Privacy Statement

Journal of Geology, Geography and Geoecology is committed to your privacy.  The information we have about our authors is protected and secure and we work diligently to ensure that preferences regarding the use of your information are honored. This Privacy Policy explains the types of personal information we collect and how we use, store, protect and disclose that information.

What information do we collect?

In this Privacy Policy, your "personal information" means information that could allow you to be identified. This typically includes information such as your name, address, username, profile picture, email address, telephone number, or IP address. Personal information may be derived from different sources. Any personal information received by Journal of Geology, Geography and Geoecology will only be used to: process and publish your manuscript. 

Authors and Reviewers

Manuscripts must be reviewed with due respect for authors’ confidentiality. In submitting their manuscripts for review, authors entrust editors with the results of their scientific work and creative effort, on which their reputation and career may depend. Authors’ rights may be violated by disclosure of the confidential details during review of their manuscript. Reviewers also have rights to confidentiality, which must be respected by the editor. Confidentiality may have to be breached if dishonesty or fraud is alleged but otherwise must be honored.

Editors must not disclose information about manuscripts (including their receipt, content, status in the reviewing process, criticism by reviewers, or ultimate fate) to anyone other than the authors and reviewers. This includes requests to use the materials for legal proceedings.

Editors must make clear to their reviewers that manuscripts sent for review are privileged communications and are the private property of the authors. Therefore, reviewers and members of the editorial staff must respect the authors’ rights by not publicly discussing the authors’ work or appropriating their ideas before the manuscript is published. Reviewers must not be allowed to make copies of the manuscript for their files and must be prohibited from sharing it with others, except with the editor’s permission. Reviewers should return or destroy copies of manuscripts after submitting reviews. Editors should not keep copies of rejected manuscripts.

Reviewer comments should not be published or otherwise publicized without permission of the reviewer, author, and editor.

Opinions differ on whether reviewers should remain anonymous. Authors should consult the Author Guidelines  of the journal to which they have chosen to submit a manuscript to determine whether reviews are anonymous. When comments are not signed, the reviewers’ identity must not be revealed to the author or anyone else without the reviewers’ permission.

Journal of Geology, Geography and Geoecology may also disclose your personal information to the extent that it is required to do so by law, in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, and in order to establish, exercise or defend its legal rights.

Journal of Geology, Geography and Geoecology will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. 

Information that Journal of Geology, Geography and Geoecology collects may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in whichJournal operates to enable the use of the information in accordance with this privacy policy.

Іn addition, personal information that you submit for publication on the website will be published on the internet and may be available around the world.

Journal of Geology, Geography and Geoecology is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third party.

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or Journal of Geology, Geography and Geoecology treatment of your personal information, please send an email to vgeoman@gmail.com