Thank you for visiting this GC America Inc. (GC) web site. This Site is intended for professionals in the dental profession, and contains exciting information about GC and its products and services. This Privacy Statement describes this SiteÕs information collection and use practices. This privacy statement applies only to the information collected on this Site, and does not apply to any other information GC collects about you in other forums, including at other GC web sites, in e-mail correspondences, or over the phone. This privacy statement is effective as of 11/24/2004

From time to time our internal processes may change, or we may offer new or altered features at this Site. If appropriate, we will revise this privacy statement. We encourage you to return to this area to read the most recent version of our privacy statement. The information you provide on this Site will be treated in compliance with the privacy statement in effect as of the date you provide information to us. If we alter our practices in a manner that will affect the treatment of information you have already provided, we will send you a notice of our new practices. If you do not agree with the privacy practices described in this policy, you should not provide us with information.

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

GC collects personal information from our website users, subscribers and customers who are interested in signing up for online newsletters or receiving multimedia materials. From time to time, we also invite users to participate in online surveys or enter contests or other promotions, and in the future, we may offer interactive features such as chat rooms, discussion boards, or live web casts. Personal information is collected during these activities. The information we collect includes contact information (such as name, e-mail address, mailing address and phone number), and we also may collect demographic information (such as job title, company information and professional certification or specialty). We use this information to provide the services you request and to provide a more personalized experience on our sites. We may also use this information to send you information about GC, its products or its services. We may provide this information to you by phone, mail, facsimile, or e-mail, depending on the type of information you have provided to us at this Site, or the type of information you provided through other means to us or to our authorized representatives.

Our web sites have features that automatically collect information from users, to deliver content specific to users' interests and to honor their preferences. This information assists us in creating sites that will serve the needs of our users. We use "cookies," a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. Cookies benefit the user by saving time while on our site. If users reject the cookies, they may be limited in the use of some areas of our site. For our internal purposes, we gather date, time, browser type, navigation history and IP address of all visitors to our site. This information does not contain anything that can identify users personally. We use this information for our internal security audit log, trend analysis and system administration, and to gather broad demographic information about our user base for aggregate use.

WITH WHOM YOUR INFORMATION IS SHARED

We share personally identifiable information with companies who are acting as our agents in providing products or services on our behalf and which agree to use it only for that purpose and to keep the information secure and confidential. We may also share your personal information with our parent, subsidiary and affiliate companies, entities into which our company may be merged, or entities to which any of our assets, products, sites or operations may be transferred. In certain circumstances, we will share your information with trusted third parties in whose products or services we believe you may be interested. We will also disclose information we maintain when required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena or other legal obligation, in response to a law enforcement agency's request, or in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property. Any personal information that you post or communicate in any interactive features such as during web casts or on discussion boards will become public information for which we are not responsible. We may share aggregate information, which is not personally identifiable, with others. This information may include usage and demographic data, but it will not include personal information.

SECURITY

We use reasonable precautions to protect our users' personal information and to store it securely. In addition, internal access to all of our users' information is restricted and only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. Finally, the servers on which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

LINKS

Our Web sites contain links to sites owned by third parties. GC is not responsible for and does not control the privacy practices or content of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each web site to which we may link that may collect personally identifiable information.