Terms of use · AtheneaLab

Last updated: November 12, 2026. By using athenealab.com, revistas.athenealab.com or the Research Tracker (athenealab.com/app) you accept these terms.

Intellectual property

User accounts

The site’s tools can be used without an account. The Research Tracker requires a free account.

You sign in with your Microsoft or Google account. AtheneaLab does not create or store passwords: your provider confirms your identity and shares your name and email with us.
You must be at least 16 years old to create an account.
Each account is personal. Keep your Microsoft or Google account secure and do not share your session.
Emails from registered institutions (for example, @uth.hn) receive additional benefits. They are verified when you sign in with the institutional account and renewed every semester; if you leave the institution, your account stays on the free tier.
Tiers, usage limits and benefits may change. If paid plans are offered in the future, their conditions will be published on this page before any charge.
You can delete your account at any time from “My account”. AtheneaLab may suspend accounts that breach these terms.

Research Tracker

The Research Tracker stores only the text you enter: titles, journals or conferences, dates, statuses, amounts and notes. No files are uploaded. Only you can see your records: AtheneaLab does not sell them, share them or use them to train artificial intelligence models. You are responsible for the accuracy of what you enter; deadline reminders are an aid and do not replace the official dates of each journal or conference.

Permitted use

You may use the site’s tools online for your own academic and professional work.
You may quote or link to the blog content, citing the source with a link to AtheneaLab.
The reports, logs and datasets you generate with the tools are yours.

Prohibited use

Without written permission from AtheneaLab, you may not:

Copy, download for reuse, modify, translate, decompile or redistribute the code of the site or its tools.
Publish copies of the site or its tools, or create products derived from them.
Reproduce the blog’s texts and diagrams without citing the source.
Extract content by automated means or use the site in a way that affects its operation.

Privacy

The tools process your files inside your browser. AtheneaLab does not receive, upload to any server or store your manuscripts or datasets. If you email us, we will use your message only to reply or to provide the service you request.

If you create an account, we store:

Your email, the name your provider shares and an identifier of your Microsoft or Google account.
Your tier, your institution (if any), the date you accepted these terms and your email-notice preference.
Your open sessions and a log of changes to your account and your Tracker data. That log does not include your email or your IP address.
The records you enter in the Research Tracker.

To protect sign-in we use your IP address in hashed form for up to two days, after which it is deleted. We do not use advertising or analytics cookies: only a session cookie, needed to keep you signed in (it lasts 30 days or until you sign out), and a temporary one while you sign in.

Data is hosted on Cloudflare, whose servers may be outside Honduras. It is shared only with the providers needed for the service: Cloudflare (hosting), Microsoft or Google (sign-in) and, when emails are sent, the email delivery service. We do not sell your data.

Email notices about improvements and new blog posts are optional: you turn them on or off in “My account”. Messages needed for your account, such as sign-in links or security notices, are sent even if you do not turn them on.

Your data is kept while you have an account. When you delete it, your account, your Tracker records and their history are erased immediately; the provider’s automatic backups may keep them for up to 30 days before they disappear. To access, correct or delete your data, or for any privacy question, write to [email protected].

Scope of the tools

The tools are provided as is, as support for research. Their results are indicative: they do not replace review by a professor, an advisor, a statistician or a journal’s editorial process, and responsibility for their use lies with the person who uses them.

Third-party content

The Journal Finder uses data from SCImago Journal & Country Rank, which belong to their authors. Some tools include open-source libraries (pdf.js, pdfmake, JSZip, ExcelJS) and the Inter typeface, used under their own licenses; their notices are published alongside the site’s files.

Changes and contact

These terms may be updated; the date above shows the latest version. To request permissions or ask questions, write to [email protected].