Privacy Statement

Names, institutional affiliations, email addresses, ORCID identifiers, and other information entered into the journal’s OJS platform are used only for legitimate purposes related to:

• manuscript submission;
• editorial management;
• peer review;
• publication;
• scholarly communication;
• indexing;
• metadata distribution; and
• journal administration.

Personal information will not be sold to commercial third parties.

The journal takes reasonable measures to protect confidential information handled during submission and peer review.

Reviewer identities are protected in accordance with the journal’s double-blind peer-review policy.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that personal data included in their research have been collected, processed, stored, and reported in accordance with applicable ethical and legal requirements.

Where research involves employee, organizational, customer, or other confidential data, authors must ensure that publication does not improperly disclose identifiable or restricted information.

 

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Ethical Oversight | Peer Review Process | Publication Ethics