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-submit, edit or review a manuscript depending on whether you are a Submitting Author or Editor or Reviewer;
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- Identity and contact data: title, names, professional addresses, professional email address and professional phone number;
- Account profile data: if you are registering for an account you will also provide a username, password (which can be changed upon your wish), ORCID ID and optional information about your academic and work history, references and any other such similar information as may be required;
- Conflicts of Interest: if you are a Submitting Author, Editor or Reviewer you are obliged to disclose any Conflicts of Interest you may have in relation to the work you are submitting or which you have been assigned to edit or review. Some of the information you disclose may constitute your Sensitive Personal Data.
Information We Receive from Third Parties
In certain circumstances, it is possible that we will receive personal data about you from third parties. For instance:
- ORCID ID: if you are a Submitting Author using the manuscript tracking system to submit a manuscript, you will be required to provide your ORCID ID. By providing your ORCID ID you are authorizing that third-party provider to display certain information about you in accordance with your ORCID account settings;
- Plagiarism checking services: we also use third-party providers to verify information provided by you via your account, including via any articles you submit to us for publication. We use Turnitin and PlagScan software to detect similarities in submitted manuscripts. We also use other third-party databases or websites to confirm your publication history to prevent duplicate submission (including Google, Web of Science/Clarivate Analytics, Scopus, PubMed, and other International Databases).
How We Use Information about You
The information about you will be used for:
- To register you as a user (author/reviewer/editor/reader): when you sign up to use the manuscript processing system, we will use the personal details provided by you;
- To permit your access when using the manuscript tracking system. This way, you will be able to submit a manuscript, to receive notification about the manuscript status or about changes in our Terms of Service or Editorial Policies, asking to review, edit, to upload a revised manuscript, to communicate with the editors.
How We Look after Your Information and How Long We Keep It for
We follow the privacy policy of privacy by design by minimizing the amount of personal data we hold about you. Our purpose and actions are targeted to protect your information against any unauthorized access, such as:
- ensuring the physical and digital security of our equipment, electronic system and software by using firewalls, password protection and encryption;
- limiting the access to your personal information to persons of the editorial staff who use it in the course of their work.
We will retain personal information about you for as long as it is necessary in order to provide you with the services that you have requested from us. Upon your request, we can delete your account and erase the information about you, provided when registering.
Help Keep Your Information Safe
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- protecting your login credentials and password and not sharing them with others;
- when using a shared computer, logging out every time you leave the computer is safer;
- informing us in case you suspect a violation of your account.
Your Rights to the Information We Hold about You
Regarding the information that we hold about you, there are some rights, as follows:
- you have the right to be informed about the way in which we use your personal information, protecting your privacy;
- you have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes;
- you have the right to request full access to the personal information that we hold about you; you may also request and receive a copy of any personal information we hold about you;
- you have the right to request us to correct or rectify any inexact information that we hold about you;
- in specific circumstances, you have the right to ask us to stop processing information about you;
- you have the right to withdraw your consent for our use of your information in reliance of your consent; also, you have the right to ask us to limit or to stop processing and/or delete the information that we hold about you.
Still, it is possible that we may need to keep some personal information for our own records.
Should you want to, you may exercise your rights above by contacting the journal via Contact Us section.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
It is possible that we make changes to this Privacy Policy. These changes will posted or the Journals website and/or notify you by e-mail.
Personal information that we hold about you must be accurate and permanently updated.