Privacy Statement

DATA PROTECTION & GOVERNANCE

Privacy Statement

The Journal of Preventive and Integrated Medicine (JPIM) is committed to protecting the personal data, confidentiality, and privacy of our authors, reviewers, editorial board members, and readers.

Scholarly Use Only

Data is used exclusively to facilitate peer review, publication, and citation indexation.

Zero Commercial Sale

We never lease, sell, trade, or distribute personal information to third-party marketers.

Strict AI Privacy

Unpublished manuscripts and user data are strictly barred from public AI models.

1. Collection & Processing of Personal Information

When registering on the Open Journal Systems (OJS) portal, submitting a manuscript, conducting peer review, or interacting with the journal platform, the journal collects the following categories of data:

Identification & Contact Details

Full legal name, salutation/academic titles, email address, contact phone number, and institutional physical mailing address.

Scholarly & Professional Metadata

Primary institutional affiliation, department, country of residence, ORCID iD, discipline specializations, and short biographical overview.

Editorial & Reviewer History

Submission timestamps, peer-review comments, editorial correspondence, conflict of interest declarations, and publishing agreements.

2. How Personal Information is Utilized

All personal information entered into this portal is used strictly for legitimate scholarly and publishing purposes, including:

  • Managing editorial triage, peer evaluation, copyediting, and production workflows.
  • Administering the double-blind peer-review system while preserving mutual anonymity between authors and reviewers.
  • Publishing author names, affiliations, and ORCID iDs on finalized article layouts and persistent Crossref DOI records.
  • Delivering table of contents (e-TOC) alerts, publication announcements, and essential editorial correspondence.
  • Maintaining the permanent integrity, traceability, and ethical compliance of the scholarly scientific record.
Zero Commercial Marketing Guarantee:
JPIM will never sell, lease, rent, trade, or transfer personal data to commercial advertisers or third-party marketing entities under any circumstances.

3. Indexing, Archiving & Artificial Intelligence Protections

Scholarly Metadata Indexing & Preservation

In accordance with global Open Access publishing standards, essential bibliographic metadata of published articles (author names, institutional affiliations, ORCID iDs, article titles, abstracts, and citations) is distributed to scholarly indexing systems and long-term digital preservation repositories (including Crossref, Google Scholar, OpenAlex, the PKP Preservation Network, and related discovery registries).

Strict AI Confidentiality Mandate (COPE & WAME Compliant): Submitted manuscripts, unpublished research data, peer review critiques, and author identities are privileged records. Editors, reviewers, and administrative staff are strictly prohibited from entering, uploading, or processing unpublished manuscript files or user data through external generative AI systems, public large language models (LLMs), or web-based chatbots.

4. Data Security, Profile Rights & Contact Office

Registered contributors maintain full control over their account data on the portal and have the right to:

  • Log in at any time to review, update, or edit personal profile details and notification preferences.
  • Request the deactivation of user accounts (subject to permanent scientific archiving requirements for published research).
  • Opt out of non-essential editorial announcements and newsletters.

Editorial Privacy Contact

For privacy queries, data access requests, or profile modifications, contact the editorial office:
Email: editor@jpimjournal.in