a wink and a smile (AWAS) believes this website, https://eyeanddentalcare.com, is compliant with all applicable laws, including GDPR. If you feel that we are not compliant, or that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately.
Payment & Insurance Policies
Our practice accepts all insurance plans and most major credit cards.
As a courtesy, our office will submit all of your claims and paperwork to your active insurance policies. We will work with your insurance provider to ensure you get the best coverage available to you.
Website Use Policy
Terms
By accessing the website at https://eyeanddentalcare.com, you are agreeing to be bound by these terms of service, all applicable laws and regulations, and agree that you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this site. The materials contained in this website are protected by applicable copyright and trademark law.
Disclaimer
The materials on AWAS’s website are provided on an ‘as is’ basis. AWAS makes no warranties, expressed or implied, and hereby disclaims and negates all other warranties including, without limitation, implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of intellectual property or other violation of rights.
Further, AWAS does not warrant or make any representations concerning the accuracy, likely results, or reliability of the use of the materials on its website or otherwise relating to such materials or on any sites linked to this site.
Limitations
In no event shall AWAS or its suppliers be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of data or profit, or due to business interruption) arising out of the use or inability to use the materials on AWAS’s website, even if AWAS or a AWAS authorized representative has been notified orally or in writing of the possibility of such damage. Because some jurisdictions do not allow limitations on implied warranties, or limitations of liability for consequential or incidental damages, these limitations may not apply to you.
Accuracy of Materials
The materials appearing on AWAS’s website could include technical, typographical, or photographic errors. AWAS does not warrant that any of the materials on its website are accurate, complete or current. AWAS may make changes to the materials contained on its website at any time without notice. However, AWAS does not make any commitment to update the materials.
Links
AWAS has not reviewed all of the sites linked to its website and is not responsible for the contents of any such linked site. The inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by AWAS of the site. Use of any such linked website is at the user’s risk.
Modifications
AWAS may revise these terms of service for its website at any time without notice. By using this website you agree to be bound by the then current version of these terms of service.
Governing Law
These terms and conditions are governed by and construed by the laws of Virginia and you irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in that State or location.
Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to us. It is AWAS’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. Accordingly, we have developed this privacy policy for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate, disclose and otherwise make use of personal information. We have outlined our privacy policy below.
Visitors to Our Website
When someone visits https://eyeanddentalcare.com we use a third party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.
Use of Cookies by AWAS
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. For more information about how cookies work, click here.
The list below explains the cookies we use and why.
- PHPSESSID (To store a the logged in user’s username and a 128bit encrypted key. This information is required to allow a user to stay logged in to a web site without needing to submit their username and password for each page visited. Without this cookie, a user is unable to proceed to areas of the web site that require authenticated access. This cookie is a reference to a session stored on the web server. No information is stored in the user’s browser and this cookie can only be used by the current web site. This cookie expires when your browser is closed.)
- WordPress standard cookies (for more information about WordPress cookies, click here.)
- Google Analytics standard cookies (for more information about Google Analytics cookies, click here.)
E-newsletter
We may use a third party provider to deliver our occasional e-newsletters. We may gather statistics around email opening and clicks from those e-newsletters using industry standard technologies including clear gifs to help us monitor and improve our e-newsletter.
Security and Performance
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.
AWAS uses a third party service to help maintain the security and performance of the AWAS website. To deliver this service it processes the IP addresses of visitors to the AWAS website.
This entire website is encrypted, and all data is transmitted to and from us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser, or looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the web page.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, troubleshooting tech problems you’ve inquired about) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.
Collection of Personal Information
We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.
We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to develop the content/program for which you have signed on.
We will collect personal information by lawful and fair means and, where appropriate, with the knowledge or consent of the individual concerned.
Before or at the time of collecting personal information, we will identify the purposes for which information is being collected.
We will collect and use personal information solely for fulfilling those purposes specified by us and for other ancillary purposes, unless we obtain the consent of the individual concerned or as required by law.
Personal data should be relevant to the purposes for which it is to be used, and, to the extent necessary for those purposes, should be accurate, complete, and up-to-date. We will protect personal information by using reasonable security safeguards against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. We will make readily available to customers information about our policies and practices relating to the management of personal information. We will only retain personal information for as long as necessary for the fulfillment of those purposes.
We are committed to conducting our business under these principles to ensure that the confidentiality of personal information is protected and maintained.
User Information Management
You may request to view your personal information AWAS has collected at any time, or to have that information deleted, by using the form here.
Updates
AWAS may change this privacy policy from time to time at AWAS’s sole discretion.
