About Us
This is a non-profit science conference, a part of the Conference series on superconductivity research which is hosted every two or three years across the globe, as mentioned on the HOME page. This particular conference, which is referred to here as the SNS 2022 Conference, where SNS stands for Spectroscpopies of Novel Superconductors, is organized by scientists as mentioned on the COMMITTEES page. This website lists the details of the conference, topics of discussion at the conference, a list of speakers and participants, and other conference-related information. On this conference website, there no sale of any commercial or otherwise products or items of any sort is performed, and no endorsement of any kind is also furnished. The payment page collects registration fee from those who will participant and attend the conference. The registration fee will be solely used for the organization of this conference. The conference has no commercial interest.
Visa Information
https://conference.mha.gov.inMost counties including US, Canada, UK, Germany and others
require visa upon entries, unless individual visa exemption is provided. To aid
the visa application, SNS 2022 Conference will send the information of the visa
applicant to the appropriate ministry of the Indian Government. International
delegates must provide all appropriate information in the REGISTRATION FORM or via email by 30 August 2022. The
application must meet all the eligibility criteria in order to receive visa and
SNS 2022 is not responsible for any visa cancellation.
For conference visa, Indian Consulates ask for these two common documents (in addition to invitation letter and passport etc)
- Political clearance from Ministry of External Affairs
* We have applied for the political clearance from the Ministry and once its received we will share it with you.
- Event clearance from Ministry of Home Affairs
* Our scientific conference does not require an 'Event clearance' as mentioned at the govt website (check FAQ). You may attach this Annexure-A along with your application and mention the same in the cover letter.
Invitation Letter and Invoice
SNS 2022 can provide a letter of invitation to those who require
one for Visas and for other related administrative reasons. To receive an
invitation letter, delegates must first register for the conference and letters
will only be issued to attendees who have paid for their registration in
full. The invoice of payment will be provided automatically within 15
days of payment.
If the invitation letter and/or invoice must include certain
specific information, the delegate should provide that in the registration
form or via email.
Please be advised that the Conference Secretariat requires 2-3
business days to process letters. The SNS 2022 conference reserves the
right to refuse requests for visa invitation letters submitted less than 6
weeks prior to the event. The letter
Scam Alert
SNS 2022 has not authorized any third party provider or event manager for any registration, payment, hotel bookings, travel guidelines, or anything else. The only authorized emails addresses are sns2022.conf@iisc.ac.in, noreplysns2022.conf@iisc.ac.in, and any organizers' personal emails which you shall verify. In case of any other communications from other email address, or any suspicious communications, please notify us immediately at sns2022.conf@iisc.ac.in.
Privacy Policy
The terms "We" / "Us" / "Our"/”Organizers”
individually and collectively refer to Organization and Program Committee and
the terms "You" /"Your" / "Yourself" refer to the
attendees of the conference.
This Privacy
Policy is an electronic record in the form of an electronic contract formed
under the information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules made thereunder and
the amended provisions pertaining to electronic documents / records in various
statutes as amended by the information Technology Act, 2000. This Privacy Policy
does not require any physical, electronic or digital signature.
This Privacy
Policy is a legally binding document between you and Organization and Program
Committee (both terms defined below). The terms of this Privacy Policy will be
effective upon your acceptance of the same (directly or indirectly in electronic
form, by registering to attend the conference or by other means) and will
govern the relationship between you and Organization and Program Committee for
your use of the website https://snsbangalore.iisc.ac.in.
This
document is published and shall be construed in accordance with the provisions
of the Information Technology (reasonable security practices and procedures and
sensitive personal data of information) rules, 2011 under Information
Technology Act, 2000; that require publishing of the Privacy Policy for
collection, use, storage and transfer of sensitive personal data or
information.
Please
read this Privacy Policy carefully by using the https://snsbangalore.iisc.ac.in/policies-and-info/
you indicate that you understand, agree and consent to this Privacy Policy. If
you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not register
for the conference or use this Website.
By
providing us your Information or by making use of the facilities provided by
the Website, You hereby consent to the collection, storage, processing and
transfer of any or all of Your Personal Information and Non-Personal Information
by us as specified under this Privacy Policy. You further agree that such
collection, use, storage and transfer of Your Information shall not cause any
loss or wrongful gain to you or any other person.
USER INFORMATION
For
the registration process, you are providing certain personal details such as (a)
your name, (b) email address, c) Institute name, (d) nationality, (f) credit
card or debit card details (g) passport details (for foreign national), and the
like. You have the option to share the information in the registration form
given on the website or via email. If you choose not to disclose any particular
information, you have email us and we may consider it in a case-by-case manner.
INFORMATION SHARING
All information gathered on our Website is securely stored within our controlled database. The database is stored on servers secured behind a firewall; access to the servers is password-protected and is strictly limited. However, as effective as our security measures are, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. And, of course, any information you include in a posting to the discussion areas is available to anyone with Internet access.
COOKIES
This SNS 2022 conference website is hosted at the secure
server of the Indian Institute of Science and our website does not use any
Cookies or similar electronic tools to
collect personal data. The personal data provided at the Registration form,
Abstract and Payment page are collected via Google Forms and will not be shared
with any third party.
LINKS TO THE OTHER SITES
Our policy discloses the privacy practices for our own web site only. Our site provides links to other websites also that are beyond our control. We shall in no way be responsible in way for your use of such sites.
INFORMATION SECURITY
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, including appropriate encryption and physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.
However the internet is an ever evolving medium. We may change our Privacy Policy from time to time to incorporate necessary future changes. Of course, our use of any information we gather will always be consistent with the policy under which the information was collected, regardless of what the new policy may be.
Refund and Cancellation Policy
Under any circumstances, the registered
participants and speakers have the liberty to cancel their registration and
request a refund from us. Our Policy for the cancellation and refund will be as
follows:
Cancellation Policy
In the event of not able to attend the conference in-person
or via online, the participant and speakers can request for cancellation of
registration via email to sns2022.conf@iisc.ac.in.
Unpaid registrations will be cancelled by
December 1, 2022 at the latest.
Refund Policy
1. Cancellation on or before December 1, 2022: registration payment will be refunded (minus INR 500 administration costs)2. Cancellation after December 1, 2022: no refunds will be made. 3. In case the organizing committee is forced to cancel the conference (due to Covid restrictions/developments), we will refund the registration payment, minus any convenience fee as applicable. 4. If paid by credit card, refunds will be issued to the original credit card provided at the time of purchase and in case of payment gateway name payments refund will be made to the same account.
Terms and Conditions
The terms "We"
/ "Us" / "Our"/”Organizers” individually and collectively
refer to Organization and Program Committee of SNS 2022 Conference and the terms "participants”,
”speakers”, “attendees” of the
conference, “visitors” of the website collective refer to “participants” or “users”
or “visitors”.
This page states
the Terms and Conditions under which the participants may visit this website (“https://snsbangalore.iisc.ac.in/”).
Please read this page carefully. If the participants do not accept the Terms
and Conditions stated here, we would request them to exit this site and not to
register to attend the conference. The Conference Organization and Program
Committee reserve their respective rights to revise these Terms and Conditions
at any time by updating this posting. The participants should visit this page
periodically to re-appraise yourself of the Terms and Conditions, because they
are binding on all the registered participants.
USE OF CONTENT
All logos,
brands, marks headings, labels, names, signatures, numerals, shapes or any
combinations thereof, appearing in this site, except as otherwise noted, are
properties either owned, or used under licence, by the business and / or its
associate entities who feature on this Website. The use of these properties or
any other content on this site, except as provided in these terms and
conditions or in the site content, is strictly prohibited.
The
participants may not sell or modify the content of this Website or reproduce, display, publicly perform,
distribute, or otherwise use the materials in any way for any public or
commercial purpose without the respective organisation’s or entity’s written
permission.
ACCEPTABLE WEBSITE USE
(A) Security Rules
Visitors
are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of the Web
site, including, without limitation, (1) accessing data not intended for such
user or logging into a server or account which the user is not authorised to
access, (2) attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or
network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper
authorisation, (3) attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or
network, including, without limitation, via means of submitting a virus or
"Trojan horse" to the Website, overloading, "flooding",
"mail bombing" or "crashing", or (4) sending unsolicited
electronic mail, including promotions and/or advertising of products or
services. Violations of system or network security may result in civil or
criminal liability. The Conference and / or its associate entities will have
the right to investigate occurrences that they suspect as involving such
violations and will have the right to involve, and cooperate with, law
enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who are involved in such
violations.
(B) General Rules
Visitors
may not use the Web Site in order to transmit, distribute, store or destroy
material (a) that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be
considered a criminal offence or violate any applicable law or regulation, (b)
in a manner that will infringe the copyright, trademark, trade secret or other
intellectual property rights of others or violate the privacy or publicity of
other personal rights of others, or (c) that is libellous, defamatory,
pornographic, profane, obscene, threatening, abusive or hateful.
INDEMNITY
The User unilaterally agree to indemnify and hold harmless, without objection,
the Conference, its officers, directors, employees and agents from and against
any claims, actions and/or demands and/or liabilities and/or losses and/or
damages whatsoever arising from or resulting from their use of https://snsbangalore.iisc.ac.in/ their breach
of the terms .
LIABILITY
User agrees that neither SNS 2022 Conference Organizing and Program Committee nor its group Institutes, Organizations, officers, secretariat, or employee shall be liable for any direct or/and indirect or/and incidental or/and special or/and consequential or/and exemplary data or/and information or/and services provided or/and obtained or/and messages received or/and transactions entered into through or/and from the service or/and resulting from unauthorized access to or/and alteration of user's transmissions or/and data or/and arising from any other matter relating to the service, including but not limited to, damages for loss of profits or/and use or/and data or other intangible, even if SNS 2022 conference has been advised of the possibility of such damages. User agrees that SNS 2022 Conference shall not be responsible or liable to user, or anyone, for the statements or conduct of any third party of the service. In sum, in no event shall SNS 2022 Conference's total liability to the User for all damages or/and losses or/and causes of action exceed the amount paid for the registration fee of the SNS 2022 Conference, if any, that is related to the cause of action.
DISCLAIMER OF
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
In no event
shall SNS 2022 Conference or any parties, institutes, organizations or entities
associated with this conference mentioned at this Website be liable for any
damages whatsoever (including, without limitations, incidental and
consequential damages, visa denial, or loss of data information or travel interruption)
resulting from the use or inability to attend the conference in person or
online, whether based on warranty, contract, tort, or any other legal theory,
and whether or not, such organization or entities were advised of the
possibility of such damages.
Grievance Redressal
Any complaints, abuse or concerns with regards to content and or comment or breach of these terms shall be immediately informed to the Organizing and Program Committee via in writing or through email at sns2022.conf@iisc.ac.in