Privacy Policy
Journal recognises the importance of respecting and protecting your personal information and privacy. This policy (together with any other resources referred to in it) sets out the basis on which any personal information you provide to us (or data we collect about you from other sources) will be processed (meaning collected, stored, and otherwise used) by us. Please read this policy carefully as it sets out what you can expect from us and gives you our contact details if you wish to ask any questions or raise concerns about how we are processing your personal information.
How we collect your personal information
Information you provide to us – you may provide us with information when you are: accessing our websites. This includes information that you provide when you mail to us by submitting an article, or you make any query to us, email or otherwise. The information you give us may include your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, academic institution, affiliation, job title, or subject specialism. In limited circumstances, we may collect data that you have made available in the public domain, such as your contact details, research interests, courses that you teach and the institution at which you are based. When we do this, we carefully consider whether to do so is in your interest and any impact on your rights, and we will inform you as soon as practically possible about our use of your data and your right to object to these uses and how to unsubscribe from any communications from us. Information from other sources – We work with business partners, such as web hosting providers, email service providers, list brokers and other third parties, to deliver services and communications, and they may provide us with additional information about you. This could include details of content that you have viewed through websites, or details of which email communications from us you viewed or clicked. We may obtain your personal details as a result of a journal transfer or business acquisition, or from societies and associations that we work with.
How we use your information
We use information held about you in the following ways: To deliver our products and services to you – we may use your personal information to: carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us (as is necessary for the performance of those contracts); notify you about changes to our service (as is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party and/or as is necessary for our legitimate interests); and allow you to access restricted areas of our websites, when you choose to do so (which may rely on your consent for the processing of your personal information which is necessary for giving you access to those restricted areas). We may also transfer personal data of article authors, editors and board members and subscribers to our journals in the event that a journal transfers to another publisher (and including where, for example, your personal information is included on a marketing list which is transferred as a significant asset in a business sale or asset sale). If you register for a sponsored event, then we may share your data with event sponsors, where we have informed you that we will do this at the point at which you register for the event. Our site may contain links to third-party websites and/or services. Such external links do not mean we endorse the website or service, or the quality or accuracy of information presented on it. If you decide to visit such a website or service, you are subject to the privacy policy and terms and conditions of that service or website, and not our terms. We encourage you to carefully review the legal and privacy notices of all other digital services that you visit.
How long do we keep your information?
We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to finalise any transaction with you. We will normally retain your information for few years after your last recorded interaction with us although there may be exceptions to this, for example where we have a legal obligation to retain information for a longer period, or where we store limited personal information securely in an archive (for reference purposes).
