Privacy Policy

Overview

This Privacy Policy applies to the activities of Victorian Mobile Dental Health Pty Ltd ACN 680 018 795 ("we", "us", "our").

This policy explains how we handle personal information and comply with the Australian Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) ("Privacy Act").

This Privacy Policy does not apply to personal information collected by us that is exempted under the Privacy Act, for example employee records and/or information about companies or partnerships unless and to the extent that the disclosed is specific to identifiable individuals of the company or firm.

This Privacy Policy relates to the collection and use of personal information you may supply to us through your conduct on our web site.

Unless we obtain your written consent, we will not sell, disclose, licence or rent your personal information to a third party for that third party's marketing purposes.

Background

We provide dental and associated health care treatments and services to individuals. The nature of the services provided means that we may collect personal or sensitive information about our clients and patients, their employees (where applicable), their legal guardians or carers (for example, where our patient is under the age of 18 years of age) for the purpose of providing our services. In the event that we are using, collecting or storing personal or sensitive information outside of the jurisdiction of Australia, we will comply with the privacy laws applicable to that jurisdiction.

Definitions

"Personal Information" means information that can be associated with a specific person and can be used to identify that person and includes your information. Information that has been made anonymous or aggregated so that it cannot be used, whether in combination with other information or otherwise, to identify a specific user is not personal information. Personal Information may include sensitive information, particularly Health Information.

"Health Information" means personal information or an opinion about your health, including an illness, disability or injury, (at any time), your expressed wishes about the future provision of health services to be provided to you, a health service provided or to be provided, or other personal information collected to provide, or in providing, a health service to you, in connection with the donation, or intended donation, by an individual of his or her body, or genetic information about you in a form that is, or could be, predictive of the health of the individual or a genetic relative of the individual.

"You", "your", "yours" includes, where the patient is under 18 years of age, includes any parent or legal guardian of the patient.

How We Collect Your Personal Information

We collect personal information in a number of ways, including:

• when you interact with us by phone, electronically or in person;
• when you use our web site or our social media;
• when you subscribe to our publications;
• from third parties such as our service providers, government agencies third party healthcare or private health fund providers, operators of linked websites, applications and advertising on the website; and
• when we provide our services to you.

What Personal Information We Collect

We collect the following types of personal information including health information, in order to provide you with access to and use of our Websites and for the purposes provided for in this Privacy Policy:

• Your name, phone number, email address, physical address and other contact information;
• Financial information such as credit card or bank account numbers;
• Data relating to your health care eligibility status e.g. Medicare registration, health care concessions and private health fund.
• Records and content of consultations and communications with us or any other person including when using Website communication tools;
• Personal information based on your activities on the Website;
• Information about the treatments or other services you have asked for and/or that we provide to you;
• Information from enquiries you have made;
• To the extent permitted by law, other personal information, including health information provided by or obtained from third parties;
• additional personal information we ask you to provide to verify your identity or when we suspect that you are in breach of our Terms of Service, this Privacy Policy or other Website policies (including your personal ID and your answers to any questions we pose to you); and
• personal information from your interaction with the Website and its content and advertising, including device identifiers, device type, geo-location information, connection information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from the Website, mobile network information, time, date, referring URL, the type of operating system and browser, ad data, IP address and standard web log data.

(Note: All calls will be recorded for quality, training and consent purposes)

How personal information is used

Our principal purpose in collecting, using and storing your personal and/or health information is to provide you with our health care services. We may also collect your access to and use of our Websites in a personalised, safe and efficient manner. You consent to us collecting, using, storing and sharing your personal information to:

• book you in for our services;
• provide you with a service including a health care service;
• respond to requests or queries;
• notify you about changes to our services and industry developments;
• verify your identity;
• enforce our terms of service, this Privacy Policy and other policies;
• for administrative purposes, including processing payment transactions and health fund or Medicare rebates;
• supply you with generalised, targeted or personalised marketing, advertising and promotional notices, offers and communications based on your preferences;
• research, develop and improve our services; and
• technical maintenance.

If you do not provide us with the personal information we have requested, we may not be able to complete or fulfil the purpose for which such information was collected, including providing you with the services including health care services we were engaged to perform.

The types of third parties to whom we may disclose your personal information include:

• To our services providers who assist us to provide its services such as information technology providers and marketing advisers (including in relation to fee collection, fraud investigations and Website operations);
• To comply with any applicable law, request by a governmental agency or regulatory authority or legally binding court order;
• To report to, or otherwise notify, the facility that is responsible for your care and who engages us to provide health care services and treatment to you and, where applicable any other legal guardian or carer responsible for your safety, health and wellbeing;
• To protect the rights, property or personal safety of any member of the public;
• Where we reasonably believe that the use or disclosure is reasonably necessary for prevention, investigation, prosecution and punishment of crimes or wrongdoings or the preparation for, conduct of, proceedings before any court or tribunal or the implementation of the orders of a court or tribunal by or on behalf of an enforcement body.
• To our directors, staff, contractors, professional advisers and related entities;
• To third parties to whom you expressly ask us to send, or consent to us sending, your personal information;
• To credit agencies (including regarding missed and late payments or other defaults or breaches on your account); or
• To such entities that we propose to merge with or be acquired by and in such case, we will require that the new entity following the merger or acquisition adhere to this Privacy Policy.

Links - Social Media and other third party websites

Our web sites may contains links to other web sites such as social media pages (eg Facebook or Twitter) and those third party web sites may collect personal information about you. If you choose to "like" or "share" or "recommend" information from this website through these services, you should review the privacy policy of that service.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other businesses or government agencies or the content of web sites that are linked to our web site.

We encourage users to be aware when they leave the site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.

Storage and security

We will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect the financial and personal information you may transmit to us or from our online products and services. Security is of paramount importance, therefore, before we start, we sign a confidentiality agreement with you.

Our services are may be performed onsite or offsite. In the instances where we are required to work at your premises, we will take all due care and consideration to ensure no loss and/or damage occurs. However, we shall not be held responsible for any loss and/or damage incurred whilst at your premises.

Once we do receive your transmission, we will also make our best efforts to ensure its security on our systems.

We also require our employees and data processors to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by us.

No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100 per cent secure. As a result, while we strive to protect user's personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to it or from its online products or services, and users do so at their own risk.

Use of Cookies

As is very common for companies, we use cookies on our websites. Cookies are very small files which a website uses to identify you when you come back to the site and to store details about your use of the site.

Cookies are not malicious programs that access or damage your computer. We use cookies to improve the experience of people using our websites.

Cookies may collect and store your personal information. This Privacy Policy applies to personal information collected via cookies. You may adjust your internet browser to disable cookies. If Cookies are disabled, we may not be able to provide you with the full range of our services.

You also may encounter Cookies used by third parties and placed on certain pages of the Website that we do not control and have not authorised (such as webpages created by another user). We are not responsible nor liable for the use of such Cookies.

Our Website may also include links to third party websites (including links created by users or members) and applications and advertising delivered to the Website by third parties (Linked Sites). Organisations who operate Linked Sites may collect personal information including through the use of Cookies. We are not responsible nor liable for Linked Sites and recommends that you read the privacy policies of such Linked Sites before disclosing your personal information.

No Spam, Spyware or Spoofing

You are prohibited from engaging in spam, spyware or spoofing type activities, regardless of whether directed towards us or other users of us.

You must not use our websites or their communication tools to send, upload or distribute spam, viruses or malicious, illegal or prohibited content to the Website or otherwise send content that would breach our Terms of Service or this Privacy Policy.

Changes to Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amended terms on our Websites. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you by means of a notice on our announcements board and/or other means so that you access and review the changes. As a result, please remember to refer back to this Privacy Policy regularly to review any amendments.

Accessing and amending your personal information

We are committed to maintaining accurate, timely, relevant and appropriate information about our customers and web site users.

If, at any time, you discover that information held about you is incorrect or out of date, you may contact us at admin@vmdh.com.au to have the information corrected.

In addition, our employees and the contractors who provide services related to our information systems are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by us.

Opting out

You may opt out of receiving our newsletter, marketing, advertising and promotional notices, offers and communications by communicating this to us in writing at the email address below.

If you wish to have your personal information deleted, please email us at admin@vmdh.com.au and we will take all reasonable steps to delete it (unless we need to keep it for legal, auditing or internal risk management reasons).

Complaints

If you have any complaints about our privacy practices, please feel free to send in details of your complaints to admin@vmdh.com.au. We take complaints very seriously and will investigate your complaint and attempt to resolve any breach that might have occurred in relation to the collection, use or destruction of personal information held by us about you in accordance with the Commonwealth Privacy Legislation.

If you are not satisfied with the outcome of your complaint, you can refer your complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.

Contact Us

If you require further information regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us at

• Email: admin@vmdh.com.au,  
• Mobile: +61 483 102 562

Acceptance

You accept that your use of this site includes your acceptance of this Privacy Policy and the Website Terms of Use.