Privacy Policy

Last updated: 02/February/2022

This Privacy Policy explains how Global Journals may collect, use, disclose, retain, secure, and process personal data in connection with its websites, journal platforms, manuscript systems, publication services, article pages, downloads, support channels, communications, rights-review processes, and related services.

This notice supports transparency under applicable privacy and data-protection laws, including Indian data protection law, GDPR/UK GDPR where applicable, and applicable U.S. privacy or consumer-protection law where applicable. Not every law applies to every user, request, activity, or processing operation.

1. Controller / Data Fiduciary

Global Journals is used as a publishing brand and service name. Where a specific invoice, agreement, publication record, service page, or legal notice identifies a particular operating entity, that document controls for that specific transaction or service. Privacy requests should be sent to the privacy, legal, rights, or support contact listed on the website.

2. Personal Data Collected

Global Journals may collect names, titles, affiliations, postal addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, ORCID/research identifiers, account records, author details, reviewer/editor details, manuscript files, article metadata, correspondence, declarations, consent forms, copyright forms, permission records, peer-review records, editorial records, payment and invoice records, website logs, IP addresses, device data, browser data, cookies, analytics events, security logs, rights notices, privacy requests, legal notices, and any personal data included in submissions or supplementary files.

Authors must not submit third-party personal data unless they have lawful authority, required consent, ethics approval, anonymization, and permission to publish or process that data.

3. Sources

Personal data may come from users, authors, reviewers, editors, institutions, payment processors, manuscript systems, hosting providers, email providers, analytics tools, indexing services, public research profiles, ORCID, citation databases, rights holders, claimants, and legal or privacy notices.

4. Purposes

Global Journals may process personal data for website operation, security, manuscript submission, editorial screening, peer review, production, publication, indexing, archiving, author communication, reviewer communication, invoicing, accounting, fraud prevention, technical support, publication ethics, plagiarism review, image review, correction, withdrawal, retraction, copyright review, privacy review, legal compliance, dispute handling, evidence preservation, and enforcement of terms.

5. Legal Bases Where GDPR/UK GDPR Applies

Where GDPR/UK GDPR applies, Global Journals may rely on contract, steps before contract, consent, legitimate interests, legal obligation, public-interest or archiving/research grounds where applicable, and establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

Legitimate interests include scholarly publishing, maintaining the scholarly record, website security, fraud prevention, rights review, legal defense, service improvement, and publication integrity.

6. Consent and Withdrawal

Where processing is based on consent, consent may be withdrawn through the privacy contact. Withdrawal does not affect earlier processing and does not require deletion where Global Journals has another lawful basis to retain or process data.

7. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Global Journals may use cookies, local storage, logs, analytics, session tools, preference tools, security tools, and similar technologies for website operation, login, forms, spam prevention, analytics, security, abuse prevention, fraud prevention, and service improvement. Cookie choices may be offered where legally required. Necessary cookies and security logs may operate without optional consent where law permits.

8. Disclosure

Global Journals may disclose personal data to editors, reviewers, authors, contributors, institutions, hosting providers, email providers, analytics providers, security providers, payment processors, accounting providers, indexing services, repositories, preservation services, search engines, rights holders, claimants, counsel, courts, regulators, government authorities, and successors or service providers in restructuring, migration, asset transfer, or operational support.

Article metadata, author names, affiliations, abstracts, references, correction notices, and retraction notices may be publicly disclosed as part of scholarly publishing.

9. International Transfers

Global Journals may process or store data in India and other countries through hosting, email, cloud, indexing, analytics, payment, archive, and service providers. Where transfer restrictions apply, appropriate safeguards will be used where required and available. Scholarly publishing often requires international dissemination of article metadata and author information.

10. Retention

Global Journals may retain personal data as long as needed for publication, indexing, archiving, research integrity, accounting, fraud prevention, security, legal compliance, rights review, dispute handling, evidence preservation, and enforcement of agreements. Publication records, author names, metadata, correspondence, permissions, notices, legal records, and correction/retraction records may be retained for extended periods or permanently where lawful.

11. Published Scholarly Records

Published scholarly records are not ordinary account data. Requests to delete or alter author names, affiliations, article metadata, citations, correction notices, retraction notices, or publication history may be limited by attribution, publication integrity, legal, archival, indexing, and public-interest considerations. Where appropriate, Global Journals may correct, annotate, restrict, or redact rather than delete.

12. Legal Claims and Evidence

Global Journals may retain and process personal data to establish, exercise, defend, investigate, preserve, or respond to legal claims, rights notices, privacy requests, author disputes, payment disputes, and publication-integrity matters. Deletion requests do not require destruction of evidence, audit logs, rights records, legal records, publication records, or correspondence where retention is lawful.

13. Changes and Contact

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. Continued use after posting applies prospectively. Privacy requests should be sent through the privacy, legal, rights, or support contact listed on the website.

14. Requests

Privacy requests should include requester name, contact details, the right exercised, affected URL/account/manuscript/article/email/invoice, proof of identity where required, and proof of authority if acting for another person. Unsupported, excessive, repetitive, fraudulent, abusive, or unclear requests may be refused or limited to the extent allowed by law.

15. Who we are and how to contact us

Global Journals® is an international scholarly publisher affiliated with the Open Association of Research Societies (OARS) and aligned with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We support researchers, scientists, engineers, doctors, professors, and professionals worldwide in publishing and accessing high quality scholarly work.

If you have questions, or if you wish to report a concern or potential violation, you may contact us at:

Global Journals®
Email: [email protected]
Fax: +1-888-839-7392
WhatsApp: +1-(805)-970-2292
You can also contact Global Journals® through the official Contact Us page available on our website

16. Scope of this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to personal data that we collect and process in connection with:

Use of our websites and online platforms
Manuscript submission, peer review, and editorial activities
Publication, hosting, and distribution of scholarly content
Marketing communications, newsletters, and alerts
Customer support, account management, and general enquiries
Events, outreach, and professional networking related to our journals

It covers personal data of:

Authors, co authors, and corresponding authors
Reviewers, editors, and editorial or advisory board members
Librarians, institutional and corporate contacts
Subscribers, readers, and website users
Event participants and other professional contacts

This Policy does not apply to anonymised data that no longer identifies an individual.

17. What information we collect

The types of personal data we collect depend on how you interact with us. They may include:

1) Identification and contact details

2) Professional and academic information

3) Account and interaction data

Account login details (such as username; passwords are usually stored in hashed form by our systems)
Manuscript submissions, peer review assignments, editorial decisions, and related history
Communications with us by email, forms, or other channels
Preferences for journals, subject areas, alerts, and communication topics

4) Usage and technical data

5) Transaction and payment data

6) Special or sensitive categories of data

We do not generally ask you to provide sensitive personal data (for example health data, racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs) for ordinary use of our websites or for marketing.
However, such data may appear within research or manuscript content that you choose to submit. In those cases, you are responsible for ensuring that any sensitive data is collected, processed, and disclosed in accordance with applicable laws, ethical approvals, and consent requirements.
We do not use special category data for general profiling or marketing of authors or readers.

18. How we collect information

We may collect personal data in the following ways:

Directly from you when you create an account, submit a manuscript, act as a reviewer or editor, subscribe to content, sign up for alerts, fill out a form, or otherwise contact us
From your institution, employer, or organization, for example when you are nominated as an editor, reviewer, or contact person
Automatically through cookies and similar technologies when you use our websites and platforms, as described in our Cookie Policy
From third party service providers and partners such as editorial systems, analytics providers, indexing services, conference organizers, and payment processors
From publicly available sources such as institutional websites, professional profiles, publications, and conference programs, where this is consistent with applicable law

19. How we use your information

We use personal data for the following purposes:

1) Publishing and editorial operations

Managing manuscript submissions, peer review, editorial decisions, and production
Assigning editors and reviewers based on expertise
Communicating with authors, reviewers, editors, and institutions
Maintaining editorial, reviewer, and author databases

2) Providing and improving our Services

Operating, maintaining, and securing our websites and online platforms
Diagnosing technical issues and monitoring performance
Developing and improving features, workflows, and user experience
Generating aggregate and anonymised statistics about usage and performance

3) Customer and account management

4) Communication and outreach

Sending service related messages about submissions, reviews, editorial decisions, accounts, or platform updates
Sending journals news, calls for papers, newsletters, and other information that may be of interest to you, in line with your preferences and applicable marketing rules
Managing opt in and opt out preferences for communications

5) Compliance, security, and risk management

Complying with legal, regulatory, and tax obligations
Enforcing our Terms and Conditions, Acceptable Use Policy, and other policies
Detecting, preventing, and responding to security incidents, misuse, or fraud
Supporting publication ethics and research integrity investigations, where required

We may also use personal data for other purposes that are compatible with the above and that are explained at the time of collection or with your consent where required.

20. Legal bases for processing

Our legal bases for processing personal data depend on your location and the specific context, and may include:

Performance of a contract, for example where we process data to manage submissions, peer review, and publication, or to provide access to services you request
Legitimate interests, such as operating and improving our publishing platforms, maintaining the integrity of peer review, protecting our rights and users, and communicating with you about your professional relationship with us, where these interests are not overridden by your rights
Compliance with legal obligations, including financial reporting, record keeping, and responding to lawful requests from authorities
Consent, where required by law for specific activities, such as certain marketing communications or the use of non essential cookies. You can withdraw consent at any time using mechanisms provided, without affecting the lawfulness of processing prior to withdrawal.

More detailed information on legal bases for EU and UK users is provided in our GDPR Privacy Policy.

21. How we share your information

We may share personal data with:

1) Service providers and processors

Trusted third parties that help us operate and support the Services, such as:

Hosting, infrastructure, and cloud service providers
Manuscript submission, editorial, and peer review system providers
Payment processors and billing services
Email and communication providers
Analytics, reporting, and business support services
IT security and technical support providers

These service providers are bound by contracts that require them to process personal data only on our instructions and to implement appropriate security measures.

2) Editorial and publishing partners

We share relevant information with:

We respect the confidentiality of peer review, in line with our editorial and ethics policies.

3) Other third parties

We share relevant information with:

Professional advisers such as lawyers, auditors, and accountants
Governmental, regulatory, or law enforcement authorities where required by law or where necessary to protect our rights, users, or the public
Third parties involved in a business transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, or transfer of assets, in accordance with applicable law

We do not sell your personal data for monetary consideration and we do not allow third parties to use your personal data for their own marketing without your consent.

22. International transfers

Global Journals® operates globally, with activities and service providers in multiple countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, India, and other regions. This means your personal data may be transferred to and processed in countries that may have different data protection laws from those in your home country.

Where we transfer personal data from regions with specific legal requirements (such as the EEA or UK) to countries that do not have an adequacy decision, we will implement appropriate safeguards, which may include:

You may contact us for more information about international transfers and the safeguards used.

23. Cookies and similar technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies to:

Enable core site functionality and secure login
Remember your preferences and settings
Understand how our Services are used and improve performance
Support limited analytics and, where applicable, outreach that is relevant to our scholarly community

Details about the cookies we use and how you can manage your preferences are provided in our Cookie Policy. Where required by law, we obtain your consent before using non essential cookies.

24. Data retention

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Policy, subject to legal, regulatory, and operational requirements. Retention periods vary depending on the type of data and context, for example:

Published articles, author information, and core peer review history are generally retained for the long term to preserve the integrity of the scholarly record.
Account, billing, and transactional records are kept for the duration of the relationship and for a period afterward as required by law and for legitimate business purposes.
Technical logs and analytics data are usually retained for shorter periods, consistent with security and performance needs.

When data is no longer needed, we will delete it, anonymise it, or otherwise handle it in a way that no longer identifies you.

25. Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures designed to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure, or access. These measures may include:

Access controls and authentication
Encryption of data in transit and, where appropriate, at rest
Secure configuration and monitoring of systems
Internal policies, training, and confidentiality obligations for staff
Due diligence and contractual protections for service providers

No system can be completely secure, but we aim to maintain a security level appropriate to the risks associated with our processing activities.

Global Journals uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards. No website, server, email, or storage system is completely secure. Users should avoid submitting unnecessary sensitive personal data.

26. Your rights and choices

Your rights depend on where you are located and the laws that apply. They may include:

The right to request access to personal data we hold about you
The right to request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data
The right to request deletion of your personal data in certain circumstances
The right to request restriction of processing in specific situations
The right to object to certain processing, including direct marketing
The right to data portability in some cases
The right to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent

If you receive marketing or newsletter emails from us, you can opt out at any time using the unsubscribe link in the message or by updating your preferences.

Depending on applicable law, users may have rights to access, correction, completion, deletion, restriction, objection, portability, consent withdrawal, complaint to a supervisory authority or data protection board, and nomination where available under Indian data protection law.

These rights are not absolute. Requests may be refused, limited, delayed, or fulfilled partly where lawful retention, legal claims, publication integrity, archival interests, research-record interests, security, fraud prevention, accounting, rights review, or legal obligations apply.

27. Children’s privacy

Our Services are primarily intended for adults in academic, professional, and institutional contexts. We do not knowingly collect personal data directly from children below the age defined in applicable laws without appropriate consent or authorization.

If you believe that we have collected personal data from a child inappropriately, you should contact us so that we can review and address the situation.

28. Third party websites and services

Our Services may include links to or integrations with third party websites, platforms, or tools. These third parties have their own privacy and cookie policies, which we do not control.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of third party websites or services. You are encouraged to review their policies before providing any personal data or using their services.

29. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect:

When we make material changes, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page and may provide additional notice, for example on our website or by email, where appropriate. Your continued use of the Services after the effective date of any changes indicates your acknowledgment of the updated Policy.

30. Contact information

If you have questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, you may contact us at: