Sponsorship Policy

To further ISMP's mission to advance patient safety worldwide by empowering the healthcare community, including consumers, to prevent medication errors, ISMP gladly accepts donations from sponsoring companies for its programs and consumer education activities, including the development and maintenance of the consumermedsafety.org website. ISMP shall recognize such sponsorship payments on a designated portion of the website under strict guidelines.

Sponsor Levels

Founding		$100,000 and above (limited to three)
Platinum		$75,000 to $99,999
Gold		$25,000 to $74,999
Silver		$10,000 to $24,999
Bronze		$1,000 to $9,999
Copper		Up to $1,000

Individual donors: Acknowledged on donation page (see separate Gifts Policy).

Organization Sponsor Benefits

Founding Sponsor

• Sponsor's logo and website link placed on consumermedsafety.org homepage in special prominent position for one year, right of first refusal for placement renewal in special prominent position prior to offering space to other donors.
• Permanent mention of Founding Sponsor status with logo and website link on consumermedsafety.org home page in banner location.
• Sponsor's logo and website link on consumermedsafety.org sponsor list page in perpetuity.
• Mention sponsor name in media releases about consumermedsafety.org during sponsorship year.
• Mention in boilerplate for all media releases during sponsorship year.
• One subscription, in perpetuity, to Safe Medicine, the ISMP consumer newsletter, including co-branding and rights to distribute to all employees.

Platinum Sponsor

• Sponsor logo and website link appears in a section heading.
• Sponsor logo and website link appear on various page landings at random.
• Sponsor may request logo and website link display in a specific section of consumermedsafety.org.
• Sponsor's logo and website link on consumermedsafety.org sponsor list for one year.
• One co-branded subscription to ISMP's Safe Medicine consumer newsletter, including the rights to distribute to all employees for one year.

Gold Sponsor

• Sponsor logo and website link appears in a section heading.
• Sponsor logo and website link appear on various page landings at random.
• Sponsor's logo and website link listed on consumermedsafety.org sponsor list for one year.
• One co-branded subscription to ISMP's Safe Medicine consumer newsletter, including the rights to distribute to 1000 employees for one year.

Silver Sponsor

• Sponsor logo and website link appear on various page landings at random.
• Sponsor's logo and website link listed on consumermedsafety.org sponsor list for one year.
• One co-branded subscription to ISMP's Safe Medicine consumer newsletter, including the rights to distribute to up to 500 employees for one year.

Bronze Sponsor

• Sponsor's logo and website link listed on consumermedsafety.org sponsor list for one year.
• One subscription to ISMP's Safe Medicine consumer newsletter, including the rights to distribute to up to 100 employees for one year.

Copper Sponsor

• Sponsorship listed on website sponsor list for one year.
• One subscription to ISMP's Safe Medicine consumer newsletter for one year.

To become a sponsor of consumermedsafety.org, click here.

Sponsor Guidelines

ISMP maintains a distinct separation between publicity content and editorial content on consumermedsafety.org. All content on consumermedsafety.org has been independently developed by ISMP with the following exceptions:

• Drug library
• Drug database
• Drug interaction database
• Any page where the source of the information is clearly listed
• Links to another site. These links are clearly defined with an intermediary screen stating your departure from consumermedsafety.org.

ISMP does not endorse any companies or any program, product, service, or facility. Advertisements for or links to specific programs, products and/or services of sponsors are not accepted. The presence of a company's logo or name on our site does not imply endorsement of the company or any of its products. Contributions from sponsors are considered charitable donations to ISMP, a 501c (3) nonprofit organization whose mission is devoted entirely to medication error prevention and safe medication use.

ISMP reserves the right to decline any sponsorship payment or other donation from any organizations, industries or individuals that, in ISMP's judgment, may be incompatible with its mission. ISMP maintains its objectivity and independence with respect to any activities that are developed, sponsored, or supported with corporate funds. ISMP does not permit influence by corporate sponsors beyond the usual input ISMP seeks from stakeholders. ISMP retains independence and control over all programs, projects, or products bearing the ISMP name, logo, or trademarks, and over the use of ISMP intellectual property. Sponsors may not use ISMP's name or logo, or the name of consumermedsafety.org without the prior written approval of ISMP.

ISMP may consider the results of research studies, test results, or other information from corporate sponsors as well as other external experts that may help to inform ISMP staff on issues to be addressed on consumermedsafety.org or in other ISMP program and product development process. ISMP may accept a corporate sponsor's provision of in-kind expertise to assist with specific tasks such as market research, data analysis, or testing provided that all such in-kind expertise complies with ISMP policies on disclosure and conflicts of interest.

The following language shall appear on the webpage listing all of consumermedsafety.org sponsors:

"ISMP accepts sponsorship payments and donations to help develop and maintain its programs, including this website. The presence of a sponsor's or donor's name or logo does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by ISMP of a particular company, organization, or individual, or its programs, products, services or facilities.

There are certain categories of industries and companies that ISMP will not permit on consumermedsafety.org at any time. These categories include but are not limited to the following:

• Alcohol, tobacco products, firearms/weapons
• Fireworks
• Law firms
• Pornography
• Sweepstakes, gambling/lottery
• Political, social cause, religious affiliations or ads
• Advertising, including any message that promotes or markets any program, product, service or facility
• Illegal or objectionable products
• Fraudulent, deceptive, illicit, misleading or offensive material, including material that misrepresents, ridicules, discriminates (real or implied) or attacks an individual or group on the basis of age, national origin, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability or any other status deemed inappropriate for consumermedsafety.org
• The simulation of news or an emergency
• Material that is directly intended to attract children

ISMP retains final approval of all sponsor logos/text/banners that are directly linked or adjacent to the content. This includes verification of text and content and placement before it is produced on the site. Company logos will be displayed in such a way that it is clear that they are not part of the consumermedsafety.org site content. No unsolicited commercial messages are allowed.

ISMP reserves the right to reject, cancel or remove at any time any sponsor from consumermedsafety.org for any reason. In such a case, ISMP will provide prompt notice to the sponsor, together with an explanation. ISMP also reserves the right to determine the appropriate placement of the logos/text/banners on consumermedsafety.org. Sponsors cannot collect any personally identifiable information from consumermedsafety.org visitors or place any cookies, applets or other such files — if those files transmit any personally identifiable information to the sponsors — on computers of consumermedsafety.org visitors who do not visit sponsors' sites by clicking on their logos/banners.

ISMP retains the exclusive right to determine how any and all search results for specific information by keyword or topic are displayed on consumermedsafety.org. ISMP search results are not influenced based on monetary or other donations provided by Sponsors.

Sponsors must comply with all applicable domestic and foreign laws, including applicable laws and regulations of regulatory bodies. This includes pharmaceutical advertising to physicians and consumers that must comply with FDA guidelines for Direct to Physician (DTP) and Direct to Consumer (DTC) advertising. ISMP does not monitor compliance with applicable laws and regulations. However, ISMP reserves the right to review all logos/text/banners for compliance with applicable laws and regulations and, if ISMP becomes aware of any breach or potential breach of any applicable law or regulation or of these guidelines, ISMP may remove the logos/text/banners. No logos/text/banners will be allowed on consumermedsafety.org that, in ISMP's judgment, could injure the good name or reputation of ISMP or consumermedsafety.org.