Citrus Grove Orthodontics Privacy Policy
Our Privacy Policy was last updated on January 4, 2025. Our Privacy Policy covers any information that is collected about you and your activities while visiting our website, how that information is stored, and shared. Our Privacy Policy also covers the relationships we have with third parties and how your information may be shared with them.
What type of information do we collect?
When you visit our website, we collect any information that you give us. For example, if you fill out the contact form, that information will be stored on our website and sent to the appropriate contact at our company. We may also collect information through web beacons, cookies, and other analytics that shows us how you came to view our website and whether or not it was through an advertisement. Additionally, if you share one of our web pages or blogs through your social media account, we will collect information on that activity. We may also obtain information from publicly available sources on your browsing activity and interests.
While we do not collect personally sensitive data, we may collect information on the device you are using to visit our website along with your geographic location in order to improve your user experience. From time to time, we or our partners may send a cookie or anonymous identifier to your device.
When the law requires it, we obtain a consent before collecting and storing user information.
Partners that collect information
By visiting our website, your information may also be gathered by Google since we use Google Analytics to provide us with information about our website and the visitors to it. If you reached our site through a different search engine, information might be gathered by them, as well. This information is for analytical purposes and collected automatically when visiting our site. The information is not manually transferred and if you want more information on Google’s Privacy Policy, you can click here.
How the information is used
By understanding how a viewer came to visit our website and what they did there, we can improve the overall user experience of our visitors. By collecting data, we can conduct research and identify ways that we can improve. We may use it to make changes to our website in order to make it more user-friendly or to improve the content on our site. In the future, this information may be used to improve your experience specifically or to make recommendations about how we can assist you.
If you filled out a contact form, your information would be used so that our team can reach out to you via email or a phone call. Additionally, if you sign up to be on our email list, your information will be used so that we can send communication to you. We may also use your information to provide you with promotional offers or incentives to use our products and services. This may be on our website or other places across the Internet and be provided directly by us or one of our advertising partners.
We collect personal information such as names, phone numbers, email addresses, etc., only when voluntarily submitted by our visitors. The information you provide is only used to fulfill your particular request unless you give us permission to use it in another manner.
Occasionally, we may collect statistical and non-personal information about the use of the site. This information may include how many visitors visit a specific page on the site, how long they stay there, and which hyperlinks they visit. We collect this information to determine which areas of the site are most popular and where to enhance the site for our visitors. This collective data may be used to describe the use of our site to third parties or in response to a government request. However, this data will not personally identify you or any other of our website visitors.
With whom we share the information
When we collect information about you, it is generally used for our purposes internally. We may share information with Google or our advertising partners for the purposes described above. We may also share your information with companies that provide services and support to us, as it pertains to them fulfilling their duties. If you comment on our blog posts or engage with us on social media, your profile information will be shared along with any comments that you post – typically this is viewable by the general public.
We do not share any personal or sensitive information without your consent. However, there may be instances where we are required to share your information by law and if so, will comply as necessary.
We may share information with government agencies or any other companies assisting us in fraud prevention or investigation. We may do so when permitted or required by law or when investigating fraud that has already taken place. We also may use other businesses to perform certain services for us, such as maintaining our site and our email services and processing inquiries. We may provide personal information to those businesses when that information is necessary for them to complete a requested transaction or otherwise perform their duties. We will not sell or share your personal information with any unaffiliated third parties for marketing purposes.
Protecting your information
We have taken steps to protect your information by restricting the access to your information to only select employees that would need it in order to perform their job duties. We also review our collection and storage policies on a regular basis to determine if they need to be improved.
Your options
If you do not want us to contact you or if you do not want to receive our newsletters anymore, you can unsubscribe using the link at the bottom of our emails. If you do not want information collected about you and used throughout the web, from our website and others, you can opt-out by clicking the following links and going through the process.
If you want, you can also change the settings on your browser to block all cookies. However, if you do that some of our website services may no longer work.
Changes
If we update our Privacy Policy, it will be reflected here, on our website with a new effective date at the top of the page.
Website
We make every effort to ensure the accuracy, quality, ease of use, and technology of our website. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any creative suggestions or technical issues you might encounter. A list of pages included in this site is available here on our sitemap.
Text Message Opt-In
We will not share or sell your opt-in to an SMS campaign with any third party for purposes unrelated to providing you with the services of that campaign. We may share your Personal Data, including your SMS opt-in or consent status, with third parties that help us provide our messaging services, including but not limited to platform providers, phone companies, and any other vendors who assist us in the delivery of text messages.
All of the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.
How to reach us
If you have questions about our Privacy Policy or how we collect, store, and share data, you can email us using the form on our https://www.citrusgrovesmiles.com/contact-us/ or call 562-608-1345. We will be happy to answer your questions. Citrus Grove Orthodontics is located at 15141 Whittier Blvd STE 255 Whittier, CA 90603.
