🔒 Privacy Policy
Global Scholar Publications (GSP) is committed to protecting the privacy of authors, reviewers, editors, editorial board members, readers, website visitors, and other users who interact with our publishing platform and journals. This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, stored, processed, and protected when you visit the Global Scholar Publications website or any of our journal websites, submit manuscripts, participate in peer review, communicate with our Editorial Offices, or use our publishing services.
This Privacy Policy is intended as a general publisher-level privacy policy applicable to Global Scholar Publications and the journals published by GSP. Individual journal websites may provide additional information where required by their specific services or applicable requirements.
By accessing or using the Global Scholar Publications website, any GSP journal website, or related publishing services, users acknowledge that they have read and understood the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
📌 Information We May Collect
Global Scholar Publications may collect personal, academic, professional, communication, submission, and technical information when users interact with our websites and publishing services. Depending on the nature of the interaction, information may include:
- 👤 Name, institutional affiliation, designation, academic qualifications, and professional information
- 📧 Email address, telephone number, postal address, and other communication details
- 📄 Manuscripts, cover letters, author declarations, supplementary files, figures, tables, and other submission documents
- 👥 Co-author information and corresponding author details
- 🧾 Reviewer, editor, editorial board, and other academic application information
- 💳 Payment-related information required for publication processing, where applicable
- 🌐 Information submitted through website forms, contact forms, submission systems, and other online services
- 💻 Basic technical and website usage information that may be collected through standard website technologies
🛠️ How We Use Collected Information
Information collected by Global Scholar Publications may be used for legitimate scholarly publishing, editorial, administrative, communication, technical, and website management purposes. These purposes may include:
- 📩 Processing manuscript submissions and communicating with authors
- 🔍 Managing editorial screening, peer review, revisions, and publication workflows
- 📄 Preparing and publishing accepted articles and related publication records
- 🔗 Registering and maintaining article DOI information with Crossref and related scholarly infrastructure
- 📜 Issuing publication certificates and other publication-related documents
- 💰 Processing publication charges and communicating regarding payment and administrative matters
- 👨🏫 Managing reviewer, editor, and editorial board applications and communications
- 🌐 Providing, maintaining, and improving our websites and publishing services
- 🧾 Maintaining editorial, publication, and administrative records
- 📢 Communicating important information regarding manuscripts, publications, policies, and journal services
🔐 Confidentiality of Submitted Material
Global Scholar Publications treats submitted manuscripts, author information, reviewer comments, editorial communications, declarations, and other publication-related materials with appropriate confidentiality.
Information submitted during the manuscript submission, editorial evaluation, peer-review, revision, and publication process is used for legitimate scholarly publishing and administrative purposes. Access to submission and editorial information is limited to individuals or service providers who require such information for the relevant publishing activity.
Confidential manuscript and reviewer information will not be intentionally disclosed publicly except where disclosure is required for publication, necessary for legitimate publishing operations, authorized by the relevant parties, or required by applicable law or ethical obligations.
🤝 Sharing of Information
Global Scholar Publications does not sell or rent personal information for unrelated commercial purposes. Information may be shared with trusted service providers, publishing infrastructure providers, technical service providers, payment service providers, DOI registration organizations, indexing or scholarly communication services, or other parties where reasonably necessary to provide and manage legitimate publishing services.
Information may also be disclosed when reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, legal process, regulatory requirements, publication ethics investigations, research integrity procedures, or to protect the rights, safety, security, and legitimate interests of Global Scholar Publications, its journals, authors, reviewers, editors, or other users.
🔗 DOI Registration and Scholarly Publishing Services
Articles accepted and published by GSP journals may be registered with Crossref for DOI assignment and related scholarly metadata services. Information required for article identification and citation, such as article title, author names, affiliations, journal information, publication details, and other applicable bibliographic metadata, may form part of the public scholarly record.
Once an article is published, information contained within the published article and its associated bibliographic metadata may be publicly accessible as part of the permanent scholarly record.
💳 Payment Information
Authors may be required to provide or use payment-related information when completing applicable publication charges. Global Scholar Publications may use approved payment methods or third-party payment service providers for processing publication-related transactions.
Payment information is handled according to the applicable payment provider's procedures and security practices. Authors should use only the payment methods and instructions officially provided by Global Scholar Publications or the relevant journal.
🌐 Cookies and Website Usage
Global Scholar Publications websites may use standard technical technologies, including cookies or similar mechanisms, to support website functionality, navigation, form handling, security, analytics, and service improvement.
Such technologies may collect limited technical information about website interactions. Where applicable, users may be able to manage certain cookie preferences through their browser or available website settings.
🛡️ Data Protection and Security
Global Scholar Publications takes reasonable measures to protect personal information, manuscript files, communication records, and other information from unauthorized access, misuse, loss, alteration, or inappropriate disclosure.
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and operational safeguards appropriate to the nature of the information handled. However, no internet-based transmission, electronic storage system, or online service can guarantee absolute security under all circumstances.
👨💼 Author, Reviewer, and Editor Responsibilities
Users are responsible for ensuring that the information and documents they provide to Global Scholar Publications are accurate, complete, lawful, and appropriately authorized for submission or communication.
- ✅ Provide accurate personal, academic, and professional information
- 📄 Submit only documents and information that they are authorized to provide
- 🔐 Avoid sharing confidential information belonging to another person without authorization
- 🧾 Keep account, contact, and communication information reasonably up to date
- 📩 Notify the relevant Editorial Office if submitted information requires correction
📚 Publicly Available Publication Information
When a manuscript is published, certain information becomes part of the public scholarly record. This may include the article title, author names, affiliations, abstract, keywords, publication date, DOI, references, figures, tables, and other information contained in the published article.
Authors should understand that information intentionally included in a published article may be publicly accessible through the relevant journal website, DOI services, search engines, indexing services, repositories, citation databases, and other scholarly communication platforms.
🗄️ Retention of Information
Global Scholar Publications may retain manuscript records, publication records, correspondence, editorial records, payment-related records, and other information for as long as reasonably necessary for legitimate publishing, administrative, legal, ethical, historical, and research-integrity purposes.
Published article records and associated scholarly metadata may be retained as part of the permanent academic publication record.
🔄 Policy Updates
Global Scholar Publications may revise, update, or modify this Privacy Policy when necessary to reflect changes in publishing operations, website functionality, legal requirements, technical practices, or scholarly publishing standards.
Any revised version of this Privacy Policy will become applicable when it is published on the Global Scholar Publications website. Users are encouraged to review this page periodically for the latest version.
📅 Effective Date
Effective Date: 15 August 2026
This Privacy Policy applies to Global Scholar Publications and its associated journal websites and publishing services, subject to any journal-specific provisions that may apply.
✅ Acceptance of This Policy
By accessing or using Global Scholar Publications websites, submitting a manuscript, participating in peer review, applying for an editorial or reviewer position, making a publication-related inquiry, or otherwise communicating with GSP, users acknowledge that they have read and understood this Privacy Policy.
📩 Privacy Questions and Contact
For questions, concerns, or requests relating to privacy and information handling, users may contact the Global Scholar Publications Editorial Office through the official contact information provided on our website.
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📚 Related Publisher Policies
Authors and other users may also review the following policies for additional information about our publishing practices:
- 📖 Publication Ethics
- 🔍 Plagiarism Policy
- 👥 Authorship Policy
- 👨⚖️ Peer Review Policy
- ©️ Copyright Policy
- 📜 Licensing Policy
- 🤖 AI Usage Policy