Privacy Statement
The Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Integrated Sciences (JMRIS) is committed to protecting the privacy and personal information of its authors, reviewers, editors, readers, and other users of the journal website.
Collection of Personal Information
JMRIS may collect personal information voluntarily provided by users when they register on the journal website, submit a manuscript, participate in peer review, communicate with the editorial office, or use other journal services. This information may include:
- Full name
- Email address and contact information
- Institutional affiliation
- Country or geographical location
- ORCID iD
- Professional or academic interests
- Biographical information
- Manuscript and peer-review information
- User account and activity information necessary for operating the journal
The journal may also collect limited technical information generated through use of the website, such as IP addresses, browser types, access logs, cookies, and usage statistics, where required for security, administration, troubleshooting, and improvement of journal services.
Purpose of Data Collection
Personal information collected by JMRIS is used solely for legitimate scholarly publishing and journal-management purposes, including:
- Managing manuscript submissions
- Conducting editorial assessment and peer review
- Communicating with authors, reviewers, editors, and readers
- Publishing author and contributor information associated with accepted articles
- Maintaining the permanent scholarly record
- Managing registered user accounts
- Preventing misuse, fraud, spam, and security threats
- Producing journal usage and administrative statistics
- Supporting indexing, metadata dissemination, digital preservation, and scholarly discovery
Personal information will not be used for unrelated commercial or marketing purposes.
Author and Contributor Information
Information associated with published scholarly works, including author names, affiliations, ORCID identifiers, contributor roles, correspondence details provided for publication, and other bibliographic metadata, may become part of the permanent scholarly record.
This information may be distributed through DOI registration agencies, indexing services, library catalogues, scholarly databases, metadata harvesters, digital preservation services, search engines, and other academic information systems where appropriate.
Peer-Review Confidentiality
Information relating to unpublished manuscripts and peer-review activities will be treated as confidential in accordance with the journal's editorial and peer-review policies.
JMRIS operates a double-anonymised peer-review process. Authors and reviewers must not attempt to identify one another during the review process. Reviewer identities will not be disclosed unless disclosure is required by law or expressly authorised under an applicable journal policy.
Editors and reviewers must not disclose or use unpublished information obtained through the editorial process for personal, professional, institutional, or commercial advantage.
Data Sharing
JMRIS and its publisher, Acadentium Research, do not sell personal information to third parties.
Personal information may be shared only where reasonably necessary for journal operations, scholarly publishing, technical hosting, DOI registration, plagiarism screening, indexing, digital preservation, metadata distribution, legal compliance, or other legitimate academic publishing functions.
Where an external service provider processes information on behalf of the journal, the information shared will be limited to what is reasonably necessary to provide the relevant service.
Website Hosting and Open Journal Systems
The JMRIS website operates using Open Journal Systems (OJS), an open-source scholarly publishing platform developed by the Public Knowledge Project.
Information entered into the journal system may be stored and processed through the journal's hosting infrastructure as necessary to provide manuscript submission, peer review, editorial management, publication, and related scholarly communication services.
Cookies and Technical Data
The journal website may use cookies or similar technical mechanisms required for user authentication, session management, security, website functionality, and legitimate usage measurement.
Users may manage cookies through their browser settings. However, disabling essential cookies may prevent certain functions of the journal website from operating correctly.
Data Security
JMRIS and Acadentium Research use reasonable administrative and technical measures to protect personal information against unauthorised access, accidental loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
No internet-based information system can guarantee absolute security. Users should therefore take appropriate precautions when creating passwords and accessing their journal accounts.
Data Retention
Personal information will be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to:
- Operate the journal and its editorial workflow
- Maintain submission, publication, and peer-review records
- Preserve the integrity of the scholarly record
- Fulfil legal, ethical, administrative, and archival requirements
Information connected with published articles, editorial decisions, corrections, retractions, and other publication records may be retained permanently as part of the scholarly record.
User Rights and Requests
Users may contact the journal to request access to, review, or correction of personal information associated with their journal account, where applicable.
Requests to delete personal information may be subject to limitations where retention is necessary to preserve published scholarship, editorial decisions, peer-review records, legal obligations, or the integrity of the scholarly record.
Third-Party Links
The JMRIS website may contain links to independent websites, indexing services, scholarly databases, and other external services. JMRIS and Acadentium Research are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of independent third-party websites.
Users should review the applicable privacy policies of external services before providing personal information to them.
Changes to This Privacy Statement
JMRIS may update this Privacy Statement when necessary to reflect changes in journal practices, publishing services, legal requirements, or technologies. The current version published on the journal website will constitute the applicable Privacy Statement.
Contact
Questions, concerns, or requests relating to privacy and personal information may be directed to:
Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Integrated Sciences (JMRIS)
Publisher: Acadentium Research
Email: editor@jmris.com
Last updated: 24 August 2026
