Privacy policy
How to read this page
- Legal information
- What the law provides, whatever the company decides.
- Company policy
- A rule set by Global Toothgems.
- What you need to do
- The steps to take on your side.
- Verify before publication
- Information not yet confirmed by the business.
Data controller
The controller of your data is the website publisher, identified in the legal notice.
- Data controller
- Business info required:Legal business name
- Address
- Business info required:Registered office address
- Privacy contact
- Business info required:Email for privacy requests
- Data protection officer
- Business info required:DPO contact details, if appointedAppointment is only mandatory in certain cases.
Categories of personal data
| Context | Data | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Account | Name, email, password (hashed), chosen profile, preferences | You |
| Orders and billing | Products bought, amounts, billing address, history | You |
| Shipping | Recipient name, address, phone, parcel tracking | You, carrier |
| Payment | Payment status, To verify:Card details received from Stripe, if any | Stripe |
| Contact and customer service | Message, category, order number, attachments, exchanges | You |
| Training | Enrolments, progress, quiz answers and scores, certificates | You, the platform |
| Reviews and community | Reviews, ratings, photos, posts, display name | You |
| Marketing | Email consent, date of consent, unsubscribe | You |
| Browsing | Technical data and cookies according to your choices | Your browser |
Data collected depending on how you use the site
- Account
- Data
- Name, email, password (hashed), chosen profile, preferences
- Source
- You
- Orders and billing
- Data
- Products bought, amounts, billing address, history
- Source
- You
- Shipping
- Data
- Recipient name, address, phone, parcel tracking
- Source
- You, carrier
- Payment
- Data
- Payment status, To verify:Card details received from Stripe, if any
- Source
- Stripe
- Contact and customer service
- Data
- Message, category, order number, attachments, exchanges
- Source
- You
- Training
- Data
- Enrolments, progress, quiz answers and scores, certificates
- Source
- You, the platform
- Reviews and community
- Data
- Reviews, ratings, photos, posts, display name
- Source
- You
- Marketing
- Data
- Email consent, date of consent, unsubscribe
- Source
- You
- Browsing
- Data
- Technical data and cookies according to your choices
- Source
- Your browser
Account, orders and shipping
Account information is used to identify you, secure access and give you access to your orders, courses and certificates. Order and shipping data is used to prepare, ship and invoice your purchases, and to handle returns and complaints.
If you sign in with a third-party account, we only receive the information needed to sign you in: To verify:Third-party sign-in providers offered.
Contact form and customer service
When you write to us, we use your contact details, message and any attachments to handle your request and keep a record of it. Please do not include health information or bank details.
Training, quizzes and progress
For Academy courses, we record your enrolments, completed lessons, quiz answers and scores, and the certificates issued to you. This data is used to track your progress, validate the course and verify that a certificate is genuine.
Reviews and user-generated content
Reviews, photos and posts you publish are visible to other visitors or members, with the display name you chose. You can ask for them to be removed at any time.
Marketing preferences
We only send you promotional emails if you have agreed, or To verify:Emails to existing customers about similar products, if chosen and permitted. Every email contains an unsubscribe link.
Payment and Stripe’s role
Payments are processed by Stripe. Your card details are entered with Stripe and are not passed to us; we receive the payment status and, where applicable, limited information: To verify:Payment data actually received. Stripe also processes some data for fraud prevention and its own legal obligations, under its own privacy policy.
Other service providers
| Function | Provider | Data location |
|---|---|---|
| Website hosting | To verify:Hosting provider | To verify:Country |
| Database and accounts | To verify:Database provider | To verify:Country |
| Email and communication | To verify:Email provider | To verify:Country |
| Analytics | To verify:Analytics provider, if used | To verify:Country |
| Delivery | To verify:Carriers | To verify:Country |
| Training video | To verify:Video host | To verify:Country |
| Other | To verify:Other providers | To verify:Country |
Providers processing data on our behalf
- Website hosting
- Provider
- To verify:Hosting provider
- Data location
- To verify:Country
- Database and accounts
- Provider
- To verify:Database provider
- Data location
- To verify:Country
- Email and communication
- Provider
- To verify:Email provider
- Data location
- To verify:Country
- Analytics
- Provider
- To verify:Analytics provider, if used
- Data location
- To verify:Country
- Delivery
- Provider
- To verify:Carriers
- Data location
- To verify:Country
- Training video
- Provider
- To verify:Video host
- Data location
- To verify:Country
- Other
- Provider
- To verify:Other providers
- Data location
- To verify:Country
Purposes and legal bases
| Purpose | Legal basis |
|---|---|
| Manage your account | Performance of a contract |
| Process, deliver and invoice orders | Performance of a contract |
| Provide training, track progress, issue certificates | Performance of a contract |
| Keep invoices and accounting records | Legal obligation |
| Answer your requests | Legitimate interest or pre-contractual steps |
| Prevent fraud and secure the site | Legitimate interest |
| Publish your reviews and posts | To verify:Consent or performance of a contract |
| Send marketing emails | Consent |
| Non-essential cookies | Consent |
Why we process your data, and on what basis
- Manage your account
- Legal basis
- Performance of a contract
- Process, deliver and invoice orders
- Legal basis
- Performance of a contract
- Provide training, track progress, issue certificates
- Legal basis
- Performance of a contract
- Keep invoices and accounting records
- Legal basis
- Legal obligation
- Answer your requests
- Legal basis
- Legitimate interest or pre-contractual steps
- Prevent fraud and secure the site
- Legal basis
- Legitimate interest
- Publish your reviews and posts
- Legal basis
- To verify:Consent or performance of a contract
- Send marketing emails
- Legal basis
- Consent
- Non-essential cookies
- Legal basis
- Consent
Data retention periods
| Data | Period |
|---|---|
| Account | To verify:Retention period — e.g. until deletion + inactivity period |
| Orders and invoices | To verify:Statutory accounting retention period |
| Customer service requests | To verify:Retention period |
| Progress and certificates | To verify:Retention period |
| Marketing consent | To verify:Retention period |
| Cookies | See the cookie policy |
How long we keep your data
- Account
- Period
- To verify:Retention period — e.g. until deletion + inactivity period
- Orders and invoices
- Period
- To verify:Statutory accounting retention period
- Customer service requests
- Period
- To verify:Retention period
- Progress and certificates
- Period
- To verify:Retention period
- Marketing consent
- Period
- To verify:Retention period
- Cookies
- Period
- See the cookie policy
Data recipients
Your data is accessible only to the people at Global Toothgems who need it, to our providers within the limits of their task, and to authorities where the law requires. We do not sell your data.
International data transfers
Some providers may process data outside the European Economic Area. In that case, the transfer is covered by a safeguard recognised by the GDPR (such as an adequacy decision or standard contractual clauses): To verify:Actual transfers and safeguards used.
Your privacy rights
The GDPR gives you the following rights. You can exercise them free of charge; we reply within one month, which may be extended in some cases.
- Access
Find out what data we hold about you and get a copy.
- Rectification
Correct inaccurate or incomplete data — most of it directly from your profile.
- Erasure
Ask us to delete your data, except what the law requires us to keep.
- Restriction
Freeze the use of your data, for example while a dispute is being checked.
- Objection
Object to processing based on our legitimate interest, and to marketing at any time.
- Portability
Receive your data in a structured format — see the export in Security & privacy.
- Withdraw consent
Withdraw any consent at any time (emails, cookies), without affecting past processing.
- Complaint
Lodge a complaint with the data protection authority of your country: To verify:Competent supervisory authority.
Data security
We use appropriate technical and organisational measures: encrypted connections, hashed passwords, access to data limited to authorised people, protected training content. As no system is infallible, we will inform you if a data breach presenting a high risk affects you. To verify:Security measures to confirm against the final implementation
Automated decision-making and profiling
We do not make decisions with legal effects on you based solely on automated processing. To verify:Confirm there is no profiling, or describe any in place (e.g. anti-fraud)
Children’s privacy
The site is not intended for children. Minimum age to create an account or order: To verify:Minimum age. If you think a minor has given us their data, please contact us.
Policy updates
We may update this policy. The last-updated date is shown at the top of the page; for significant changes, we will let you know by email or on the site.
Contact us about privacy
For any question about your data: contact form, “Privacy request” category, or Business info required:Privacy email.
A question about this page?
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