Identity and professional details
Name, academic title, affiliation, department, role, ORCID iD and country.
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Privacy Policy
Purpose-limited handling of personal information and protected editorial records.
Privacy across the publishing workflow
Collect what is needed, protect what is confidential.
This policy explains the information CIJFMR may process when people read, submit, review, edit or otherwise interact with the Journal.
CIJFMR processes personal information needed to operate submission, review, publication, support, security, and record-keeping functions. This may include identity and contact details, affiliations, account and session data, manuscript metadata, contributor records, reviewer expertise, declarations, correspondence, technical logs, and payment information when a verified finance service is introduced. Access is limited by role and purpose. Confidential manuscripts and reviews are not public. Information may be shared with contracted service providers only for defined journal operations and subject to appropriate safeguards. Retention depends on the record’s purpose, legal obligations, scholarly-history requirements, security needs, and approved retention schedules. A verified privacy contact and jurisdiction-specific rights procedure are still to be configured.
Data depends on the service being used
Contact information
Email, institutional details, correspondence address or telephone where supplied or operationally necessary.
Submission records
Manuscripts, abstracts, files, contributor data, declarations, correspondence, revisions and publication records.
Peer-review records
Invitations, expertise, reports, recommendations, conflict disclosures and editorial correspondence.
Technical information
IP address, browser, device, logs, access times, cookies and usage information where the infrastructure records them.
Financial administration
Information necessary to administer an approved charge, ordinarily through an authorised payment provider.
The Journal should not retain full payment-card information when an external payment provider performs card processing.
Information supports defined journal functions
- Manage submissions, peer review and editorial decisions
- Verify authors, contributors, reviewers and conflicts
- Publish accepted research and create article metadata
- Register identifiers or share metadata where providers are verified
- Respond to enquiries and administer approved charges
- Protect accounts, prevent fraud and investigate integrity concerns
- Maintain the scholarly record and meet applicable obligations
Publication is public; review remains confidential
Scholarly record
- Author names and affiliations
- ORCID iDs and relevant correspondence details
- Article metadata and published content
- Funding, acknowledgements and declarations
- Biographies where supplied and approved
Editorial record
- Unpublished manuscripts and private files
- Reviewer identities under double-blind review
- Confidential reports and recommendations
- Internal editorial correspondence
- Integrity evidence and security records
Providers receive only what their function requires
CIJFMR may use providers for hosting, storage, email, manuscript administration, plagiarism screening, analytics, payment processing, identifiers, preservation, indexing or security. Information should be limited to what the service reasonably requires and governed by appropriate safeguards.
During a credible research-integrity concern, relevant information may be shared with authorised editors, independent experts, institutions, funders, ethics bodies or legal authorities where reasonably necessary and appropriate. An allegation is not treated as proven merely because it has been raised.
Sessions, security and website performance
Cookies or similar technologies may maintain essential functionality, preserve signed-in sessions, protect accounts, measure performance and improve usability. The deployed website should provide any separate consent or notice mechanism required by the technologies actually enabled and applicable law.
CIJFMR may send operational messages about submissions, reviewer invitations, decisions, publication, account security, policy changes and legitimate administration. Promotional communication, if introduced, should respect applicable consent and opt-out requirements.
Retention follows the purpose and the scholarly record
Records may be retained as long as reasonably necessary to administer submissions, document review, preserve publications, investigate concerns, resolve disputes, meet obligations and protect legitimate Journal interests. Published bibliographic information may require indefinite retention as part of the scholarly record.
- Administrative and technical safeguards should match the sensitivity of the record
- Access is limited according to role and purpose
- Users should not submit unnecessary sensitive information
- Account holders must protect credentials and report suspected access
- No internet-based system can guarantee absolute security
Because CIJFMR serves an international community, providers or infrastructure may process information in different countries. Appropriate data-protection safeguards should be assessed when each provider is configured.
Questions and corrections use a verified route
Subject to applicable law and the need to preserve legitimate scholarly records, a person may request correction of inaccurate information, clarification of processing, an update to contact details or another applicable data-protection right. Some records cannot be deleted where retention is necessary to preserve the integrity of publication or editorial history.
Privacy contacteditor@cijfmr.com
Public configuration updated11 August 2026
The policy may change as services, providers, technology and legal responsibilities develop. The governing legal entity and jurisdiction should be formally reviewed before those details are published.
Privacy request
Use the verified Journal contact.
Identify the relevant account, submission or publication without including unnecessary sensitive information.