Data protection

The safety and protection of your personal data during the use of our website is an important concern of Ivoclar Vivadent AG. Your data will be stored, processed and used in accordance with the regulations governing the protection of data.

The purpose of the notes below is to inform you about the collection, processing, and further use of personal data ("data"), e.g. name, address, or phone number, during the use of the website of Ivoclar Vivadent AG.

General remarks
We process and use your data to enable you to use the website of Ivoclar Vivadent, as well as for other purposes, to which you have agreed in advance.

You declare your consent by sending the data, which you have entered in a designated contact form on the website. Submitting your personal data is strictly optional. You will be asked for your data, for example, if you request additional informational material, make an appointment or send us an e-mail. Your data will then be stored in a database maintained by Ivoclar Vivadent and used by the companies of the European Ivoclar Vivadent Group to provide you with information about products, services, and activities of the Ivoclar Vivadent Group.

Our employees and representatives, who will process your inquiries, are sworn to maintain secrecy.

We will not pass on your data to any third parties outside the European Ivoclar Vivadent Group without your express consent, which may be revoked at all times.

Pseudonyms/ anonymized use of data
If you do not oppose, we will process and use your data in an anonymized form or by using pseudonyms for market research purposes and for demand-oriented design of our website. Your IP address will be recorded for internal statistical purposes.

Revocation of consent
If you partially or completely revoke your consent regarding the future collection, processing, and use of your data, we will immediately delete your data to the extent that you demand provided such action does not violate any legal provisions (e.g. obligation of safekeeping).

Cookies
If the Ivoclar Vivadent website is accessed, our web server temporarily stores the domain name or the IP address of the accessing computer, as well as the access date, file inquiries by the visitor of the website (file name and the corresponding complete internet address data), http reply code, browser type, and the size in bytes of the files transferred during the session. This information is necessary to transfer the files you requested from the Ivoclar Vivadent website to your computer, and for purposes of system security.

In order to adjust the website to your browser type and preferences, we use cookies. Cookies are small text files, which are stored on the hard disk of your computer. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you may change the settings of your web browser at any time to prevent cookies from being stored on your hard disk.

Third-party offers
On some, specially marked pages on our website, we have listed links to services of affiliated companies. When using the websites of our partner companies, the data are processed and used on the responsibility of the partner company, whose data protection standards may differ from those of Ivoclar Vivadent AG. Therefore, please also read the information on data protection of the corresponding partner companies.

Security
Please note that third-party access may not be completely excluded if data are transmitted via the Internet. Since Ivoclar Vivadent AG does not yet use encrypted transfer procedures, protection from unauthorized access cannot be guaranteed.

Domestic representative
The domestic representative in Liechtenstein is Ivoclar Vivadent AG.

Inquiries
We will be pleased to give you any information about your personal data in our data base on request. The information is free and will be provided immediately. Please contact info@ivoclarvivadent.com or send us your written inquiry by mail or fax.

Should you have any questions or suggestions regarding the protection of data, send us an e-mail to the following address: info@ivoclarvivadent.com.

Changes
We reserve the right to change this information about the protection of data at all times. The corresponding changes will be published here so that you may find out about them at any time.

Date: February 2006


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