ISSN (Print): 2583-XXXX | ISSN (Online): 2583-YYYY

Privacy Policy

Data Protection, Privacy Standards, and User Identity Security Protocols

Privacy Commitment

At Plant Stress Biology, we are committed to protecting the personal data, identity metrics, and intellectual communications of our authors, reviewers, editors, and web visitors. This policy describes how our electronic gateway collects, processes, protects, and utilizes user registration records.

All operations conform strictly to standard international digital privacy policies, ensuring that your research interactions and profiles remain safe against unverified extractions or third-party disclosures.

Information We Collect

Our editorial infrastructure captures specified variables exclusively intended to maintain academic review pipelines and system access controls:

Identity & Affiliations

Full names, professional email addresses, institutional affiliations, ORCID identifiers, and area-of-expertise tracking tags provided during platform registry onboarding.

Manuscript Tracking Data

Submission drafts, peer-review correspondence strings, text validation sheets, and metadata histories parsed during the paper evaluation tracking phase.

System Connection Details

IP addresses, system web browser parameters, cookie tracking logs, and interaction timestamps collected automatically to preserve system performance.

Payment Clearances

Transaction records regarding Article Processing Charges (APC), securely passed to validated processing clearing houses without storing local financial records.

Processing Purposes

Your data is strictly restricted to executing necessary scholarly publishing activities. We do not sell, exchange, or lease user datasets to corporate tracking groups or marketing agencies.

Permitted Data Utilization Paths

  • Editorial Pipeline Management: Matching submitted plant resilience papers with appropriate international peer reviewers via blind system indices.
  • Crossref & Indexing Registration: Exporting author metadata elements to Crossref, DOAJ, and Google Scholar schemas upon official volume releases.
  • System Communications: Sending status updates, tracking alterations, and system announcements to registered account profiles.

Security Protocols & Retention

Our databases implement administrative safeguards and encrypted network layers to protect records from unauthorized breaches. Personal data bound to published scholarly outputs (such as author indices within a public DOI architecture) remains permanently accessible to safeguard academic record integrity. Raw system access metrics and unsubmitted technical files are wiped automatically on standard expiration schedules.