Privacy Statement

Privacy Statement

The International Journal of Business & Computational Science (IJBCS) is committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of its authors, reviewers, editors, readers, and registered users.

Information We Collect

IJBCS may collect personal information provided voluntarily through the journal website, including:

  • Name and institutional affiliation

  • Email address and contact information

  • ORCID iD and other academic identifiers

  • Country and professional information

  • Manuscript submission and authorship information

  • Peer-review and editorial activity

  • Account registration and login information

  • Other information necessary for scholarly publishing and journal administration

How We Use Personal Information

Personal information collected through this journal website is used solely for legitimate scholarly publishing, editorial, administrative, communication, and operational purposes. This may include:

  • Managing manuscript submissions and peer review

  • Communicating with authors, reviewers, and editors

  • Maintaining user accounts and submission records

  • Producing and publishing scholarly articles

  • Maintaining the integrity of the academic record

  • Improving journal services and website functionality

  • Meeting legal, ethical, indexing, archiving, or regulatory requirements

Confidentiality

Personal information associated with manuscript submissions and peer review is handled confidentially in accordance with the journal's editorial and peer-review policies.

Information submitted to IJBCS will not be sold, rented, or used for unrelated commercial marketing purposes.

Where necessary for journal operations, information may be processed by authorized service providers, hosting providers, indexing services, preservation systems, DOI or metadata registration services, or other scholarly infrastructure providers, subject to appropriate data-protection practices.

Published Information

Certain information associated with published articles—including author names, affiliations, ORCID identifiers, correspondence details where applicable, article metadata, and bibliographic information—may become publicly available as part of the permanent scholarly record.

Cookies and Technical Data

The journal website may use cookies and similar technologies required for authentication, session management, security, website functionality, and statistical analysis.

Technical information such as IP addresses, browser information, access logs, and usage data may be collected automatically for security, maintenance, analytics, and system-administration purposes.

Data Retention

Personal information and scholarly publishing records may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to support editorial operations, preserve the academic record, comply with legal and ethical obligations, resolve disputes, and maintain the integrity of published research.

Some information related to published articles, editorial decisions, peer review, and publication history may need to be retained permanently as part of the scholarly record.

Data Security

IJBCS takes reasonable administrative and technical measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, misuse, or loss. However, no online information system can guarantee absolute security.

User Rights

Subject to applicable data-protection laws, users may have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of certain personal information held by the journal.

Requests involving information that forms part of the permanent scholarly or publication record may be subject to limitations where retention is necessary for academic integrity, legal compliance, or legitimate publishing purposes.

Third-Party Services

The journal may use third-party services or scholarly infrastructure for functions such as website hosting, DOI registration, indexing, archiving, plagiarism screening, analytics, email communication, and publication management. Such services may process limited information where necessary to provide their functions.

Changes to This Privacy Statement

IJBCS may periodically update this Privacy Statement to reflect changes in journal practices, technology, applicable regulations, or publishing requirements. The most current version will be made available on the journal website.

Contact

Questions or requests concerning privacy and personal information may be directed to the journal through the official contact information provided on the International Journal of Business & Computational Science (IJBCS) website.

International Journal of Business & Computational Science (IJBCS)
Committed to responsible scholarly publishing and the protection of user privacy.