Privacy Statement

Privacy Statement

 

RICT Revista de Investigación Científica, Tecnológica e Innovación protects the privacy of readers, authors, reviewers, editors, and registered users of its editorial platform. The personal data provided on this site will be used exclusively for academic, editorial, administrative, and communication purposes related to the management, evaluation, publication, preservation, and dissemination of the journal’s contents.

This statement describes the processing of personal data collected through the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform, including registration processes, manuscript submission, peer review, editorial communication, notification of new issues, and access to services associated with the journal.

Personal Data Collected

The journal may collect personal data provided directly by users during registration, manuscript submission, profile updates, participation as a reviewer, or communication with the editorial team. These data may include:

  • Full name.
  • Email address.
  • Institutional affiliation.
  • Country, city, or region of affiliation.
  • ORCID or other academic identifiers provided voluntarily.
  • Areas of interest, specialty, or research lines.
  • Data associated with the submission, evaluation, and publication of manuscripts.
  • Information necessary for editorial communication and follow-up of the publication process.

Purposes of Processing

The personal data entered in this journal will be used only for the purposes established by RICT’s editorial and academic activity. These purposes include:

  • Managing user registration on the OJS platform.
  • Administering the submission, evaluation, editing, publication, and preservation of manuscripts.
  • Facilitating communication among authors, reviewers, editors, and the technical team.
  • Notifying registered readers about new issues, calls for papers, or relevant editorial announcements.
  • Correctly identifying authorship, institutional affiliation, and metadata of published articles.
  • Assigning manuscripts to reviewers according to their area of expertise.
  • Generating internal statistics on use, editorial management, and journal operation.
  • Complying with editorial, academic, institutional, legal, or documentary preservation obligations.

Confidentiality and Peer Review

Information related to manuscripts under evaluation, review reports, reviewer identities, and editorial communications will be treated as confidential information. RICT applies peer review under the double-blind modality; therefore, the editorial team will seek to protect the identities of authors and reviewers during the evaluation process.

Editors, reviewers, and journal collaborators must refrain from disclosing, sharing, or using information from unpublished manuscripts for purposes other than the authorized editorial evaluation.

Disclosure of Data to Third Parties

RICT will not sell, rent, or provide personal data to third parties for commercial, advertising, or purposes unrelated to the journal’s editorial management.

Data may be used or shared only when necessary for the technical operation of the platform, compliance with legal obligations, content preservation, indexing, metadata interoperability, academic publication, or the handling of duly justified institutional requirements.

Data Visible in Published Articles

In accepted and published articles, certain academic data may become visible as part of the publication’s editorial metadata. These data may include the author’s name, institutional affiliation, country, ORCID, correspondence email when declared for that purpose, biographical summary, article title, abstract, keywords, references, and other information necessary for the proper identification, citation, retrieval, and indexing of the article.

The publication of these data serves academic, bibliographic, citation, editorial transparency, preservation, and interoperability purposes with scientific information systems.

Retention and Preservation of Information

Data associated with editorial processes, manuscripts, review reports, metadata, and published articles may be retained for as long as necessary to fulfill the journal’s academic, editorial, legal, administrative, digital preservation, and scientific integrity purposes.

The journal may retain records related to published articles as part of its editorial, historical, and bibliographic archive, with the aim of ensuring traceability, citation, preservation, and permanent availability of academic content.

Information Security

RICT will seek to adopt reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect personal data and editorial information against unauthorized access, loss, alteration, misuse, or unauthorized disclosure. Access to platform information will be limited to individuals involved in the journal’s editorial, technical, or administrative management according to their functions.

User Rights

Users may request the review, update, correction, or deletion of their personal data when appropriate and provided that such request does not affect editorial, legal, bibliographic, preservation, or academic integrity obligations linked to published articles or concluded editorial processes.

To exercise these rights or make inquiries related to privacy and data protection, users may contact the editorial team through the contact details available in the journal’s contact section.

Final Statement

The names, email addresses, and other data entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the academic, editorial, technical, and administrative purposes established by RICT Revista de Investigación Científica, Tecnológica e Innovación. These data will not be provided to third parties for purposes unrelated to the journal nor used for commercial purposes.