PRIVACY NOTICE
1. Summary of how we use your data
2. What does this Notice cover?
3. Personal data we collect about you
4. How do we use this information, and what is the legal basis for this use?
We will use your personal data for the purposes and legal bases set out below:
We collect, use and store your Identification information, Contact information and Payment & Delivery information, and where relevant, Loyalty scheme information to register and create an account on our website, provide you with services and to deliver requested products to you. We also use information to administer the supply and sale of our products (for example, where necessary, we would share limited information with our suppliers to claim rebates).
It is necessary for us to process your personal data in order to perform our contract with you, or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract with you. We also have a legitimate interest in providing you with functionality to aid convenience in this process, e.g. providing tracking services for deliveries, effectively managing your account and enabling account features, and handling your requests; and for business administration purposes.
We collect and use your personal data to verify your professional membership (e.g. dental registration) – for example, when you purchase goods or services from us.
We have a legitimate interest in ensuring the security and safety of our operations and our compliance with regulatory requirements.
We collect, use and store your Identification Information, Contact Information, Purchase History, Loyalty scheme information and Communications Information to manage our relationship with you as our customer – for example, to send you service communications (such as order confirmation emails), and to handle requests relating to your purchases or your interest in purchasing goods and services from us.
We have a legitimate interest in managing our business and providing an excellent level of service and support to our customers.
If you use our Live Chat function, we will use your information (including your name and contact details) for dealing with your query, training and customer service purposes.
We have a legitimate interest to handle your queries and provide you with requested information, to ensure high customer service quality and to train staff in responding to such requests.
We record your calls with us for training and quality assurance purposes, and to effectively handle any complaints.
We have a legitimate interest to record calls in order to train our staff members, for quality assurance and for complaint handling, or, where this is legally required by law, by gaining your consent.
We will collect, analyse and store Payment and Delivery Information in order to track payment and delivery status and to provide our products and services.
It is necessary for us to process your personal data in order to perform our contract with you.
We will use your personal information for marketing purposes, to understand which of our products and services are most relevant to you and to deliver tailored advertising to you. You have the right to object to this use of your information: for email-based marketing, you can do that by clicking on the unsubscribe link in our marketing emails; you can also speak to your Sales representative or call our Customer Service team who will trigger an email that will enable you to Unsubscribe yourself. For cookie-based advertising, you can manage your cookie preferences through the “Manage cookie settings” link at the bottom of each page on our website (see also section 7 below). If we rely on your consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us via ecommerce@henryschein.co.uk. Our marketing activities include the following:
We rely on your consent to send you promotional communications via email, or when consent is otherwise required by law (for example, when we collect information for marketing purposes through the use of cookies or similar tracking technologies). In all other instances, and provided this is allowed by applicable law, we rely on our and our group companies’ legitimate interest to promote our products and services to our customers.
We rely on consent, to the extent this is required by law – for example, when we collect information for marketing purposes through cookies or similar tracking technologies. We also have a legitimate interests to optimise our marketing activities and to promote products and services that are relevant to our customers.
To do so, please contact us via ecommerce@henryschein.co.uk.
We rely on your consent for this activity.
Lookalike matching: we also use personal information of our customers to allow social media platforms to find individuals who have a similar profile to our customers and who we expect are interested to find out more about our products and services, so as to show our ads to them. For example, we provide Meta with hashed email addresses of our customers, which Meta would match with these customers’ social media profiles. Based on these profiles, Meta will look for other users who have a similar profile to our customer and would show them our ads. with these partners: Facebook and Instagram. You can withdraw your consent at any time if you are our customer and have provided your personal data to us for this activity. To do so, please contact us via ecommerce@henryschein.co.uk.
We rely on the consent of our customers who provide their personal information to us.
Your consent – to the extent we obtain this information through the use of cookies or similar tracking technologies. We also have a legitimate interest to promote our products and services and to effectively manage our relationship with you as our customer, where this is allowed by law.
We and our group companies will use personal information, including e.g. Purchase history and Device information to compile statistics and conduct analysis about the use of our website and related services (e.g. product orders), and we will use such statistics to enable us to provide a better service, features and functionality to you and other website users, develop our business and inform our business and marketing strategy.
Your consent – to the extent we obtain this information through the use of cookies or similar tracking technologies. Besides this, we also have a legitimate interest in operating our website and improving our operations and products and services.
We will collect, use and store your Identification information, Contact Information and Communications information to invite you to take part in and manage customer surveys, reviews and other market research activities carried out by us and by other organisations on our behalf.
Your consent to the extent this is required by law. Otherwise, we rely on our legitimate interest to effectively manage our business, review and improve the performance of our services and inform our business strategy.
We will use your personal data such as Identification information, Purchase history, Payment & Delivery Information and Device information for troubleshooting purposes, to protect the security of our website including our users’ accounts, information systems and assets, to monitor compliance with our Terms & Conditions, to prevent fraud and other prohibited or illegal activities in relation to our products and our website in accordance with applicable law.
We have a legitimate interest to ensure our website functions properly and is used in accordance with our Terms & Conditions, and to protect our business assets against fraud and illegal activities or security threats.
We will use your personal data to handle complaints, to protect our legal rights and to establish, exercise or defend legal claims relating to our website and/or our products and services.
We have a legitimate interest in protecting our legal rights and business interests.
We will use your personal data to the extent this is necessary to meet our regulatory obligations or in the context of a regulatory inquiry.
It is necessary to process personal data in this manner, in order to meet our legal and regulatory obligations – for example if you submit an adverse event report or in relation to product recalls.. We also have a legitimate interest in meeting our regulatory requirements and handling our interactions with regulatory authorities in an effective manner.
We will process your personal data to the extent required to respond to legitimate requests for disclosure of information made by public authorities, law enforcement or governmental bodies or under a court order.
In some cases, we are obliged by law to process such requests. We also have a legitimate interest to assist legitimate investigations carried out by official authorities, where the information we hold is reasonably necessary for the detection and prevention of illegal activities.
We will use your Identification Information, Payment and Delivery Information and Purchase history for accounting, tax and audit purposes including to complete our financial reporting, disclosure and record-keeping obligations to our parent company, tax agencies and regulators.
We have a legal obligation under local laws to do so. We have a legitimate interest in complying with our legal obligations in the other countries we operate in.
There are instances where we have a legitimate interest to use your data. Our legitimate interest will vary depending on what we are using your data for, and we explain above what the interest is and how it relates to the processing operations that we are carrying out. Where we process personal data on the basis of a legitimate interest, then – as required by data protection law – we carry out a balancing test to document our interests, to consider what the impact of the processing will be on individuals and to determine whether individuals’ interests outweigh our interests in the processing taking place. You can obtain more information about this balancing test by using the contact details at the end of the notice.
5. How we share your personal data
We share personal data with the following categories of recipients:
Personal Data Category
Why?
Third Party Service Providers: These companies will process this information to the extent necessary to perform their functions and are subject to confidentiality agreements.
Payment Service Providers
Identification Information, Payment & Delivery Information, Contact Information
To perform payment processing functions on our behalf.
Security, IT service providers, web hosting providers
All categories of personal data
To help host, function and maintain our website, and to ensure the safety and security of our website.
Customer Relationship Management, Advertising/ marketing agencies
Identification information, Contact information, Purchase history, Device information
To host and assist with our Customer Relationship Management solutions, to send out communications on our behalf, to help us provide a personalised service on our website and provide recommendations as to goods or services you may be interested in.
Analytics service providers
Purchase information, Device information
To carry out analytics and compile statistics, to help us improve and tailor our products and services, and offer more personalised experiences to our customers.
Loyalty Scheme Management
Identification Information, Contact Information, Purchase History
To help us manage our Loyalty Scheme, including tracking the number of points you have earned and assisting in fulfilment of rewards.
Online Signing
Identification Information, Contact Information, Delivery Information
Where legal documents need to be signed to enable us to provide a service, we employ other companies to provide an online e-Document signing service.
Other Third Parties
Henry Schein Group companies
All categories of personal data – to the extent necessary
We share data with our group companies in order to operate, improve, and develop our offering across our group. More specifically:
When we share information with our group companies as we describe above, we act as joint controllers for this data sharing and for the common use of personal data for analytics, for the administration of our website or the management of our customer relationships. If you would like to exercise your data protection rights with respect to this activity, please contact us directly at the details provided at the end of this Notice.
Credit reference agencies, law enforcement and fraud prevention agencies
To prevent, investigate and/or report fraud, terrorism, misrepresentation, security incidents or crime, in accordance with applicable law.
Professional advisors, including legal advisors, tax & accounting advisors and business consultants
To enable our advisors to provide their business services to us.
Social media providers & advertisers
Device information and Marketing information, Purchase history
For marketing and analytics purposes, and to provide social media features on our website.
In the context of our marketing activities, we share personal information with social media networks, such as Meta, and advertisers, to present our ads to you on other platforms and to allow those parties to show you tailored advertising. For example, we may share with Facebook (Meta Platforms) actions that you take on our website such as your visits to our website and information collected from cookies or similar technologies including the Facebook pixel. This allows us to measure the effectiveness of our advertising, improve our marketing practices, and helps us deliver more relevant advertising to you (including on social media such as Facebook): for this activity, we are a Joint Controller with Meta Platforms Inc. This means that we have to provide you with this notice, but you should contact Meta Platforms if you wish to exercise your data protection rights. Further information, including how Meta Platforms enable you to exercise your data protection rights, and subsequently processes your information as independent data controller can be found in Meta Platforms’ Data Policy.
Suppliers of our products
Limited Identification and Contact Information
In limited circumstances, where necessary to administer the supply and sale of our products – for example, to claim rebates or promotional offers.
Prospective Buyer/Seller
In the event that the business is sold or integrated with another business, your details will be disclosed to our advisers and any prospective purchaser’s adviser and will be passed to the new owners of the business.
6. Where we transfer your personal data
7. Cookies
Type of cookie
Purpose
Essential cookies
These cookies are required to enable core functionality, and for this reason users cannot disable these. Without these cookies, that core functionality, like adding items to your shopping basket, cannot be provided.
Analytics cookies
These cookies help us improve or optimise the experience we provide. They allow us to measure how visitors interact with our website and we use this information to improve the user experience and performance of the website. These cookies are used to collect technical information such as the last time a user visited our website, the number of pages visited, whether or not email communications are opened, or which parts of our website or email communication are clicked on.
Functional cookies
We may use cookies that are not essential but enable various helpful features on our websites. For example, these cookies collect information about users’ interaction with the website and may be used to remember users’ preferences (such as language preference), and the presentation of the website (such as the font size).
Advertising cookies
We use these cookies to collect information about your browsing habits in order to make advertising more relevant to you and your interests. These cookies are also used to limit the number of times you see an advert as well as help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. We may share this information with other parties who help manage online advertising. Our cookie banner contains more detailed information on those third parties.
Social media cookies
These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button on our website, or when you engage with our content on or through a social site such as Facebook. These cookies collect information about your social media interaction with our website, such as whether or not you have an account with the social media site and whether you are logged into it when you interact with content on our website. This information may be linked to targeting/ advertising activities.
8. Your choices and rights
You have the following rights:
Summary
The right of access
Enables you to receive a copy of your personal data
The right to rectification
Enables you to correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data we hold about you
The right to erasure
Enables you to ask us to delete your personal data in certain circumstances
The right to restrict processing
Enables you to ask us to halt the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances
The right to object
Enables you to object to us processing your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interests (or those of a third party), including processing for direct marketing purposes or profiling for purposes of direct marketing, or where we are performing a task in the public interest - your objection will be upheld, and we will cease processing your personal data, unless the processing is based on compelling legitimate grounds or is needed for the exercise or defence of legal claims that may be brought by or against us.
The right to data portability
Enables you to request us to transmit personal data that you have provided to us, to a third party without hindrance, or to give you a copy of it so that you can transmit it to a third party, where technically feasible
9. How long we retain your personal data
10. Updates to this Privacy Notice
11. Contact us
The data controller for your personal data is Henry Schein Dental – where we are acting as a joint controller along with another member of our group, we explain this further above. If you have questions about this Privacy Notice or wish to contact us for any reason in relation to our personal data processing, please contact us at: By email: ecommerce@henryschein.co.uk By phone: 0800 028 1533 By post: FAO: Customer Service, Henry Schein Dental, Medcare North, Centurion Close, Gillingham Business Park, Gillingham ME8 0SB Contacting our Data Protection Officer by email: dpo@henryschein.co.uk.