International Cannabinoid Research Society

Thank you for visiting the International Cannabinoid Research Society's Website and Forum. Please take a moment to review our privacy policy. This privacy statement discloses privacy practices for http://www.cannabinoidsociety.org and the ICRS FORUM.

The ICRS Forum makes message boards and an integrated mailing system available to ICRS Forum users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes accessible information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personal information. In order to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) we prohibit participation in these areas by pre-teens.

Registration for the ICRS Forum is a free benefit to ICRS members in good standing. We do insist that you abide by the rules and policies detailed below. Although the administrators and moderators of the ICRS Forum will attempt to keep objectionable messages off this Forum, it is impossible for us to review all messages. Messages reflect the express views of the author only. Neither the owners of the ICRS Forum, the Webmaster and/or SysOp, nor the developers of vBulletin will be held responsible for the content of any message. By accepting to these rules, you agree that you will not post messages illegal in nature, vulgar, sexually or ethnically offensive, threatening or otherwise violative of any International laws. The owners of the ICRS Forum reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread for any reason.

It is important for you to remain aware that when you provide personal information (e.g. phone number, laboratory address, etc) in a posting on this, and any, message board, that information is available to other persons having access and use of that same message board, and may be used by someone in a manner unintended by you.

Sharing of personal information (work place, home address, family information, etc.) among Forum members is strictly up to each individual member. However, we request that Forum members do state their actual first and last name and email address, so they might be contacted for purposes of ICRS business only.

The ICRS and ICRS Forum does not endorse any illegal or immoral practices and advises its members to be prudent of what information they share with other Forum members.

One thing that must be noted about our discussion Forum, actual participation (Forum posting) is considered mandatory or individual membership is subject to cancellation at the discretion of the ICRS Forum System Administrator.

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless ICRS Forum and its Administrators from and against any and all claims, actions, suits or proceedings, as well as any and all losses, liabilities, damages, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys fees) arising out of or accruing from (a) any material posted or otherwise provided by you that infringes any copyright, trademark, trade secret, trade dress, patent or other intellectual property right of any person or defames any person or violates their rights of publicity or privacy, (b) any misrepresentation made by you in connection with your use of the ICRS Forum; (c) any non-compliance by you with the terms and conditions of this Agreement; and (d) claims brought by persons or entities other than the parties to this Agreement arising from or related to your access and use of the ICRS Forum, including the information obtained through the ICRS Forum.

ICRS Forum is not responsible for content posted by users of this service, on any area of the ICRS Forum or www.cannabinoidsociety.org site, including, without limitation, ICRS discussion Forums, Forum communications, and/or private communications therein. The opinions and viewpoints expressed by users of the ICRS Forum or visitors to our Site do not reflect those of the ICRS.

You are solely and fully responsible for the content you post. The ICRS shall be the final arbiter of what may be posted on the ICRS Forums. ICRS Forum reserves the right to modify or remove any material submitted to or posted on the Site, and to cancel at any time any membership in the ICRS Forum without prior notice. ICRS Forum is not obligated to maintain back-up copies of any material submitted to or posted on the ICRS Forum.

Like most Web servers on the Internet, our servers passively collect and store all of the information that your web browser sends when it requests a web page, including:

the name, domain, and numerical internet address of the "host" computer (typically a computer belonging to your Internet Service Provider and not your personal computer) from which you access the Internet. For example, your host computer's name and its numerical address
the date and time you accessed our site
the Internet address of the web page that you came from
the page you requested from our site and the number of characters sent to your computer
the information your web browser software sends as its so-called "User Agent," which typically identifies the browser software and may also indicate the operating system and type of CPU used in your personal computer

The ICRS Forum periodically summarizes and analyzes these log files to learn how visitors use content on the site. This information is used to allocate resources effectively and to improve the content, organization and performance of our site. This process does NOT collect, store or use personally-identifying information such as name, address, telephone number or e-mail address.

Collection and Release of Gathered Information

It is the policy of the ICRS Forum to collect only that personally-identifying information (such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number) that visitors to the ICRS Forum's website knowingly and voluntarily provide by completing one of the forms on the website. If you do provide personally-identifying information through one of our forms, that information may be shared with our data storage and logistics partners and providers, who are contractually permitted to use such information solely in connection with organizing and conducting ICRS website and Forum logistics. Should you register for one of the ICRS Forum activites, your contact information is able to be displayed to other participants of that activity for networking purposes, within the private Members Area. You may view and edit that information through your personal page within the Members Area.

The ICRS Forum is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. The ICRS Forum does not collect, save or store such personally-identifying information from our visitors who do not voluntarily complete our online forms. The ICRS does not attempt to identify users or share user information with any parties outside of the ICRS Forum, except as described above, in the event of a suspected attempt to deliberately circumvent our system's security with the intent to gain unauthorized access to or to do physical damage (for example, an attack by hackers), and as required in the course of officially authorized law enforcement investigations.

Security

When users submit sensitive information via the Website (such as credit card numbers), that information is expertly encrypted (VeriSign) and is protected with SSL encryption software.

Electronic Mail

When you send us personal identifying information via e-mail (that is, in a message containing a question or comment, or by filling out a form that e-mails us this information), we use it to respond to your requests. We may forward your e-mail to other employees of the ICRS Forum who are better able to answer your questions. We do not retain or distribute lists of e-mail addresses to any parties outside of the ICRS. In no event, do we distribute lists of e-mail addresses to any outside parties. Information collected via e-mail will be retained at our discretion in a directly readable form as long as necessary to complete our response.

Cookies

A cookie is simply a small piece of information that a web server asks your browser to store on your local computer, and then later your browser presents this information to the web server. In its simplest form, a cookie is just an identifying number.

The ICRS Forum uses cookies for anonymous visitor tracking. The ICRS Forum web server assigns each visitor a unique numerical ID. All requests for pages are tagged with that ID, and by analyzing log files, we can determine how many unique visitors used the site.

We do not know the identity of a person based on the numerical ID. The cookies used on our website do not contain any personal information about visitors, nor are they used to look up personal information about visitors. Even if you have entered information about yourself in one of our registration forms, we do not relate that information to the cookie data.

By using this site, you signify your agreement with the ICRS Forum's privacy policy. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of this policy at any time. Your continued use of this website following changes to these terms means you accept those changes.

Links to Other Websites

Our Website contains links to other websites that are not operated or maintained by the ICRS or the ICRS Forum and are not covered by this Privacy Statement. Visitors should be aware that the links on this Website are provided only for your convenience. The ICRS has no control over, makes no promises or warranties of any kind with regard to, and has no responsibility or liability for, the content of any other websites or their privacy policies, their use of cookies, or the way they collect, save, store or use information.

Should you have any questions or concerns about the ICRS Forum's privacy statement and use of personal information, please feel free to contact us by e-mail here.