Privacy Statement

The Journal of Materials Research Communications (JMRC) respects the privacy of its authors, reviewers, editors and readers. This statement explains what personal data the journal collects through this website, why it is collected and how it is protected.

Data we collect

• Account information that you provide when you register: your name, email address, affiliation and country and, optionally, your ORCID iD, biography and reviewing interests.
• Submission information: manuscripts and supporting files, author details, correspondence and peer review reports.
• Usage information: aggregated statistics on article views and downloads, and the technical data (such as IP address and browser type) that the web server processes to deliver and secure the site.

How we use your data

Personal data are used only to run the journal: to process and review submissions, to communicate with authors, reviewers and editors, to publish articles with their author information and to compile anonymised statistics. JMRC does not sell personal data and does not use them for unrelated marketing.

What is published

For published articles, author names, affiliations, ORCID iDs and any other information included in the article become part of the public scholarly record. This metadata is shared with indexing and discovery services, for example through OAI-PMH, so that the work can be found and cited. The identities of reviewers are never published.

Who can see your data

Submission and review information is available only to the editors and staff handling the manuscript and, in anonymised form, to its reviewers. The journal's hosting provider processes data on the journal's behalf under appropriate safeguards.

Cookies and third-party services

This website uses essential session cookies to keep you signed in; it does not use advertising or tracking cookies. Web fonts may be loaded from Google Fonts, which receives your IP address when a page is displayed.

Retention

Account data are kept while your account is active. Records of submissions and peer review are kept for as long as necessary to maintain the integrity of the scholarly record. You may ask for your account to be closed at any time.

Your rights

You may request access to, correction of or deletion of your personal data, or object to its processing, subject to the journal's obligation to preserve the published record. To make a request, please contact the editorial office using the details on the Contact page. You can update most of your details yourself from your user profile.