This web site and the professional meeting it supports are managed jointly by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST). Personal information is collected during certain online transactions and submissions in order to support the normal functions that comprise an academic conference, i.e. organization of the scientific program, logistical support for professional collaboration, event registration, printing and distribution of the meeting agenda, and related financial transactions.
All online transactions are conducted via 4S properties which are in turn provided by third-party service providers. The application of greatest interest in terms of personal information is the “4S Members’ Site” found at https://4smembers.org. This application is designed, hosted, and supported by YourMembership, a US corporation. The legal statement of privacy policy for YuorMembership can be found at https://www.yourmembership.com/legal/.
Management of the scientific program is conducted on a second platform, All Academic. However, most personal information here, such as email addresses, user names, and passwords used to log in to this site, is provided via live data sync from YourMembership. The All Academic privacy policy can be found at https://www.allacademic.com/privacy.