PRIVACY POLICIES

Endorsement
Accessibility
Linking
Prohibitions
Collection of Information
Personal Information/Privacy
Security

Endorsement

Disclaimer of Endorsement

The information posted on the Bio-IT.org website includes hypertext links to information created and maintained by other public and/or private organizations. Bio-IT.org provides these links solely for the information and convenience of our users. When users select links to other websites, they are leaving the Bio-IT.org site and are subject to the privacy and security policies of the owners/sponsors of the linked websites.

Bio-IT.org does not control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness or completeness of information contained on linked websites.

Bio-IT.org does not endorse the organizations sponsoring linked websites nor do we endorse the views they express or the components, products or services they offer.

Bio-IT.org cannot authorize the use of copyrighted materials contained in linked websites. Users must request such authorization from the sponsor of the linked website. However, as a matter of principle, we will not knowingly link to materials that are copyrighted. The presence of such material may be cause for us not to link to a page and/or to remove any link as soon as we become aware of the presence of such material on that page.

Accessibility

Bio-IT.org Accessibility Policy

We are committed to providing access to all individuals, regardless of physical abilities, seeking information on the Bio-IT.org site.

Linking

Bio-IT.org Linking Policy

The Bio-IT.org site links to Web pages containing Extensible Markup Language (XML) instance documents conforming to (validating against) the XML schema (XSD) specified for indexing on our site. We may also link to Web-based services providing enhanced capabilities for our stakeholders to discover and subsequently form communities of practice (CoPs) for collaboration around proposed emerging technology components identified on the site. However, we do not endorse and make no guarantees about any such services, and any links on the Bio-IT.org site are provided solely for informational purposes as a convenience to our users.

Prohibitions

Bio-IT.org will not link to any website that exhibits hate, bias, or discrimination. Furthermore, Bio-IT.org reserves the right to deny or remove any link that contains misleading information or unsubstantiated claims, or is determined to be in conflict with Bio-IT.org's mission or policies.
Prohibited Conduct

You may only use the Bio-IT.org site and the services offered through the site in accordance with the Use Policy set forth herein. You may only submit for indexing on the site content that is: (i) owned by you, or (ii) submitted with the express permission of the owner, and (iii) in the public domain, i.e., openly available on the World Wide Web. In addition, all information you post on the Web for indexing on the Bio-IT.org site must be: a) relevant to the specified emerging technology component, and b) in good taste as determined by common sense and the most restrictive community standards. The Bio-IT.org site may not be used to establish links to any data or content that:

1. is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, pornographic, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;

2. may harm minors in any way;

3. impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;

4. violates any law or violates the personal, proprietary, or intellectual property rights or other rights of any third party;

5. may subject users to any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation;

6. contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;

7. may interfere with or disrupt the Site or servers or networks connected to the Site, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Site;

8. collects or stores personal data about other users; or

9. promotes or provides instructional information about illegal activities, promotes physical harm or injury against any group or individual.

We reserve the right to remove links to any content that fails to comply with these prohibitions. We further reserve the right to investigate complaints or reported violations of these policies, and to take any appropriate action, including, without limitation, reporting and providing information of any suspected unlawful activity to law enforcement officials, regulators, or other third parties.

Collection of Information

Information Collected and Stored Automatically

When you browse, read pages or download information on Bio-IT.org, we automatically gather and store certain technical information about your visit. This information never identifies who you are. The information we collect and store about your visit is listed below:

The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our website;
The type of browser (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer) and operating system (Windows, Unix) used to access our site;
The date and time you access our site;
The pages you visit; and
If you linked to the Bio-IT.org website from another website, the address of that website.
This information is only used to help us make the site more useful for you. With this data we learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. We never track or record information about individuals and their visits.

Personal Information/Privacy

Personal Information

To protect the integrity of the Bio-IT.org site and guard against false impersonation, if you choose to identify a proposed ET component, you must provide a valid e-mail address to be used solely to authenticate that you are actually the person submitting the Web address (URL) of the XML instance document describing your proposed component. E-mail addresses are not captured or maintained on Bio-IT.org site.

If you choose to use it, a form on Bio-IT.org does allow you to create a valid XML instance document containing contact information, including optional personal data, in the event you may wish to make such information available on your own website or the site of any intermediary you may choose to use. Whether you choose to provide any such information is solely at your discretion.

If you do post contact information elsewhere on the Web and provide the Web address (URL) for the valid XML instance document, a hypertext link will be provided on the Bio-IT.org site for the benefit of users who may wish to contact you. Bio-IT.org does not capture, index, or store the information entered on the contact information form. Bio-IT.org never creates individual profiles or shares personal information. Bio-IT.org never collects information for marketing purposes, nor will we knowingly link to any site that does so as a direct result of visiting a page to which we link. The collection of such information may be cause for us to remove a link to any such page.

Security

Site Security

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this Bio-IT hosting system employs commercial software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.
Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits. Raw data logs are used for no other purposes and are scheduled for regular destruction.
Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited.