Dentsply Sirona Academy Community Website Terms of Use
Updated version: 11/18/2023
These Terms of Use are entered into by and between you Dentsply Sirona, Inc. (“Company”) The following Community Website Terms of Use together with any documents they expressly incorporate by reference (collectively “Terms of Use”) govern your access and use the Community Website and all the functionalities provided (hereinafter designated together the “Service”).
By accessing or using the Service or by logging into the Website with your allocated User ID, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use. By using this Website, you represent and warrant that you are of legal age to form a binding contract with Company and meet all the foregoing eligibility requirements. The User undertakes to have legal ability and means required to access and use the Service and acknowledges to have read, understood and accepted without limitation or reservation the Terms of Use, which apply in addition to the Privacy Policy.
Please review these Terms of Service carefully prior to using the Service. If you do not agree with these Terms of Use, you must not use the Service.
The Service is provided by Dentsply Sirona, Inc :
Dentsply Sirona, Registered office: 13320-B, Ballantyne Corporate Pl, Charlotte, NC 28277
Registered in the Charlotte, NC Trade and Companies Register under the number: 39-1434669
Phone number: +1 844-546-3722
Hosting is provided by Hivebrite on Google Cloud Platform
Company located at Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, Ireland
Registered in the Dublin Trade and Companies Register under the number: 752925594
Phone number: +353 1 436 1000
Community Website: the online platform named Dentsply Sirona Academy Community, edited by Hivebrite and provided by Dentsply Sirona, allowing User to benefit from the Service.
Data Protection Law: means the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation), also the Swiss nFADP and other global data protection regulation as appropriate.
User Account: means a dedicated online account opened by any visitor and providing an access to the Service.
Identifiers: means login and password or social login the User used to create the User Account.
Party or Parties: means the User and Dentsply Sirona designated either individually or collectively.
Service: means the Community Website and all the functionalities provided thereto and described in the Terms and Conditions.
Service Content: any content, features, and functionality including but not limited to all software, data, text, files, information, usernames, images, graphics, photos, profiles, audio and video clips, sounds, works of authorship, applications, links, and other content or materials made available during the Service.
User or Users: means any person authorized by Dentsply Sirona to access and use of the Service after creation of a User Account.
User Content: any content created, posted, or shared by the User, on or through the Service including any information, data, photos and other content relating to the User.
The Terms of Service will come into effect on first access to the Service for the entire duration of use.
The Service enables Users to connect with each other, build communities, or also do networking.
The Service comprises a suite of online services provided by Dentsply Sirona, allowing the User to:
These Terms of Service govern the use of each component of the Service.
Access to the Service shall be subject to the creation of a User Account.
The Service is available on the website communities.dentsplysirona.com or the mobile app that can be downloaded through the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
The User must ensure to have (the “User’s System”):
Users shall bear all the costs for accessing the Service.
This shall require the entering of personal identification data through the online registration form accessible at the following address: communities.dentsplysirona.com.
The User shall enter user identification data such as name, surname, and email and is invited to choose its Identifiers.
The User agrees to provide only accurate and complete information when creating or updating his/her Account information.
In order to benefit from the Services, the User must log-in and insert the Identifiers to create the User Account. Identifiers are personal and confidential. Users are responsible for keeping it secret and not disclose it to any third party in any form and for any reason whatsoever.
The User’s login can only be changed at the request of the User or at the initiative of Dentsply Sirona. The User’s password is modifiable by the User through the User’s Account. The User is solely and entirely responsible for the use of the User’s Identifiers and undertakes to do everything possible to keep it secret and not to disclose them to anyone, in any form whatsoever and for any reason whatsoever. If the User forgets her/his password, the User can generate a new one by clicking on the link “Reset my password” available here: communities.dentsplysirona.com/login.
The User is solely responsible for the activity that occurs on its User Account and will be responsible to keep its Identifiers secure and for the use of his Identifiers by third-parties or for any actions or declarations made through his User Account, whether fraudulent or not, and guarantees Dentsply Sirona against any request in this respect.
If the User has reason to believe that a person is fraudulently using identification elements or his User Account, she or he must immediately inform Dentsply Sirona by e-mail at the following address [email protected].
The User is solely responsible for the improper access, damage, disruption, loss or theft and adverse consequences caused by its breach of the confidentiality of the Identifiers. In case of loss, misappropriation or unauthorized use of its password, the User shall immediately notify Dentsply Sirona.
Users may not use another’s account without permission. A User Account may not be shared, transferred, or sold to other parties, nor are they to be used by or made available to any person or entity except the registered user.
The Service is available for free of charge (excluding any connection costs, whose price depends on your electronic communication service provider).
The Service and the Service Content belong and shall remain the property of Dentsply Sirona or its licensors as appropriate, and is protected by United States and international copyright, patent, trademark, when applicable, trade secret and other intellectual property proprietary rights laws.
The User shall not acquire any such right, title, or interest (including, without limitation, all intellectual property rights such as copies, modifications, extensions and derivative works thereof) save as otherwise expressly set out below in Article 7.2 and the User shall take all necessary measures to this effect. All rights not expressly granted to Users are reserved and retained.
Any reproduction, representation, distribution, modification, adaptation or translation of the Service Content, in whole or in part, in any form and current or future medium is strictly prohibited, except within the limit of the Terms of Service or with prior express written authorization of Dentsply Sirona. Any use of the Service Content not expressly authorized by Dentsply Sirona shall constitute a violation of the Terms of Use and a violation of intellectual property rights.
Except as specifically permitted by these Terms of Use, User may not use or register any name, logo, brand or insignia of Dentsply Sirona or any of its schools or subdivisions for any purpose except with Dentsply Sirona prior written approval and in accordance with any restrictions required by Dentsply Sirona. These are the property of Dentsply Sirona or are subject to rights to use, duplicate or represent/communicate to the public that have been granted to such.
Dentsply Sirona is the producer of databases on the Community Website and Dentsply Sirona is the owner of any databases made available. The User shall not extract or reuse a substantial qualitative or quantitative portion of the databases, including for private purpose.
Dentsply Sirona grants the User a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and revocable right to access and use the Service. The User may only use the Community Website on devices that User owns or controls and as permitted by the App Store terms of service. User may use the Service and the Service Content only in the manner and for the purposes specified in these Terms of Use.
These Terms of Use permit you to use the Service Content for your personal, non-commercial use only. In connection with the use of the Services and Service Content or User’s Content, the User is not authorized to, or cannot allow a third party to:
You, the User represent and warrant that You own all right, title and interest in the intellectual property in the User Content or that the User Content is subject to a license granted to the User by a third party holding these rights, under conditions allowing the User to freely use and/or transfer these elements for the purpose of using the Service, under the conditions described in the Terms and Conditions. Dentsply Sirona does not claim ownership of the User Content.
By using the Service, the User represents and warrants that she or he has the legal right and capacity to enter into these Terms of Use in the User’s jurisdiction.
User warrants to be at least 18 years of age or older and is fully competent, to use the Service and to enter into and comply with these Terms of Use.
Generally, the User is committed to use the Services in accordance with Community Guidelines made available to the User in communities.dentspysirona.com.
User may not post content which includes, but is not limited to: (i) sexually explicit materials; (ii) obscene, misleading, libelous, slanderous, violent, hateful and/or unlawful content or profanity; (iii) content that infringes upon the rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or other personal or proprietary right, or that is deceptive or fraudulent; (iv) content that promotes the use or sale of illegal or regulated substances, tobacco products, ammunition and/or firearms; and (v) gambling, including without limitation, any online casino, sports books, bingo or poker (“Objectionable Content”) via the Service.
User is solely responsible for having obtained all necessary patient consents under applicable data privacy legislation and other applicable legislation, for processing of the patient data for the purposes in scope.
User shall ensure that all patient related materials including without limitation photographs, x-rays, or other visuals processed by User in Hivebrite if any, do not identify, by name or otherwise, suggest the identity of, or present a recognizable likeness of any individual, and that User has obtained all necessary consents from such individual(s) for further use, distribution, and publication of the materials. By processing patient related data in Hivebrite under these Terms of Use, User represents and warrants specifically that for any patient photographs or other patient information, User has received such patient’s signed, written consent to use such patient photographs/information in the manner contemplated hereunder.
User may not defame, stalk, bully, abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate people or entities and must not post private or confidential information via the Service, including, without limitation, the User or any other person's credit card information, social security or alternate national identity numbers, non-public phone numbers or non-public email addresses.
User must not create accounts with the Service through unauthorized means, including but not limited to, by using an automated device, script, bot, spider, crawler or scraper.
User must not attempt to restrict another User from using or enjoying the Service and must not encourage or facilitate violations of these Terms of Service.
User may only make non-commercial uses of the Service and Service Content. Use of Service or the Service Content for any commercial, public or political purpose is strictly prohibited. Prohibited activities include, but are not limited to: (1) activities that are illegal or fraudulent; (2) use that inaccurately implies endorsement, approval, or sponsorship by Dentsply Sirona (or any individual officer or employee of Dentsply Sirona); (3) use that can be confused with official communications of Dentsply Sirona or its officers or employees; and (4) print or electronic mass mailings (sometimes known as "spamming"), solicitations for commercial services.
The Company name, terms, Company Trademarks, the Company logo, and all related names, logos, product and service names, designs, and slogans, are trademarks of the Company or its affiliates or licensors. You must not use such marks without the prior written authorization of the Company. All other names, logos, product and service names, designs, and slogans contained in the Services and Service Content re the trademarks of their respective owners.
In order to ensure the Community Website provides the best experience possible for everyone, if a User sees any inappropriate content, she or he must use the “Report as offensive” feature found under each post.
Dentsply Sirona has no general obligation to monitor User Content nor to investigate whether facts or circumstances are revealing illicit activities. Dentsply Sirona has set up a reporting tool allowing any User to notify illegal, abusive and harmful content.
The knowledge of such content is deemed effective when the hosting provider is notified of following:
If a User Content is reported, Dentsply Sirona reserves the right to withdraw the reported content and/or suspend or terminate the User Account of the User having originally published the reported content in the conditions set forth in Article 11.2.
At any time, the User may delete its User Account by contacting Dentsply Sirona at the address or email address mentioned in Article 15.
Your personal data will not be kept for longer than is necessary given the purposes of the processing, which is to strengthen your relationships with Dentsply Sirona and your peers and enable communication, or until you withdraw your consent and by that, stop using the platform, and by this, your account and personal data will be deleted from Hivebrite.
Dentsply Sirona retains the right to suspend User’s access to the Service to make all investigations necessary following a report made pursuant to Article 10 or in case of presumed breach of Terms of Use which may be remediated. The User whose User Account is suspended will be informed by Dentsply Sirona of such a decision by email. The User has the possibility to send an email to Dentsply Sirona to obtain additional information on the reasons for the suspension as well as to provide explanations and/or any element in order to demonstrate that the breach has been remediated. If the violation of Terms of Use is not remedied within one (1) month from suspension notification, Dentsply Sirona reserves the right to terminate the applicable User’s Account and right to use the Service, in addition to any other rights or remedies available.
Dentsply Sirona will delete inactive accounts after a continuous period of two (2) year the User has not used the Community Website. The User will be informed by email of the deletion of his or her account subject to prior notice of two (2) weeks allowing the User to object to such deletion.
By using the Service, User’s personal data, in the meaning of Data Protection Law, may be collected and processed by Dentsply Sirona, in compliance with the Dentsply Sirona Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy, (collectively, “Privacy Policies”).
Dentsply Sirona will treat User Content as confidential information in accordance with these Terms of Use and the Privacy Policies.
(a) TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PROVIDED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL COMPANY, ITS AFFILIATES, OR THEIR LICENSORS SERVICE PROVIDERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OFFICERS, OR DIRECTORS BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, UNDER ANY LEGAL THEORY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE, OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE CONTENT OR THE SERVICES OR ANY WEBSITES LINKED TO IT AND ANY CONTENT ON SUCH OTHER WEBSITES, INCLUDING ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PERSONAL INJURY, PAIN AND SUFFERING, EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, LOSS OF REVENUE, LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS, OR ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF GOODWILL, LOSS OF DATA, AND WHETHER CAUSED BY TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) BREACH OF CONTRACT, OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF FORESEEABLE.
(b) You understand that we cannot and do not guarantee or warrant that files available for downloading from the internet or the Website will be free of viruses or other destructive code. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and checkpoints to satisfy your particular requirements for anti-virus protection and accuracy of data input and output, and for maintaining a means external to our site for any reconstruction of any lost data. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PROVIDED BY LAW, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE CAUSED BY A DISTRIBUTED DENIAL-OF-SERVICE ATTACK, VIRUSES, OR OTHER TECHNOLOGICALLY HARMFUL MATERIAL THAT MAY INFECT YOUR COMPUTER EQUIPMENT, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, DATA, OR OTHER PROPRIETARY MATERIAL DUE TO YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE OR ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE OR YOUR DOWNLOADING OF ANY MATERIAL POSTED ON IT, OR ON ANY WEBSITE LINKED TO IT.
YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES OR SERVICE CONTENT OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE SERVICES IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE SERVICES OR SERVICE CONTENT OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. NEITHER THE COMPANY NOR ANY PERSON ASSOCIATED WITH THE COMPANY MAKES ANY WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION WITH RESPECT TO THE COMPLETENESS, SECURITY, RELIABILITY, QUALITY, ACCURACY, OR AVAILABILITY OF THE SERVICES OR SERVICE CONTENT. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, NEITHER THE COMPANY NOR ANYONE ASSOCIATED WITH THE COMPANY REPRESENTS OR WARRANTS THAT THE SERVICES OR SERVICE CONTENT OR OBTAINED THROUGH THE SERVICES WILL BE ACCURATE, RELIABLE, ERROR-FREE, OR UNINTERRUPTED, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, THAT OUR SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS, OR THAT THE WEBSITE OR ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE WILL OTHERWISE MEET YOUR NEEDS OR EXPECTATIONS.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PROVIDED BY LAW, THE COMPANY HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
THE FOREGOING DOES NOT AFFECT ANY WARRANTIES THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.
Dentsply Sirona expressly excludes any liability for events of any kind that may occur during any meeting organized between Users within the use of the Services.
(c) You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Company, its affiliates, licensors, and service providers, and its and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, licensors, suppliers, successors, and assigns from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, expenses, or fees (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to your violation of these Terms of Use or your use of the Website, including, but not limited to, your User Contributions, any use of the Website's content, services, and products other than as expressly authorized in these Terms of Use, or your use of any information obtained from the Website
The Community Website may provide links to websites operated by third parties or other internet sources/networks, as well as data/information coming from third-party servers these are provided for your convenience only. This includes links contained in advertisements, including banner advertisements and sponsored links. Company has no control over the contents of those sites or resources and accepts no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from the use of them. Dentsply Sirona does not endorse or accept responsibility for the content or the use of third-party websites and cannot be held liable for any damage following or in relation with use or the fact of having trusted the content/data/results available on such third-party servers, external sources or internet sites.
If You access third-party sites or content from third-party servers, User does so solely at User’s own risk. Links do not imply that the Company is affiliated or associated with any linked site.
For any questions regarding the Terms of Use, especially use of the Service or any claim, please email us at [email protected] or post it at the following address: 13320-B, Ballantyne Corporate Pl, Charlotte, NC 28277
The User can use these contact details for any technical support request.
Governing Law and jurisdiction. These Terms of Use will be governed by the laws North Carolina/United States without regard to its conflicts of laws principles.
The User is informed, as consumer, of the possibility to use a conventional mediation procedure or any other alternative dispute resolution method.
For example, the User can submit a dispute to the Online Dispute Resolution platform proposed by the European Commission, which may be accessed at the following address: http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/.
Change of Terms of Use. These Terms of Use are subject to change from time to time. Any changes will be posted to this page. Use of this Service or any Service Content after entering into force the new version of the Terms of Use will constitute the agreement to the modified Terms of Use. If the User disagrees with such modification of the Terms of Use, the User may terminate the Service and delete its User Account under the conditions set forth in Article 11.
Change of the Service. Dentsply Sirona may further develop or modify the Service or the Service Content only to improve its quality. The User will be informed of such development/modification as soon as it is implemented.
Severability; Entire Agreement. Except in the case of invalidity of an essential clause, if any provision of these Terms of Use is held to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision, to the extent unenforceable, shall be struck, and shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the remaining provisions. These Terms of Use, including the Privacy Policies, set forth the entire understanding and agreement between the User and Dentsply Sirona with respect to the subject matter hereof.
Convention of proof. Electronic documents exchanged by electronic means between the User and the Dentsply Sirona shall be regarded as writings having the same probative force as writings on paper in the meaning of applicable law. They may constitute faithful and durable copies in accordance with applicable law, so that the User is invited to keep them.
Force majeure. In no case Dentsply Sirona may be held liable for any breach of its contractual obligations resulting from a force majeure event as defined in applicable law and related jurisprudence.