Privacy Policy

Dental Trauma UK is a charity registered in England Wales and Scotland.

We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and this policy describes how your personal data that you provide us, will be used.

For the purpose of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the data controller is Dental Trauma UK.

When you become a member of the charity or register to attend one of our conferences, our lawful basis of processing your data is contract. In addition we will ask for your consent before we email you about anything that is not related to your membership or event booking.

1. Information we may collect from you

We may collect and process the following data about:

• Information that you provide by filling in the online forms on the DTUK website www.dental trauma.co.uk  
• This includes information provided at the time of registering to use the website, subscribing to become a member, booking a place at one of our events or requesting further services.
• By permitting a third party to carry out any transactions on the site on your behalf, you hereby confirm that such third party has your consent to do so.
• Details of transactions or enquiries made through the website by you or any third party on your behalf and the fulfilment of your orders (again by you or a third party on your behalf. 

2. Where we store your personal data

All information you provide will be stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology.

You are responsible in ensuring that any password you chose to access the membership pages on the website will be confidential and not shared with anyone.  

As you know, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. We will do our very best to protect your personal data, but cannot guarantee the security which is at your own risk. We will however, use strict procedures and security to prevent unauthorised access whenever possible.

3. Uses made of the information

We may use information held about you in the following ways:

To provide you (or any third party for whom you are acting) with information and services that you (or any third party for whom you are acting) request from us. We will always ensure that we have your consent before contacting you.

To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you (or any third party for whom you are acting) and your membership with DTUK.

To allow you (or any third party for whom you are acting) to participate in interactive features of our charity, when you (or any third party for whom you are acting) choose to do so.

To notify you (or any third party for whom you are acting) about changes to our charity when appropriate.

Information about you that has been entered into our system by a third party for the making of transactions or enquiries through our site on your behalf and of the fulfilment of your orders will be collected and used for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. 

Information about any third party for whom you are acting that has been entered into our system by you for the making of transactions or enquiries through our site on their behalf and of the fulfilment of their orders will be collected and used for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. 

If you (or any third party for whom you are acting) are a member, we will only contact you (or any third party for whom you are acting) by e-mail with information about educational goods and services. This will include third party transactions carried out on your behalf, that you have consented to.

4. Disclosure of your information

We will only disclose your personal information (or that of any third party for whom you are acting) if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Use; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of DTUK, our members, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

5.  Your Rights

The GDPR gives you (or any third party for whom you are acting) the right to access information held about you (or any third party for whom you are acting). Your right of access (or that of any third party for whom you are acting) can be exercised in accordance with the regulation.

The GDPR gives you (or any third party for whom you are acting) the right to request that your data is deleted should you wish it to be once we have fulfilled the duration of our contract with you.

The GDPR gives you (or any third party for whom you are acting) the right to withdraw/amend your consent permissions at any time. You can do this by logging in to your membership account.

The GDPR gives you (or any third party for whom you are acting) the right to complain to the ICO if you think there is a problem with how we are handling your data.

6. Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate you will be notified (or any third party for whom you are acting) by e-mail.

7. Contact 

Questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy are welcomed and should be addressed to info@dentaltrauma.co.uk.

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