Content Posting and Use Policy

1.Scope

This policy covers listings, profiles, profile updates and comments, conference abstracts and ePosters, documents, recordings, images, reports, and other material submitted to World Wide. It also guides corrections to professional research information imported from public or partner sources. Programme-specific terms can add requirements for a particular conference or submission path.

2.Submission standards

Submitted material must:

• relate genuinely to scientific research, communication, education, funding, or work;
• identify its source, organiser, employer, author, and material dates accurately;
• distinguish confirmed facts from estimates, opinions, and machine-generated text;
• avoid unlawful, defamatory, discriminatory, deceptive, unsafe, or privacy-invasive content;
• avoid malware, hidden tracking, credential collection, spam, and misleading destinations; and
• comply with research ethics, confidentiality, and applicable embargoes.

3.Rights and permissions

You retain ownership. You must hold the rights and permissions needed for every included text, image, recording, logo, personal detail, and third-party work. The limited licence required to host, format, display, index, distribute, and make technical discovery derivatives is stated in Section 4 of the Terms & Conditions. DOI registration has permanent metadata consequences and is never implied by an ordinary submission.

4.Review and publication

Automated checks can assist with duplicates, malware, structure, classification, and potential policy concerns. A person remains responsible for a moderation outcome. We may fix formatting, spelling, broken links, categories, and obvious metadata without changing the substance. A substantive correction should preserve source and revision history where the public record requires it. Publication is not endorsement or peer review.

5.Reports and moderation

Anyone may report unlawful or policy-violating material through the available report control or at info@world-wide.org. Include the exact URL, reason, supporting facts, and a contact address. We confirm and assess sufficiently precise notices, preserve relevant evidence, and choose a proportionate response: no action, correction, warning, label, reduced visibility, temporary restriction, removal, or account action. Urgent illegality or safety risks can be handled before hearing the submitter; otherwise we seek their response where appropriate. Affected submitters can ask for reconsideration through the same address.

6.Personal data

Do not include more personal data than publication needs. If you name another person, you must be entitled to provide the information and should use professional contact details. Personal data is not governed by a blanket consent rule: World Wide uses the legal bases, recipients, and safeguards described in the Privacy Notice. Conference abstracts reach the organiser of the conference they are submitted to. Report accidental disclosure promptly.

Removal: deletion of an account does not automatically erase material that must remain as a citable scholarly record. Targeted privacy, correction, and removal rights remain available as described in the Privacy Notice.