Terms of use

Use your real name or a shortened form of it, and an email address you can read. One account per person.

Keep your password to yourself. If you think someone else has used your account, change your password — that signs out every other device — and tell us.

If you are under 18, you need a parent’s or guardian’s agreement to create an account. Children under 13 should not create accounts.

Courses are free. A course certificate confirms that you completed the lessons and passed the quizzes on this site. It is not a university credit or an accredited qualification.

Do your own quiz work. We may withdraw a certificate that was obtained dishonestly, and anyone checking it will then see that it is no longer valid.

Registering holds a place for you. If you can no longer come, please cancel so someone else can have it. Attendance certificates are issued by our staff after the event, for people who actually attended.

We may need to change or cancel an event. If that happens we will tell registered participants as early as we can.

Membership applications are reviewed by the membership team. The membership year runs from 1 January to 31 December. Fees are set by the General Assembly, and anyone who cannot pay may ask for a fee waiver.

Online payment is not available yet. Until it is, the membership team will explain how to pay when your application is approved.

Membership can be ended for serious or repeated breaches of the code of conduct, following the procedure in the constitution.

When you submit a manuscript you confirm that it is your own original work, that every listed author agreed to the submission, and that it is not under review elsewhere.

There is no fee to submit or publish. Authors keep the copyright of their articles. Published articles are open access; the licence will be confirmed by the editorial board before the first call for papers.

Reviewers must keep manuscripts confidential, must not use unpublished work for their own research, and must tell the editor about any conflict of interest.

Treat other learners, members and staff with respect. In particular, do not:

Teachers may use and share our course materials for non-commercial teaching, with credit to the Afghanistan Physics Association, unless a material says otherwise. Please ask us before using them in anything that is sold.

Text and files that you upload remain yours. You give us permission to store and show them as needed to run the service you submitted them to.

We are a volunteer-run association. We work to keep the site available and accurate, but we cannot promise it will never be interrupted or contain mistakes. Course material is for learning and is not professional advice.

Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under the law that applies to you.

You can ask us to close your account at any time by writing to privacy@apa.example. We may suspend an account that breaks these terms; where it is safe to do so, we will tell you why and how to respond.

If we change these terms we will update the date at the top of this page, and tell members by email about important changes. Questions about these terms can be sent through the contact page.