Privacy Policy

When you visit and navigate our website, we will not collect personal information about you unless you provide us that information voluntarily. By "personal information," we mean data that is unique to an individual, such as a name, address, e-mail address or telephone number. We recommend that you read our privacy policy whenever you visit our site. This privacy policy may be revised periodically. Significant changes to the policy will be highlighted.

Registration is required to receive free e-mail from the Web site. When you register, we require the following personal information: e-mail address, and first and last names. We treat any personal information you give us as confidential.

In addition to any clinical information you may provide, we also collect a record of your usage of particular condition areas of the site. This information is stored on our secure database behind an electronic firewall. We use this information in aggregate form only. In other words, the information is combined with data collected from other individuals to produce anonymous, aggregated statistical information. This anonymous, aggregated information, which does not identify individuals, will be shared by us with sponsors of our website in order to provide the sponsors with statistical data as to what percentage of registrants are using the sponsors' particular products. We may share information pertaining to Aetna membership status with Aetna Inc. and its affiliates for purposes of analyzing use of the product by its membership.

We will not disclose to third parties any identifying personal information gathered from you during registration unless (1) we tell you how your information will be used and you give us specific permission to share this information, or (2) we are required to disclose such information by any applicable law or legal process (such as a subpoena or court order). If we disclose identifying personal information to third parties with your authorization, we will require the recipient to use the information only for the purpose provided.

Your personal information may be sold in the event of the sale, transfer, merger, consolidation or other extraordinary transaction involving all or part of our assets or securities with another entity. Additionally, we may share your personal information with such other entity in the course of any due diligence investigations related to any such transaction.

We commit to use security procedures to protect personal information you submit to us from misuse or unauthorized disclosure. The personal information that you submit to us is stored in our secure database behind an electronic firewall.

Access to the data within our website is limited to a few computer technicians for our site who need to maintain the database and who use passwords for that access, as well as outside vendors who may occasionally assist us in maintaining and improving our hardware and software tools.

We make every effort to safeguard your personal information. However, like other Internet sites, we cannot guarantee that it is completely secure from people who might attempt to evade security measures or intercept transmissions over the Internet.

Similarly, we cannot completely ensure the privacy of e-mail communications to and from our site because they are not encrypted and, therefore, not secure. These communications, like most Internet e-mail, could be intercepted without your knowledge and permission, while in transit to or from our site. This includes e-mail you send to us through our various mailboxes. If you are concerned about your privacy, we suggest that you do not use e-mail to communicate information to us that you consider sensitive.

If you have any concerns about the security or privacy of your personal identifiable information on the Simple Steps Web To Better Dental Health site, please contact us at comments@simplestepsdental.com.

Cookies are small bits of information placed on your computer's hard drive by a website. It is a simple text file that helps your browser remember certain information that the website can later retrieve to streamline communication between your browser and the website. We do not store this information. Our site can only read the cookies placed on your computer by us. We cannot access any information on your hard drive placed there by you or any other source.

We use only benign cookies that have no functionality. This means the cookie cannot do anything to your computer's hard drive and cannot read information from your computer's hard drive.

We use cookies for user convenience. The cookie will tell our system certain information so you don't have to fill in the same information each time you visit us.

Cookies also may be used by us on an aggregate basis to track site navigation. This information is not traceable to an individual user. Navigation streams are used to assist us in determining where people go when visiting our site and how long they stay in a particular area. This information is used to improve our site and may be shared with advertisers or sponsors.

Unlike many other websites, we do not use cookies to tailor advertisements or other information that appears during your visit to your preferences or your use of our site.

If you click on an advertisement or sponsorship acknowledgment, you will be leaving Simple Steps To Better Dental Health and will be directed to the advertiser or sponsor's site. Be aware that we have no control over the practices of other websites. Your computer may receive cookies from other sites and you will not be protected by our security and privacy policies.

The cookie feature can be turned off on your browser. For more information on turning off the cookie feature, consult your browser's help section. If you choose to turn off cookies, you can still access all areas of our site. Once the cookie feature on your browser is turned off, you might have to "refuse" a cookie each time you encounter one while searching our site.

An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider (ISP) whenever you access the Internet. This number may be the same each time you access the Internet or it may change. Like other Internet sites, we use IP addresses to collect aggregate information about numbers of visitors and site usage. The address is logged on our server when your computer requests information from Simple Steps To Better Dental Health. However, to allow users to access our site anonymously, your IP address is not linked with personal information about you. We reserve the right, in rare instances, to use IP addresses to identify individuals who threaten our site, service or customers.

We will not knowingly allow children under the age of 13 to register on our site for any purpose or to access any features that require registration. We require visitors to indicate their year of birth to register. If we learn that we inadvertently have collected identifying personal information from a child under the age of 13, we will promptly delete that information from our system.

This privacy policy applies only as long as you remain on the Simple Steps To Better Dental Health website. Once you leave Simple Steps To Better Dental Health to visit another site, we have no control over your privacy or security issues, even if you reached the other site by clicking on a link within the website.

Throughout our website, you will see links that can lead you to another site. If you click on a sponsorship acknowledgment while you are on Simple Steps To Better Dental Health, you will be leaving our website and will be directed to the sponsor's site. Also, if you click on a link or a "Return to" or "Back to" banner for another website, you will be leaving our website and will be directed to the linked website.

At times, clicking on a hyperlink within an article will bring up information on another site without warning. In these cases, however, the information will appear in a second, smaller "pop-up" window and the Simple Steps To Better Dental Health page will remain clearly visible on your computer screen.