Centre for Peace & Security Afghanistan (CEPSAF) is a foreign policy and international relations centre based in England, dedicated to academic and educational purposes. The centre’s primary focus is on international relations, foreign policy and the history of Afghanistan. As an educational centre, CEPSAF ensures it is fully compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), UK data protection laws, Google AdSense (which we don’t use for now but may use in the future) policies , and all other relevant regulations for academic/educational institutions.
It is important you continue to read this page to get to know our Privacy Policy, Terms & Conditions, and Disclaimer.
1. Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 11 August 2025
This Privacy Policy explains how CEPSAF (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and discloses information about you when you visit our website (or “Site”), use our services, or interact with us.
1.1. Information We Collect
We may collect personal information about you in various ways, including:
* Information you provide directly to us:
* Contact Information: Name, email address, postal address, phone number (e.g., when you subscribe to our newsletter, register for an event, or contact us through our website).
* Academic/Professional Information: Affiliation, research interests, and other relevant details when you submit a paper, apply for a fellowship, or participate in our academic programs.
* Communication Content: Any information you provide when you communicate with us via email, forms, or other means.
* Information collected automatically:
* Usage Data: Information about how you access and use our website, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, and the dates and times of your visits.
* Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and hold certain information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
* Google AdSense: As required by Google AdSense policies, we inform you that Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our Site. Google’s use of the DART (DoubleClick Ad Response Tag) cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network Privacy Policy.
1.2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:
* To provide and maintain our services: Including operating our website, facilitating events, and delivering educational content.
* To communicate with you: Responding to inquiries, sending newsletters, updates, and information about our activities.
* For academic and research purposes: Facilitating submissions, reviews, and publications, and supporting collaborative research initiatives.
* To improve our website and services: Analysing usage patterns to enhance user experience and content.
* For marketing and advertising: Displaying relevant advertisements through Google AdSense and other platforms.
* To ensure security and prevent fraud: Protecting our website and users from malicious activity.
* To comply with legal obligations: Fulfilling our legal and regulatory requirements.
1.3. Disclosure of Your Information
We may share your information with third parties in the following circumstances:
* Service Providers: We may engage third-party companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf (e.g., website hosting, analytics, email delivery). These third parties will have access to your information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
* Academic Collaborators: When relevant for academic projects, research, or publications, your information may be shared with collaborating institutions or researchers, always in adherence to ethical guidelines and data protection principles.
* Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
* Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
* With Your Consent: We may disclose your information to any other third party with your prior consent.
* Google AdSense: Information may be shared with Google and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to our Site and/or other sites on the Internet.
1.4. Data Retention
We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, and to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
1.5. Your Data Protection Rights (GDPR)
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA) or the UK, you have certain data protection rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.
Your rights include:
* The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
* The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information (i.e., your personal data) you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
* The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
* The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
* The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
* The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organisation, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
*To exercise any of these rights, please get in touch with us by filling in the Contact Form on the website. We may require you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.
*Alternatively, we provide direct links to our social media profiles on the footer of every page, including the “Contact Us” page, on the website. You can use these links to contact us.
1.6. Security of Your Information
We take reasonable measures to protect the personal information we collect from loss, misuse, and unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.
1.7. Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to other websites that we do not operate. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
1.8. Children’s Privacy
Our services are not intended for individuals under the age of 16, as CEPSAF is a foreign policy and international relations centre dedicated to academic and educational purposes, generally for students aged 16 or over and adults. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 16. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
1.9. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Effective Date” at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
1.10. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please get in touch with us:
* We provide direct links to our social media profiles on the footer of every page, including the “Contact Us” page, on the website. You can use these links to contact us.
2. Terms and Conditions
Effective Date: 11 August 2025
Welcome to CEPSAF! These Terms and Conditions (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the website, services, and content provided by CEPSAF.
By accessing or using our website and services, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree with any part of these Terms, you must not use our website or services.
2.1. Intellectual Property
* Ownership: All content on this website, including but not limited to text, graphics, logos, images, audio clips, video clips, data compilations, and software, is the property of CEPSAF or its content suppliers and is protected by international copyright laws.
* Limited License: You are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use our website and its content for your personal, non-commercial, academic, and educational purposes only.
* Restrictions: You may not reproduce, distribute, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, republish, download, store, or transmit any of the material on our website, except as follows:
* Your computer may temporarily store copies of such materials in RAM incidental to your accessing and viewing those materials.
* You may store files that are automatically cached by your Web browser for display enhancement purposes.
* You may print or download one copy of a reasonable number of pages of the website for your own personal, non-commercial, academic, or educational use and not for further reproduction, publication, or distribution.
* If we provide desktop, mobile, or other applications for download, you may download a single copy to your computer or mobile device solely for your own personal, non-commercial use, provided you agree to be bound by our end-user license agreement for such applications.
* Prohibited Uses: You must not:
* Modify copies of any materials from this Site.
* Use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences, or any graphics separately from the accompanying text.
* Delete or alter any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights notices from copies of materials from this site.
* Access or use for any commercial purposes any part of the website or any services or materials available through the website.
2.2. User Contributions
* Submissions: Our website may allow you to submit content, such as comments, forum posts, or academic papers (“User Contributions”).
* Grant of License: By submitting User Contributions, you grant CEPSAF a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such User Contributions in any media.
* Representations and Warranties: You represent and warrant that:
* You own or control all rights in and to your User Contributions and have the right to grant the license granted above to us and our affiliates and service providers.
* Your User Contributions do not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights, or any other rights of any person.
* Your User Contributions do not contain any material that is defamatory, obscene, indecent, abusive, offensive, harassing, violent, hateful, inflammatory, or otherwise objectionable. As stated on our “About” Page, CEPSAF strongly opposes publications that promote war, hatred, violence, extremism, racism, discrimination, division, or conspiracy theories.
* Your User Contributions do not promote sexually explicit or pornographic material, violence, or discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age. CEPSAF is an academic and educational centre, and as such, strongly opposes publications that promote sexually explicit or pornographic material.
* Your User Contributions do not infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other intellectual property or other rights of any other person. CEPSAF is an academic and educational centre, and as such, all our research and analysis adhere to the highest academic standards, utilising credible sources that are always properly referenced. Our visuals primarily feature free-to-use images from Pexels and Pixabay.
* Your User Contributions do not violate the legal rights (including the rights of publicity and privacy) of others or contain any material that could give rise to any civil or criminal liability under applicable laws or regulations.
* Monitoring and Enforcement: We have the right to:
* Remove or refuse to post any User Contributions for any or no reason in our sole discretion.
* Take any action concerning any User Contribution that we deem necessary or appropriate in our sole discretion, including if we believe that such User Contribution violates the Terms, infringes any intellectual property right or other right of any person or entity, threatens the personal safety of users of the website or the public, or could create liability for CEPSAF.
* Disclose your identity or other information about you to any third party who claims that material posted by you violates their rights, including their intellectual property rights or their right to privacy.
* Terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the website for any or no reason, including without limitation, any violation of these Terms.
2.3. Prohibited Uses
You may use the website only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You agree not to use the website:
* In any way that violates any applicable national, regional, local, or international law or regulation.
* For the purpose of exploiting, harming, or attempting to exploit or harm minors in any way by exposing them to inappropriate content, asking for personally identifiable information, or otherwise.
* To transmit, or procure the sending of, any advertising or promotional material, including any “junk mail,” “chain letter,” “spam,” or any other similar solicitation.
* To impersonate or attempt to impersonate CEPSAF, a CEPSAF employee, another user, or any other person or entity.
* To engage in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits anyone’s use or enjoyment of the website, or which, as determined by us, may harm CEPSAF or users of the website, or expose them to liability.
2.4. Reliance on Information Posted
The information presented on or through the website is made available solely for general information purposes. We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of this information. Any reliance you place on such information is strictly at your own risk. We disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by you or any other visitor to the website, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.
2.5. Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to third-party websites or services that are not owned or controlled by CEPSAF. CEPSAF has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party websites or services. You further acknowledge and agree that CEPSAF shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any such content, goods, or services available on or through any such websites or services.
2.6. Google AdSense
CEPSAF may use Google AdSense in the future to serve advertisements on its website. By using our website, you agree to the use of cookies by Google for the purpose of serving ads based on your prior visits to our website or other websites. You can learn more about how Google uses cookies for advertising by visiting Google’s Ad and Content Network Privacy Policy. Visit their websites for more information, including getting to know the AdSense Privacy Policy and Disclaimer (with which CEPSAF is fully compliant) and how Google uses your data when you visit their sites.
2.7. Disclaimer of Warranties
The website and all content, materials, information, products, and services provided on the website are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, without any warranties of any kind, either express or implied. CEPSAF hereby disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, statutory, or otherwise, including but not limited to any warranties of merchantability, non-infringement, and fitness for particular purpose.
CEPSAF does not warrant that the website will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that the website or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or other harmful components.
2.8. Limitation of Liability
In no event shall CEPSAF, its affiliates, or their licensors, service providers, employees, agents, officers, or directors be liable for damages of any kind, under any legal theory, arising out of or in connection with your use, or inability to use, the website, any websites linked to it, any content on the website or such other websites, including any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages, including but not limited to, personal injury, pain and suffering, emotional distress, loss of revenue, loss of profits, loss of business or anticipated savings, loss of use, loss of goodwill, loss of data, and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract, or otherwise, even if foreseeable.
2.9. Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless CEPSAF, its affiliates, licensors, and service providers, and its and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, licensors, suppliers, successors, and assigns from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, expenses, or fees (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating to your violation of these Terms or your use of the website, including, but not limited to, your User Contributions, any use of the website’s content, services, and products other than as expressly authorised in these Terms, or your use of any information obtained from the website.
2.10. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
All matters relating to the website and these Terms, and any dispute or claim arising therefrom or related thereto (in each case, including non-contractual disputes or claims), shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of England and Wales without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law provision or rule.
Any legal suit, action, or proceeding arising out of, or related to, these Terms or the website shall be instituted exclusively in the courts of England and Wales.
2.11. Severability
If any provision of these Terms is held by a court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable for any reason, such provision shall be eliminated or limited to the minimum extent such that the remaining provisions of the Terms will continue in full force and effect.
2.12. Entire Agreement
These Terms and our Privacy Policy constitute the sole and entire agreement between you and CEPSAF regarding the website and supersede all prior and contemporaneous understandings, agreements, representations, and warranties, both written and oral, regarding the website.
2.13. Changes to Terms and Conditions
We may revise and update these Terms from time to time in our sole discretion. All changes are effective immediately when we post them and apply to all access to and use of the website thereafter. Your continued use of the website following the posting of revised Terms means that you accept and agree to the changes.
2.14. Contact Us
If you have any questions about these Terms and Conditions, please contact us:
* We provide direct links to our social media profiles on the footer of every page, including the “Contact Us” page, on the website. You can use these links to contact us.
3. Disclaimer
Effective Date: 11 August 2025
The information provided by CEPSAF (“we,” “us,” or “our”) on our website (or the “Site”), https://cepsaf.com, is for general informational, academic, and educational purposes only. All information on the Site is provided in good faith; however, we make no representation or warranty of any kind, express or implied, regarding the accuracy, adequacy, validity, reliability, availability, or completeness of any information on the Site.
3.1. No Legal, Professional, or Academic Advice
The content on this Site is not intended to be, and should not be construed as, legal, professional, or specific academic advice. It is for general informational (and educational) purposes only. You should not act or refrain from acting on the basis of any content included in this Site without seeking professional advice tailored to your specific circumstances.
3.2. External Links Disclaimer
The Site may contain (or you may be sent through the Site) links to other websites or content belonging to or originating from third parties, or links to websites and features in banners or other advertising. Such external links are not investigated, monitored, or checked for accuracy, adequacy, validity, reliability, availability, or completeness by us. We do not warrant, endorse, guarantee, or assume responsibility for the accuracy or reliability of any information offered by third-party websites linked through this Site or any website or feature linked in any banner or other advertising. We will not be a party to or in any way be responsible for monitoring any transaction between you and third-party providers of products or services.
3.3. Errors and Omissions Disclaimer
While we have made every attempt to ensure that the information contained in this Site has been obtained from reliable (and credible) sources, CEPSAF is not responsible for any errors or omissions or for the results obtained from the use of this information. All information in this Site is provided “as is,” with no guarantee of completeness, accuracy, timeliness, or of the results obtained from the use of this information, and without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties of performance, merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose.
3.4. Fair Use Disclaimer
The Site may contain copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorised by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of academic research and education. We believe this constitutes a “fair use” of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law (and the relevant UK/EU copyright law). If you wish to use copyrighted material from the Site for your own purposes that go beyond fair use, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
3.5. Views Expressed Disclaimer
The views and opinions expressed on this Site are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of CEPSAF or any other organisation, committee, or group.
3.6. No Responsibility Disclaimer
The information on the Site is provided with the understanding that CEPSAF is not herein engaged in rendering legal, accounting, tax, or other professional advice and services. As such, it should not be used as a substitute for consultation with professional accounting, tax, legal, or other competent advisers.
In no event will CEPSAF, or its partners, employees, or agents, be liable to you or anyone else for any decision made or action taken in reliance on the information in this Site or for any consequential, special, or similar damages, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.
3.7. Google AdSense Disclaimer
This Site uses Google AdSense, an advertising service provided by Google. Google uses cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this Site or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Site and/or other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Ads Settings. (Alternatively, users can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalised advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info).
3.8. Changes to This Disclaimer
We may update this Disclaimer from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Disclaimer on this page and updating the “Effective Date” at the top of this Disclaimer. You are advised to review this Disclaimer periodically for any changes. Changes to this Disclaimer are effective when they are posted on this page.
3.9. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Disclaimer, please get in touch with us:
* We provide direct links to our social media profiles on the footer of every page, including the “Contact Us” page, on the website. You can use these links to contact us.