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General FAQ
What is ARTPSC?
Assisted Reproductive Technology Participants Support Center is a non-profit organization registered and operating in Russia and Ukraine. The EIN of a legal entity in Russia: 120103300; in Ukraine: 42552165.
What is the aim of ARTPSC?
Assisted Reproductive Technology Participants Support Center is created for rendering consulting, information and financial support to intended parents, surrogate mothers and other participants of programs of assisted reproductive technology.
Who is financing work of ARTPSC?
Sources of financing may be: personal savings of founders, grants, help of partners, sponsors and donations.
Who can ask you for the help and whether it is necessary to be the member of your organization for this purpose?
The status of our organization does not assume membership, and it means that anyone can ask us for the help irrespective of his nationality and the country of residence.
I want to support your work! What can I do?
Does ARTPSC have a volunteer / internship program?
Yes! You can find all volunteer and internship opportunities on this. It is a place to read about what’s going on, and find out about opportunities as soon as they arise.
How much ARTPSC spend and earn?
All financial receipts and expenses you can observe in the Documents. It is also necessary to tell that we are the non-profitable organization, and it means that all appliances received during activity can be allocated only for the purposes stated in the Charter of our organization.
How do I know my financial information is protected?
We take your security seriously, and we go above and beyond to ensure that your payment information is safe on ARTPSC website. We start by serving our website over HTTPS, so that your browser only communicates with our server over a secure channel. If donating with a credit card, we back that up by validating your credit card’s CVC number to complete a donation, and by only storing the last four digits of your credit card number and the expiration date in our system. The rest of your financial information is managed securely on our behalf by PayPal or Yandex, a globally trusted payments company that has been certified a PCI Service Provider Level 1 by Visa.
I want to become a surrogate mother. Can you help me with search of intended parents who need a surrogate mother?
No. We do not render to anybody, any intermediary services. Also we are not ready to recommend you any specific center of surrogacy or clinic of a reproduction. It is forbidden by our Code of Ethics.
I want to become a surrogate mother. Can you help me with drawing up the contract between the center of surrogacy, intended parents and me?
Yes, our lawyers are ready to consult you free of charge on development of the contract between the center of surrogacy, intended parents and you.
We are intended parents. Can you help us with search of the center of surrogacy, surrogate mother or clinic of a reproduction?
No. We do not render to anybody, any intermediary services. Also we are not ready to recommend you any concrete center of surrogacy, surrogate mother or clinic of a reproduction. It is forbidden by our Code of Ethics.
We are intended parents. Can you help us with drawing up the contract between the center of surrogacy, surrogate mother and us?
Yes. Our lawyers are ready to consult free of charge you on development of the contract between the center of surrogacy, surrogate mother and you.
How much do your consultations cost?
Our consultations are absolutely free.
Why are you engaged in it?
The non-profit organization “Assisted Reproductive Technology Participants Support Center” first and still only non-profit organization in the territory of Eastern Europe working for the benefit of intended parents, surrogate mothers and other participants of ART programs. To this step we were pushed by enormous quantity of problems which citizens of Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus and Kazakhstan when are forced to address to assisted reproductive technology. Unfortunately, some of these problems concerned also us. We do and we will do further everything that in our power to solve the available problems.
Can I see your financials?
Of course! We are 100% transparent. All of our financials are publicly available on our Transparency Document.
Do you partner with companies and NGO’s?
Yes! We partner with companies of all sizes, NGO’s, clinics, research institutes and associations. If you interested in partnering with ARTPSC, email partnership@artpsc.org.
Does ARTPSC accept Bitcoin donations?
Yes! We accept Bitcoin donations at our address 139xNepjqsPv4j6ZdLGKkQJv73aofkvQvg. All bitcoin donations are unrestricted, which means we use the funds how we think they will have the most impact.
Where are your offices?
We have no offices in traditional understanding yet for the reason that essential additional expenses for this purpose will be required. In the Contact are specified the addresses for only correspondence. Over time the situation can change as for realization of some of our projects we will need an office.