2024 PSC Partners Conference Policy Information

By submitting your registration to the PSC Partners Seeking a Cure Conference, you agree to the following:

Cancellation and Refund Policy: If you have paid for a registration for our Conference and cannot attend, PSC Partners Seeking a Cure will gladly refund your registration fee, if you notify us by email at contactus@pscpartners.org of your cancellation on or before 9/21/24. Attendance that is cancelled after this date, cannot be refunded. Industry/Corporate registrations will receive a 50% refund if cancelled on or before 9/21/24.

Registration and Attendance Policy: Admittance to any PSC Partners Seeking a Cure event is subject to the organizers' discretion. The Conference fee cannot be pro-rated: It applies to any person who attends any part of the PSC Partners Annual Conference. Attendees must be at least 13 years old to attend the conference. There are no exceptions. Please note that babies are not allowed at the Conference sessions or events. Sessions will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis according to session space availability.

Code of Conduct Policy: All Conference attendees agree to follow the policies listed below.

PSC Partners is an inclusive, accepting organization. We intentionally seek a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and viewpoints and elevate the different identities at our events. We hold ourselves accountable and take responsibility for our impact, even if well-intentioned. With that in mind, we expect those who attend our events to demonstrate kind, thoughtful behavior mirroring the values stated above.

While conflict is not anticipated, inappropriate behavior at the 2024 Annual PSC Partners Conference can result in being asked to leave temporarily or for the duration of the event, and, depending on the seriousness of the transgression, to being banned from future PSC Partners events and activities.

If an attendee observes inappropriate comments or actions, intervention is appropriate if it respects all parties. Violations of the code of conduct may be reported to PSC Partners Seeking a Cure at contactus@pscpartners.org or by contacting a PSC Partners staff member at the Registration/Help Desk at the Conference venue.

PSC Partners Seeking a Cure’s Conference organizers reserve the right to limit attendance to PSC Partners events for any reason. Organizers also reserve the right to remove any attendee or sponsor company for any reason.

Please note that the Conference agenda and Conference sessions are subject to change at any time.

Masking and Social Distancing Protocol: The health and safety of those who are immunocompromised in our community is of the utmost importance to us. To help people make a choice that is best for them, we are providing the following guidelines.

Depending on the COVID status at the time of the Conference, we may recommend the wearing of masks at our Conference while indoors to protect immunocompromised people in our community. However, masks will not be required. While masks will not be required, depending on the COVID levels at the time of the Conference, masks may be recommended indoors to protect immunocompromised people in our midst. All group meals will be held outside to further protect vulnerable attendees. Additionally, PSC Partners will provide sanitizing stations and free masks throughout the Conference venue. Depending on updates from CDC, World Health Organization, or the state guidelines, PSC Partners protocol is subject to change.

Before attending, each person should evaluate the risks associated with traveling to and from the Conference and attending an in-person event. If you’re not feeling well, please consider not attending. We’ll miss you, but we want to keep everyone comfortable.

Based on a practice developed by Global Genes for one of their events, each attendee will have the option to wear a pin indicating their desire to social distance at the Conference.

Privacy Policy:

What Information Do We Collect? When you register for the Conference, you provide us with personal information of your choosing, including your email address, postal address, home or work telephone number, and other personal information. This information may be used for correspondence, Conference registration, or participating in surveys. If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages, your email address, and our responses. 

How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us? Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of administering our Conference and business activities, providing service and support, and making available other information and services to our attendees. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our website, new services, and programs we think you will find valuable. The lists used to send you product and service offers are developed and managed under our traditional standards designed to safeguard the security and privacy of all personal information provided by our users. You may, at any time, notify us of your desire not to receive these offers.

How Do We Secure Information Transmissions? When you send confidential, personal information to us through our website, a secure server software that we have licensed encrypts all information you input before it is sent to us. The information is scrambled en route and decoded once it reaches our website. If a third party application is utilized to collect information, please reference the third party data privacy policy. Other email that you may send to us may not be secure, unless we advise you that security measures will be in place prior to your transmitting the information. For that reason, we ask that you not send us confidential information or personal identifiers such as Social Security, credit card, or account numbers through an unsecured email.

How Do We Protect Your Information? We utilize encryption/security software to safeguard the confidentiality of personal information in our possession from unauthorized access or disclosure and accidental loss, alteration, or destruction.

Protection Practices: Periodically, our operations and business practices are reviewed for compliance with organization policies and procedures governing the security, confidentiality, and quality of our information.

Employee Access, Training, and Expectations: Our organization’s values, ethical standards, policies, and practices are committed to the protection of user information. In general, our business practices limit employee access to confidential information, and our policies limit the use and disclosure of such information to authorized persons, processes, and transactions.

How Can You Access and Correct Your Information? You may request access to all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database by emailing us at contactus@pscpartners.org.

Do We Disclose Information to Outside Parties? We may provide aggregate information about our attendees and related information to our affiliates or reputable third parties, but this information will not include personally identifying data, except as otherwise provided in this privacy policy.

What About Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information? We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so. In other words, we may disclose information when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights.

Permission to Use of Materials and Discussion Content: The right to download and store—or output the materials or information—shared during the conference is granted for the attendee’s personal use only, and materials may not be reproduced in any edited form. Any other reproduction, transmission, performance, display, or editing of these materials by any means mechanical or electronic without our express written permission is strictly prohibited. Users wishing to obtain permission to reprint or reproduce any materials appearing during the conference may contact us directly at contactus@pscpartners.org.

If changes are made to this policy, we will correct and post here.

For additional information, please read the PSC Partners privacy policy HERE.