Privacy Policy

General Information
As the Centre for Research and Innovation (CRI) (hereinafter referred to as “CRI”, “We”, “Our”, or “Us”), we recognize the importance of protecting sensitive personal information. We take all necessary precautions to ensure that the data acquired by our journals is processed, stored, and utilized with the highest regard for the privacy of our users. This policy describes how we collect information, what information we collect, how we use it, and how we protect it. By visiting our websites and using our services, users agree to this Privacy Policy.

Data That We Collect
We collect information when you browse through our journal websites, create an account on the editorial management system that collects and processes data on our behalf, submit manuscripts, review an article, participate in editorial activities, complete online forms and questionnaires, sign up for newsletters, or correspond with the editorial or support staff of the publisher and our journals by post, telephone, or email.

While using our services, we may acquire and store the following personal data:

  • Salutation, name, phone number, postal address, email, and other contact details
  • Affiliation, country, topics of expertise, and other researcher information
  • This includes the title, keywords, abstract, manuscript files, suggested reviewers, conflict of interest statements, and other information related to submissions.
  • We collect customer name, product code, date, amount, and method of payment, along with other relevant payment information. Third-party payment providers handle individual or corporate credit card payments using encrypted protocols to ensure security. We do not retain credit card information.

Purpose for Collecting Personal Data
Personal information may be used by our Management, Editorial, IT, Production, Accounting, and Marketing departments for the standard operations of an academic publisher, such as:

  • Access to user accounts in the editorial system
  • Managing editorial and production workflows
  • Communicating with authors, reviewers, and editors
  • Issuing invoices and processing payments
  • Soliciting new articles
  • Sharing updates
  • Responding to legal authorities

Data Storage, Protection and sharing
We use industry-standard administrative and technical measures to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of personal information against accidental loss, alteration, deletion, or unauthorised access and disclosure. Access to protected personal information is limited on a “need-to-know” basis. We are not a partner of any advertising server company.
Collected information is stored only as long as necessary for its intended purpose.

Except where required for our operations, such as publishing articles on journal websites, disseminating articles to indexing services, obtaining DOI numbers, or processing payments, we do not disclose, sell, or trade personal information to third parties, unless required by law enforcement or in the event of a corporate merger or acquisition.

Although we use strict measures to safeguard information, transmission of data over the internet is not completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security; your use of our websites and services is at your own risk.

Privacy of Children
We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13 years of age. Such minors should use our websites and services only with consent from their legal guardians.

Cookies
Our journal websites may store and use cookies on your computer or smart device to enhance user experience and website functionality. Please refer to our Cookie Policy before using our websites and services.

External Links
Our websites include links to external websites and services for your reference. You should review their privacy policies and terms of use. If you choose to use them, you do so at your own risk.

Your Rights Over Your Data
You have the right to request that we refrain from storing or processing your information or to limit the use of your personal data. You may request correction or deletion of your personal information or ask us to provide an electronic copy of the information we hold about you.
To exercise your rights, please contact info@crijournals.org.

Changes
We reserve the right to modify this policy at any time without prior notification.

Questions or Concerns
If you have additional questions or concerns not addressed here, please contact info@crijournals.org.