Privacy Policy
How Scientific Literature may collect, use, store, and protect personal information submitted through journal, editorial, reviewer, and website interactions.
Respecting Personal Information Across Scholarly Workflows
Scientific Literature may process personal information necessary to operate journals, manage manuscripts, communicate with users, support editorial workflows, and maintain the publishing platform.
Information We May Collect
Depending on how you use the platform, information may include your name, email address, institutional affiliation, professional role, postal or billing information, manuscript-related data, reviewer or editor profile information, correspondence, account information, and technical usage information.
How Information May Be Used
- To create and maintain user accounts.
- To process manuscript submissions and editorial communications.
- To coordinate peer review and editorial activity.
- To publish author, editor, or reviewer information where appropriate and authorized.
- To provide support, respond to enquiries, and administer services.
- To maintain security, prevent misuse, and improve platform performance.
- To meet legal, accounting, recordkeeping, or research-integrity obligations where applicable.
Sharing of Information
Information may be shared with editors, reviewers, authors, service providers, technical vendors, payment processors, indexing or metadata services, and other parties when reasonably necessary for publishing or platform operations. Confidential manuscript information should be shared only with individuals who need it for the editorial process.
Cookies and Technical Data
The website may use cookies, logs, analytics, security technologies, or similar mechanisms to maintain sessions, understand usage, protect the platform, and improve services. Where required, users should be given appropriate choices or notices regarding non-essential cookies.
Data Retention and Security
Information may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary for publishing records, editorial history, legal obligations, account administration, dispute resolution, and platform security. Reasonable technical and organizational safeguards should be used, but no online system can guarantee absolute security.
Your Requests
Subject to applicable law and legitimate publishing-record requirements, individuals may contact Scientific Literature regarding access, correction, or other requests concerning their personal information.