Privacy Statement

Privacy Statement

Al-Adzka: Jurnal Ilmiah Pendidikan Guru Madrasah Ibtidaiyah respects the privacy of authors, reviewers, editors, readers, and other users of its website and online submission system. Personal information is collected, processed, stored, and used only for legitimate journal management, editorial, publishing, communication, indexing, preservation, and research-integrity purposes.

Information Collected

The journal may collect personal information provided during account registration, manuscript submission, peer review, editorial correspondence, and publication. This information may include names, email addresses, institutional affiliations, ORCID identifiers, professional profiles, mailing addresses, telephone numbers, usernames, manuscript records, review reports, editorial decisions, and related correspondence.

The website and its hosting infrastructure may also process limited technical information, such as Internet Protocol addresses, browser information, access logs, and cookies, where necessary for system functionality, security, authentication, usage analysis, and protection against unauthorised access.

Use of Personal Information

Personal information may be used to:

  1. manage user accounts and manuscript submissions;
  2. communicate with authors, reviewers, editors, and readers;
  3. administer peer review and editorial decision-making;
  4. verify authorship, affiliations, conflicts of interest, and research integrity;
  5. prepare, publish, index, preserve, and disseminate scholarly content;
  6. issue editorial notifications and publication updates;
  7. maintain records required for journal administration and accountability; and
  8. investigate suspected violations of publication ethics.

The journal does not sell personal information or provide it to third parties for unrelated commercial or marketing purposes.

Publication and Sharing of Metadata

When an article is published, author names, affiliations, ORCID identifiers, correspondence details, acknowledgements, funding information, and other publication metadata supplied for public dissemination may be displayed on the journal website.

Relevant metadata may also be deposited with or distributed to DOI registration agencies, indexing and abstracting services, digital preservation systems, library catalogues, search engines, scholarly databases, and other services necessary for the discovery, citation, preservation, and verification of published research.

Personal information associated with peer review and editorial evaluation will not be publicly disclosed except when required by law, authorised by the individual concerned, or necessary for investigating serious ethical or research-integrity concerns.

Confidentiality and Data Protection

The journal takes reasonable administrative and technical measures to protect personal information from unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, loss, or misuse. Access to confidential submission and review records is limited to authorised editors, reviewers, journal staff, technical administrators, and other individuals who require access for legitimate editorial or publishing purposes.

Authors, reviewers, and editors are responsible for protecting their account credentials and for maintaining the confidentiality of information obtained through the editorial process.

Data Retention

Personal information and editorial records may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to administer the journal, preserve the scholarly record, document editorial decisions, resolve disputes, investigate ethical concerns, comply with institutional or legal obligations, and maintain the integrity of published research.

Requests to delete personal information may be subject to legitimate editorial, technical, legal, preservation, and research-integrity requirements. Published article metadata and records forming part of the scholarly record may not be removed solely at the request of an author but may be corrected in accordance with the journal’s Corrections, Retractions, and Expressions of Concern Policy.

User Rights and Requests

Users may request access to or correction of their personal information and may request the deletion of information that is no longer required, subject to applicable editorial, legal, institutional, and technical limitations.

Users may update certain account information through their journal profile. Other privacy-related requests should be submitted through the journal’s official contact page.

External Services and Links

The journal website may contain links to external websites or use third-party services for DOI registration, indexing, analytics, preservation, plagiarism screening, and other publishing functions. The journal is not responsible for the privacy practices of external websites that operate independently from the journal.

Where personal information is transferred to a service provider, the information should be limited to what is reasonably necessary for the relevant publishing or editorial purpose.

Policy Updates

This Privacy Statement may be revised to reflect changes in the journal’s editorial practices, publishing services, technical systems, or applicable data-protection requirements. The current version published on the journal website will apply to the processing of personal information.

By registering an account, submitting a manuscript, participating in peer review, or otherwise using the journal website, users acknowledge the processing of their information in accordance with this Privacy Statement.