Privacy Policy

We collect information you provide directly, such as when you create an account, submit a manuscript, or contact us. This includes your name, email address, institutional affiliation, ORCID ID, and payment information. We also automatically collect usage data including IP addresses, browser type, pages visited, and interaction patterns to improve our platform.

Your information is used to: manage your account and submissions; facilitate the peer review process; process payments; send relevant notifications about your submissions, journal updates, and platform news; improve our services and user experience; comply with legal obligations; and generate anonymized analytics.

We share your information with: journal editors and reviewers (as necessary for peer review); payment processors (for transaction processing); hosting and infrastructure providers; and legal authorities when required by law. We never sell your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes.

We implement industry-standard security measures including encryption in transit (TLS/SSL), encryption at rest, regular security audits, access controls, and secure data backups. While no system is completely secure, we continuously work to protect your information.

You have the right to: access your personal data; correct inaccurate data; request deletion of your data (subject to legal retention requirements); export your data in a portable format; opt out of non-essential communications; and withdraw consent where processing is consent-based.

We use essential cookies for authentication and session management, and optional analytics cookies to understand usage patterns. You can manage cookie preferences through your browser settings. For more details, please see our Cookie Policy.

We retain your account data for as long as your account is active. Submission records and published content are retained indefinitely as part of the scholarly record. Payment records are retained as required by applicable tax and financial regulations.

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify registered users of significant changes via email. The date of the last update is displayed at the top of this page.