Drs. Nicolas & Asp Center Internet Privacy Policy
Drs. Nicolas & Asp Centers (DNAC) respects your right to privacy. This Internet Privacy Policy (this ‘Policy’) describes how DNAC protects your privacy when we collect personal information on DNAC websites and does not apply to DNAC’ activities that are “offline” or unrelated to the website.
This policy also summarizes what personally identifiable information we may collect, and how we might use this information and also describes other important topics relating to your privacy.
It is DNAC’s policy to comply with all applicable privacy and data protection laws. This commitment reflects the value we place on earning and keeping the trust of our customers, business partners and others who share their personal information with us. As used in this Policy, the term ‘personal information’ refers to information that identifies you personally, alone or in combination with other information available to us.
Your Consent
By using a DNAC website or providing personal information to us, you are consenting to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Policy and any applicable Country or Website Privacy Statements.
If you do not consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Policy (and any applicable Country or Website Privacy Statements), do not use DNAC’s websites or Appointment/Inquiry/Feedback forms.
Limitations on the Collection, Use and Disclosure of Personal Information
To the extent required by applicable law, whenever DNAC collects personal information on a DNAC website, DNAC’ will:
- provide timely and appropriate notice to you about its data practices;
- collect, use, disclose and transfer your personal information only with your consent, which may be express or implied, depending on the sensitivity of the personal information, legal requirements, and other factors;
- collect your personal information only for specific, limited purposes. The information we collect will be relevant, adequate and not excessive for the purposes for which it is collected;
- Process your personal information in a manner consistent with the purposes for which it was originally collected or to which you have subsequently consented;
- take commercially reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is reliable for its intended use, accurate, complete, and, where necessary, kept up-to-date; and
- not use your personal information for direct marketing purposes without giving you an opportunity to “opt-out”.
Information Collected on DNAC Websites and How It May Be Used
When you access and use a DNAC website, there are 3 ways we may collect information about you:
1. Information Sent to Us by Your Web Browser
DNAC collects information that is sent to us automatically by your web browser. This information typically includes the IP address of your internet service provider, the name of your operating system (such as Macintosh® or Windows®) and the name and version of your browser (such as Internet Explorer® or Google Chrome®). The information we receive depends on the settings of your web browser. Please check your browser if you want to learn what information your browser sends or how to change your settings.
The information provided by your browser does not identify you personally. We use this information to create statistics that help us improve our sites and make them more compatible with the technology used by our online visitors.
2. Information Collected By Placing a ‘Cookie’ On Your Computer
Cookies are small bits of data cached in a user’s browser. DNAC utilizes cookies to determine whether or not you have visited the home page in the past. However, no other user information is gathered. If you do not wish to receive cookies, you may set your browser to reject cookies or to alert you when a cookie is placed on your computer. Although you are not required to accept cookies when you visit a DNAC website, you may be unable to use all of the functionality of the site if your browser rejects our cookies.
3. Information You Knowingly and Voluntarily Provide
You may also be asked to provide personally identifiable information on the DNAC website, which may include your name, address, DOB, telephone number, e-mail address. This information can be gathered when you register for services through appointment/inquiry/feedback forms or when e-mails are sent to nicolasandasp.ae.
DNAC uses this information for the purposes for which you provide it. For example, if you provide your e-mail address when you sign up to receive any medical/dental reports through e-mail or submitting the appointment/careers/inquiry forms, we use your e-mail address to deliver the e-mail alerts you request.
We may also use the information we collect on DNAC websites for various business purposes such as customer service, fraud prevention, market research, improving our products and services and providing you and your company with information and offers we believe may be of interest to you. We may also remove all the personally identifiable information and use the rest for historical, statistical or scientific purposes.
Sharing Personal Information
DNAC will not sell personal information collected from its websites to mailing list brokers.
DNAC may also share your personal information with third parties we hire to perform support services for us. These third parties are required to use the personal information we share with them only to perform services on our behalf and to treat your personal information as strictly confidential.
In some cases, DNAC may share your personal information with third parties who partner with us to provide products and services to our customers. When we do so, we will require our business partners to use the personal information we share with them in a manner consistent with the purposes for which it was originally collected (or to which you subsequently consented) and only as permitted under this Policy, any applicable Country or Website Privacy Statements, and all applicable privacy and data protection laws.
In certain, limited circumstances we may share or transfer personal information to unrelated third parties. For example, we may provide personal information to a third party (i) at your request; (ii) to comply with a legal requirement or court order; (iii) to investigate a possible crime, such as identity theft; (iv) in connection with the sale, purchase, merger, reorganization, liquidation or dissolution of DNAC or a DNAC business unit; or (v) under similar circumstances. If such an event occurs, we will take appropriate steps to protect your personal information.
Security of Personal Information
Your personal information will generally be stored in DNAC databases or databases maintained by our service providers. Most of these databases are stored on servers located in the United States. To the extent required by law, if your personal information will be transferred outside your country, an appropriate notice will be provided.
DNAC maintains reasonable safeguards to protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of your personal information. Although we use security measures to help protect your personal information against unauthorized disclosure, misuse or alteration, as is the case with all computer networks linked to the internet, we cannot guarantee the security of information provided over the internet and will not be responsible for breaches of security beyond our reasonable control.
Access to Personal Information
If you have any questions or concerns about how we treat your personal information, you wish to ask us to stop processing your personal information, or you would like to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you, please contact us or write to us at: Drs. Nicolas & Asp Center, Villa 446, Jumeirah Beach Road, Jumeirah 3, Dubai, UAE. PO BOX 53382
Retention of Personal Information
DNAC retains the personal information collected on DNAC websites as long as necessary to provide the services, products and information you request or as permitted by applicable law.
Changes to this Policy and our Privacy Statements
DNAC reserves the right to update or modify this Policy, at any time and without prior notice, by posting the revised version of this Policy on our DNAC websites. We also reserve the right to update or modify Website Privacy Statements, at any time and without prior notice, by posting the revised Privacy Statement on the applicable DNAC website. If we modify this Policy or any Privacy Statement, the modifications will only apply to the personal information we collect after we have posted the revised Policy or Privacy Statement on the applicable DNAC website.