Privacy Statement

   

Silatene: Jurnal Sosial & Humaniora is committed to protecting the privacy, confidentiality, and security of personal information collected through its journal website and Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform. Personal information provided by authors, reviewers, editors, readers, and other registered users will be used only for legitimate scholarly publishing, editorial, administrative, communication, indexing, preservation, and journal management purposes.

Privacy Principle

Names, email addresses, institutional affiliations, ORCID identifiers, professional information, correspondence details, and other personal information entered into this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of the journal.

Such information will not be sold, rented, or used for unrelated commercial purposes.

01. Use of Personal Information

Personal information may be processed for activities directly related to scholarly publishing and journal administration, including:

• manuscript submission and management;
• editorial communication;
• peer-review administration;
• publication production and proofreading;
• author identification and attribution;
• metadata preparation and management;
• indexing and scholarly discovery;
• digital preservation and archiving;
• maintenance of the academic and publication record.

02. Public Scholarly Information

Information associated with published articles may become part of the public scholarly record.

Public scholarly metadata may include:

• author names;
• institutional affiliations;
• ORCID identifiers;
• article titles;
• abstracts;
• keywords;
• references;
• publication dates;
• DOI and other persistent identifiers; and
• other bibliographic and publication metadata.

Published scholarly metadata may be shared, harvested, indexed, linked, archived, or distributed through legitimate scholarly databases, repositories, libraries, discovery services, indexing systems, and academic information platforms in order to improve the visibility, accessibility, preservation, and dissemination of published research.

Confidential Information

Confidential account information, unpublished manuscripts, private editorial correspondence, passwords, and confidential peer-review information will not be treated as public scholarly metadata.

03. Confidentiality of Manuscripts and Peer Review

Submitted manuscripts are treated as confidential academic documents. Editors, editorial staff, reviewers, and other individuals involved in the editorial process must not disclose information concerning submitted manuscripts to unauthorized individuals.

Double-Blind Peer Review

Silatene: Jurnal Sosial & Humaniora applies a double-blind peer-review process. Reviewer identities and confidential review information will not normally be disclosed to authors or unauthorized third parties.

Confidential Use of Information

Information, arguments, data, or ideas obtained through confidential peer review must not be used for personal, professional, academic, commercial, or competitive advantage.

04. Personal Data Collected

Depending on the user's interaction with the journal platform, information collected may include:

• name and academic title;
• email address and contact information;
• username and account information;
• institutional affiliation;
• country and professional information;
• ORCID identifier;
• areas of reviewing interest;
• manuscript and authorship information;
• editorial and peer-review correspondence; and
• technical information necessary for the operation and security of the journal platform.

The journal seeks to collect only information reasonably necessary for scholarly publishing and journal administration.

05. Website Usage and Technical Information

The journal website and OJS platform may use cookies and standard technical information necessary for authentication, session management, website functionality, security, statistical analysis, and improvement of journal services.

Technical information may include:

• browser type;
• device information;
• IP address;
• access time;
• website interaction and technical logs.

Such information may be processed automatically by the journal platform or hosting infrastructure for legitimate operational, security, analytical, and technical purposes and will not be used for unrelated commercial profiling.

06. Data Sharing

Personal information will not be disclosed to third parties except where reasonably necessary for legitimate scholarly publishing, editorial, technical, preservation, research-integrity, or legal purposes.

Information may be shared where necessary for:

• scholarly publishing and journal administration;
• editorial and peer-review activities;
• publication and dissemination of scholarly metadata;
• indexing and academic discovery;
• digital preservation and archiving;
• technical operation of the journal platform;
• research-integrity investigations; or
• compliance with applicable legal obligations.

Where external scholarly or technical services are used, only information reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose should be shared.

07. Data Security

The journal takes reasonable administrative and technical measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access, misuse, loss, alteration, or inappropriate disclosure.

Restricted Access

Access to confidential editorial information is limited to authorized individuals who require such access for legitimate journal operations.

Account Responsibility

Users are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of their account credentials and should not intentionally share passwords or unauthorized access to their journal account.

08. Data Retention

Information forming part of the published scholarly record may be retained permanently or for an extended period in order to maintain the integrity, continuity, discoverability, provenance, and citation history of academic publications.

Other personal information will be retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for editorial, administrative, legal, ethical, operational, preservation, or scholarly publishing purposes.

09. Correction and Updating of Personal Information

Registered users may request correction or updating of inaccurate personal information associated with their journal account.

Published Scholarly Records

Requests concerning information already incorporated into a published scholarly record may be subject to limitations where continued retention is necessary to preserve authorship attribution, citation history, publication integrity, or other legitimate scholarly purposes.

10. Research Integrity and Legal Requirements

Relevant information may be retained, reviewed, or disclosed where necessary to investigate credible concerns involving research or publication misconduct.

• plagiarism;
• duplicate publication;
• authorship disputes;
• fabrication or falsification;
• peer-review manipulation;
• copyright infringement;
• undisclosed conflicts of interest; or
• other forms of research or publication misconduct.

Information may also be disclosed where required by applicable law, valid legal process, or an authorized institutional or regulatory investigation.

11. No Sale of Personal Information

Silatene: Jurnal Sosial & Humaniora does not sell personal information collected through the journal website or OJS platform to advertisers, data brokers, marketing organizations, or unrelated commercial entities.

12. Changes to This Privacy Statement

The journal may periodically update this Privacy Statement to reflect developments in scholarly publishing practices, journal infrastructure, data-protection requirements, legal obligations, preservation systems, indexing arrangements, or editorial policies. The most recent version published on the journal website will constitute the applicable Privacy Statement.

13. Privacy Contact

Questions or concerns regarding privacy and personal information associated with the journal may be directed to:

Silatene: Jurnal Sosial & Humaniora

Suwaib Amiruddin Foundation (SAF)

Email: silatena.saf@gmail.com

Website: https://jurnalsilatene.org/index.php/jsh

Privacy Commitment

Silatene: Jurnal Sosial & Humaniora is committed to balancing the openness and discoverability of scholarly communication with appropriate protection of privacy, confidentiality, data security, research integrity, and responsible handling of personal information.