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Privacy policy

You privacy protection is an important factor to us. This notice explains what information is collected and how it is used by us.

Information collection and usage

During signing up we ask for some personal information, like full name, contact info and email address, for the sole purpose of being able to identify and contact you. You can see what information we collect, in detail, by visiting our sign-up form. We do not share this information to anyone except for the organizers of conferences of which you use services (like registration or abstract submission e.t.c.), or under legal issues.

The conference app provides access to speaker information, including email address, for scientific communication purposes.

In order to proceed with using the app, your consent to view this information is required.

This information is only accessible by participants through the app. It is not used for commercial purposes and is not shared with third parties.

If you do not agree, access to the app is not possible

Contact

Organizers are granted the permission to contact you solely for informational reasons and regarding only the conferences you are related to (as a participant, author, reviewer etc.).

We may contact you through email, if you agreed to receive our newsletter, to inform you of news concerning running or upcoming conferences and services we offer.

We may also contact you, whether you subscribed to our newsletter or not, for important matters such as site updates or technical problems.

Online payments

Credit card transactions are not processed by our site. Instead, online payments are performed by redirecting you to partner sites like banks or services like paypal where you pay for used services.

Then our system gets informed of the transactions by the bank or paypal. Those external sites are responsible for the safety of your sensitive information.

We do not collect and we do not have access to your sensitive information, like credit card data, hence we are not responsible for their safety.

Cookies

A cookie is a short piece of data which may be saved on your computer whenever you visit a website. It helps to identify the user when revisiting the site or for recognition of a connected user. It is not an executable program and can not do any harm to your computer or reveal sensitive information.

This website uses cookies to identify connected members and to offer you a better navigation experience like, for instance, to maintain your personal preferences of website’s presentation options.

For the above reasons, it is recommended that you do not turn off cookies acceptance.

Terms application

This privacy policy is universal to our website and applies to all hosted conferences. We reserve the right to ammend these privacy policy terms, without prior notice, always aiming at safeguarding your personal privacy. Every future update of these terms, cancels any previous ones.

Terms of use

Please read carefully the following terms of use before using our website or services. By accessing or using any part of this website you agree to abide to all terms and conditions. If you do not agree you may not access this website, or use the content or any services offered.

Membership

  1. In order to use our services, you must be a member of our website.
  2. By signing up as a member, you agree that the information you give is true and yours.
  3. You may not use another person’s login credentials with the intent to impersonate that person.
  4. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials.
  5. Creating multiple member accounts is prohibited. If you forget your login password, please use our password reminder form or contact organizers.
  6. Organizers may act on your befalf as a member if given permission.
  7. We reserve the right to freeze or terminate your account if any action infringes the terms presented here.

Use of services

  1. Members are allowed to register for conference attendance only once.
  2. Group registration requires at least member’s participation and implies that all attendees can prove they belong to that group.
  3. Members are responsible for the validity and truthfulness of all given information during registration or other use of services.
  4. Organizers reserve the right to cancel, prevent use or discontinue offered services at their will.

Payments

  1. Service that require payment are considered valid only when fully paid.
  2. Organizers are responsible for payments, refunds or settling any finacial conflict that may arise.
  3. Online payments are performed through third-party services and thus we take no responsibility for the safety of your transactions.

Abstract submissions

  1. Any abstract submitted must be the intellectual property of provided authors/participants.
  2. Abstract content should not be infringing, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, offensive, profane, or otherwise violate any law or right of any third party, or contain homophobia, ethnic slurs or religious intolerance.
  3. If your abstract is accepted for presentation you give organizers permission to publish your abstract and authors/participants information in hardcopy media or online.
  4. In some cases, submission of a full paper or a presentation file may be required before final acceptance is given.

Abstract reviewing

  1. Reviewers must be independent (‘blinded process’) and allowed to review only assigned abstracts.
  2. Reviewing task is not tranferable to other persons without organizers consent.
  3. If there is a conflict of interest, reviewers should report it to organizers.
  4. In case of inability to perform their task, reviewers should notify organizers as soon as possible.

Terms application and modification

These terms and conditions are universal to our website and apply to all hosted conferences, except otherwise noted. We reserve the right to ammend these terms and conditions, without prior notice. Any update of these terms, cancels any previous ones.