Privacy Policy


Who we are

Our website address is: https://schoolteeth.co.uk.

School Teeth is a trading style of ST Dental Group Ltd, company registration number 13667156 registered in England and Wales. The registered office address is Sixty Six, North Quay, Great Yarmouth, England, NR30 1HE.

All requests for information should be directed to info@schoolteeth.co.uk or to the above given registered office address.


Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.


Contact forms

Personal data is captured when someone submits a contact form. School Teeth keeps contact form submissions for a twelve-month period for customer service purposes and eleven years for clinical record purposes, but School Teeth will not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes, unless specific permission has been given by the website user.


Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.


Analytics

School Teeth uses Google Analytics for monitoring and improvement to the website. Users can opt out of analytics tracking by utilising Google Analytics opt-out extensions or software.


Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.


What personal data we collect and why we collect it

This privacy policy sets out how School Teeth uses and protects any information that you give when you use this website. School Teeth is committed to complying with the Data Protection Act 1998, the General Data Protection Regulations [GDPR], General Dental Council [GDC], and National Health Service [NHS] standards.

School Teeth will only utilise information given by users of this website for the purpose intended by the user. For other purposes, permission from the website user will be sought first. This may include personal data such as name, email address, personal account preferences; transactional data, such as purchase information; and technical data such as information about cookies. Collection and retention of sensitive personal data such as dental or facial data, will be collected and processed in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the GDPR. Data will be collected for the intended purposes as described on the webpage, for which consent will be deemed given if such requested information is inputted by the website user. This consent for School Teeth to retain and process data for a website user can be removed at any time following School Teeth receiving a request in writing either to info@schoolteeth.co.uk or to the registered office address by the website user.


Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

The following is a list of all third-party providers with whom we share site data, including partners, cloud-based services, payment processors, and third-party service providers: WordPress, Squareup UK, WP Easy Cart, Google LLC. Data is shared for the purposes of delivering School Teeth services and products to website and service users.


How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

School Teeth will keep contact form entries for twelve months, analytics records for five years, and customer purchase and clinical records for eleven years.


What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, clinical record, legal, or security purposes.


Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.


Contact information

The person responsible for Data Protection is: Dr. Jiten Vadukul (registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office [ICO]). For any queries relating to Data Protection or this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@schoolteeth.co.uk.