and provide you with access to that Personal Information, within 30 (thirty) days of a receipt of a written request directed by fax or mail to website, Chief Privacy Officer. To request a change or delete information that has previously been provided by you to us, write to website, Chief Privacy Officer with the details of your request. Contact information is at the end of this statement.

When You Leave This Site

This policy discloses the privacy practices for our website. However, our site contains links to other sites, including sites that may indicate a special relationship with us. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy and security policies of the new site. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of all websites you visit, especially if you share any personal information.
If the website decides to change this Privacy Policies revisions will be posted on our website. You agree to review the Privacy Policies each time you use the Web site so that you are aware of any modifications made to these policies. By accessing or using the website, you agree to be bound by all of the terms and conditions of the Terms of Use as posted on the website at the time of your access or use, including the Privacy Policies then in effect.

For more information, please contact:
Ian Farmer, Director, Finance & Administration
Ontario Dental Association
4 New Street, Toronto, ON M5R 1P6, Canada
Tel: (416)-355-2269