GAPC 2026 Privacy Policy

1. General terms

The hosts of the Global Alcohol Policy Conference 2026 highly value your privacy.  GAPC 2026 will process, store, and secure the personal data with the utmost care in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Brazilian privacy regulations.

All personal data passed on for the GAPC 2026 purposes will be treated as confidential. Limited personal data are collected, held for the following reasons and used in the following ways:

1. for communication about GAPC official activities,
2. for attendees of the GAPC, for the organisation of the conference and relevant follow up,
3. for abstracts and papers in the GAPC archives - these details act as official records of the GAPC conference proceedings and contribute to research dissemination and collaboration.

The information will not be re-used for any purpose incompatible with the aims and functions of GAPA. When personal data are no longer needed for the purposes for which these were collected, the collected data will be destroyed or anonymously processed.

When GAPC provides data to a third party (i.e. conference organisers), GAPC makes agreements with this party such as (i) that they cannot use these personal data for any other purposes than those for which the personal data are being provided and (ii) that they take security measures needed for protecting the personal data.

GAPC takes appropriate technical and organisational security measures required to protect your personal data against loss, misuse, and unauthorized access by others.

GAPC optimizes security, for instance by:

1. saving data separately and using encryption, where appropriate;
2. using password protection;
3. limiting access to your personal data (only those people needing access for purposes outlined above will get access);
4. contractual provisions to confidentiality.

2. GAPC conference

If you participate in the GAPC 2026:

1. your name and presentation title will be made publicly available as part of the program at the conference website www.gapc2026.org
2. conference delegate emails will be used to provide updates and additional information about the forthcoming conference, promote future GAPC, thematic meetings and activities but not for any other promotional purpose.

When you make use of the conference website to provide a payment, we will process personal data – depending on what is required in the specific case – among which name, surname, address, postal code, city, bank account or credit card number.

The conference organisers process your personal data based on your consent and you are at all times entitled to withdraw your consent. This does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before the withdrawal.

3. Rights, data protection and management

Right to access. You are entitled to ask GAPC which personal data concerning yourself we process. You can make a request to access these personal data and ask GAPC for a copy thereof.

Correction. You can request GAPC to correct your data. For instance, if you wish to receive mail or any other (digital) correspondence from GAPC at a different address, then you can request that GAPC correct these data. If your last name changed, you can also request that GAPC change your data.
You also can request that GAPC adjust your data should these data appear to be incorrect or incomplete. GAPC will promptly adjust your data.

Complaints. Should you wish to put in a complaint about the use of your personal data you can contact the GAPC data management officer, Dr Florian Labhart at   .

The Privacy Statement was last updated 9 July 2025.