1. Privacy

1.1 General

The owner of this website does not share personal information with third-parties nor does the owner store Information about your visit for use other than to evaluate the use of this website for reports about the website activities through the use of cookies (see paragraph 3 below), which you can turn off at anytime by modifying your Internet browser’s settings.
The owner is not responsible for the republishing of the content found on this Website on other Websites or media without permission.

1.2 User Profiles, Member Area

The user profiles are only displayed in the member area of the website and therefore only visible for registered users (see paragraph 4.3 below). On the profile page of each member the name, surname, affiliation, area of expertise and ORCID numbers are displayed to all members by default and are indicated as such with a star. This information can be entered/edited by each member upon login in at www.ls2.ch via > Edit.
All other information such as the full address/email address/date of birth etc. are only visible to the administrators and only required to check the registration, for postal mail of membership & meeting billing, and for sending you a bimonthly newsletter. For our newsletter, we use the external provider MailChimp. See MailChimps Privacy & Terms. Members can opt out of the newsletter service any time by mail to info@ls2.ch, by clicking this direct unsubscribe link, or by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom any of our newsletters.

1.3 Bioinformatics Membership Data Sharing

When joining the Bioinformatics intersection, members agree that their personal data entered in the membership application form on the LS² website will be shared between LS² and SIB for purposes of newsletter, targeted announcements of events, and membership statistics. On that basis, LS² shall send to SIB on a monthly basis the up-to-date list of Bioinformatics intersection members.

2. Forum Topics and Replies

The owner of this website reserves the right to edit or delete any contents that members entered in their profile without notice due to:
1. Entries deemed to be spam or questionable spam
2. Entries including profanity
3. Entries containing language or concepts that could be deemed offensive
4. Entries that attack a person individually

3. Data Collection

To enhance our user’s privacy, we decided to end the collaboration with Google Analytics per 15 June 2018.
We started using Matomo instead and will from 16 June 2018 only use this platform to analyze traffic and help us to improve your user experience. Since we use a self-hosted Matomo setup on our webserver, no usage information is forwarded to any third party. We have configured Matomo to anonymize IP addresses and respect the "Do Not Track" setting of visitor's browsers.
From their website: "Matomo (formerly Piwik) is an open analytics platform currently used by individuals, companies and governments all over the world. With Matomo, your data will always be yours."

4. Security

4.1 Application

To obtain the software security of this application, the owner of this site will update it regularly to the latest version of the software.

4.2 Web Server

The web servers are located in powerful and secure data centers in Switzerland and are always up to date with regard to safety.

4.3 Member Area

As mentioned above (paragraph 1.1), the member area is only for registered users. The registrations of new members will be reviewed by the owner of this website and confirmed manually. The owner of this website may not always be able to verify the accuracy of the specified information, but he reserves the right to block members, who do not behave appropriately.

4.4 Passwords

A potential vulnerability of the user account is the password set by the user. Therefore it is important to choose a strong password which is hard for other people to guess and hard for a brute force attack to succeed. Your password should be at least ten characters long. Use upper and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols to make it even stronger.  

5. Disclaimer

All content provided on this website is for informational purposes only. The owner of this website makes no representations as to the accuracy or completeness of any information on this site or found by following any link on this site. The owner will not be liable for any errors or omissions in this information nor for the availability of this information. The owner will not be liable for any losses, injuries, or damages from the display or use of this information.

6. Additional Information

Font used on our websites. Roboto: Copyright 2011 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Roboto is a neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface family developed by Google as the system font for its mobile operating system Android. The entire font family has been licensed under the Apache license and was officially made available for free download on January 12, 2012, on the newly launched Android Design website.

These Terms & Conditions can be subject to change at any time. Changes from 26 May 2018 onwards will be indicated below.

• 28 May 2018: Update on Google Analytics cancellation and Matomo use (see: 3. Google Analytics)
• 19 June 2018: Deletion of Google Analytics paragraph as we ended the collaboration. Paragraph 3 now called "Data Collection"
• 26 June 2019: Addition of 1.3 Bioinformatics Membership Data Sharing

7. LS² Meetings Code of Conduct

LS² is committed to providing a safe, productive, and welcoming environment for all meeting participants, including, but not limited to, attendees, speakers, volunteers, exhibitors, LS² staff members or service providers. LS² has zero-tolerance for any form of discrimination or harassment, including but not limited to (sexual) harassment, intimidation, discrimination or verbal / written abuse. If you experience or hear of any incidents of unacceptable behavior, we ask that you inform either the Managing Office at info@ls2.ch so that we can take the appropriate action. 
LS² reserves the right to take any action deemed necessary and appropriate, including immediate removal from the meeting without warning or refund, in response to any incident of unacceptable behavior, and LS² reserves the right to prohibit attendance at any future meeting, virtually or in person.