Why this page exists at all

The California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, gives California residents the right to tell a business to stop selling or sharing their personal information, and requires businesses that do so to provide a clear way to exercise that right.

"Sale" and "share" are defined broadly in that law. A business does not need to receive money for a transfer to count. Handing a visitor's identifiers to an advertising network in exchange for better ad targeting has been treated as a sale or share, which is how ordinary marketing pixels ended up inside the scope of the statute.

We publish this page so that the answer is on the record and easy to find, rather than leaving you to guess. If our practices ever change, this page changes first.

What we do and do not do

Sell personal information
No. Not for money, and not for anything else of value.
Share for cross-context behavioral advertising
No. We run no advertising on this website and no advertising network receives anything about your visit.
Use analytics
No. There is no Google Analytics, no tag manager, no heat mapping and no session recording on this site.
Use tracking cookies
No. The only thing this site stores in your browser is your own display preferences and your answer to the consent banner, both kept on your device and never transmitted anywhere.
Profile you or make automated decisions about you
No.
Load anything from another company
Only two things, and only if you ask for them: the map on the contact page and the online appointment request form. Both are click-to-load and both sit behind the consent banner.

Global Privacy Control

If your browser or a browser extension sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we detect it and treat it as a standing opt-out. You do not have to fill in a form, send an email or click anything, and you do not have to repeat it on every visit. When we detect the signal, the consent banner says so, so you can see it registered.

Because nothing here is sold or shared in the first place, honoring the signal does not change what happens to your data. It changes nothing precisely because there was nothing to stop.

Your other California privacy rights

Separately from the sale and sharing question, California residents have the following rights over personal information a business holds about them. Requests are free and we will not treat you differently for making one.

  • The right to know what categories of personal information we have collected, where it came from, why we collected it, and who we disclosed it to.
  • The right to access a copy of the specific pieces of personal information we hold about you.
  • The right to delete personal information we collected from you, subject to the exceptions the law allows, including records we are legally required to keep.
  • The right to correct personal information you believe is inaccurate.
  • The right to limit the use of sensitive personal information. We do not use sensitive personal information for anything beyond providing the services you asked for.
  • The right not to be retaliated against for exercising any of these rights.

You can make a request yourself or through an authorized agent. We will need enough information to verify that the request really comes from you, which for a dental practice usually means confirming details we already hold.

How to make a request

  1. Call the office

    Telephone is the fastest and the most secure route. Call (559) 683-4694 during business hours and say you are making a privacy request.

  2. Or write to us

    Mail a written request to PO Box 2407, Oakhurst, CA 93644-2407. Include a daytime phone number so we can verify your identity without putting details in writing.

  3. We verify who you are

    We will ask you to confirm information we already hold. We do this to protect you, because handing a dental record to the wrong person is a far worse outcome than a short delay.

  4. We respond

    We will confirm receipt and respond within the timeframes the law requires. If we cannot fulfil part of a request, we will tell you which part and why.

If you want to verify any of this yourself

You do not have to take our word for it. Open your browser developer tools, switch to the network tab, and load any page on this site. You will see requests for this site's own HTML, CSS, one font file, images and video. You will not see a request to any analytics or advertising domain, because there is no code here that would make one.

Every page also carries a `x-privacy-zone` meta tag stating whether that page is classified as a health-interest page or a general page. That classification is what our code uses to decide whether a behavioral tag would ever be permitted to load, and publishing it means the rule can be checked from outside rather than taken on trust.

If you find something on this site that contradicts this page, tell us and we will fix it. That is a genuine request, not a formality.

This notice describes how this website behaves as built. It is not legal advice. The practice should have it reviewed alongside the privacy policy and the notice of privacy practices before launch, and again whenever a new tool is added to the site.