Privacy Statement

Privacy Notice for the Journal Platform

This Privacy Notice explains how personal data are processed in connection with the International Journal of Digital Technology Driven Engineering (IJDTDE) journal platform.

Data controller

The data controller for the journal platform is Innovasphere Ltd, operating the scholarly publishing brand ESN Publishing (European Scientific Network Publishing). Contact: info@innovasphere.eu.

Categories of personal data

The platform may process names, email addresses, affiliations, country, usernames, passwords in protected form, ORCID identifiers, correspondence, manuscript files, submission metadata, peer-review records, editorial decisions, system logs, and other information supplied by authors, reviewers, editors, readers, or site administrators.

Purposes and legal bases

Personal data are processed to operate the journal platform, manage submissions and peer review, communicate with users, publish accepted scholarly content, maintain publication records, protect the security and integrity of the platform, and meet legal, ethical, archiving, indexing, and publishing obligations. The legal bases may include performance of a publishing or user-service relationship, legitimate interests in scholarly publishing and platform security, compliance with legal obligations, and consent where consent is specifically requested.

Recipients and processors

Personal data may be accessible to authorised journal editors, reviewers, administrators, technical service providers, hosting and infrastructure providers, OJS platform support, indexing and metadata services, preservation services, and other parties where necessary for journal operation, publication, legal compliance, or research-integrity processes.

Retention

Submission, peer-review, editorial and publication records may be retained for as long as necessary to preserve the scholarly record, document editorial decisions, handle disputes or corrections, and comply with legal and publishing-ethics obligations. Account and technical records are retained only as long as necessary for platform operation, security, or legal purposes, unless longer retention is required for the scholarly record.

User rights

Subject to applicable law, users may have rights to request access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection to processing of their personal data. These rights may be limited where data must be retained to preserve the scholarly record, protect research integrity, comply with legal obligations, or document editorial decisions.

International transfers

Where service providers or scholarly infrastructure are located outside the user's country or the European Economic Area, personal data may be transferred internationally using appropriate safeguards where required by applicable law.

Complaints

Users may contact the journal at info@innovasphere.eu with privacy questions or requests. Users may also have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection supervisory authority.