Privacy Statement
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Privacy Statement
Religious: Jurnal Studi Agama-agama dan Lintas Budaya uses personal information for the administration, peer review, publication, and preservation of scholarly work, and for related journal communications. Personal information must be handled responsibly and must not be sold or disclosed for unrelated marketing.
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1. Information Provided to the Journal
Information provided through registration, submission, review, or correspondence may include names, email addresses, affiliations, countries, ORCID identifiers, research interests, and professional profiles. The journal also receives manuscripts, review reports, declarations, and correspondence associated with its editorial work.
Where payment administration is necessary, relevant billing details and payment confirmations may also be requested. Authors should not submit unrelated financial information, passwords, or unnecessary personal identification documents.
Users should provide accurate information and avoid including personal data that are unnecessary for the stated journal purpose. Authors providing co-author details must ensure that their co-authors know about the submission and the intended use of their information.
2. Purposes of Use
Personal information is used as necessary to:
- Create and administer user accounts and submission records.
- Communicate with authors, editors, and reviewers about manuscripts and editorial assignments.
- Organize peer review and manage authorship, competing interests, and research-integrity concerns.
- Prepare accepted articles and their metadata for publication, discovery, indexing, and preservation.
- Administer applicable fees and related financial records.
- Maintain website functionality and security and deliver journal-related notifications according to user preferences.
Optional promotional communications are governed by the Advertising and Marketing Policy. Declining such communications does not affect manuscript assessment or access to published articles.
3. Information Published with Articles
Publication necessarily makes certain author information public. This normally includes author names, affiliations, contribution statements, and relevant funding and competing-interest declarations. ORCID identifiers and a designated correspondence address may also appear in the published article or its metadata.
Authors should review these details before publication and identify any privacy or safety concerns to the editor. Unnecessary private contact details, residential addresses, and personal identifiers should not be included.
Published articles and metadata may be distributed to discovery, indexing, identifier-registration, and preservation services. Public information may consequently be searchable and retained outside the journal website.
Public and confidential information: Information intended for publication forms part of the scholarly record. Account credentials, private editorial correspondence, and confidential review materials are not made public merely because an article is published.
4. Confidentiality and Necessary Disclosure
Access to non-public submission information must be limited to authorized people who need it for their journal responsibilities. Editors and reviewers must treat unpublished manuscripts and related communications as confidential.
The journal follows the anonymity arrangements described in its Peer Review Process. Identifying information must not be included in reviewer-facing files where it would compromise double-blind review.
Limited disclosure may be necessary to authorized publishing service providers, institutional administrators, or bodies addressing a documented research-integrity concern. Disclosure may also be necessary to meet applicable obligations. In each case, only information relevant to the purpose should be shared, with appropriate confidentiality safeguards.
Authors must protect research participants’ personal information and obtain appropriate consent for identifiable material. Sensitive raw data must not be submitted as publicly accessible supplementary files without a justified basis and appropriate safeguards.
Confidential manuscripts, personal information, and review materials must not be uploaded to AI services contrary to the journal’s AI Policy.
5. External Services and Website Technologies
The journal website may use session cookies and technical logs to support sign-in, navigation, and security. Depending on the service, technical information may include IP addresses, browser information, access times, and pages requested.
External forms, visitor counters, embedded resources, and linked services may process information under their own privacy notices. Users should review those notices before providing personal information. Journal-related information collected through external forms remains subject to the purposes stated in this policy.
Users can manage cookies through their browser settings. Blocking cookies or external resources may affect some website functions. Questions about the services used on a particular page may be directed to the editorial office.
6. Security and Retention
The journal and its institutional administrators are responsible for applying appropriate access controls and safeguards to non-public information. Users must protect their passwords and promptly report suspected unauthorized access.
Personal information should be retained only for as long as necessary for its stated purpose, including editorial accountability, financial administration, resolution of disputes, and applicable institutional requirements. Information no longer needed should be securely deleted or anonymized where appropriate.
Published articles and essential publication metadata are normally retained as part of the permanent scholarly record. Closing an account does not automatically remove published authorship information, articles, or records needed to document editorial decisions.
7. Privacy Requests and Contact
Users may contact the Editorial Office to ask how their information is used, request correction of inaccurate details, change communication preferences, or request account closure or deletion of information that is no longer needed.
The journal may request proportionate verification of identity before acting on a request. Requests will be assessed in light of confidentiality, editorial accountability, the integrity of the published record, and applicable requirements. Where a request cannot be fully fulfilled, the journal will explain the reason and any available alternative.
Concerns about exposure of confidential information should be reported promptly. Include enough information to identify the issue without sending further unnecessary sensitive data.
This statement will be updated when relevant information-handling practices change. Material changes should be communicated to affected users as appropriate.