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Copyright Notice

Contents of this web site are protected by U.S. and international intellectual property laws. Please feel free to use the PHONONICS 2013 Conference logos as well as written materials, photos and graphics published by the conference organizers on this web site to further promote the conference. You may not copy, redistribute, reproduce, publish, or sell any information obtained from this web site without a written permission for any other purpose. The Conference requires copyright transfer consent forms from authors of accepted works, thus acquiring all copyright for those works. For use of materials which are the intellectual property of third parties (e.g. sponsor logos) please contact their respective copyright owners.

Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement

We intend that all material posted on this site respect the copyright and other proprietary rights of third parties.  However, we cannot monitor the copyright ownership of all material posted on the site.  If you believe that any material posted on this site infringes your copyright, then you may request the removal of those materials from the site in accordance with the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), and the procedures described below.

A notice of infringing material that complies with the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) must be sent to the conference co-chairs via e-mail, fax or postal mail. To comply with the Copyright Act, your notice must be in writing and must include the following:

• A physical or electronic signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
• Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works;
• Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material;
• Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which you may be contacted;
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
• A statement that the information in the notification is accurate and made under penalty of perjury, and that you are the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

When we receive a notice that complies with the Copyright Act, we will remove the identified material immediately.  We will promptly take reasonable steps to inform the user who posted the allegedly infringing material of the notice and subsequent removal.  The alleged infringer may then provide us with a notice that the initial infringement notice was erroneous.  Such notices must be in writing and must include:

• A physical or electronic signature of the alleged infringer;
• Identification of the material removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled;
• A statement under penalty of perjury that the alleged infringer has a good faith belief that the material was removed or access to it disabled as a result of error;
• The alleged infringer's name, address, and telephone number; and
• A statement of consent to jurisdiction in federal district court and that the alleged infringer consents to service of process from the complaining party or its agent.

Upon receipt of such a notice, we will notify you of it and restore the material within 10 to 14 business days of receipt, unless you inform us that you have filed an action seeking a court order to restrain the allegedly infringing party from engaging in infringing activity relating to the material on this site.

Privacy Statement

Personal data

The data provided in registration forms is only used for matters related with the site's scope. The participant's name and his contact address may be published by the Conference organizers as part of this web site or as part of other official Conference materials. All other data such as user preferences or payment details are considered private. No private data item will be shared with entities unrelated with the service supplied by this site. E-mail addresses will never be published in a form that could allow automatic web spiders to easily retrieve them for spamming.

Regular registration process utilizes Authorize.Net, a secure payment gateway to accept due payments. During this process, the Conference never obtains direct access to your financial information (credit card numbers or bank information). Special circumstances preventing direct usage of Authorize.Net by you might require us to obtain your financial information. Such information will never be collected using unencrypted internet communication (regular mail, fax or telephone call is recommended for this purpose). Documents containing your financial information will be securely destroyed upon successful processing of payments, except for any receipts and other evidences of successful payments produced by financial transactions.

Cookies, IP tracking

We may use session-based or persistent cookies and IP tracking to improve your access and ease of use of our website, for offering personalized content and for collecting of statistical data. The non-personal information retrieved by use of our cookies is not linked to your personal information. Cookies do not damage your system or files in any way.

For security reasons, use of password protected areas may be monitored.

Disclaimer

All best endeavors will be made to present the Conference program as printed in the Final Program Announcement. However, the Conference reserves the right to alter or cancel, without prior notice, any of the arrangements, timetables or plans relating directly or indirectly to the conference or exhibition, for any cause beyond their reasonable control. The Conference and its organizing committees are not liable for any loss or inconvenience caused as a result of such alterations. Participants are advised to take out their own travel insurance and to extend their personal policy to cover personal possessions. The Conference does not cover individuals against cancellations or thefts of belongings.

In the event that the Conference is cancelled by the organizers, except for any reason outside the control of organizers, the registration shall be refunded in full. The liability of the organizers shall be limited to that refund and the organizers shall not be liable for any loss, cost of expense, howsoever caused, incurred or arising.

The organizers will hold and process your personal details in our database. This information is necessary for legitimate management of this conference, which may include it being available to any organizing/sponsoring company. We may also use these details to provide you with information of other conferences or events. Please advise us should any of your details change. You may remove your details from our database by advising us in writing, at any time.