Privacy Policy

The International Journal of Computer Engineering and Embedded Technologies is committed to protecting the privacy of all individuals who interact with the journal, including authors, reviewers, editorial board members, and website visitors. This policy has been established in accordance with the standards expected by international abstracting and indexing bodies, including Scopus and Web of Science, and reflects widely recognized data protection principles applicable to scholarly publishing.

Scope of This Policy

This policy applies to all personal information collected through the journal's website, online submission system, editorial correspondence, and any other communication channel used in connection with the journal's publishing activities.

Information Collected

The journal collects personal information that individuals voluntarily provide in the course of interacting with the journal, including names, email addresses, institutional affiliations, and contact details submitted during manuscript submission, peer review, editorial board participation, or general correspondence; manuscript content and associated metadata submitted by authors; and reviewer evaluations and correspondence submitted during the peer review process.

Use of Information

The names and email addresses entered in the journal's system are used exclusively for the stated purposes of the journal and are not made available for any other purpose or to any other party. Personal information is used solely to facilitate manuscript submission, editorial evaluation, and peer review; communicate with authors, reviewers, and editorial board members regarding the status of a manuscript or their role with the journal; maintain accurate bibliographic and metadata records for published articles; and comply with the journal's obligations to indexing, abstracting, and archiving services.

Confidentiality of the Review Process

Manuscript content and the identities of authors and reviewers are treated as confidential in accordance with the journal's double-blind Peer Review Policy. This information is not disclosed to any party outside the editorial process, other than the assigned editors and reviewers directly involved in the evaluation of a given manuscript.

Disclosure to Third Parties

The journal does not sell, rent, or trade personal information to third parties for marketing or commercial purposes. Limited information may be shared with indexing and abstracting services, digital preservation initiatives, and plagiarism-detection providers strictly for the purposes of manuscript screening, indexing, and permanent archiving of published content, consistent with the journal's Archiving and Digital Preservation Policy.

Published Author Information

Author names, affiliations, and contact details submitted for publication are displayed publicly alongside the published article, as is standard scholarly practice, to ensure proper attribution and enable academic correspondence. Authors consent to this disclosure by submitting a manuscript for publication.

Data Retention

The journal retains personal and manuscript-related information for as long as necessary to fulfill editorial, archival, and legal obligations, including the permanent retention of bibliographic metadata associated with published articles, consistent with the requirements of long-term digital preservation.

Data Security

The journal takes reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. Access to confidential manuscript and reviewer information is restricted to individuals directly involved in the editorial and peer review process.

Cookies and Website Usage Data

The journal's website may use cookies or similar technologies to support basic website functionality and analyze aggregate usage patterns. This data is used solely to improve the functionality and usability of the website and is not used to identify individual visitors for any other purpose.

Rights of Individuals

Authors, reviewers, and editorial board members may contact the editorial office to request access to, correction of, or removal of their personal information held by the journal, subject to the journal's obligations to maintain an accurate and permanent scholarly and editorial record.

Changes to This Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes in the journal's practices or applicable legal and regulatory requirements. Any changes will be published on the journal's website with a clearly indicated effective date.

Contact

Questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, or requests relating to personal information held by the journal, may be directed to the editorial office at editor@ijceet.com.