Sleep Apnea and TMJ
Effective Date: September 23, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Argyle Dental, Sleep Apnea and TMJ (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, shares, and protects information you provide through our website, online forms, and email or text message communications.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of information when you use our website or contact our clinic:
- Contact information you submit, such as your name, phone number, email address, and mailing address.
- Health-related information you choose to share through an online appointment request or intake form, such as the reason for your visit, dental or medical history, and insurance details.
- Communication preferences, including whether you agree to receive care-related or promotional messages by email or text.
- Website usage information, such as your IP address, browser type, device, referring URLs, and pages visited. This information is collected through cookies and similar technologies only if you choose to allow them (see Section 6).
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to:
- Schedule and manage your appointments.
- Provide dental, sleep apnea, and TMJ care.
- Communicate with you about your care, appointments, and treatment options.
- Respond to questions or requests you send through our website.
- Send promotional messages, such as special offers or practice news, if you have agreed to receive them.
- Measure the effectiveness of our advertising and improve our website and patient experience, if you have allowed analytics and advertising cookies.
3. Health Information and HIPAA
Health information you submit to us through our website forms is handled in accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The systems we use to receive and store this information operate under Business Associate Agreements that require them to protect it.
Our Notice of Privacy Practices is available in our office and upon request. It describes how we may use and disclose your protected health information for treatment, payment, and healthcare operations, and your rights related to that information.
4. How We Share Your Information
We do not sell or rent your information. We may share information only in the following situations:
- Service providers: trusted vendors who help us operate our practice and website, such as scheduling, communication, hosting, and analytics providers. These vendors may use your information only to perform services for us. Vendors who handle health information are bound by Business Associate Agreements.
- Financing partners: if you choose to apply for patient financing, the information you provide is shared with the financing company you select.
- Legal requirements: when required by law, court order, or to protect the rights and safety of our patients, staff, or others.
- With your authorization: when you give us written permission.
Mobile opt-in information and consent, including phone numbers collected for SMS/text messaging, will never be shared with third parties or affiliates for their marketing or promotional purposes.
5. Email and Text Message Communications
If you provide your email address or phone number, we may contact you about your care. With your separate consent, we may also send promotional messages.
SMS/Text Message Program
You may choose to receive text messages from Argyle Dental, Sleep Apnea and TMJ by checking the consent box(es) on our website forms. There are two types of messages:
- Care-related messages: appointment reminders, confirmations, and updates about your care.
- Promotional messages: special offers, practice news, and educational content about our services.
Consent to receive text messages is not a condition of purchase or service. Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply.
- To opt out at any time, reply STOP to any message. You will receive a one-time confirmation, and no further texts will be sent.
- For help, reply HELP or call our office at 801-774-7520.
Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.
Email: you can unsubscribe from promotional emails at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any email or by contacting our office.
6. Cookies, Analytics, and Advertising
Our website uses cookies and similar technologies. Some cookies are essential for the website to function and are always active. All other cookies, including analytics and advertising cookies, are used only if you allow them.
Your consent: when you first visit our website, a cookie banner asks whether you allow non-essential cookies. Analytics and advertising cookies are not set unless you opt in. You can change your choice at any time through the cookie settings link on our website.
If you opt in, these cookies may collect information such as your IP address, browser type, device, referring URLs, and pages visited. We use the following third-party tools, which set their own cookies and collect data according to their own privacy policies:
- Analytics: Google Analytics, to understand how visitors use our website.
- Advertising: Google Ads, to measure the performance of our ads.
We do not intentionally share health information you submit through our appointment or intake forms with advertising platforms.
Do Not Track: our website honors browser Do Not Track signals. If your browser sends a Do Not Track signal, analytics and advertising cookies will not be set.
Additional choices:
- Control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking essential cookies may affect how parts of the website work.
- Opt out of Google Analytics with the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on.
- Manage Google ad personalization at adssettings.google.com.
7. How We Protect Your Information
We use reasonable physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect your information. Our practices include:
- secure server infrastructure,
- role-based access controls that restrict data access to authorized personnel only, and
- regular review of our data handling procedures.
No method of transmission over the internet is completely secure, but we work to limit access to your information to staff who need it to do their jobs.
If you believe your information has been compromised or misused, please contact us immediately at argyledentalut@gmail.com or 801-774-7520.
8. Data Retention
We keep your information for as long as needed to provide care, communicate with you, operate our practice, and meet legal, regulatory, and HIPAA record-keeping requirements.
9. Children’s Privacy
Our website is not directed to children. Information about patients under 18 should be submitted by a parent or legal guardian. We do not knowingly collect information online directly from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided information through our website, please contact us so we can remove it.
10. Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to outside websites, including financing partners and social media platforms. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any website you visit.
11. Your Choices and Rights
You may contact our office at any time to:
- Ask what information we have on file for you.
- Request a correction to your information.
- Stop receiving promotional emails or text messages.
- Request that we delete personal information you submitted through our website, subject to any legal or HIPAA retention requirements.
- Request a copy of our Notice of Privacy Practices.
You can also:
- Stop text messages at any time by replying STOP to any message.
- Change your cookie preferences at any time through the cookie settings link on our website.
12. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the Effective Date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.
13. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your information, please contact us:
Argyle Dental, Sleep Apnea and TMJ
780 S. 2000 W. Suite E-301
Syracuse, UT 84075
Phone: 801-774-7520
Email: argyledentalut@gmail.com
