Privacy Policy

• Identity information: name, affiliation, role, ORCID iD, academic profile, and institutional information.
• Contact information: email address, postal address, phone number, and correspondence records where applicable.
• Submission information: manuscript files, metadata, author details, reviewer comments, editorial decisions, and publication records.
• Technical information: IP address, browser type, device information, log data, and access statistics.

• Editorial processing: managing submissions, peer review, editorial decisions, copyediting, production, and publication workflows.
• Communication: contacting authors, reviewers, editors, readers, and institutional partners.
• Metadata and indexing readiness: preparing article metadata, DOI registration, citation records, and publication information.
• Platform improvement: monitoring site performance, improving user experience, security, and service reliability.

When an article is published, some author and article information may become publicly available as part of the scholarly record. This may include author names, affiliations, ORCID iDs, abstracts, keywords, references, DOI metadata, article history, licensing information, and citation data.

Published scholarly records may be shared with metadata services, DOI agencies, discovery platforms, indexing databases, repositories, and library systems where applicable.

• Essential cookies: used for login sessions, security, form handling, and website functionality.
• Analytics data: may be used to understand page visits, readership patterns, and service performance.
• Visitor counters: public visitor statistics or map counters may be used to show general access activity.

IAD may use third-party services for DOI registration, metadata distribution, email communication, website hosting, analytics, indexing visibility, preservation, repository linkage, and journal management. These services may process data according to their own privacy policies.

External links provided on IAD pages are for user convenience. IAD is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, or content of external websites.

• Access control: editorial and administrative access is limited to authorized personnel.
• Confidentiality: unpublished manuscripts, peer-review comments, and editorial communications are treated confidentially.
• Technical protection: reasonable security measures are used to maintain platform reliability and reduce unauthorized access risk.

Users may request access, correction, updating, or deletion of personal information where legally and technically possible. Some information may need to be retained for publication integrity, editorial recordkeeping, legal compliance, or preservation of the scholarly record.

IAD may retain submission records, review history, editorial decisions, publication metadata, correspondence, and administrative records for as long as necessary to support academic publishing, accountability, integrity, and the scholarly record.