{"id":384,"date":"2025-12-08T00:22:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T06:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urtec.org\/2026\/?page_id=384"},"modified":"2025-12-30T04:39:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T10:39:34","slug":"code-of-conduct","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/urtec.org\/2026\/code-of-conduct\/","title":{"rendered":"Code of Conduct"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"max-w-5xl mx-auto px-4 py-10 text-sm md:text-base\">\n    <!-- PAGE TITLE -->\n          <div class=\"text-center mb-10 lg:mb-20\">\n        <h1 class=\"text-center lg:text-4xl text-2xl sm:text-3xl text-blue-500 font-medium inline-block border-b pb-2 border-blue-500\">\n            Code of Conduct        <\/h1>\n      <\/div>\n        <!-- INTRO PARAGRAPH (REPEATER) -->\n            <div class=\"space-y-4 mb-10\">\n                            <p class=\"leading-relaxed\">\n                    URTeC events are conducted for the benefit of its members and interested parties to advance the science of geology, promote technology, and facilitate networking and collaboration between professionals within the world\u2019s geosciences community.                <\/p>\n                            <p class=\"leading-relaxed\">\n                    URTeC values the participation of its members and guests and wants all event attendees to have an enjoyable and fulfilling experience. Accordingly, all attendees are expected to show respect and courtesy to other attendees throughout the conference and at all conference events, whether officially sponsored by URTeC or not.                <\/p>\n                            <p class=\"leading-relaxed\">\n                    To make clear what is expected, all attendees and guests, speakers, exhibitors, organizers and volunteers at any URTeC event are required to conform to the Association\u2019s Code of Conduct. URTeC\u2019s leadership and staff will enforce this code throughout the event.                <\/p>\n                    <\/div>\n        <!-- MAIN TITLE -->\n          <h2 class=\"lg:text-3xl text-xl font-semibold mb-5 mt-16\">\n          Code of Conduct      <\/h2>\n        <!-- MAIN CONTENT (REPEATER) -->\n            <div class=\"space-y-4 mb-8\">\n                            <div>URTeC is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form.<\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        <!-- BULLET POINTS -->\n          <ul class=\"list-disc pl-6 space-y-3 text-gray-700 mb-10\">\n                        <li class=\"leading-relaxed\">\n                  All communication, whether casual or formal, should be appropriate for a professional audience including people of many different backgrounds.              <\/li>\n                        <li class=\"leading-relaxed\">\n                  Be careful in the words that you choose. Remember that sexist, racist, and other exclusionary jokes can be offensive to those around you. Excessive swearing and offensive jokes are not appropriate at URTeC events.              <\/li>\n                        <li class=\"leading-relaxed\">\n                  Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference venue, including talks.              <\/li>\n                        <li class=\"leading-relaxed\">\n                  Harassment includes offensive communication related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion, sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention.              <\/li>\n                        <li class=\"leading-relaxed\">\n                  Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other attendees. Behave professionally.              <\/li>\n                        <li class=\"leading-relaxed\">\n                  Exhibitors are also subject to the anti-harassment policy and are required to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with the professional and business purposes of the show.              <\/li>\n                        <li class=\"leading-relaxed\">\n                  Personnel and\/or models contracted to assist in an exhibitor\u2019s booth are required to wear appropriate attire. In particular, exhibitors should not use sexualized images, activities, or other material, and booth staff should not use sexualized clothing\/uniforms\/costumes, or otherwise create a sexualized environment.              <\/li>\n                        <li class=\"leading-relaxed\">\n                  URTeC reserves the right to make a final determination regarding what is acceptable and may remove persons from the exhibition floor that are not in compliance.              <\/li>\n                <\/ul>\n              <h2 class=\"mb-4\">\n          If a participant engages in behavior that violates this code of conduct, URTeC reserves the right to take any action deemed appropriate, including warning the offender(s) or expelling the offender(s) from the conference with no refund.      <\/h2>\n    \n    <div class=\"bg-gray-50 border-gray-100 border rounded-xl p-4 xl:p-10 text-center mt-10 lg:mt-20\">\n      <!-- REPORTING SECTION TITLE -->\n              <div class=\"mx-auto w-10 h-10 rounded-full flex items-center justify-center bg-blue-500\">\n          <i class=\"ti ti-alert-circle text-white\"><\/i>\n        <\/div>\n        <h2 class=\"lg:text-3xl text-xl font-semibold mt-3 mb-8\">\n            Reporting        <\/h2>\n            <!-- REPORTING TEXT (REPEATER) -->\n                <div class=\"space-y-4 mb-8\">\n                                <div>If someone makes you or anyone else feel unsafe or unwelcome, please report the incident to Convention Staff member as soon as possible. You can make a report either personally or anonymously via the online form.<\/div>\n                                <div>If you have any questions or concerns please notify a badged URTeC Show Management staff member:<\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"flex justify-center flex-wrap gap-4 mt-6\">\n                         <a class=\"text-primary border border-primary rounded-lg w-fit py-2.5 px-5 rounded-lg font-medium hover:opacity-80 transition-all duration-300 text-sm flex items-center gap-2\" href=\"tel:1%20800%20898%202274\" target=\"_blank\">\n                <i class=\"ti ti-phone\"><\/i>\n                1 800 898 2274              <\/a>\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aapg.org\/care-report%20\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"bg-primary text-white rounded-lg w-fit py-2.5 px-5 rounded-lg font-medium hover:opacity-80 transition-all duration-300 text-sm flex items-center\" rel=\"noopener\">\n                Online Form            <\/a>\n                <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-384","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urtec.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urtec.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urtec.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urtec.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urtec.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/urtec.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/urtec.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/384\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urtec.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}