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 how we correct professional research information imported from public or partner sources. A particular conference or submission path can have its own terms that add requirements.

2.Submission standards

Submitted material must:

• genuinely relate 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 keep ownership. You must hold the rights and permissions needed for every text, image, recording, logo, personal detail and third-party work you include. Section 4 of the Terms & Conditions sets out the limited licence we need to host, format, display, index and distribute your material, and to make technical derivatives for discovery. Registering a DOI creates permanent metadata, and an ordinary submission never implies one.

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 Report control where there is one, or at info@world-wide.org. Include the exact URL, your reason, supporting facts and a contact address. We confirm and assess notices that are precise enough, preserve relevant evidence, and choose a proportionate response: no action, correction, warning, label, reduced visibility, temporary restriction, removal, or account action. We can act on urgent illegality or safety risks before hearing from the submitter. Otherwise, we ask for their response where appropriate. Submitters affected by a decision can ask us to reconsider it 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 you should use professional contact details. No blanket consent rule governs personal data. World Wide uses the legal bases, recipients and safeguards described in the Privacy Notice. A conference abstract goes to the organiser of the conference it is submitted to. Report any accidental disclosure promptly.

Removal: deleting an account does not automatically erase material that must remain as a citable scholarly record. Privacy, correction and removal rights for specific material still apply, as the Privacy Notice describes.