Privacy Policy

At the Interdisciplinary Dental Education Academy – IDEA we recognize that privacy is important. This Privacy Policy applies to all of the websites offered by IDEA. IDEA adheres to the US Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of Notice, Choice, Onward Transfer, Security, Data Integrity, Access and Enforcement. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us through our website or write to us at Privacy Matters info@ideausa.net Interdisciplinary Dental Education Academy – IDEA 1291 East Hillsdale Boulevard Suite 123 Foster City, California 94404 U.S.A. It is the Interdisciplinary Dental Education Academy – IDEA’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://www.ideausa.net (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “IDEA”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources. This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms of service posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms of service.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, IDEA collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. IDEA’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how IDEA’s visitors use its website. From time to time, IDEA may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website. IDEA also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://www.ideausa.net. IDEA only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below. You can visit our websites without giving any personal information. We only store access data in so-called server log files, such as the name of the requested file, the date and time of the retrieval, the amount of data transferred and the requesting provider. These data are evaluated solely to ensure trouble-free operation of the site and to improve our offer and do not allow us to draw any conclusions about you.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to IDEA’s websites choose to interact with IDEA in ways that require IDEA to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that IDEA gathers depends on the nature of the interaction.

Profile Data

When you register for the alumni service, you may be asked to provide certain personal data for display on your profile. The “Name” field is required and your profile is visible to any other registered alumni of IDEA. Other profile information may be required or optional, as configured by the site administrator. User information provided during account registration can be modified or removed on the Profile > Edit panel. In most cases, users also have control over who is able to view a particular piece of profile content, limiting visibility on a field-by-field basis to other alumni, logged-in users, or administrators only. Site administrators can read and edit all profile data for all users.

Activity

This site records certain user actions, in the form of “activity” data. Activity includes updates and comments posted directly to activity streams, as well as descriptions of other actions performed while using the site, such as new connections, newly joined groups, and profile updates. The content of activity items obey the same privacy rules as the contexts in which the activity items are created. For example, activity updates created in a user’s profile is publicly visible, while activity items generated in a private group are visible only to members of that group. Site administrators can view all activity items, regardless of context. Activity items may be deleted at any time by users who created them. Site administrators can edit all activity items.

Data usage when registering for the e-mail newsletter

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will use the data required or separately provided by you to regularly send you our e-mail newsletter according to your consent. The deregistration from the newsletter is possible at any time and can be done either by a message to the contact option described below or via a dedicated link in the newsletter.

Course Registration

Those who engage in transactions with IDEA – by signing up for an IDEA course or program, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, IDEA collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the customers’s interaction with IDEA. IDEA does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Data integrity

IDEA processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Privacy Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or improve our services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.

Accessing and updating personal information

When you use IDEA services, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. Some of our services have different procedures to access, correct or delete users’ personal information. We provide the details for these procedures in the specific privacy notices or FAQs for these services.

Media Consent

By signing up for a course at IDEA, attendees consent that photography, audio and video recordings may occur throughout the length of the program, and some of the photographs will be posted on our website, newsletters, as well as used for other lawful course promotional purposes. Course attendees do not have a claim to remuneration for these publications. Pursuant to § 8 (1) item 2 of the Data Protection Act, participants can revoke the consent they have given under data protection law to the use of their application photos, and photo, film and sound recordings produced at any time by notice to IDEA. A revocation has the consequence that all photo, film and sound recordings will no longer be used in the future.

Security

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data. We restrict access to personal information to IDEA employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.

Links To External Sites

Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

YouTube

Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited. If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account. YouTube is used to help make our plugin appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Facebook

Our website includes plugins for the social network Facebook, Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. For an overview of Facebook plugins, see https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. When you visit our site, a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server is established via the plugin. This enables Facebook to receive information that you have visited our site from your IP address. If you click on the Facebook “Like button” while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our site to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to associate visits to our site with your user account. Please note that, as the operator of this site, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted to Facebook or of how Facebook uses these data. For more information, please see Facebook’s privacy policy at https://facebook.com/policy.php. If you do not want Facebook to associate your visit to our site with your Facebook account, please log out of your Facebook account.

Twitter

Functions of the Twitter service have been integrated into our website and app. These features are offered by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. When you use Twitter and the “Retweet” function, the websites you visit are connected to your Twitter account and made known to other users. In doing so, data will also be transferred to Twitter. We would like to point out that, as the provider of these pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or how it will be used by Twitter. For more information on Twitter’s privacy policy, please go to https://twitter.com/privacy. Your privacy preferences with Twitter can be modified in your account settings at https://twitter.com/account/settings.

LinkedIn

Our website uses the functions of the LinkedIn network. Is the LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Each time you visit one of our sites that contain LinkedIn, LinkedIn connects to LinkedIn servers. LinkedIn is informed that you have visited our Internet pages with your IP address. If you are a LinkedIn member, click here to log in to your account. If you are not a LinkedIn member, click here to become a member. We would like to point out that as a provider of the pages we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data as well as their use by LinkedIn. For more information, see LinkedIn’s Privacy Statement athttps://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

Google Web Fonts

For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly. For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our plugin. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer. Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faqand in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Google reCaptcha

We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter “reCAPTCHA”) on our websites. This service is provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). reCAPTCHA is used to check whether the data entered on our website (such as on a contact form) has been entered by a human or by an automated program. To do this, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various characteristics. This analysis starts automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, how long the visitor has been on the website, or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis will be forwarded to Google. The reCAPTCHA analyses take place completely in the background. Website visitors are not advised that such an analysis is taking place. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its site from abusive automated crawling and spam. For more information about Google reCAPTCHA and Google’s privacy policy, please visit the following. Users are subject to Google’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

IDEA discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on IDEA’s behalf or to provide services available at IDEA’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using IDEA’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. IDEA will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, IDEA discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when IDEA believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of IDEA, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of https://www.ideausa.net and have supplied your email address, IDEA may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with IDEA and our services. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. IDEA takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Aggregated Statistics

IDEA may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. However, IDEA does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, IDEA uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer. A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. IDEA uses cookies to help IDEA identify and track visitors, their usage of https://www.ideausa.net, and their website access preferences. IDEA visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using IDEA’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of IDEA’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies. We use cookies on group, member, and activity directories to keep track of a user’s browsing preferences. These preferences include the last-selected values of the sort and filter dropdowns, as well as pagination information. These cookies contain no personal data, and are deleted after 24 hours. By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to IDEA’s use of cookies. We use a cookie to show success and failure messages to logged-in users, in response to certain actions, like joining a group. These cookies contain no personal data, and are deleted immediately after the next page load. For more information about cookies and web beacons, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/cookies/. You can configure your Internet browser, by changing its options, to stop accepting cookies completely or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the website you visit. If you do not accept cookies, however, you may not be able to use all portions of the Trew Knowledge Websites or all functionality of the Services. Please note that disabling these technologies may interfere with the performance and features of the Services.

Enforcement

IDEA regularly reviews its compliance with this Privacy Policy. Please feel free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or IDEA’s treatment of personal information by contacting us through this web site or by writing to us at Privacy Matters info@ideausa.net Interdisciplinary Dental Education Academy – IDEA 1291 East Hillsdale Boulevard Suite 123 Foster City, California 94404 U.S.A. When we receive formal written complaints at this address, it is IDEA’s policy to contact the complaining user regarding his or her concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between IDEA and an individual.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, IDEA may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in IDEA’s sole discretion. IDEA encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Contact Information

Privacy Matters info@ideausa.net Interdisciplinary Dental Education Academy – IDEA 1291 East Hillsdale Boulevard, Suite 123 Foster City, California 94404 U.S.A.