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Privacy Statement and Data Protection Policy
The Environmental Health Engineering and Management Journal (EHEMJ) is fully committed to safeguarding the privacy and protecting the personal data of all authors, reviewers, editorial board members, readers, and website visitors. The journal manages all collected information with the highest security standards, complete transparency, and in strict accordance with international publishing ethics principles, including the guidelines of DOAJ, COPE, and applicable data protection regulations (such as the General Data Protection Regulation - GDPR).
1. Information Collected When registering on the website, submitting a manuscript, or participating in the peer-review process, the journal collects essential personal information from you. This information includes, but is not limited to:
- Full name
- Official academic email address
- Institutional affiliation (university or research institution) and country
- Contact telephone number (if required for essential communications)
- IP address and browser information (for website security, fraud prevention, and anonymized statistical analysis)
2. Purpose of Data Collection and Use The collected information is used solely for the following purposes:
- Managing the manuscript submission, peer-review, and publication processes.
- Establishing professional and necessary communications with authors and reviewers.
- Indexing articles in international citation databases and catalogs (such as DOAJ, Scopus, PubMed, Web of Science).
- Improving the technical performance and security of the journal's website.
- Important Guarantee: Your personal information will never be used for commercial purposes, third-party marketing, or sold to other organizations under any circumstances.
3. Data Sharing EHEMJ shares your personal information only in the following cases and to the extent necessary:
- With editorial board members and selected reviewers (anonymized or semi-anonymized, depending on the type of peer-review process) for scientific evaluation of the manuscript.
- With the journal's publisher (Kerman University of Medical Sciences) for administrative and publication purposes.
- With international indexing databases that index accepted articles (published information in articles, including authors' names and institutional affiliations, will be publicly available in accordance with the nature of scholarly publishing).
4. Data Security We employ advanced security protocols and secure server infrastructure to protect your information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Access to personal information is restricted to authorized journal office staff who are obligated to maintain confidentiality.
5. User Rights As the owner of your personal data, you have the following rights:
- Access and Rectification: You have the right to access your profile information in the journal's system at any time and update or correct it.
- Data Deletion: If you have not submitted a manuscript or the peer-review process has not been completed, you may request the deletion of your user account and personal information by contacting the editorial office. (Note: After publication of an article, due to the requirements of scholarly record integrity and indexing, removal of authors' names from the published article is not possible and can only be addressed through the "Corrections and Retractions Policy").
6. Cookies The EHEMJ website may use standard cookies to enhance user experience, analyze website traffic, and maintain user login status. You can disable cookies through your browser settings, although this may affect the functionality of certain system features.
7. Contact Us If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding the management of your personal information, please contact the editorial office at the following email address: ehemj kmu.ac.ir & infoehemj.com, ehemjournalgmail.com
This statement may be updated in the future to comply with new regulations or improve services. The date of the last revision will be indicated at the bottom of the page.
Last Updated: [9/15/2026] |
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