Privacy Statement

Effective Date: September 25th, 2022. 

By using the Site or other online services that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively “Sites”), you are subject to the terms and conditions of this policy. 

“We” or “our” or “we” or “us” refers to Scientific Forefront and its subsidiaries and affiliate companies, if any. 

The data collected from registered and non-registered users of this journal falls within the scope of the standard functioning of peer-reviewed journals. It includes information that makes communication possible for the editorial process; it is used to inform readers about the authorship and editing of content; it enables collecting aggregated data on readership behaviors and tracking geopolitical and social elements of scholarly communication. 

This journal’s editorial team uses this data to guide its work in publishing and improving this journal. Data that will assist in developing this publishing platform may be shared with its developers in an anonymized and aggregated form, with appropriate exceptions such as article metrics. The data will not be sold by this journal, or it's developers nor will it be used for purposes other than those stated here. The authors published in this journal are responsible for the human subject data that figures in the research reported here. 

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Those involved in editing this journal seek to be compliant with industry standards for data privacy, including the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provision for “data subject rights” that include 

• breach notification 

• right of access 

• the right to be forgotten 

• data portability 

• privacy by design.  

The GDPR also recognizes “the public interest in the availability of the data,” which has a particular saliency for those involved in maintaining, with the greatest integrity possible, the public record of scholarly publishing. 

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