Privacy Statement
The names and email addresses entered in 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.
Data controller
Digital Rights Kenya, publisher of African Review of Social Sciences, is the data controller for personal data collected through this site. Enquiries and requests should be sent to editor_in_chief@africanopenresearch.org.
What we collect
- Name, email address and institutional affiliation
- ORCID iD, where supplied
- The content of submissions, reviews and correspondence with the editorial office
- Basic usage data such as article views and downloads, recorded in aggregate
Why we collect it
To operate peer review, to publish accepted work, to contact authors and reviewers about submissions, and to meet our obligations to indexing, preservation and persistent identifier services.
We do not use personal data for automated decision-making, and we do not profile users.
Who we share it with
Reviewer and author identities are not disclosed to one another. The journal operates double anonymous peer review, and identities are visible only to the editorial team handling the submission.
Published article metadata, including author names, affiliations and ORCID iDs, is shared with indexing services, Crossref and digital preservation networks. This is a condition of publication and is what makes an article findable and citable.
We do not sell personal data and we do not share it for marketing.
How long we keep it
Account and submission records are retained for as long as the journal operates, since they form part of the record of how a published article came to be published.
Published articles and their metadata are permanent. This is deliberate: the scholarly record must remain stable and citable, and preservation networks hold copies independently of us.
Your rights
Under the Kenya Data Protection Act 2019 you may request:
- access to the personal data we hold about you
- correction of data that is inaccurate or incomplete
- erasure of data, where retention is not required for the integrity of the publication record
- that we stop processing your data, where processing is not necessary to our obligations as a publisher
Write to editor_in_chief@africanopenresearch.org. We respond within 30 days.
Published articles cannot be withdrawn on request. Where an article is retracted, the retraction notice remains part of the permanent record, as required by publication ethics.
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