Terms & Conditions

Website terms and conditions 

The use of this website is subject to the following terms outlined in this document. 

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PVRI Membership terms and conditions 

This agreement is made between the Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute (“PVRI”) whose registered address is at 5 Tanner Street, London SE1 3LE, United Kingdom, with registered company number 05780068 and registered charity number 1127115, and the PVRI member named in the registration form (“You”, “Your”) for the provision of membership to the PVRI and to dictate the handling of personal data shared as a benefit of our membership network. 

As a member of the PVRI, You have access to the PVRI membership network directory. This is a database containing the personal data of other PVRI members who have opted to share their information across the network. 

PVRI members share their data to discover and communicate with other members who share PVRI’s aims and goals of reducing the global burden of pulmonary vascular disease. 

In order to comply with EU Data Protection legislation, the PVRI has implemented Terms of Data Sharing (below) across its entire network (whether You are an EU citizen/resident or not). 

Membership is open to anyone with an active research and/or educational interest in pulmonary vascular disease and related fields. Membership benefits are described here [link to member benefits page] 

Terms of data sharing 

The personal data being shared under this agreement includes identity data, contact data, and profile data. 

If you reside outside the EEA or are dealing with the personal data of individuals located outside the EEA, in addition to your obligations arising under and highlighted within these terms and conditions, you must observe any local laws, regulations, and practices relating to data privacy as applicable (“local Laws”). 

The PVRI is not able to provide legal advice regarding data protection legislation or equivalent overseas laws. If you have any further questions about your data, please email adminATpvrinstitute.org. 

By acquiring the personal data of a PVRI member, you become a data controller of that personal data, with regard to data protection legislation. This means that personal data has been shared with you with the consent of a PVRI member (the data subject) for its use in respect of the PVRI purpose only. You are able to determine any additional purposes for which you wish to use the personal data. Your ability to make such decisions is governed by data protection legislation and local laws, as applicable. The PVRI recommends that you take legal advice before using personal data for any reason other than the PVRI purpose. 

As a condition of membership, the PVRI requires that all members using personal data acquired from the PVRI membership network directory observe good practice in developing and maintaining professional relationships across the network. As such, members are expressly prohibited from using personal data in any of the following ways: 

• to send explicit, offensive, slanderous, or libellous material; and 
• to send excessive levels of correspondence that could be construed as spam or harassment 

All members who acquire personal data from the PVRI membership network directory are required: 

• not to disclose or allow access to the personal data you have acquired, including by storing it on a system not controlled by you (for example, a hosted or cloud-based solution), without appropriate legal assurances and safeguards in place; 
• to ensure that you have in place appropriate technical and organisational measures, open to review and approval by the PVRI, to protect against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data, and against any other loss, destruction or damage; 
• to notify the PVRI without undue delay as soon as you become aware of any breaches of data protection legislation and/or local laws. 
• to inform the PVRI of any subject access requests you receive in relation to PVRI member data you have acquired, and not to respond to such requests before consulting the PVRI; 
• to assist the PVRI, at your cost, in responding to subject access requests or investigating data security issues, making breach notifications, performing impact assessments or complying with consultations or audits from regulatory authorities; 
• to delete or return any shared personal data at the written direction of the PVRI, or on the termination of Your membership, unless you have acquired your own bases for use as described in clause 5, or as required otherwise by law; and 
• maintain complete and accurate records of all personal data that you hold and make such records available for inspection by the PVRI or the relevant regulatory authority. 

If the PVRI becomes aware of or has reason to believe that you are using personal data in any of the ways noted in clause 6, in breach of the provision in clause 7, or in any other way that contravenes the obligations imposed on a data controller by data protection legislation or applicable local law, your membership will be revoked without refund. Additionally, where appropriate, the PVRI might report illegitimate activity to the relevant regulatory authority, and/or comply with any investigation by such a body. 

In agreeing to these terms and conditions and acquiring personal data from the PVRI membership network directory, You hereby indemnify the PVRI against all liabilities, costs, expenses, damages and losses (including, but not limited to any direct, indirect or inconsequential losses, loss of profit, loss of reputation and all interest, penalties and legal costs and all other reasonable professional costs and expenses incurred by you) arising out of, or in connection with, the breach of data protection legislation by you to maximum extent permitted by law. 

These Terms and Conditions are governed by the laws of England and Wales and subject to the Courts of England, other than for UK residents, who may request a hearing within their local jurisdiction. 

Definitions 

Data protection legislation means all applicable laws and regulations relating to the processing of personal data and privacy, including the Data Protection Act 1998, the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”), the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 and any statutory instrument, order, rule or regulation made thereunder, as from time to time amended, extended, re-enacted or consolidated. 

The terms “Personal Data”, “Special Categories of Personal Data”, “Data Controller”, “Data Processor”, “Data Subject”, “Data Protection Officer” and “process” (in the context of usage of Personal Data) shall have the meanings given to them in the Data Protection Legislation. 

Identity data includes personal data such as names, usernames or similar; marital status; title; date of birth; sex and gender. 

Contact data includes personal data such as addresses; email addresses and telephone numbers. 

Profile data includes data such as interests; preferences; feedback and responses to surveys, blogs and messages. 

Last updated: 22nd April 2024