Privacy Statement

Privacy Statement

The Journal of Computing, Intelligence and Information Sciences (JCIIS), published by Acadentium Research, respects the privacy of its readers, authors, reviewers, editors, and registered users. This Privacy Statement explains how personal information provided through the journal website may be collected, used, stored, and protected in connection with scholarly publishing activities.

Information We Collect

JCIIS may collect personal information that users voluntarily provide when registering, submitting a manuscript, participating in peer review, communicating with the editorial office, or otherwise using the journal website. This information may include:

• Name and professional title
• Email address and contact information
• Institutional affiliation
• Country or geographic information
• ORCID iD and other scholarly identifiers, where provided
• Author, reviewer, and editorial profile information
• Manuscripts, reviews, editorial correspondence, and submission metadata
• Information necessary for the management of the editorial and publishing process

How We Use Personal Information

Information collected through the JCIIS website is used only for legitimate journal, editorial, peer-review, publication, communication, and administrative purposes. These purposes may include:

• Managing user accounts and journal registrations
• Processing manuscript submissions
• Managing editorial assessment and peer review
• Communicating with authors, reviewers, editors, and readers
• Publishing author names, affiliations, scholarly identifiers, and article metadata
• Maintaining the scholarly and editorial record
• Sending journal notifications to users who have chosen to receive them
• Improving the operation, security, and usability of the journal website

Publication of Author Information

Information associated with an accepted and published article, including author names, institutional affiliations, ORCID identifiers, correspondence details where applicable, and bibliographic metadata, may become part of the permanent scholarly record and may be publicly displayed on the JCIIS website.

Published article metadata may also be shared with scholarly indexing, discovery, archiving, citation, and metadata services where appropriate for academic publishing and dissemination.

Peer Review and Editorial Confidentiality

Manuscripts submitted to JCIIS and information associated with the editorial and peer-review process are handled for the purpose of evaluating and processing scholarly submissions. Editors and reviewers are expected to maintain the confidentiality of unpublished manuscripts and related editorial information in accordance with the journal's editorial policies.

Email Addresses and Contact Information

Names and email addresses entered on this journal website will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of the journal and its publishing activities. They will not be made available for unrelated commercial purposes.

Cookies and Technical Information

The journal website may use cookies and similar technical mechanisms necessary for website functionality, authentication, session management, security, and user preferences. The website may also collect limited technical information such as browser type, device information, access logs, or IP-related information for security, maintenance, and system administration purposes.

Data Sharing

JCIIS does not sell personal information. Personal information may be shared only where reasonably necessary for journal operations, scholarly publishing, technical services, legal obligations, or the dissemination and preservation of published research.

Where third-party service providers are used to support website hosting, email, publishing infrastructure, metadata registration, indexing, preservation, or other journal functions, information may be processed to the extent necessary to provide those services.

Data Retention

Personal information is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including the maintenance of editorial, publication, administrative, and scholarly records. Certain information connected with published articles and the scholarly record may need to be retained on a long-term or permanent basis.

Data Security

Reasonable administrative and technical measures are used to protect information maintained through the journal website against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or loss. However, no internet-based information system can guarantee absolute security.

User Rights and Requests

Depending on applicable law and the nature of the information involved, registered users may request access to, correction of, or deletion of certain personal information associated with their account. Some information may need to be retained where required for legitimate editorial, scholarly, administrative, legal, or publication-record purposes.

Users may also update certain account information by signing in to their journal profile.

Journal Notifications

Users who register for journal notifications may receive information about newly published issues, Tables of Contents, announcements, or other journal-related updates. Notification preferences may be changed through the user's account where this option is available.

External Links

The JCIIS website may contain links to external websites or scholarly services. JCIIS is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of external websites. Users are encouraged to review the privacy policies of those services separately.

Changes to This Privacy Statement

JCIIS may revise this Privacy Statement when necessary to reflect changes in journal practices, website functionality, publishing services, or applicable requirements. Updated versions will be made available on this page.

Contact

Questions or requests concerning privacy and personal information may be directed to:

Journal of Computing, Intelligence and Information Sciences (JCIIS)
Published by Acadentium Research
Email: editor@jciis.com
Website: www.jciis.com

By registering with JCIIS, submitting a manuscript, or otherwise providing personal information through the journal website, users acknowledge that their information may be processed as described in this Privacy Statement for the purposes of operating the journal and conducting scholarly publishing activities.