Member Privacy
The Antibody Society respects member privacy rights and is committed to protecting the personal information of our members.
Upon registration, all members select a member category (Standard, Corporate Sponsor, Student, Post-doctoral, AIRR Community), username and password, and they provide an email address. For Standard members who pay via credit card, we also collect:
Name
Billing address
Phone number
Credit card details
Credit card details are used by third-party vendors (authorize.net and Cayan) to authenticate and charge credit cards. Credit card details are not retained by the Society.
As a member-based professional organization, we may contact our members via email to provide them with content relevant to Society business, such as member benefits (e.g., discount codes for meeting registration fees) and the availability of new information on the website. Members may ‘opt-out’ of communications from the Society at any time by requesting that we cease communication. We may contact non-members via email on an occasional basis to invite their participation in the Society when we believe we have legitimate interests in making the initial contacts. In such contacts, non-members will be given an opportunity to ‘opt-in’ by becoming a member or ‘opt-out’ of communications from the Society by requesting that we cease communication.
We are committed to transparency and will provide you with information regarding our collection and use of personal data. You may contact us at info@antibodysociety.org if you want to know more about any aspect of how we handle your personal information. Upon request, we will provide confirmation of what personal data we hold and provide a copy of the data. Members may exercise their right to be forgotten at any time. Upon request, we will remove all your details from our member roll.
Web Content and Copyright
Unless stated otherwise, the copyright and other intellectual property rights on all material on this Website are owned by The Antibody Society. Where The Antibody Society does not hold the Copyright, permission for reproduction on The Antibody Society website was obtained from the appropriate sources.
No part of The Antibody Society website may be reproduced without written permission of The Antibody Society or appropriate sources from which The Antibody Society obtained reproduction rights. Incorporation of member contributions to web pages of The Antibody Society is subject to review prior to clearance for inclusion. This will involve review by the Acting Editor of the Website and additional reviewers, if necessary. The Antibody Society will only consider member contributions when this is copyright free or is without any obligation to The Antibody Society.
Webinar registration
To access our webinars, Society members or other users are required to provide information such as their name, email address, and affiliation. The registration process is managed by a third-party service provider, Community Brands. Their privacy policy is here. The registration information may used to contact you about the products/services discussed during the webinar.
Disclaimers
Data provided by The Antibody Society are from publicly available sources. The Antibody Society makes no representation or warranties with respect to the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of the information and specifically disclaims any implied warranties of fitness for a particular purpose. The Antibody Society assumes no liability, contingent or otherwise, for the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of the Information, or for any decision made or action taken in reliance upon the information.
Although The Antibody Society’s website provides links to other separate and individual web sites, The Antibody Society takes no responsibility for the content or information contained on those web sites, and does not warrant the accuracy, completeness, timeliness legality, reliability, operability, or availability of such content and information contained on those web sites. The user assumes all risks associated with the use of the information, including, but not limited to, reliance on any material’s accuracy, legality, completeness, reliability, timeliness, operability, or availability. The Antibody Society assumes no liability for reliance on such material and shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages resulting from the use of or reliance on the information posted.
Security
Information collected from you, such as contact details for email correspondence, will be used by The Antibody Society for administrative or other important purposes, e.g., maintaining contact regarding improvements in member benefits, notice of Society-sponsored workshops, meetings or symposia, or changes to The Antibody Society web site.
We will never ask for your password or credit card number in our e-mails to you, and you should never supply this information to us by e-mail.
We will not send attachments to our e-mails to you. Likewise, you should never supply us with attachments when using e-mail unless it has been mutually prearranged.
The Antibody Society employs a secure connection (SSL) for submission of your membership information to our database. You should see ’https://’ in the browser address bar and, depending on the browser you use, there may be a padlock in the bottom left of the screen. Right clicking on the padlock will reveal the security certificate.
Renewal of annual memberships
Memberships in The Antibody Society are renewed on an annual basis. Memberships paid by credit card will automatically renew unless we are informed that renewal is not desired. Please contact us at membership@antibodysociety.org to disable automatic renewal.
