FIC, frequently asked questions

2024-12-22 16:10:13

Frequently Asked Questions

Category Membership
Who can be a member of FIC?
How to distinguish member grade?
How to register to be a member of FIC?
Must we provide real personal information?
Whether FIC will let out my personal information?
What can I do if I failed to receive the verification email?
Resources
What kind of resources can we get?
How to subscribe newsletter from FIC?
Why can't I receive the newsletter from FIC?
How to publish or modify my own resources?
How long will it be to verify the resources I published?
Service
What kind of services does FIC provide?
Whether FIC provide advertisement service?
Others
What can I do if can't see confirm code?
What can I do if there are garbled codes on the page?
What can I do if I have other questions?

Who can be a member of FIC? FIC mainly consists of national and foreign flu researchers. We also welcome social people from all careers who’re concern with public health.

How to distinguish member grade? Member grade can be divided into three parts: primary, middle and senior. Different grades have different rights. Member grade depends on how active you are in this site.

How to register to be a member of FIC? You can finish founding your account according to the clews in registration page.

Must we provide real personal information? Yes. Yes.All the members’ registry information must be true and effective. We will admeasure you corresponding rights after verify your identity.

Whether FIC will let out my personal information? FIC won’t share your email address registry information or any personal information.

What can I do if I failed to receive the verification email? There are possible reasons:
1. Your email is still in the state of receiving. Usually, it will take 1-5 minutes to send and receive emails.
2. Some free emails can’t well support system email of FIC. If you really can’t receive our email, please use another effective email to register again.

What kind of resources can we get? Information and resources mainly contain flu news, research articles and software. The range of getting information depends on your member grade.

How to subscribe newsletter from FIC? We provide two ways of subscription.
1. Email subscription. You can finish your email subscription on newsletter page, the content of which is news and articles.
2. RSS subscription. Please look at RSS page for details.

Why can't I receive the newsletter from FIC? There are possible reasons:
1. Some free emails can’t well support FIC newsletter. If you have this problem, we suggest that you change your email and subscribe again.
2. You have canceled your subscription or don't activate your subscription account.
3. System suspends the service of sending emails for special reasons.

How to publish or modify my own resources? You can publish news, publish articles and upload software or documentation in FIC. The resource that is succeeded to publish can't be modified or deleted.

How long will it be to verify the resources I published? Usually, the moderator will check whether your resources are effective within 2 hours. The resources through verifying can be put in public. Besides, we needn't verify the trust members'resources for publication.

What kind of services does FIC provide? The service of FIC contains translation, software design and market research.

Whether FIC provide advertisement service? We don't provide advertisement service temporarily.

What can I do if can't see confirm code? Please refresh the page at first. If it is still can't be seen, please update your IE to edition 6.0 or higher. choose your browser menu "Tools" -> "Internet Options", click "delete cookies" and "delete files" on general options. Shut your browser, reopen it and try again.

What can I do if there are garbled codes on the page? You can try the following methods to solve this problem:
1. In your browser select "view" -> "coding" and choose UTF-8 coding format.
2. Reopen your browser and visit again.
3. Update your browser to higher edition.

What can I do if I have other questions? You can provide your questions on contact us page or send your email to webmaster@flu.org.cn. We will give you a reply within 24 hours.