Delta Dental of Oklahoma Website Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

This privacy policy describes Delta Dental of Oklahoma’s current policies and practices with regard to Personally Identifiable Information collected by Delta Dental of Oklahoma through its websites, deltadentalok.org or patientdirect.net, (hereinafter referred to collectively as "DDOK's websites"). Please remember that any information, including personal information that you reveal in a public forum, such as a mail list, chat room, or bulletin board, is not subject to this Privacy Policy, may be seen by third parties not related to Delta Dental of Oklahoma, and may be used by them to contact you or for unauthorized purposes.
Also, if you link to a third party site from Delta Dental of Oklahoma, any information you reveal on that site is not subject to this Privacy Policy. Please consult the privacy policies of each and every site you visit.

Additional Privacy Policies

HIPAA Notice

GLBA Notice

Personally Identifiable Information

The term "Personally Identifiable Information" refers to information about you, such as your name, birth date, Social Security Number, e-mail address or mailing address, dependent information, telephone number, and any other information that is identified with you personally, including your individual health information. Delta Dental of Oklahoma upholds the highest integrity to protect this information.

Changes to personally identifiable information

Delta Dental maintains a process for Oklahoma individual consumers who are enrolled in Delta Patient Direct or Individual Choice-Premier, whereby the consumer may visit DDOK’s commercial web site to review and request changes to his or her personally identifiable information that is collected through its web site. A member username and password is required to access information. When the information is access, the user may select “My Profile” from the menu and click on Update Subscriber Information to edit their personal information.

Individual consumers who are enrolled in a plan other than the two plans listed above may request changes by sending a request in writing to DDOK at the address listed below.

Third-party Entities

Delta Dental of Oklahoma will share your Personally Identifiable Information with certain third-party vendors to conduct certain functions of our business and to provide you with services and products. Categories of third-party vendors include: complying with valid legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena, or court order; or in special cases, such as physical threat to you or to others. Information may also be released to Delta Dental of Oklahoma vendors and suppliers where it is necessary to provide us with products and services related to the better operation and maintenance of “DDOK’s websites”. Delta Dental of Oklahoma will attempt to ensure that each of our suppliers or vendors do not utilize your Personally Identifiable Information for any purpose other than providing us or you with products or services, such as giving “leads” to certain geographically-related affiliates. This is not a guarantee that these entities will comply with these restrictions.

Cookies

Delta Dental of Oklahoma may collect information about you and your use of our site through the utilization of "cookies." Cookies are small files transferred to your computer's hard drive that allows us to know how often someone visits the site, and the activities these customers conduct while on our web site. This information assists us in generating a more specialized web site content, and advertising for your convenience and use. Some sponsors and advertisers who are linked with our site may also use these Cookies when you select their advertisement. Delta Dental cannot control their use of cookies or how they manage the information gathered by these companies.

Children

Delta Dental of Oklahoma does not knowingly collect personal data from individuals who are not considered adults by age according to state law. If you are not an adult, please do not give us any Personally Identifiable Information. If you have reason to believe that a child has provided Personally Identifiable Information to Delta Dental of Oklahoma, please contact us, and we will try to delete that information from our databases.

Material Changes

Delta Dental of Oklahoma is continually improving and adding new functionality and features to its websites and improving and adding to our existing products, services, and programs. Because of these ongoing changes, changes in the law, and the changing nature of technology, Delta Dental of Oklahoma's data practices will change from time to time. If a material change should occur in Delta Dental of Oklahoma’s processes that will affect this Privacy Policy, Delta Dental of Oklahoma will revise this policy and post the revised policy on DDOK’s websites.

Effective Date

The effective date of this Privacy Policy is July 5, 2006.

Delta Dental of Oklahoma
P. O. Box 54709
Oklahoma City, OK 73154-1709

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