Privacy Statement
The International Journal of Management Research (IJMR) is committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of authors, reviewers, editors, readers, and registered users of the journal website.
Personal Information
Names, email addresses, affiliations, contact details, ORCID identifiers, and other information entered into the journal’s Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform will be used only for legitimate editorial and publication purposes.
Use of Information
Personal information may be used for:
- Managing manuscript submissions
- Communicating with authors and reviewers
- Conducting peer review
- Preparing accepted articles for publication
- Maintaining editorial and publication records
- Sending journal-related announcements
- Supporting indexing, archiving, and metadata services
Confidentiality
Submitted manuscripts, reviewer reports, editorial correspondence, and personal information will be treated as confidential. Access will be limited to authorized editors, reviewers, journal staff, and technical service providers where necessary.
Under the journal’s double-blind peer-review process, author and reviewer identities will remain confidential during review.
Information Sharing
IJMR will not sell, rent, or use personal information for unrelated commercial purposes.
Information may be shared only when necessary for:
- Editorial and peer-review administration
- Publication and metadata registration
- Indexing and archiving
- Website hosting and technical support
- Compliance with legal or ethical obligations
- Investigation of suspected publication misconduct
Website Data
The journal website may automatically collect limited technical information, such as browser type, device information, access time, and general usage data. This information may be used to improve website performance, security, and user experience.
Cookies
The OJS platform may use cookies to support login sessions, user preferences, website functionality, and security. Users may manage cookies through their browser settings, although disabling them may affect some website features.
Author Information
Author names, affiliations, email addresses, ORCID identifiers, and biographical details may be published with accepted articles where required for scholarly identification and communication.
Authors should not include private or sensitive information that is unnecessary for publication.
Reviewer Privacy
Reviewer identities and reports will remain confidential unless disclosure is required by law, ethical investigation, or an approved open-review arrangement.
Reviewers must also protect the confidentiality of manuscripts and must not share or use unpublished content for personal benefit.
Data Security
IJMR takes reasonable administrative and technical measures to protect personal information and journal records from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
However, no online platform can guarantee absolute security.
Data Retention
Submission files, peer-review reports, editorial correspondence, publication records, and user information may be retained for administrative, archival, ethical, legal, and scholarly-record purposes.
User Rights
Users may contact the journal to request correction or updating of inaccurate personal information. Requests for deletion will be considered subject to legal, editorial, ethical, and archival requirements.
Published scholarly records may not be deleted where retention is necessary to preserve the integrity of the academic record.
Policy Updates
IJMR may update this Privacy Statement periodically to reflect changes in journal practices, technology, data-protection requirements, or scholarly publishing standards.
