Privacy Statement

PRIVACY STATEMENT

El-'Adl: Islamic Economic Law Review

El-'Adl: Islamic Economic Law Review is committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of authors, reviewers, editors, readers, and other users of the journal platform. Personal information provided to the journal will be used only for legitimate editorial, publication, communication, administrative, and scholarly purposes.

This Privacy Statement explains how information provided through the journal's website and editorial management system may be collected, used, stored, and protected in connection with manuscript submission, peer review, publication, journal administration, and scholarly communication.

1. Information We May Collect

The journal may collect personal and professional information voluntarily provided by users when registering, submitting manuscripts, participating in peer review, communicating with the editorial team, or using other journal services.

Such information may include:

  • Full name;
  • Email address;
  • Institutional affiliation;
  • Department, faculty, or study program;
  • Country and institutional address;
  • ORCID or other scholarly identifiers, where provided;
  • Areas of academic expertise or research interests;
  • Manuscript metadata and publication-related information;
  • Editorial and peer-review communications;
  • Other information voluntarily supplied through the journal system.

2. Purpose of Data Collection

Personal information collected through the journal platform is used primarily to support the scholarly publication process.

Manuscript Submission
To receive, identify, manage, and process manuscripts submitted by authors.
Peer Review
To facilitate communication and manuscript evaluation within the journal's double-blind peer-review process.
Editorial Communication
To communicate editorial decisions, revision requests, publication information, and other matters directly related to journal management.
Publication Metadata
To prepare and disseminate appropriate bibliographic and scholarly metadata for published articles.
Journal Administration
To support user account management, editorial workflow, archiving, indexing preparation, and other legitimate journal operations.

3. Confidentiality of Author Information

Information provided by authors during manuscript submission will be handled confidentially during the editorial and peer-review process.

Because El-'Adl: Islamic Economic Law Review applies a double-blind peer-review process, author-identifying information should not be disclosed to reviewers through the blinded manuscript.

Confidentiality Principle: Information that is not intended for publication will be used only for legitimate editorial and journal-management purposes.

4. Confidentiality of Reviewer Information

Reviewer identities and review-related information are treated as confidential in accordance with the journal's double-blind peer-review policy.

Reviewer information will not normally be disclosed to authors unless disclosure is required by law, ethical investigation, or another legitimate editorial reason.

5. Published Information

Certain information associated with accepted and published articles becomes part of the public scholarly record.

Published information may include author names, institutional affiliations, corresponding author information, ORCID identifiers where supplied, article titles, abstracts, keywords, citations, references, DOI information, and other bibliographic metadata required for scholarly publication.

Public Scholarly Record: Once an article has been formally published, relevant author and article metadata may remain publicly available as part of the permanent academic record.

6. Sharing of Personal Information

Personal information provided to the journal will not be sold or used for unrelated commercial purposes.

Information may be shared only where reasonably necessary for journal operations, scholarly publishing, technical management, indexing, metadata registration, DOI-related processes, ethical investigations, or compliance with applicable legal requirements.

Where information is shared with relevant scholarly or technical services, only information necessary for the legitimate publication purpose should be used.

7. DOI and Scholarly Metadata

For articles assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), relevant article metadata may be transmitted to the DOI registration service or other scholarly metadata services used by the journal.

Such metadata may include information necessary to identify, cite, discover, and preserve the published scholarly work.

8. Indexing and Abstracting Services

Bibliographic information and publication metadata of published articles may be made available to indexing, abstracting, academic discovery, repository, and scholarly information services.

This dissemination is undertaken to improve the visibility, accessibility, discoverability, and scholarly impact of articles published in El-'Adl: Islamic Economic Law Review.

9. Website Usage Information

The journal website or its underlying platform may automatically record limited technical information necessary for website operation, security, troubleshooting, statistical analysis, or system administration.

Depending on the journal platform configuration, such information may include browser-related information, access logs, session information, or other technical data generated during website use.

10. Cookies and Session Data

The journal platform may use cookies or similar session technologies where necessary to support user authentication, login sessions, preferences, website functionality, and system security.

The exact operation of such technologies may depend on the configuration and version of the journal management system used by the publisher.

11. Data Security

The journal seeks to apply reasonable administrative and technical measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access, misuse, alteration, disclosure, or loss.

However, no internet-based information system can guarantee absolute security. Users are therefore also responsible for protecting their login credentials and maintaining the confidentiality of their journal accounts.

12. Data Retention

Information may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to maintain the integrity of the editorial process, publication records, scholarly metadata, ethical documentation, journal archives, and legitimate administrative records.

Published article metadata may be retained permanently where necessary to preserve the scholarly record and ensure continued citation and discoverability.

13. User Responsibility

Users are responsible for providing accurate information when registering or interacting with the journal system.

Users should also protect their usernames, passwords, and other account credentials and should not intentionally provide another person's confidential information without appropriate authorization.

14. Privacy in Research Data

Authors submitting research involving human participants, informants, respondents, confidential institutional information, or personal data are responsible for protecting participant privacy and complying with applicable ethical requirements.

Personally identifiable or sensitive research information should not be published unless its disclosure is ethically justified and appropriate consent or authorization has been obtained where required.

Research Privacy: Authors should anonymize or de-identify research participants whenever necessary to protect confidentiality and ethical integrity.

15. Requests Concerning Personal Information

Users may contact the journal regarding personal information associated with their journal account or editorial participation.

Requests for correction, updating, or removal of information will be considered in accordance with legitimate editorial, archival, ethical, scholarly-record, and legal requirements.

Information that forms an essential part of the permanent published scholarly record may not always be eligible for deletion.

16. Editorial and Ethical Investigations

Where allegations of research misconduct, publication misconduct, plagiarism, authorship disputes, ethical violations, or other serious concerns arise, relevant personal or editorial information may be used as necessary to conduct a fair and confidential investigation.

Disclosure to relevant institutions or authorized parties may occur where reasonably necessary to protect publication integrity or satisfy applicable legal and ethical obligations.

17. Privacy Policy Updates

This Privacy Statement may be reviewed and updated periodically to reflect developments in journal management, publication practices, technology, institutional requirements, or applicable policies.

Any updated version will be made available through the official journal website.

18. Privacy Principles at a Glance

Principle Journal Commitment
Confidentiality Non-public editorial and personal information is treated confidentially.
Purpose Limitation Information is used for legitimate journal, editorial, publication, administrative, and scholarly purposes.
Commercial Use Personal information is not sold for unrelated commercial purposes.
Peer Review Author and reviewer confidentiality is protected according to the double-blind peer-review policy.
Published Metadata Relevant bibliographic metadata may become part of the permanent public scholarly record.
Security Reasonable measures are used to support the protection of journal data.

Privacy Commitment: Names, email addresses, affiliations, and other personal information entered in the journal system will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of El-'Adl: Islamic Economic Law Review and will not be made available for unrelated purposes or to unrelated third parties, except where required for legitimate scholarly publishing, ethical, technical, or legal purposes.

El-'Adl: Islamic Economic Law Review

Program Studi Hukum Ekonomi Syariah
Fakultas Agama Islam
Universitas Muslim Indonesia, Makassar, Indonesia

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