📜 Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 09/24/2025
Who We Are
Our website address is: https://dentalemergencytraining.com. This website provides educational resources, training opportunities, and event registration for dental emergency preparedness courses hosted by Dr. Michael Hoffmann and Dr. Sean Thoms.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy. After comment approval, your profile picture (if applicable) is visible to the public.
Media
If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site can download and extract location data from uploaded images.
Cookies
If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These cookies are for convenience and last one year.
If you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we set cookies to save login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last two days; screen option cookies last a year. Selecting “Remember Me” keeps your login active for two weeks. Logging out removes these cookies.
When editing or publishing an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. It includes no personal data and expires after one day.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if you visited that website directly. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content.
Who We Share Your Data With
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, it and its metadata are retained indefinitely to allow automatic approval of follow-up comments.
For users who register (if applicable), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. Users can see, edit, or delete their personal data anytime (except their username). Site administrators can also view and modify this data.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have an account or have left comments, you may request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you provided. You may also request deletion of your personal data. This excludes data we must retain for legal, administrative, or security purposes.
Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.