About our Privacy Policy
This privacy policy applies only to this website scholarlyabstracts.com. This privacy policy tells you what kinds of information we collect here, how we use it, and who we might share it with. It also describes your choices regarding use, access and correction of your personal information.
Whenever you visit scholarlyabstracts.com on any device, like a computer or phone, this privacy policy applies. Please read it carefully to understand how we collect, use or handle your personal info.
We might change this privacy policy sometimes, but we’ll always post the newest version. We suggest checking it now and then to see how we’re using the information we collect.
This privacy policy does not apply to any third party applications or software that integrates with the scholarlyabstracts.com, or any other third party products, services or businesses. If you’re the author or publisher of the information on our site, you can control what gets published here. You can also update or remove any information about your publication by contacting us at info@scholarlyabstracts.com.
ScholarlyAbstracts at a Glance
Our mission is to connect the world of researchers, scientists and scholars, with Open Access research publications of diverse areas.
Data Protection
ScholarlyAbstracts recognize the importance of personal privacy and ensure that all personal data is held in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have a right of access to your data, a right to rectification, erasure (in certain circumstances), restriction, objection or portability (in certain circumstances). You also have a right to withdraw consent. If you would like to exercise these rights, or if you have any concerns or questions relating to Data Protection, please contact:
info@scholarlyabstracts.com.
Potential data breaches should be reported immediately by emailing to our team at info@scholarlyabstracts.com.
If you are unhappy with the way in which the ScholarlyAbstracts has handled your publication and personal information, you have the right to complain by sending email to info@scholarlyabstracts.com.
Data We Collect & Process
We collect data for various purposes to help us provide and improve our services. We collect information about you through automated technologies and may also automatically collect information about how you and your device interact with the ScholarlyAbstracts.com, such as:
- Device and connection information, such as IP address, browser type and version, operating system and other software installed on your Device, unique Device identifier and other technical identifiers, error reports and performance data and your activity on the Sites;
- Usage data, such as the features you used, URL clickstream data, including date and time stamp and referring and exit pages, and pages you visited on the Site;
How We Use Data
We generate statistics for internal purposes in order to constantly improve ScholarlyAbstracts.com and its features. We also assess and evaluate the traffic on our site to improve our service to always benefit our website visitors from the best service we can offer.
How We Use Relevant Publicly Available Data and Data Provided by Our Partners
We use data that we obtain from other sources, including publicly available sources and publishers, in order to provide our service.
- Publicly available data
ScholarlyAbstracts.com collects a variety of information about authors from publicly available sources including conference websites, publishers websites, journal databases etc. The information we collect include published research information, the research itself including personal or affiliation data of the authors as well as links to full-text articles (if permissible by the publisher/journal/conference).
When we collect publicly available materials, we do not have a way of ensuring that personal data contained in such materials has been processed in accordance with applicable laws. However, if you notify us by sending an email at info@scholarlyabstracts.com that your personal data contained in such materials is inaccurate or has been processed in violation of applicable data protection laws, we will delete it upon verification of your identity.
Our legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR. The data processed is publicly available data and we need to process it in order to provide a correct and complete scientific picture.
The legitimate interest of ScholarlyAbstracts.com is to provide a comprehensive and accurate repository of scientific work, contributions, and success. Without processing additional public data, we could not achieve these aims.
How We Use Technologies Like Cookies and Pixels
We use data that we obtain from other sources, including publicly available sources and publishers, in order to provide our service.
We store log files and use technologies such as pixels to collect information relating to you and your use of the service.
A Pixel is an image file or link to an image file added to the website code (but not sent to your end device) or built into an email. Pixels help us to check and optimize the effectiveness of our service only, while not providing us with the personal data. If you have deactivated the use of cookies in your browser, then Pixels will only report an anonymous website visit.
All information about pixel technologies that we only use with your consent under Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR and the possibility to change your settings for cookies and similar technologies can be found here.
Sponsored Content on ScholarlyAbstracts.com
We display advertisements on our website including the ones from AdSterra so that we can continue to offer many of our features for free.
- Advertising
When we and our affiliated ad networks display advertisements on our website, the following types of data may be used:
- Performance data (such as the number of clicks on an advertisement)
o certain technical information (for example, IP addresses, cookie IDs, non-persistent device identifiers. - We and our affiliated ad networks may collect this information through the use of tracking technologies like browser cookies and pixels and may use a single tracking technology or multiple tracking technologies at the same time. The information collected may be used to:
- measure how effective advertisements are;
- offer you targeted advertising to personalize your experience by showing you advertisements that are more relevant to you;
- undertake web analytics to analyze traffic and other User activity to improve your experience
ScholarlyAbstracts.com does not own or control the links that are displayed in the Third-party advertisements. We therefore highly recommend all our visitors to proceed with caution when clicking on such advertisements and links.
ScholarlyAbstracts is not responsible for any third party, or its affiliates or agents, failing to use your personal data in accordance with such third party’s privacy policy, or any contractual or other legal obligations to which such third party, its affiliates or agents, may be subject.
Our Presence In Other Social Networks
When you visit our social network pages, those networks may also process your personal data for their own purposes. For example, if you visit our company page on Facebook, Facebook may process your personal data for its own purposes. The legal basis for the processing carried out by the social networks under their control can be found in their respective privacy policies.
We have a presence on the social networks including Facebook, Instagram, Pintrest, Twitter and few more to come.
Reporting Content
If you see something on ScholarlyAbstracts.com that you think is against the rules or the law, you can tell us about it by emailing us at info@scholarlyabstracts.com. Usually, you’ll need to provide us with your name and email address when you report something. We might use this info to ask you more questions or to tell you what happens with your report. Similarly, if you report a problem with copyright, we usually tell the person who posted it the name and email of the copyright owner so they can talk about it.
The legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 (1)(c) GDPR in conjunction with the relevant provisions of the Digital Services Act (DSA), in particular Art. 16 and 17 DSA.
Data Subject Rights
As a data subject, you may be entitled to exercise a number of rights including:
- Right to correct inaccurate or complete incomplete personal data according to Art. 16 GDPR.
- Right to delete your personal data stored with us at ScholarlyAbstracts.com with Art. 17 GDPR, subject to legal or contractual retention periods or other legal obligations or rights that must be observed.
Contact Information
You may exercise the rights referred to above, pose any related questions, or make any complaints regarding data processing by contacting through our Contact Us webpage or by emailing us at info@scholarlyabstracts.com.
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please email us at info@scholarlyabstracts.com.