CRLD membership terms

Version 1, November 2026

Automatic renewal. Your CRLD membership renews automatically on 1 January each year, and the annual fee is charged to the card you paid with, or invoiced if you pay by invoice. We email you at least 30 days before each renewal. To stop it, cancel before 1 January in your account or by emailing crld@eccrt.com; you will not be charged again. If your membership has already renewed, you can still cancel at any time (section 6).

1. Who we are

CRLD (Clinical Research Learning & Development) is a community of practice run by the European Centre for Clinical Research Training (ECCRT) SRL, Cantersteen 47, 1000 Brussels, Belgium, enterprise number BE 0807.854.404. "We" means ECCRT. "You" means the member. Contact: crld@eccrt.com.

These terms apply to CRLD membership only. ECCRT's General Terms & Conditions for training and consultancy services do not apply to it.

2. What membership includes

Four quarterly online peer sessions per calendar year, usually on the first Tuesday of each quarter.
A takeaways document after each session.
Invitations to any extra member sessions, such as the annual strategy session.
Access to the members' online space, where one is offered.

Session dates can occasionally move, for example to suit a speaker. We will tell you at least two weeks ahead. If a session is cancelled and not rescheduled within the same year, we refund a quarter of the annual fee.

3. Who can join

Membership is for people who work in, or closely support, learning and development in clinical research.
We review every application and may decline one that does not fit the community.
Membership is personal to the named member. It cannot be shared or transferred, and session links must not be passed on.
CRLD is non-commercial. Members may not use it to sell or promote products or services.

4. Fee and payment

The annual fee is €120, including VAT where VAT applies.
You can pay online by card through our payment provider, Stripe, or ask for an invoice, for example if your employer pays. Invoices are payable within 30 days.
We do not see or store your card details.

5. Membership year and joining part-way through

The membership year runs from 1 January to 31 December. If you join after the year has started, you pay only for the quarters left:

You join in	You pay for your first year (incl. VAT where due)
January to March	€120
April to June	€90
July to September	€60
October to December	€30

From then on, your membership renews on 1 January at the full annual fee.

6. Renewal, price changes and cancelling

Renewal: your membership renews on 1 January each year, as explained in the box at the top. We email a reminder at least 30 days before.
Price changes: if the fee changes, we tell you at least 60 days before your renewal, so you can cancel first.
Cancelling before renewal: cancel at any time in your account or by emailing crld@eccrt.com. Your membership stays active until 31 December, and you will not be charged again.
Cancelling after renewal: you can still cancel at any time. Your membership ends one month after we receive your notice, and we refund the fee for any full quarters left after that date.

7. 14-day cooling-off period

You can cancel within 14 days of paying and get a full refund. If you attend a session within those 14 days, we keep €30 for each session attended and refund the rest. By joining a session in that period, you ask us to start your membership straight away.

8. Community rules

Respect confidentiality. You may use what you learn in sessions, but do not say who said it or which organisation they work for.
Do not record sessions or share materials marked for members only.
No selling or promotion, in sessions or in the members' space.
Be respectful of other members and their organisations.

9. Materials

Takeaways documents and other CRLD materials are for members' own professional use. They remain ECCRT's copyright, and contributions from speakers remain theirs. Please ask us before sharing them outside your organisation.

10. If we end a membership

We may end a membership if a member seriously or repeatedly breaks the community rules. We will explain why in writing and refund the fee for any full quarters left. If we ever stop running CRLD, we will refund the unused part of the fee.

11. Your data

We use your name, email address, organisation and role to run CRLD: approving your application, sending session invitations, takeaways and CRLD news, and handling your membership.
Stripe processes card payments; we do not hold your card details.
Every CRLD email has an unsubscribe link.
Full details are in ECCRT's privacy policy: https://eccrt.com/privacy-policy/

12. Liability

CRLD sessions are peer discussions between practitioners. Nothing shared in them is professional, legal or regulatory advice, and you remain responsible for decisions in your own organisation. We are not liable for delays or cancellations caused by events outside our reasonable control, such as illness of a speaker or a platform outage; section 2 sets out what we do if a session does not take place. As far as the law allows, our liability to you is limited to the fees you paid in the current membership year.

13. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. We will email you at least 30 days before a change takes effect. If you do not accept the change, you can cancel and we will refund any full quarters left.

14. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by Belgian law. Disputes go to the courts of Brussels, without taking away any protection you have as a consumer under the law of the country where you live. Questions or complaints: crld@eccrt.com.