Terms and Conditions

Membership Terms and Conditions

1. Payment Plan Agreement Contract
You understand and agree that you have committed to a contract. And you agree to membership fees payable by you at rate offered at purchase time and pay the annual subscription at when due.

Cancellation of Membership
You understand that you are able to cancel your membership within the first 7 days for a 80% refund. Please email tidsa@tidsaglobal.org to cancel.

You understand that should you cancel your membership outside of the first 7 days, you agree to forfeit your membership fee and you will be removed from the Institute membership database. You understand that should you cancel your membership outside of the first 30 days, no refund will be provided.

Annual Subscription
You agree to pay the membership ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION in full for access to the Institute’s events and training opportunity in accordance with your membership category.

2. Membership
If you are under 18 years, you need your parents’ permission before becoming a member and accessing the Site.

Your Membership is non-transferable. You must not share your username and password with anyone else or allow anyone else to access the Site using your username and password.

You are responsible for every use of the Site that occurs in conjunction with use of your username and password. You must use reasonable efforts to keep your username and password confidential. You must notify us as soon as you become aware of any unauthorised use of your membership, username or password.

Membership is based on periodic subscription fees which are detailed on the Site’s membership page. Your membership, or access to Content and areas of the Site, will be suspended or cancelled if we do not receive the fees for your subscription type.

3. Availability and Use of the Site
The Site will usually be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We may, however, need to interrupt or suspend your access to the Site or the provision of the Site’s services and Content, for maintenance, technical or other reasons.

When accessing and using the Site and its services and Content, you must comply with directions, instructions or protocols posted on the Site.

We are pleased to be able to offer a wide range of exclusive Content on the Site for your educational and learning needs, which we aim to regularly add to. The Content will be updated, changed or removed from time to time, at our discretion, so we can’t guarantee that specific Content will always be available on the Site.

4. Rights to Content; intellectual property
The trademarks and logos displayed on the Site are, unless otherwise stated, those of The Institution of Data Scientists and Analysts and others, and you must not use these without the approval of the relevant owner.

5. Fair use and prohibited conduct
You are permitted to download Content to your computer as part of your membership. But your membership is subject to a ‘fair use’ policy. Our ‘fair use’ policy requires that your use of the Site and the Content must be fair, genuine and reasonable. For example, the total amount of Content you download must be reasonable in light of your genuine education and learning needs, and the time needed to genuinely engage with the Content. We will use our reasonable discretion to decide whether a member has complied with the ‘fair use’ policy.

You also must not:
a. use a false email address, impersonate others, or misrepresent your affiliation with others;
b. insert advertising, branding or other promotional content into the Site or Content;
c. attempt to gain unauthorised access to computer systems or materials through the Site;
d. engage in automatic gathering of information from or through the Site (such as “spidering”, “screen scraping”, “database scraping” or harvesting of e-mail addresses);
e. attempt to interrupt or alter the Site’s operation in any way (for example through sending mass unsolicited messages, “flooding” servers, or introducing a virus, time bomb, trojan horse, worm, cancelbot or other computer routine );
f. use the Site or the Content in a way that violates applicable law, that violates third party intellectual property or other rights, or that is, fraudulent, obscene, offensive, or defamatory; or
g. except as allowed in these Membership Terms, copy, distribute, transmit, modify or otherwise exploit the Content or any other data or code made available through the Site.

6. Changes to Membership Terms
We may change these Membership Terms from time to time, but we will notify members before doing so. You will be given the opportunity to cancel your subscription with a pro-rata refund (based on time remaining in your subscription) if you do not want to accept the changes. If you do not opt out in this way, your continued subscription to and use of the Site will be an acceptance of the updated Membership Terms.