The International Journal of Science, Strategic Management, and Technology (IJSMT) is committed to protecting the privacy of its users, authors, reviewers, and editors. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, manage, and safeguard your personal information in accordance with ethical standards and applicable data protection laws.

We collect personal data necessary to manage the publication process, maintain platform security, and communicate effectively with our scholarly community. Information is provided voluntarily during registration, manuscript submission, and peer review processes.

• Registration Data: Name, affiliation, email address, country, professional role, and optional ORCID iD.
• Submission Data: Author details, corresponding author contact information, and manuscript metadata.
• Review Data: Reviewer expertise, activity, and performance-related information.
• Website Usage Data: Non-personal data such as IP address, browser type, referring pages, and access times, collected through standard analytics tools to improve website functionality.

Your personal data is used exclusively to support the core functions of the journal:

• Publication Management: Processing manuscripts, managing the double-blind peer review process, and publishing accepted articles.
• Communication: Sending notifications related to submissions, reviews, revisions, acceptance decisions, and new issue announcements.
• Identification and Attribution: Publishing author name, affiliation, and ORCID iD alongside articles for proper scholarly credit and discoverability.
• Journal Improvement: Analyzing website usage to enhance performance, services, and content quality.
• Open Access License: Limited use of contact details (primarily email) for communications related to the Creative Commons license under which your work is published.

IJSMT follows a strict policy of not selling or renting personal data to third parties. Data is shared only under the following necessary circumstances:

• Publication: Author names, affiliations, and ORCID iDs appear publicly on published articles.
• Indexing and Archiving: Article metadata may be shared with services such as Google Scholar and Crossref for indexing, discoverability, and long-term preservation.
• Peer Review: Manuscript content is shared with reviewers under a double-blind review system. Author and reviewer identities remain concealed.
• Legal Obligation: Disclosure may occur if required by law, court order, or governmental authority.

IJSMT implements appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect personal data against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Access is restricted to authorized editorial and technical staff only.

Personal data is retained only as long as necessary to fulfill its intended purposes, including legal, accounting, and reporting requirements. Author and article metadata may be retained indefinitely as part of the journal’s permanent scholarly record.

Users have the right to access, update, or correct their personal information stored within the IJSMT system. Requests for data modification or deletion (where legally permissible and not part of the permanent publication record) may be submitted to the Editorial Office.

IJSMT reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in operational practices or legal requirements. Updates will be published on this page along with a revised effective date. Users are encouraged to review this policy regularly.

For questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or the handling of personal data, please contact the Editorial Office:

Email: editor@ijsmt.org

Effective Date: 03rd October, 2025