Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how information is collected, used, stored, and protected within the publishing platform. The platform processes user and manuscript data for the purpose of managing scholarly submission, peer review, editorial decisions, and publication workflows.

Information Collected

The platform may collect account information, author details, reviewer details, manuscript metadata, uploaded files, editorial decisions, review records, correspondence, system logs, and publication data. This information is necessary to operate the manuscript and publication management workflow.

How Information Is Used

To create and manage user accounts.
To process manuscript submissions and revisions.
To support editorial review, peer review, and decision-making.
To communicate with authors, reviewers, editors, and administrators.
To maintain publication records, article archives, and issue content.

Confidentiality

Manuscripts, reviewer comments, editorial records, and unpublished submission materials are treated as confidential. Access is restricted to authorized users according to their role in the editorial workflow, including authors, assigned reviewers, editors, and administrators.

Data Security

Reasonable technical and organizational safeguards should be maintained to protect user data, uploaded files, manuscript records, and editorial information from unauthorized access, misuse, loss, or alteration.

Data Retention

Submission, review, editorial, and publication records may be retained as part of the scholarly and administrative record. Users may contact the editorial office regarding account or data-related inquiries, subject to applicable legal, editorial, and archival requirements.

Contact

For questions about this Privacy Policy or the handling of platform data, please contact: info@submit.skls.org.