BioMADE Member Portal Community Standards and Publishing Guidelines
Thank you for being a member of BioMADE! The BioMADE Member Portal and its Discussion Boards are valuable resources to help you connect with other members and access key information. We hope that you will use these resources to make new connections, build R&D and B2B relationships, and find partners to team up with on BioMADE projects. To ensure the best possible experience and a respectful, inclusive environment for all users, we have established some basic guidelines for participation on BioMADE’s Member Portal and Discussion Boards.
By joining and using the Member Portal and Discussion Boards, you agree that you have read and will follow the policies set for these Member resources. You also agree to only submit content that is relevant, helpful, and respectful of others. The Member Portal and Discussion Boards are a great platform with which to solicit the advice of your peers, benefit from their experience, provide feedback on topics related to BioMADE’s program areas, and build relationships through ongoing conversations with BioMADE staff and other Members.
To maintain an environment that encourages respectful and meaningful dialogue, BioMADE reserves the right to take action against your account or content if you violate our community standards. These standards apply to all users. Depending on the severity of the violation, BioMADE may limit the visibility of certain content or remove it entirely. In addition, users of the Member Portal and Discussion Boards will have the ability to flag content to be reviewed by the moderator or share their concerns by email at memberportal@biomade.org. Repeated or egregious offenses will result in account restriction, suspension, or termination of access to the Member Portal and Discussion Boards. If you believe action taken on your content or your account was in error, you can submit an appeal by email to memberportal@biomade.org.
COMMUNITY STANDARDS
Don’t challenge or attack others. The discussions on BioMADE’s Member Discussion Boards are meant to stimulate conversation, not to create contention.
Don’t post unsolicited advertisements for goods and services or commercial messages. You can share information on goods and services that may be useful to the Member Community by posting a brief description and a point of contact on the “Products and Services” Discussion Board.
Don’t post spam or links to suspicious, untrusted, or malicious websites and files.
All defamatory, abusive, profane, threatening, offensive, or illegal materials are strictly prohibited. Do not post anything in a post message that you would not want the world to see or that you would not want anyone to know came from you.
BioMADE is committed to strict compliance with all applicable state and federal antitrust laws, and expects that no Member activities conducted through BioMADE Sites, including its Member Portal, shall create even the appearance of a violation of the spirit or letter of the antitrust laws.
Don’t discuss prices, pricing methods, terms or conditions of sale, pricing practices, pricing strategies, territories or customers with competitors.
Don’t discuss specific commercial activities, including production policies, price advertising or cooperative advertising practices with competitors.
Don’t discuss with competitors what is a fair, appropriate, or “rational” price or profit margin for suppliers, distributors, or retailers.
Don’t discuss with competitors whether or not to deal with certain companies, customers or in certain markets, countries, or channels of trade.
BioMADE will not tolerate:
Harassing, intimidating or threatening comments to another person.
Comments that incite violence or other action in violation of any federal or state anti-discrimination laws or antitrust laws.
Sexually explicit and sexually vulgar language and profanity.
Comments that promote illegal activity.
Solicitations or promotions of products or services of any third party, unless approved in advance by BioMADE Communications or designee.
Comments that include false or defamatory information.
Posts that misrepresent or hide the poster’s identity.
Comments that violate privacy or confidentiality.
Tell us if you see abusive content; please email memberportal@biomade.org with details or a screenshot of the content indicating that the Subject is regarding “Content Review”.
PUBLISHING GUIDELINES
Content: Content published on BioMADE’s Member Portal and Discussion Boards remains your work. You own the rights to any original articles you publish.
Expect that your articles will be publicly available and can be shared. BioMADE and other Registered Portal Users have the right to reproduce postings to this forum.
You are responsible for the content of your articles, including any harm caused to you by others, or harm caused to you by your use of this service.
Please don’t publish anything you don’t have permission to share. This includes other people’s articles, things you’ve found on the Internet, or content that belongs to your employer that you do not have permission to share. Most content on the Internet belongs to someone, and unless you have clear permission from the owner to share it, you shouldn’t include it in your articles. You can republish something you have published somewhere else, as long as you own the rights to its original content.
BioMADE does not assume any liability for content posted by others.
BioMADE will disable accounts found using infringing content.
Right to Delete: You can delete your own posts or request the deletion of your post content from the discussion boards. When you post content to the discussion boards, you have the option to delete your post if no other comments have been submitted in response to it. If you post content that other users have commented on and want to request the content to be deleted, please contact memberportal@biomade.org. BioMADE reserves the right to process your request to delete post content based on our standard business operations or within applicable legal time limits.
Control over Your Contact Info: You can opt-in to share your email, phone number, and/or address with other members through the Member Portal directory. The default setting is this information is restricted from being visible. You can opt-in to share this information by selecting “Members” in the Profile Visibility section of your user account settings. You can change this information back to “Restricted” at any time.
Where Does My Post Go?
Do you want to ask a question specific to BioMADE’s program areas or project calls? Post your question or comment on the Technology & Innovation, Education & Workforce Development, or 4S-Social Dimensions discussion board.
Do you want to share a job opening or internship opportunity? Post a brief description and link to the full details on our Jobs & Internships discussion board.
Do you want to share information about a conference or social activity with other members? Post a brief description and link to additional details on our General Networking discussion board.
Do you want to share information on goods and services that may be useful to the member community? Post a brief description and a point of contact on the Products & Services discussion board.
APPEALS PROCESS
BioMADE will remove content that violates the Community Standards and Publishing Guidelines of our Member Portal and Discussion Boards. When we do this, we will also send you a notice explaining how your content violates our policies and the action we’re taking. If you believe your content has been removed in error, you will have the opportunity to provide an explanation to memberportal@biomade.org and request further review.
In general, three (3) policy violations will result in account restriction. We provide the opportunity to appeal an account restriction, and we may reinstate a restricted account if the Member agrees to comply with these Member Portal and Discussion Board Community Standards and Publishing Guidelines.
For certain egregious violations of our Community Standards and Publishing Guidelines (e.g., child sexual abuse material, terrorism, extremely violent content, egregious sexual harassment), we may permanently restrict your account after a single violation, and may report such violations to applicable legal authorities as warranted.