Adent Dental Clinics is a major presence in the dental sector and the number one network of Swiss dental clinics operating nationwide, with clinics in both French- and German-speaking Switzerland. We want our patients, clinicians and employees to place their trust in us because we offer relevant, customised solutions, including in the area of data privacy. We undertake to secure and protect the personal data which we collect from our patients, applicants for employment and internet users visiting any of the websites in our network, especially against any malicious breach, loss, alteration or disclosure to unauthorised third parties.
It provides you with information about the technical and organisational measures we implement to meet all our obligations in the processing of your personal data, and it tells you how you may exercise your rights. As a group of companies under Swiss law, we comply with all Swiss Confederation legal provisions on the protection of personal data, both federal and cantonal, including the Data Protection Act DPA RS The Federal Data Protection Act guarantees that personal data is processed in accordance with the fundamental rights, freedoms and dignity of individuals, with particular emphasis on confidentiality, their identity and the right to data privacy.
In view of the above, we are at present required to distinguish between three levels of regulations in the implementation of our Privacy Charter on the Protection of Your Personal Data:. These are the GDPR, the General Data Protection Regulation, and the national laws applicable in the country of location of the patient or internet user. In the interests of improving the understanding of this Charter, the terms below are understood as follows:. The forms that we make available to you, either in hard copy or via one of our websites, specify the information that must without exception be provided to our relevant departments, as well as optional information and the consequences of not supplying this information e.
For each dental treatment, our forms state the purpose and aim of data collection, the category of data collected, the data retention period and your rights. When we carry out dental treatment, we may also need to collect information relating to your state of health, including a panoramic dental X-ray, your blood group, allergies, etc.
All of this information is included in your patient records. We collect the following identification data: surname, first name, address, date of birth, telephone number, e-mail address, IP address. This information is needed in particular to give you access to our range of treatments, as well as to all our web services. The device you use to connect to the internet communicates with one of our servers, which provides it with all the resources it requests by automatically saving each operation in a specific file cookies or text files whenever your device can be identified by its IP address.
