Privacy Policy

Ling Zhu DDS Dental is a dental practice at 5601 Kanan Road, Agoura Hills, CA 91301. When you send a message or request an appointment through this website, we are the organization responsible for that information.

When you use the contact form on this site, we ask for:

• Your name
• Your phone number
• Your email address (optional)
• How you plan to pay — cash or insurance — and your insurance type if applicable
• The kind of appointment you are requesting
• An optional message where you can describe what you need

We also include a hidden field used only to detect automated spam submissions. We do not ask you to enter medical records on this website, and we recommend you do not include detailed health history in the message box — we will take that with you in person or by phone.

Beyond what you submit in the form, our website host counts page visits so we can see which pages are useful, and fonts are loaded from Google Fonts. These are described under "Analytics and site services" below. The advertising service described under "Advertising and cookies" is the only third-party service that places advertising cookies on this website.

• To reply to your question and schedule your visit
• To send you a confirmation email after you submit the form
• To prepare your chart before you arrive, including insurance details you give us
• To improve the accuracy and usefulness of the information on this site

We do not sell your information, and we do not use it for marketing lists or newsletters.

Form submissions are stored in a secure database hosted for us by a cloud provider, and access is limited to authorized staff at the practice. Traffic to and from this website is encrypted over HTTPS.

No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we keep only what we need and only for as long as we need it.

This website uses Google AdSense, a third-party advertising service provided by Google LLC, to display ads.

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
• You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising at https://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or, in the EU/UK, https://www.youronlinechoices.eu/.
• For more about how Google uses data, see "How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services": https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
• Other third-party vendors or ad networks may also serve ads on this site. They may use cookies, web beacons, and IP addresses to measure ad effectiveness and personalize content.
• Where required by law (for example, in the EEA, UK and Switzerland), we ask for your consent before personalized ads are shown, using a Google-certified consent management platform.

We use privacy-friendly analytics provided by our website host to count page visits and understand which pages are useful. We also load fonts from Google Fonts, which receives your IP address when fonts are requested. These services do not receive the information you enter in our contact form.

Contact and appointment requests are kept while they are relevant to your care and to our record-keeping obligations, then deleted or anonymized. Information required by law or by your insurance plan is retained for the period that law or plan requires.

You can ask us what information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Email or call us using the details above and we will handle your request. If you would rather not share information online at all, you can call the office and we will take your request by phone.

You can also decline to submit the form. Browsing this website does not require you to give us anything.

If you are a California resident, you have the right to know what personal information we collect, to request deletion or correction, and to opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. We do not sell your information. To opt out of personalized advertising, use the Google Ads Settings link above or contact us at info.lingzhudds@gmail.com or (818) 991-8881. We will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights.

This website is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13 through it. If you believe a child has submitted information to us, contact us and we will remove it.

This website contains links to other sites, such as map services and our social pages. Those sites have their own privacy practices and we are not responsible for them. Review their policies before sharing information there.

We may update this policy as our services or the law change. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page shows when it was most recently revised, and the current version always applies to information collected from that point forward.

Questions about this policy or about how we handle your information are welcome. Reach us at the phone number or email address above.