Privacy Statement

The data collected from registered and non-registered users of this journal falls within the scope of the standard operation of peer-reviewed journals. This includes information necessary to communicate in the editorial process. The information is used to inform readers about the authorship and editing of content. It also allows for the collection of aggregated data on reading behavior as well as monitoring geopolitical and social elements of scholarly communication.

The editorial team of this journal uses this data as a guide for publishing and improving the journal. Data that will help improve the publishing platform may be shared with its developer Public Knowledge Project in an anonymous and aggregated manner, with its own exceptions such as article metrics. The journal will not sell the data nor will PKP use it for purposes other than those established in this section. Authors who have authorship of articles in this journal are responsible for the data on subjects that appear in the research reported here.

Those responsible for publishing this journal comply with data privacy standards, including the “data subject rights” clause of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which encompasses (a) notification of data breaches; (b) the right of access; (c) the right to erasure; (d) data portability; and (e) privacy by design. The GDPR also allows for the recognition of the “public interest in data availability” that is important to those who maintain, with the highest possible integrity, the public record of scholarly publications.