A vital part of the IANDS mission is to offer support to those who have experienced a near-death experience; to family, friends, health care professionals, mental health practitioners and clergy who interact with experiencers; and to others who would benefit from understanding NDEs. The links below provide information that should be of help to you.
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We encourage you to link your website to the IANDS website by posting a hyperlink to iands.org. Please keep in mind this is not permission to host an iands.org article or other content on your Web site, but merely to create a text hyperlink from your Web site to page(s) at iands.org. Please do not use any iands.org logos or trademarks as hyperlinks. IANDS reserves the right to request the removal of any such hyperlinks.
Will iands.org link to my site?
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May I copy the text of a near-death experience or similar experience and publish it as a quotation in a book or article, or publish an audio reading of the account online, for example on YouTube?
IANDS cannot grant permission to publish quotations from the NDE accounts that we publish on our web site because we have not received permission from the NDE account authors to do so. However, we advise researchers and authors who wish to use quotations from these accounts to follow the Fair Use Doctrine. If you are not familiar with this legal doctrine in US law, please refer to the factors involved in determining fair use. Some of the factors that may be involved in cases involving quotations from NDE accounts are:
- If the book or article's use involves research, scholarship or education of the public.
- If the book or article's use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes. A commercial use weighs against a claim of fair use but does not preclude it, if other factors are involved.
- If there is not a likely impact on the NDEr's potential to market the NDE account, especially considering the next item.
- The fact that these NDE accounts have already been published and are freely available on the Internet.
- If the number of words the author is quoting is small (for example, 250 words) or is small compared to the total of the account. Use of longer quotations may still count as fair use, if other factors are involved. Alternatively, the author can reword a long quotation in the author's own words, and can include only shorter portions that are directly quoted.
- If the author includes where these accounts have been published, that is, gives credit to the International Association for Near-Death Studies (http://www.iands.org/).
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You may include a page or article from the IANDS web site for your school project so long as the following copyright clause accompanies it:Copyright <DATE(s)>, International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS). All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission from http://www.iands.org.(Replace <DATE(s)> by the date or dates that appear on the page.)You may also print and freely distribute any of the brochures we have on our site that are in PDF format, as long as you do not change the brochures in any way; this includes not omitting anything.
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When you submit your near-death experience to our research archives:
If you have had a near-death experience and would like to fill out our information form to place in our archives, you will specify on the form how your information may be used. We will use it only for the purposes and in the ways you have specified. Please note that if you give permission to publish your NDE account on the Internet, the text can easily be copied by anyone and published elsewhere. Such republication may be allowed under the Fair Use Doctrine.
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When you use the IANDS Shopping Cart or other website services
When you consider joining IANDS
When you join IANDS
When you register for an IANDS conference, retreat, workshop or course
When you submit your near-death experience to our research archives
When you use the IANDS Shopping Cart or other website services:
If you use our shopping cart, message boards or other site services, the software may store information on your computer ("cookies") depending on how you use the service. This information is used only to make it more convenient for you to use these services. We do not collect or examine it.
If you order something from us, such as a publication, DVD or audio download, we share information about you only as much as needed to fulfill the order. For example, if you use a credit card to place the order, we must tell the credit card company enough information to complete the transaction, and we must give the delivery company a package labeled with your shipping address. We retain your information for the purpose of internal record keeping only.
When you consider joining IANDS:
If you ask for further information to consider joining IANDS, we will send you that information. If you do not join, we will also send you notices about our next few conferences, unless you ask us not to.
If you join IANDS, we will send you the services promised as a result of your membership and will notify you when your membership is about to expire. We occasionally will remind you that memberships and donations are what allow IANDS to continue to exist.
When you join or renew your membership in IANDS, you specify whether we may share your information with organizations that address related subjects so that they may inform you about their conferences. They agree to use the information about you only once for that specific purpose. The frequency of this kind of sharing is, at most, twice per year.
When you register for an IANDS conference, retreat, workshop or course:
When you register for our programs, you specify whether we may share your information with organizations that address related subjects so that they may inform you about their activities. They agree to use the information about you only once for that specific purpose. The frequency of this kind of sharing is, at most, twice per year.
When you submit your near-death experience to our research archives:
If you have had a near-death experience and would like to fill out our information form to place in our archives, you will specify on the form how your information may be used. We will use it only for the purposes and in the ways you have specified. Please note that if you give permission to publish your NDE account on the Internet, the text can easily be copied by anyone and published elsewhere. Such republication may be allowed under the Fair Use Doctrine.
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