International Journal of Social and Educational Innovation (IJSEIro) respects and protects your personal information and privacy according to the international GDPR standards.

This policy set out the basis on which any personal information you provide to us (or data we collect about you from other sources) will be processed (meaning collected, stored, and otherwise used) by us.

Please note that this policy may be further supplemented by our Terms and Conditions agreement or other disclaimers or agreements embedded in registration forms or contractual articles.

Please read this policy carefully as it sets out what you can expect from us and gives you our contact details if you wish to ask any questions or raise concerns about how we are processing your personal information.

 

Information you provide to us – you may provide us with information when you are:

• accessing our website: This includes information that you provide when you register to our website, subscribe to our newsletter, search for a product, apply for the Editor or Reviewer post, submit a paper etc.
• corresponding with us by post, telephone, email or otherwise.

The information you give us may include your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, academic institution, affiliation, job title.

Information we collect about you – we may also process certain personal information about you which you have not provided to us yourself. In limited circumstances, we may collect data that you have made available in the public domain, such as your contact details, research interests, courses that you teach and the institution at which you are based. When we do this, we carefully consider whether to do so is in your interest and any impact on your rights, and we will inform you as soon as practically possible about our use of your data and your right to object to these uses and how to unsubscribe from any communications from us.

Information from other sources – information as those provided by Google Analytics may be used for marketing and administrative purpose.

Cookies – When you visit our websites we automatically collect technical information from your computer or other device. We use cookies (small text files that are placed on your computer) to give you the best possible experience when visiting our websites, as described in our global Cookies Policy. You can disable cookies through your web browser’s settings and still access our websites – although certain functionality may not be available to you in those circumstances.

The information we may collect about you in this way may include, without limitation, the Internet Protocol (IP) address used, your browser type and version, the type of device used, and time zone setting. We may also collect information about each visit you make to our website, including which website you were on immediately before you navigated to our sites, and how you have progressed through and from our sites – as well as content you have searched for or viewed on our sites.

 

How we use your information (and the lawful bases for that processing)

We use information held about you in the following ways:

To deliver our products and services to you – we may use your personal information to:

• carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us (as is necessary for the performance of those contracts);
• notify you about changes to our service (as is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party and/or as is necessary for our legitimate interests); and
• allow you to access restricted areas of our websites, when you choose to do so (which may rely on your consent for the processing of your personal information which is necessary for giving you access to those restricted areas).
• To improve the effectiveness of our products, services and marketing communications – we may use your personal information (in each case as is necessary for our legitimate interests or exceptionally where you have given your consent) to:
• administer our website and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
• improve our website to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer or device;
• keep our websites safe and secure;
• measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we deliver to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;
• provide you with information about other services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about, provided that you have not told us that you do not wish to receive this information (as is necessary for our legitimate interests).

 

Sharing information with third parties

For the purposes referred to in this policy and relying on the bases for processing as set out above, we may share your personal information listed in your papers with international databases, for the only purpose stated by the Open Access Policy. We won’t share or sell your registered information for economic reasons.

 

How long do we keep your information

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to finalise any transaction with you. We will normally retain your information for six (6) years after your last recorded interaction with IJSEIro, although there may be exceptions to this, for example where we have a legal obligation to retain information for a longer period, or where we store limited personal information securely in an archive (for reference purposes).

 

Your rights in respect of your personal information

You have the following rights:

• to obtain access to, and copies of, the personal information that we hold about you;
• to require us to correct the personal information we hold about you if it is incorrect;
• to require us to erase your personal information;
• to require us to restrict our data processing activities;
• where our processing is based on your consent, the right to withdraw that consent (without affecting the lawfulness of our processing based on consent before its withdrawal);
• where the processing is carried out by automated means, to receive from us the personal information we hold about you which you have provided to us, in a reasonable format specified by you (including for the purpose of you transmitting that personal information to another data controller);
• to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to any of our particular processing activities where you feel this has a disproportionate impact on your rights; 
• to require us not to send you marketing communications.

Please note that these rights are not absolute, and we may be entitled to refuse requests where exceptions apply. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at contact@aseiacademic.org.

Changes in our Privacy Policy

If we make changes to this policy we will detail them on this page. If it is appropriate we may provide you with details by email; we suggest that you regularly visit this page to see any changes or updates to this policy.

 

This policy was last updated in August 2020.