NBCSS Sponsored Membership Terms

Sponsored membership

These terms supplement the Terms of Membership and Platform Use for a member whose dues are covered by an Organization Member ("your firm"). Where they do not say otherwise, the Terms of Membership apply.

1. Same membership, same rules. A sponsored member has the same rights and obligations as any member of their class, except that dues are covered by the firm while the sponsorship lasts. NBCSS admitted you on its own criteria; your firm did not decide your admission.
2. Term. Your sponsored membership runs with your firm's organization membership year and renews when your firm renews. You pay no dues while it lasts.
3. Your account is yours. You sign in with your own account. NBCSS recommends a personal address you control; your firm never handles your sign-in or recovery details.
4. What your firm sees. Whether your sponsored membership is active and the stage of your application (outcome only). Your training progress only if you allow it, and your name on its public roster only if you allow it; you can withdraw either at any time. Your firm never sees your scores, attempts, practical work, exam status, accommodations, or anything you buy yourself.
5. If you leave your firm or it stops sponsoring you. Your membership continues for a 60-day transition period. You may continue on your own at the individual dues ($395 a year), which you choose to pay; nobody charges you automatically. After the transition period without your own membership, your membership lapses like any lapsed membership: your directory listing is hidden and member training is suspended. If you return later, you apply again.
6. What stays yours. Your learning history, certificates of completion and any credential you earned stay with you whatever happens to your firm. A credential keeps its own standing rules.
7. If your firm lapses. The same transition period applies from the date your firm's membership ends.
8. Education is not certification. Sponsorship, admission, a funded training seat and course completion never award the CCSS; only the independent assessment decided by qualified reviewers does.