Privacy Statement
Privacy Statement
The Genius Thinking International Multidisciplinary Research Journal (GTIMRJ), published by Genius Thinking Educational Service, India, respects the privacy of authors, reviewers, editors, readers, registered users, and other individuals who interact with the journal website.
Information We Collect
The journal may collect personal and professional information that users voluntarily provide when registering, submitting manuscripts, participating in peer review, communicating with the editorial office, or otherwise using the journal website.
Such information may include:
- name and preferred public name;
- email address and other contact information;
- institutional affiliation and country;
- ORCID iD and other scholarly identifiers where provided;
- academic interests, expertise, biography, and professional information;
- manuscript submission and authorship information;
- reviewer and editorial activity;
- correspondence with the journal;
- technical information generated through normal website use, such as IP address, browser information, access logs, and cookies where applicable.
How Information Is Used
Personal information collected through the journal website may be used for legitimate scholarly publishing and journal administration purposes, including:
- managing user accounts;
- processing manuscript submissions;
- facilitating editorial assessment and peer review;
- communicating with authors, reviewers, editors, and other users;
- publishing accepted scholarly work and associated metadata;
- maintaining the integrity and security of the journal system;
- generating journal usage and administrative statistics;
- supporting indexing, discovery, preservation, and scholarly metadata services;
- investigating ethical, research-integrity, technical, or legal concerns where necessary; and
- fulfilling other functions reasonably required for operating the journal.
Published Author Information
Information associated with published scholarly articles, such as author names, affiliations, ORCID iDs, article metadata, and other information intentionally included in a publication, may become publicly accessible as part of the permanent scholarly record.
Authors should therefore ensure that information supplied for publication is accurate and appropriate for public disclosure.
Peer-Review Confidentiality
GTIMRJ normally follows a double-blind peer-review process. Reviewer identities and confidential peer-review information are not intended for public disclosure except where disclosure is required for legitimate editorial, ethical, legal, or research-integrity purposes.
Sharing of Information
Personal information will not be sold to advertisers or used for unrelated commercial marketing purposes.
Information may, where reasonably necessary, be processed or shared with authorised editors, reviewers, journal staff, technical service providers, scholarly infrastructure providers, indexing or metadata services, preservation services, or other organisations that support legitimate journal operations.
Information may also be disclosed where required by applicable law, legal process, institutional investigation, or a legitimate investigation of suspected research or publication misconduct.
Cookies and Technical Data
The journal website may use cookies, session information, server logs, and similar technical mechanisms necessary for authentication, security, website operation, preferences, and usage analysis.
Data Retention
Personal and scholarly publishing information may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary for journal administration, editorial records, publication history, research-integrity purposes, legal obligations, system security, and preservation of the scholarly record.
Certain information associated with published articles and completed editorial processes may need to be retained as part of the permanent academic record.
Data Accuracy and User Requests
Registered users may be able to review or update certain account information through their user profile.
Requests concerning correction of personal information, privacy questions, or other reasonable data-related concerns may be submitted to the journal's Editorial Office.
Some information may not be capable of deletion where retention is necessary to preserve the integrity of published scholarly records, editorial history, research-integrity investigations, contractual obligations, or applicable legal requirements.
Data Security
GTIMRJ takes reasonable administrative and technical measures to protect information against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure. However, no online information system can guarantee absolute security.
Third-Party Services
The journal may use third-party scholarly, technical, indexing, metadata, preservation, email, hosting, or related services necessary for journal operation. Such services may process information according to their respective technical and privacy requirements.
Changes to this Privacy Statement
This Privacy Statement may be reviewed and updated from time to time to reflect changes in journal practices, technology, applicable requirements, or scholarly publishing standards.
Privacy Contact
Questions or concerns regarding privacy and the handling of information may be directed to:
Editorial Office
Genius Thinking International Multidisciplinary Research Journal (GTIMRJ)
Genius Thinking Educational Service, India
Email: editor@gtimrj.org
Website: https://gtimrj.org
