Privacy Policy

Looking after your information

Note: This privacy policy applies to visitors to our website. For patients registered with us, we have a separate confidentiality policy, which you can find here

Responsibilities

Largs Dental Care is the data controller for your data. When you read "we", "us", or "our" in this document, it refers to Largs Dental Care.

We can be contacted as follows:

  • Email: contactus@largsdentalcare.com
  • Postal address: Largs Dental Care, 26 Wilson Street, Largs, KA30 9AQ

Summary

We believe our website is here for you to find out information about us - not the other way around. We also want to keep our website simple and fast for visitors.

That means:

  • We gather the minimum information needed - only enough to make sure our website works as it should
  • We don't don't track you. We don't use cookies, beacons, or any other similar technology
  • We don't sell or otherwise pass on your information to anybody
  • We don't integrate or embed any third party services, such as content from social media sites.

Information we collect

We use Netlify as our hosting provider. In hosting our website, Netlify is acting as a data processor on our behalf. We have signed a data processing agreement with them to this effect.

When you visit our website your browser sends data to the servers hosting our website automatically. The following data in particular may be processed:

  • IP address
  • Date of your visit
  • Time of your visit
  • Duration of your visit
  • The country you are in
  • Browser type
  • Referrer URL
  • Your operating system
  • Name of the access provider
  • Referring and exit pages

This information is stored in the logs of our hosting provider's servers. The purpose of storing this information is to ensure the correct function and performance of our website, and to assist in any troubleshooting that may be required from time to time. Using your information this way falls under 'Legitimate Interest' within the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Information in logs is kept for 30 days, at which point it is deleted.

Third party links

Our site, in places, may contain links to third party websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please be aware that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.

Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

Your consent

By using our website you consent to this policy.

Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to contactus@largsdentalcare.com.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at contactus@largsdentalcare.com

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk