Privacy policy

• Telegram data: your Telegram ID, username, profile name and language. We also check whether you have joined the @unipublish channel, which is required to use the bot.
• The submission form: the author's full name, place of study or work, the supervisor's full name and affiliation if there is one, the paper's title, abstract and file.
• Payment: the screenshot of the payment receipt you send. We never ask for your card details and use the receipt only to confirm the payment.
• Appeals: messages and files you send through the "Murojaat" (contact) section.
• Website: the server keeps ordinary technical logs (IP address, browser type, request time) for security. The site uses no advertising or tracking cookies and no third-party analytics.

• To receive, review, typeset and publish your paper.
• To confirm payments and issue certificates to every author and supervisor.
• To message you through the bot: the status of your paper, the finished PDF and certificate, and the full issue when it comes out.
• To answer your messages and to protect the service from abuse.

• When a paper is published, as scholarly publishing requires, the following is public on the site: the names and affiliations of the authors and supervisor, the title, abstract, keywords and the full text (PDF). Academic search engines such as Google Scholar may index it.
• A certificate's number and the name on it appear on the verification page opened by its QR code.
• Telegram IDs and usernames, payment receipts, unpublished manuscripts and your messages are never made public or shown on the site.

• We do not sell your data or share it for advertising.
• The service runs on these providers: Telegram (bot messaging), Contabo GmbH (hosting; data is stored on a server in the European Union, in France) and Cloudflare (delivery and protection of website traffic).
• Competent authorities, where the law requires it.

• Published papers and their metadata are kept permanently as a scholarly record.
• Unpublished manuscripts, payment receipts and messages are kept for as long as needed to provide the service and keep accounts. You can ask us to delete them at any time.

• You can ask to see the data we hold about you, to correct it, and to delete data that has not been published.
• Data in a published paper is part of the scholarly record; changes or removal are handled under the publication ethics policy (a correction or a retraction).
• You can stop bot messages at any time by blocking the bot.
• Requests: [email protected] or the "Murojaat" section of @unipublish_bot.

The site is served over HTTPS. Manuscripts, receipts and messages are not reachable by any public link and are visible only to the editors. Access to the server is restricted.

Users under 16 submit papers with the consent of a parent or their supervisor.

If this policy changes, the new text is published on this page with the date it was updated.