Privacy Policy

Last updated: 13 Jul 2026, 08:48 AM

Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy details how APSTE collects, uses, protects, and discloses information obtained from users of this portal.

1. Information Collection

We collect personal information such as name, email address, institutional affiliation, and contact details during registration or paper submission. We do not store credit card or payment transaction credentials directly on our servers.

2. How We Use Information

The collected information is used to facilitate conference management, coordinate peer-review of manuscripts, distribute certificates, send event updates, and handle billing.

3. Information Sharing

We do not sell, trade, or rent user personal identification information to others. Academic metadata (titles, abstracts, authors) for accepted papers may be shared with our publishing partners and indexing databases (e.g., Scopus, Google Scholar) to process indexing.