The WMDA is pleased to offer its services to inform and to interact with WMDA members. Our goal is to create a secure and an easy-to-use environment to collaborate on various WMDA initiatives and to share views, concerns and interact with one another. We encourage your participation and ask you to follow these guidelines.
- Be respectful: WMDA is a worldwide association. Be respectful of others' cultureother cultures, values, and languagelanguages. It's fine to disagree with others, but personal attacks or disparaging comments will not be tolerated.
- Protect the privacy of personal information: We request you not to collect, store or process sensitive personally identifiable information related to donors, patients, or other individuals who may or may not be members of WMDA or its member registries. Sensitive, personally identifiable information is described as any information which if lost, compromised, or disclosed without authorisation, could result in substantial harm, embarrassment, inconvenience, or unfairness to an individual. This includes individual's government-issued ID numbers, individual's demographic information (including names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth), financial accounts’ information (including credit or debit card numbers), medical and health-related information, and other. The goal of this requirement is to protect sensitive personally identifiable information from unauthorized disclosure or theft to comply with various international, domestic and local laws and regulations related to information security and privacy.
- Ensure Information Security: WMDA is intended to provide access to information that may not be disclosed to the general public (such as member-only communications, working group-only documentation, etc.). Therefore it is critical that you protect your user account information (username and password), and do not share it with anyone. Similarly, please do not copy or transfer any WMDA-owned information outside of WMDA Share without proper authorisation.
- Abide by Acceptable Use: As a condition of access to WMDA Services, you have to agree to never use it in connection to any activity that is illegal under local law while utilising. You particularly agree not to submit any content that is obscene, defamatory, libellouslibelous, threatening, harassing, pornographic, racially or ethnically offensive, that encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence or give rise to any civil liability. You also agree not to submit any material (including any virus, bot, worm, scripting exploit or other harmful code) that is likely to harm or corrupt one of the WMDA services.