Terms

Who we are, and are not

chamberlainirb.com is operated by an independent consultation practice that handles the IRB process end to end for professionals in Chamberlain University programs. The practice is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by Chamberlain University. Chamberlain University and related marks are trademarks of their respective owners and appear here only to identify the programs professionals ask us about. The practice is not Chamberlain’s IRB, not any practicum site’s IRB or research council, and speaks for none of them.

What the site is

The pages on this site describe, in general terms, how the Chamberlain IRB process and practicum-site review commonly work, and how the practice handles them. They are written with care and hedged where Chamberlain’s own rules can move; where a page says “Chamberlain’s current handbook or IRB portal”, that source governs, not this site. The pages are not legal advice, not a board’s determination, and not a substitute for reading the handbook, the portal or your site’s own requirements. The two-board checker is a reading aid, not a ruling.

How an engagement begins

The free application review is free and creates no obligation on either side. An engagement begins when you and the practice sign an engagement letter naming the package, the fixed fee, the boards and the documents it covers. Nothing on this site, in the chat, or in the review itself is an offer to act until that letter exists.

What the practice promises, and what it cannot

• We promise the file: the determination and plan, every document in the package, version-matched across both boards, the submissions and the replies the package names, carried until both approvals are in writing or the engagement ends.
• We cannot promise an approval, a particular determination, or a date by which any board will answer. Each board’s decision is its own; its calendar is its own.
• We do not conduct the research. The study, the data, the analysis and the findings are yours. We do not collect data, analyse it, or author findings, and we do not represent you to any university in any capacity beyond the correspondence the engagement names.
• You sign what only you can sign: submissions under your own portal account, attestations of your own role, and anything a board requires from the applicant personally. We prepare it; you remain the applicant.

Fees

Every package is a fixed fee, quoted in writing after the free review and named in the engagement letter. There is no hourly billing and nothing outside the letter is charged. A change to what the engagement covers, for example a second site added to the project, is quoted in writing before it is done. No fees appear on this site, because each is quoted to the file. Payment terms, including timing and what happens if an engagement ends early, are set out in the engagement letter.

Your part

The file is only as true as what you tell us. You agree that the project description, the documents you share and the answers you give are accurate and yours to share, that you hold or will obtain the permissions your site requires, and that you will tell us when anything changes. You agree not to begin data collection before both approvals are in writing, whatever any page here or any consultant says about the likely outcome.

Confidentiality

What you share with us stays within the practice and goes only where the engagement directs it: to the boards whose packets we file on your behalf, in the form you have reviewed. Our privacy page sets out what we collect and how it is handled.

The site itself

• The text, drawings and code of this site belong to the practice. You may read, print and quote it with attribution; you may not reproduce it for your own commercial use.
• The site is provided as it is. We correct errors when we find them and welcome being told about them, but we make no warranty that every page is complete or current on the day you read it; Chamberlain’s current handbook or IRB portal and your site’s board govern where they differ.
• The forms, chat and switch list are for genuine enquiries. Automated or abusive use may be discarded without reply.

Liability

To the extent the law allows, the practice’s responsibility to you is limited to the work named in the engagement letter and to the fee paid for it. The practice is not responsible for a board’s decision or its timing, for data collected before approval, or for information you gave us that turned out to be incomplete. Nothing here limits a responsibility that the law does not permit us to limit.

Changes

When these terms change in substance, the date at the top changes with it. An engagement already under way runs on the terms of its engagement letter.

Questions

About these terms, or anything on the site: hello@chamberlainirb.com. The privacy and accessibility pages sit alongside this one.