Privacy Statement

This statement explains how Conference Proceedings in Science and Management (CPSM) and its publisher, SHORAM Editorial Services, collect and use personal data. SHORAM Editorial Services is the data fiduciary under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and the controller for the purposes of the GDPR and the UK GDPR.

What We Collect

  • names, affiliations, email addresses, and ORCID iDs of authors, volume editors, and board members;
  • manuscripts, forms, and correspondence sent to the editorial office;
  • account details of registered users of this site, with passwords stored only in encrypted form; and
  • server logs, including IP address and browser type, kept for security.

CPSM does not receive reviewers' names or reports. Those stay with the conference that ran the review.

Why We Use It

Personal data is used only to run the series: to handle conference proposals and papers, to correspond about them, to publish accepted papers, to register DOI metadata, and to keep the scholarly record accurate. It is never sold, rented, or used for marketing.

The names, affiliations, ORCID iDs, and corresponding-author email address printed on a published paper become part of the public scholarly record.

Who Receives It

  • Crossref, and services that read Crossref and OAI-PMH metadata, receive the published metadata of each paper;
  • conference volume editors receive what they need to complete editorial queries on their volume;
  • hosting and email providers process data on our instructions and under confidentiality obligations;
  • preservation services will receive published content once deposit begins; and
  • authorities receive data only where the law requires it.

Cookies

The site sets only the cookies needed for login and session management. It uses no advertising or tracking cookies. The site's typeface is loaded from Google Fonts, so Google receives your IP address when a page loads.

How Long We Keep It

Data printed in a published paper is kept permanently as part of the scholarly record. Correspondence and files about a volume are kept for eight years after the volume is complete, to support corrections, integrity inquiries, and tax records, and are then deleted. Account data is kept while the account is active.

Your Rights

You may ask to see, correct, or delete the personal data we hold about you, or withdraw consent to its use. Account data not connected to a published paper is deleted within 30 days of a request. Data printed in a published paper can be corrected, for example after a change of name, but not removed, because that would alter the scholarly record.

Contact

Data protection requests and grievances go to Dr. Ritesh Ramakrishna Bhat, SHORAM Editorial Services, at info@shoramedits.com, with "Data request" in the subject line. We reply within 30 days. If you are not satisfied, you may complain to the Data Protection Board of India or, in the EU or UK, to your data protection authority.