Privacy Policy

The Journal of Mediterranean, European and African Sciences (JMEAS) is committed to protecting the privacy and personal data of authors, reviewers, editors, and all users who access the journal’s website and editorial services.

This Privacy-Policy describes how personal data are collected, processed, stored, and protected in connection with all journal-related activities, including user registration, manuscript submission, peer review, editorial evaluation, publication, dissemination, and pre-launch operations.

The journal’s digital infrastructure and editorial management services are developed and operated by the World Health Academy Publishing House, which ensures compliance with applicable data protection regulations, including, where applicable, the General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 2016/679 – GDPR).

By accessing or using the journal website and services, users acknowledge and accept the terms of this Privacy-Policy.

1. Personal Data Collected

JMEAS may collect the following categories of personal data:

  • identification data (name, surname);

  • contact data (email address, telephone number where provided);

  • professional data (institutional affiliation);

  • researcher identifiers (e.g. ORCID iD);

  • user role information (author, reviewer, editor);

  • technical data (IP address, browser type, date and time of access).

Only data strictly necessary for scholarly publishing and editorial purposes are collected.

2. Purpose of Data Processing

Personal data are processed exclusively for legitimate academic and editorial purposes, including:

  • management of user accounts;

  • manuscript submission and revision handling;

  • peer-review and editorial decision-making;

  • publication, indexing, and archiving of scholarly content;

  • communication with authors, reviewers, and editors;

  • ensuring security and integrity of editorial operations.

Personal data are never used for marketing, advertising, or commercial profiling purposes.

3. Legal Basis for Processing

Personal data are processed on the basis of:

  • the user’s consent;

  • the necessity to perform editorial and publishing services requested by the user;

  • compliance with legal, ethical, and scholarly obligations related to academic publishing.

4. Data Sharing and Third Parties

Personal data may be shared only with trusted third parties directly involved in journal operations, such as:

  • digital infrastructure and hosting providers;

  • editorial and publication support services;

  • indexing, archiving, and metadata registration services.

Data sharing is limited to what is strictly necessary for publication-related purposes.
Personal data are never sold, rented, or disclosed to unrelated third parties.

5. Non-Personally Identifiable Information

Non-personally identifiable information (such as IP address, browser type, operating system, and access time) may be collected for technical, security, and statistical purposes.
These data are not used to identify individual users.

6. Data Retention

Personal data are retained for as long as necessary to fulfill editorial, scholarly, legal, and archival obligations.

Published articles and associated metadata form part of the permanent scholarly record and may be preserved indefinitely to ensure academic integrity and long-term accessibility.

7. User Rights and Contact Information

In accordance with applicable data protection laws, users have the right to:

  • access their personal data;

  • request correction or updating of inaccurate or incomplete data;

  • request deletion of personal data, where legally and academically permissible;

  • withdraw consent for data processing, acknowledging that this may limit access to certain journal services.

Requests relating to personal data or this Privacy-Policy should be addressed to:

World Health Academy Publishing House