Privacy Statement
Privacy Statement
Protecting personal information, supporting responsible scholarly communication, and maintaining trust across the IARP publishing platform.
Privacy and Responsible Information Handling
International Academic Research and Publications (IARP) respects the privacy of visitors, authors, reviewers, editors, editorial board members, subscribers, and other users of its website and publishing services.
This Privacy Statement explains how IARP may collect, use, store, protect, and disclose information obtained through its website, manuscript submission systems, editorial processes, communications, and related publishing activities.
By using the IARP website or submitting information through our publishing services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Statement.
Information We May Collect
Depending on how you interact with IARP, we may collect information such as:
Personal and Contact Information
- Full name
- Academic title
- Email address
- Telephone number, where provided
- Institutional affiliation
- Department or academic unit
- Country
- Postal or professional address, where required
- ORCID iD, where provided
- Professional biography and research interests
Author and Manuscript Information
When an author submits a manuscript, we may collect:
- Manuscript title
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Author and co-author information
- Institutional affiliations
- Corresponding-author information
- Manuscript files
- Figures, tables and supplementary materials
- Cover letters
- Author declarations
- Conflict-of-interest information
- Funding information
- Ethical approval information, where applicable
- Communications relating to the manuscript
Reviewer and Editorial Information
For reviewers and editorial personnel, we may collect information such as:
- Name
- Email address
- Institutional affiliation
- Academic qualifications
- Research interests
- Areas of expertise
- Publication or professional information
- Peer-review records
- Editorial correspondence
Such information may be necessary to administer peer review, editorial assessment, publication decisions, and other scholarly publishing activities.
Website and Technical Information
When you visit the IARP website, certain technical information may be collected automatically, depending on the website technologies and services in use.
Such information may be used to maintain website functionality, improve security, understand website usage, identify technical problems, and improve the user experience.
How We Use Information
IARP may use information collected from users for legitimate publishing and administrative purposes, including:
Personal information should generally be used for the purposes for which it was collected and should not be unnecessarily disclosed to unrelated third parties.
Manuscript and Peer-Review Confidentiality
Manuscripts submitted for consideration are treated as confidential within the editorial and peer-review process, subject to applicable publication policies and legal requirements.
Reviewer identities will normally be kept confidential where the relevant journal operates a single-blind or double-blind peer-review system.
Reviewer reports, editorial communications, and other confidential materials will not ordinarily be made publicly available unless disclosure is authorized by the reviewer, required by the journal's peer-review model, necessary for publication ethics investigations, or required by law.
Information Appearing in Published Articles
Information that forms part of the scholarly record may become publicly available when an article is published.
Depending on the journal's publication policies, this may include:
- Author names
- Author affiliations
- ORCID identifiers
- Corresponding-author information
- Author biographies, where provided
- Funding declarations
- Conflict-of-interest declarations
- Ethical statements
- Acknowledgements
- Article content and supplementary materials
Published author information may also be distributed through indexing, abstracting, repository, library, and scholarly discovery services to improve the visibility and discoverability of published research.
Sharing of Information
IARP does not sell users' personal information for commercial purposes.
Information may be shared when reasonably necessary for legitimate publishing, editorial, technical, administrative, or legal purposes.
This may include sharing limited information with:
- Editors and editorial board members
- Peer reviewers
- Website and hosting providers
- Manuscript-management or publishing-system providers
- Typesetting and production service providers
- Plagiarism or originality-checking services
- Indexing and abstracting services
- Digital repositories
- Library and scholarly-discovery services
- Payment or administrative service providers, where applicable
- Government authorities or legal bodies where required by law
Third-party service providers should receive only the information reasonably necessary to perform the relevant service.
Data Security
IARP takes reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, loss, misuse, or destruction.
However, no internet-based system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Users should therefore recognize that transmission of information through the internet carries inherent security risks.
Data Retention
IARP may retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to:
- Provide publishing and editorial services;
- Maintain accurate publication and peer-review records;
- Protect the integrity of the scholarly record;
- Resolve disputes or publication-ethics concerns;
- Meet legal, regulatory, accounting, or administrative requirements;
- Fulfil other legitimate purposes associated with academic publishing.
Submission histories, editorial decisions, review records, and related correspondence may need to be retained after publication or rejection in order to preserve evidence of the editorial process and support research-integrity investigations where necessary.
Cookies
The IARP website may use cookies or similar technologies to support website functionality, security, preferences, analytics, and user experience.
Users may be able to control or disable cookies through their browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of some parts of the website.
External Websites and Services
The IARP website may contain links to external websites, databases, repositories, indexing services, social-media platforms, or other third-party services.
IARP is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or policies of external websites.
Users are encouraged to review the privacy policies of external websites before providing personal information to them.
Children's Privacy
IARP's publishing services are intended primarily for researchers, academics, students, professionals, institutions, and other members of the scholarly community.
IARP does not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children for purposes unrelated to legitimate academic or educational activities.
Your Privacy Rights
Subject to applicable law, individuals may have rights concerning their personal information, including the right to:
Certain information may need to be retained where required for legal, contractual, publication-integrity, or scholarly-record purposes.
Changes to This Privacy Statement
IARP may periodically review and update this Privacy Statement to reflect changes in our website, publishing services, technology, legal requirements, or operational practices.
Any updated version will be published on this page with a revised effective date.
Contact Us
If you have questions, concerns, or requests concerning this Privacy Statement or the handling of your personal information, please contact the International Academic Research and Publications editorial or administrative office through the contact information provided on the official website.
Privacy enquiries may be directed through the official IARP contact channels.
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