Privacy Notice
The Society for the Study of Marine Bioinvasions (SSMB) is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. Please direct any questions regarding this policy and our privacy practices to our email.
Collection of your personal information
SSMB collects and processes your personal data including: contact information for email list members; contact information for those submitting abstracts or travel award applications; and contact information for registered conference attendees. Personal data is collected through forms linked from the conference website. SSMB collects the minimum amount of information necessary to provide you with access to conference activities and services. By providing this information, you consent to its collection for the sole purpose of conference attendance and planning.
Access to your personal information
Personal information collected by a conference Local Organizing Committee will not be shared beyond the organizers of that conference, with the exception of name, email, and institution which will be passed on to the next conference organizers for the purposes of maintaining the SSMB email list. Personal information for some activities, including registration, is processed by secure third-party service providers as trusted data processors on behalf of SSMB (e.g., PayPal, Oxford Abstracts, Ltd., or MailerLite).
Protection of your personal information
Personal information collected by SSMB is stored by secure third-party service providers (e.g., Google Workspace, PayPal, Oxford Abstracts, Ltd., or MailerLite), or on secure servers maintained by the institution hosting a particular conference. Any personal information stored on host institution servers will be deleted as soon as it is no longer needed for conference planning.
