Privacy Statement

Legal review required This is one of two pages on the site with legal consequences (the other is the Imprint). The structure below is sound, but a German lawyer or the publisher's data protection adviser should read the final text before launch — the cost of getting this checked is small next to the cost of getting it wrong.

The names and email addresses entered on this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

Who we are

The data controller is SAMTrek UG (haftungsbeschränkt), [ADDRESS — see Contact/Imprint].

What we collect, and why

We collect names, affiliations, email addresses and — where applicable — ORCID iDs from readers who register, authors who submit, reviewers who are invited, and editors. This data is used to operate the peer-review and publishing workflow, to contact you about submissions or review invitations, and — with your consent — to send new-issue alerts.

Published article metadata

Author names, affiliations, ORCID iDs and email addresses in published article metadata are deposited with Crossref and are public and permanent. Authors are told this plainly at submission.

Reviewer identities

Reviewer identities are held in the system and are not disclosed to authors under the journal's double-anonymous review model.

Who we share data with

Crossref (for DOI metadata on published articles), ORCID (if you connect your iD), and the journal's hosting provider. We do not use Google Analytics or any third-party analytics — usage statistics are generated by the platform itself, self-hosted.

Your rights

You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your account data at any time by writing to support@[DOMAIN]. You may also complain to your national data protection supervisory authority.

Retention

Account data is retained while your account is active. Published article metadata is retained permanently, as is standard for the scholarly record.