Privacy Policy

We prioritize the protection of personal information for our customers and visitors who access our websites, products, or services (collectively referred to as “Users”). This privacy statement outlines how we collect, use, and share your personal information.

• Information you provide before any registration process, such as your email when shared with us.
• Information provided during registration, including for co-branded offers (such as your name, company name, email address, phone number, billing address, credit card details, geographic location, and organization name), as well as when you contact us via call or email for support or other inquiries.
• Payment details you provide when purchasing our products or services, including credit card information.

The names and email addresses entered on the journal site will be used solely for the stated purposes of The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies and will not be shared for any other purpose or with any third party. The data collected from both registered and non-registered users aligns with the standard operations of peer-reviewed journals. The journal’s editorial team gathers this information only as necessary to facilitate interactions with the journal. This includes enabling communication for the editorial process, informing readers about authorship and content editing, and collecting aggregated data on readership behavior.

Publisher Deposition of Open Access Papers:

The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies automatically deposits open access articles in LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, and Crossref, ensuring compliance with deposition guidelines.

Your Rights:

Where the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016/679 applies, you may have certain rights regarding the personal information we hold about you, subject to data processing agreements. Below is an outline of these rights and how to exercise them. Before processing any request, we may require identity verification by asking for details known only to the account holder. To exercise your rights, please contact us. In cases where we have valid legal grounds to deny a request, we will inform you accordingly.

Access:

You have the right to know whether we process your personal information. If we do, you can request access to the data we hold about you, along with details on how we use it and who we share it with.

Portability:

If we process your personal information based on a contract or your consent, you have the right to receive a subset of the data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. You may also request that we transfer this information to another party, provided it is technically feasible. However, we are not responsible for the security or processing of your data once it has been received by the third party.