PRIVACY POLICY

Privacy Policy

What This Privacy Policy Covers

• This policy covers how IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry treats personal information that IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry collects and receives, including information related to your past use of IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.

• This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry does not own or control, or to people that IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use

General

• IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry collects personal information when you register with IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry, when you use the IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry web site and when you visit IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry pages. IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.

• When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, billing address, mailing address, and phone number. Once you register with IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.

• IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry collects information about your transactions with us which may include, but not be limited to the IP address of your computer when you place an order with us. This information may be used in conjunction with fraud preventive measures we have established to protect you and us from any liability resulting from fraudulent use of our web site. WE WILL PROSECUTE ANY FRAUDULENT TRANSACTIONS OCCURING ON OUR WEB SITE.

• IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address. IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry uses software that requires you allow cookies on your browser. These cookies DO NOT record personal information. Nor do they track any other web site you visit. They do however, provide us with data on the pages you visit within our web site. This data does not contain personal information about you. It merely advises us which pages are visited and is used for statistical purposes only.

• IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research.

Children


• Our site contains no adult content. However, it does contain images and photos that may be considered graphic in nature. These are included but not limited to horse cadavres and other horse parts from deceased animals. These images are used for educational purposes and by members of the IAED to learn, study, and obtain information about Equine Dental practices. Viewer discretion is advised if images of deceased animals are offensive to you or you deem them inappropriate for children.


Information Sharing and Disclosure


• IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

• We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry communicate with you about offers from IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.

• We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;

• We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, or as otherwise required by law.

• IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business.

Use of Cookies


• IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry uses cookies for 2 purposes, one to track which products/pages customers are viewing (again no personal information is collected), and 2) for the purpose of preventing or aiding us in combating fraudulent orders placed.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information

General

• You can edit your personal information at any time. (Name, Address, Phone, etc…)

• We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry Newsletter, that are considered part of your IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.

• You can delete your IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry account by sending an email to our webmaster at webmaster@iaedglobal.com. Please include your full name, the email address you used when registering or placing your order, as well as our domain name IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry, and it will be removed within 24-48 hours. You will receive an email from our webmaster when it has been removed.

Confidentiality and Security


• We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. In addition, our webmaster makes use of contractors for a variety of areas of the website. All contractors, subsidiaries and affiliates of the Techniconsults Corporation are under strict no-compete, non-disclosure agreements. All are bonded and insured and have undergone strict background checks.

• We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.

• As part of the final step in our checkout procedure, prior to requesting any personal information, you will be transferred to a secure, encrypted page. The page will be prefaced with the URL in your browser. The first part of it will read: https://www.iaedglobal.com, or https://www.paypal.com.

• EACH TIME you place an order with us, you will be required to provide your payment information to us. Payment information is recorded and encrypted on a secure SQL server. This information is purged from our server and only accessible by our accounting department to process your order. Access to that system is secure and uses 256 bit encryption. Credit card information, including account number, etc… is purged from our system after your order is fulfilled. WE DO NOT RETAIN YOUR CREDIT CARD INFORMATION so you will need to re-enter each time you place an order with us. PayPal may however retain credit card information and you can request this information not be saved upon checkout.

Changes to this Privacy Policy


• IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry may update this policy. 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 IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.


Questions and Suggestions


Please feel free to email any suggestions you may have to improve our site manager at webmaster@iaedglobal.com.

Please feel free to contact us directly at info@IAEDGlobal.com and/or the International Association of Equine Dentistry if you have any questions, or if we may be of any assistance to you.

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