Code of Conduct
ALE 2022 is committed to providing a safe, productive, and welcoming environment for all conference/meeting participants and ALE 2022 team.
All participants, including, but not limited to : attendees, speakers, volunteers, ALE 2022 team members, service providers, and all others are expected to abide by this Code of Conduct.
This Policy applies to all ALE 2022 meetings and events on public or private platforms.
ALE 2022 has zero-tolerance for any form of discrimination or harassment, including but not limited to sexual harassment by participants or our staff at our meetings.
Unacceptable Behaviors
- Harassment, intimidation, or discrimination in any form.
- Verbal abuse of any attendee, speaker, volunteer, ALE 2022 team member, service provider, or other meeting guest.
- Examples of verbal abuse include, but are not limited to, verbal comments that reinforce social structures of domination related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion, national origin, inappropriate use of nudity and/or sexual images in public spaces, presentations, or on online environments (e.g., text, email, social media, etc.), threatening, deliberate intimidation or stalking any attendee, speaker, volunteer, ALE 2022 team member, service provider, or other meeting guest in online environments.
- Harassing photography or recording that might be posted or distributed.
- Disruption of presentations during sessions, or at other events organized by ALE 2022 throughout the virtual meeting. All participants must comply with the instructions of the moderator and any ALE 2022 team.
- Advocating for, or encouraging, any of the above behavior.
- Presentations, postings, and messages should not contain promotional materials, special offers, job offers, product announcements, or solicitation for services. ALE 2022 reserves the right to remove such messages and potentially ban sources of those solicitations.
How to report?
If you experience harassment or hear of any incidents of unacceptable behavior, ALE 2022 asks that you either make an anonymous report or a personal report as follows (please use English as we are an international organization team) :
- Anonymous Report
You can make an anonymous report on this form. Although we cannot follow up on an anonymous report with you directly, we will fully investigate it and take whatever action is necessary to prevent a recurrence.
- Personal Report
You can make a personal report by contacting the ALE 2022 team by messaging one of the ALE2022 organizers :
How will we deal with unacceptable behavior ?
ALE 2022 reserves the right to take any action deemed necessary and appropriate, including immediate removal from the event without warning in response to any incident of unacceptable behavior, and ALE 2022 reserves the right to prohibit attendance at any future meeting, virtually or in person.