Privacy policy

We collect and manage user data according to the following Privacy Policy. There are 3 main categories of personal data stored by our journal platform. The data subjects have complete control of this data through their profile, and can request for it to be removed by obradigital@uvic.cat

Authors

When registering an account, we ask you to log in and provide certain personal information (such as your name, ORCiD and email address). As part of submitting an article for publication, you will need to provide personally identifying information which will be used for the peer review process, and will be published. This can include ‘Affiliation’, ‘Competing interests’, ‘Acknowledgements’. Personal information is only used to deliver the services provided by the publisher. Personal data is not shared externally except for author names, affiliations, emails, and links to ORCiD and social media accounts (if provided) in published articles which are displayed as part of the article and shared externally to indexes and databases.

Reviewers

To become a reviewer, you must first register as a user on the website, and set your preference that you would like to be considered as a reviewer. No new personal data is collected when a registered user elects to become a reviewer. When registering an account, we ask you to log in and provide certain personal information (such as your name, ORCiD and email address).

Reviewers can also be registered by editors who invite them to review a specific article. This requires the editor to provide the reviewer’s First Name, Last Name, and Email address. Normally this will be done as part of the process of inviting you to review the article. On submitting a review, the reviewer includes a competing interest statement, they may answer questions about the quality of the article in a form, and they will submit their recommendation.

If you would no longer like to be registered as a reviewer you can edit your profile and tick the box ‘reviewer’. This will remove you from the reviewer database, however any existing reviews you may have carried out will remain. If you have been contacted by an editor to peer review an article this means that you have been registered in the system. If you would not like to be contacted for peer review you can reply to the email requesting that your data be deleted by obradigital@uvic.cat

Readers

To become a reader, you must first register as a user on the website. We require you to include your name and email address. If you would not like to be contacted, you can reply to the email requesting that your data be deleted: obradigital@uvic.cat