Privacy
Policy
Any changes to the Bridgeport Family Dental Center
Electronic Bill Payment and Presentment Website Customer Information Privacy
Policy and the Electronic Bill Payment and Presentment Consumer Information
Privacy Principles, will be posted on or before the effective date of such
changes. You will be able to determine the date of the last change by noting
the effective date of the policies. Electronic Bill Payment and Presentment
Website Customer Information Privacy Policy Bridgeport Family Dental Center respects the privacy of
our customers and are committed to protecting their information on our Web
sites with the same care we utilize for our own transactions. Our Electronic Bill Payment and Presentment (EBPP) system
does not automatically collect personal information from visitors to its Web
sites. It is possible that the EBPP system will use tools, such as cookies or
click stream auditing, for our own internal uses, such as recommending products
and services and gathering Web analytics. Cookies are small pieces of
information that a Web site stores on a visitor's Web browser to remind the
site about the visitor the next time they visit the site. We will not store
confidential or sensitive information in cookies. Bridgeport Family Dental
Center will use cookies to enhance our customers' online bill payment session
by making navigation easier and providing important security features. For
certain applications, cookies are a requirement because they help protect the
privacy of a customer's transactions by, for example, automatically terminating
the online session if the customer forgets to log out. Cookies cannot be used to capture your e-mail address,
obtain data from your hard drive or gain confidential or sensitive information
about you. Additionally, cookies cannot be read by a Web site other than the
one that set the cookie. Some Web sites, however, use cookies to obtain
information from your browser. In order to prevent this, you can set your
browser to notify you before accepting a cookie, so that you can control
whether you accept or reject a cookie. Click stream auditing includes information such as a web
surfer's IP address, web pages which have been viewed or acted upon by a web
surfer, date and time, domain type, and when a web surfer has responded to an
advertisement. Bridgeport Family Dental Center may occasionally combine this
information with individual information on an aggregate level to determine the
effectiveness of our advertising. This version of the Electronic Bill Payment and
Presentment Website Customer Information Privacy Policy is effective
02/08/2008. Electronic Bill Payment and Presentment Consumer
Information Privacy Principles Introduction Bridgeport Family Dental Center’s Electronic Bill Payment
and Presentment Consumer Information Privacy Principles apply to personal
information collected or used when you use our online bill payment system. We Collect Information As Needed to Identify
You and Serve You as a Customer We collect
information from and about you in order to identify you as our customer,
establish and manage customer accounts, complete customer transactions, and to
comply with legal and regulatory requirements. Information we receive from you: Contact Information (such as name,
address, e-mail address, and telephone number). We use contact information, for
example, to identify you, send you information about our products and services,
and to contact you about your accounts. Account Information (such as bank account
numbers, bank routing numbers, and credit card numbers). We use the account information you provide us
in order to complete your payment requests. Policies and Procedures Bridgeport
Family Dental Center’s EBPP service utilizes advanced technology
and information management techniques to implement security, audit and control
programs designed to protect the confidentiality and security of the
information we collect. Bridgeport Family Dental
Center limits
employee access to customer information provided on our EBPP site to those
employees we believe have a legitimate business need for the information. We May Share Information With Other Companies It is our
policy not to sell, rent or otherwise provide customer information collected on
Bridgeport Family Dental Center’s EBPP site to outside companies so
they can market their non-financial products or services.
The section below describe the types of companies and third
parties with whom, and the situations when, we may share customer information
outside the Bridgeport Family Dental Center family: ·
Bridgeport Family Dental Center will share
personally identifiable information that you provide us on our EBPP site with
third parties that help us process the transactions you request; ·
When we respond to your service requests; · When we share information with consumer reporting agencies; ·
When we offer account benefits; ·
When we transfer information in connection
with a proposed or actual sale of accounts, or a proposed or actual sale of all
or part of a business unit; ·
When we suspect fraud or for risk management
purposes; ·
When we are required by a federal, state, or
local law or regulation to do so; ·
When we receive a subpoena or are ordered by
a court to do so; ·
As otherwise permitted by federal or state law. We may also disclose personally identifiable information to other
financial service providers with which we have marketing agreements. Generally, we provide market researchers only
with customer contact information, such as name, address, and telephone
number. Under no circumstances, will Bridgeport Family Dental Center disclose bank account numbers,
credit card numbers or access codes provided to us via our EBPP website to
third parties for telemarketing or direct marketing purposes. Before we disclose customer information to any of our
service providers or suppliers, we require them to agree to keep our customer
information confidential and secure and to use it only as authorized by us. Former Customers
State Privacy Laws We will also
comply with state privacy laws to the extent they apply. Online Information Policies We respect the
privacy of our customers and are committed to protecting their information on
our websites with the same care we utilize for our own transactions. |