Privacy

1. Introduction

Journal of New Technology and Materials respects the privacy of authors, reviewers, editors, readers, editorial board members, website visitors, and all individuals who interact with the journal. This Privacy Policy explains how the journal collects, uses, stores, protects, and shares personal information in connection with manuscript submission, peer review, editorial processing, publication, website use, indexing, archiving, and scholarly communication.

Journal of New Technology and Materials is committed to using personal information only for legitimate editorial, publishing, communication, administrative, and scholarly purposes. Personal information is handled with care and is not sold, rented, or used for unrelated commercial purposes.

This Privacy Policy applies to the journal website, manuscript submission and editorial communication systems, email correspondence, reviewer and editor records, author information, published article metadata, and other services operated in connection with Journal of New Technology and Materials.

2. Information We Collect

Journal of New Technology and Materials may collect personal information when users visit the website, submit manuscripts, register as authors or reviewers, communicate with the editorial office, participate in peer review, or otherwise interact with the journal.

The types of information collected may include:

Name, institutional affiliation, department, and academic title;
Email address, mailing address, telephone number, and other contact details;
ORCID iD, researcher identifiers, institutional profiles, or professional webpages;
Country, institution, and professional role;
Manuscript details, including title, author list, abstract, keywords, references, figures, tables, supplementary files, cover letters, declarations, and related submission materials;
Authorship, contribution, funding, conflict-of-interest, ethics approval, data availability, and copyright/license information;
Reviewer comments, editorial assessments, decision letters, and revision history;
Login details, usernames, password-protected account information, and user preferences, where applicable;
Technical information such as IP address, browser type, device information, operating system, access times, pages visited, and website usage data;
Correspondence sent to or received from the editorial office.

The journal collects only the information reasonably necessary to manage editorial work, peer review, publication, indexing, archiving, communication, and website operation.

3. How We Use Personal Information

Personal information collected by Journal of New Technology and Materials may be used for the following purposes:

To receive and process manuscript submissions;
To identify authors, reviewers, editors, and editorial board members;
To manage peer review and editorial decision-making;
To communicate with authors, reviewers, editors, and readers;
To verify authorship, affiliation, reviewer expertise, and editorial responsibilities;
To prepare accepted manuscripts for publication;
To publish article metadata, including author names, affiliations, abstracts, keywords, references, and contact details for corresponding authors;
To assign, register, display, preserve, index, and disseminate published content;
To maintain accurate editorial records and publication history;
To respond to inquiries, complaints, corrections, retractions, appeals, or ethical concerns;
To improve the journal website, editorial processes, and user experience;
To protect the security, integrity, and reliability of the journal platform;
To comply with applicable publishing standards, ethical obligations, indexing requirements, and legal responsibilities.

The journal does not use personal information for unrelated marketing or commercial sale.

4. Author Information

When authors submit manuscripts to Journal of New Technology and Materials, they provide personal and professional information necessary for editorial evaluation and publication. This may include author names, affiliations, email addresses, ORCID iDs, contribution statements, funding details, conflict-of-interest declarations, and other manuscript-related information.

If a manuscript is accepted for publication, certain author information becomes part of the permanent scholarly record. This may include names, affiliations, corresponding author email address, article title, abstract, keywords, references, funding information, declarations, and article metadata.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that all co-authors are aware of the submission and understand that their personal information may be processed for editorial and publication purposes.

5. Reviewer Information

Reviewers may be asked to provide their name, email address, affiliation, field of expertise, reviewer profile, ORCID iD, and other professional information relevant to peer review.

Reviewer information is used to invite reviewers, manage peer-review assignments, evaluate reviewer expertise, maintain editorial records, and support the quality and integrity of the review process.

Reviewer identities and reports are treated according to the journal’s peer-review policy. Confidential reviewer information is not publicly disclosed unless the journal has adopted a specific open peer-review model or unless disclosure is required by law, policy, or ethical investigation.

Reviewers must treat manuscripts, data, figures, supplementary materials, and editorial correspondence as confidential materials.

6. Editor and Editorial Board Information

Information about editors and editorial board members may be collected and displayed on the journal website. This may include names, affiliations, academic positions, countries, areas of expertise, institutional webpages, ORCID iDs, and contact information where appropriate.

This information is used to demonstrate editorial transparency, assign manuscripts, communicate with editors, and manage editorial responsibilities.

Editors and editorial board members may request updates to their displayed professional information by contacting the journal office.

7. Reader and Website Visitor Information

Readers and website visitors may access the journal website without submitting personal information. However, the website may automatically collect limited technical data, such as IP address, browser type, device information, operating system, pages visited, and access times.

This information may be used to maintain website functionality, monitor usage, improve accessibility, detect technical problems, protect against misuse, and support general website security.

Where the website provides optional services such as registration, alerts, newsletters, contact forms, or manuscript tracking, users may be asked to provide personal information necessary to deliver those services.

8. Cookies and Similar Technologies

The journal website may use cookies or similar technologies to support website functionality, improve user experience, remember user preferences, manage login sessions, collect usage statistics, and protect website security.

Users may disable cookies through their browser settings. However, disabling cookies may affect certain website functions, such as login access, submission tracking, or account-based services.

The journal does not use cookies to sell personal information or to create unrelated commercial user profiles.

9. Publication and Public Availability of Article Metadata

Articles published in Journal of New Technology and Materials are part of the scholarly record. Published article information may be made publicly available on the journal website and through indexing, archiving, abstracting, discovery, and citation services.

Publicly available article metadata may include:

Article title;
Author names;
Author affiliations;
Corresponding author contact information;
Abstract;
Keywords;
References;
Funding information;
Conflict-of-interest statements;
Ethics statements;
Data availability statements;
DOI or other persistent identifiers, where applicable;
Publication dates, volume, issue, and page or article numbers.

Once published, article metadata may be distributed to indexing databases, libraries, repositories, archives, citation platforms, and scholarly discovery services. Because scholarly publishing requires preservation of the academic record, published information may not always be removable from third-party indexing or archiving services.

10. Open Access and Licensing

Journal of New Technology and Materials publishes articles as open access content under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

This means that published articles may be read, downloaded, shared, copied, distributed, adapted, and reused by others, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s), the article, and the journal, and that any changes are indicated.

Personal information included within published articles, such as author names, affiliations, and corresponding author details, may therefore become publicly accessible as part of the published scholarly record.

11. Sharing of Personal Information

Journal of New Technology and Materials may share personal information only where necessary for editorial, publication, indexing, archiving, technical, ethical, or legal purposes.

Personal information may be shared with:

Editors and editorial board members involved in manuscript handling;
Peer reviewers invited to evaluate submissions;
Journal staff and production personnel;
Website hosting, manuscript submission, and technical service providers;
Indexing, abstracting, archiving, metadata, and discovery services;
DOI registration or scholarly metadata agencies, where applicable;
Ethics bodies, institutional authorities, or legal authorities where required for investigation, compliance, or protection of rights;
Third-party service providers that support journal operation, provided that such providers process information only for journal-related purposes.

The journal does not sell, rent, or trade personal information to advertisers, marketing agencies, or unrelated commercial organizations.

12. Confidentiality of Manuscripts and Peer Review

Manuscripts submitted to Journal of New Technology and Materials are treated as confidential documents during editorial evaluation and peer review.

Submitted manuscripts are shared only with individuals directly involved in the editorial and review process, such as editors, reviewers, editorial staff, and technical personnel where necessary.

Editors, reviewers, and journal staff are expected to protect the confidentiality of unpublished manuscripts, reviewer reports, editorial decisions, author responses, and related correspondence.

Confidential information obtained during peer review must not be used for personal advantage or disclosed to unauthorized individuals.

13. Data Retention

Journal of New Technology and Materials retains personal information for as long as necessary to support editorial management, peer review, publication, indexing, archiving, ethical oversight, legal compliance, and preservation of the scholarly record.

Submission and peer-review records may be retained to document editorial decisions, respond to appeals or complaints, investigate publication ethics matters, and maintain the integrity of the publication process.

Published article metadata is generally retained permanently as part of the scholarly record.

Users may request correction or deletion of certain personal information; however, some information may need to be retained where necessary for publication history, legal obligations, ethical investigations, indexing, archiving, or the integrity of the scholarly record.

14. Data Security

Journal of New Technology and Materials takes reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

These measures may include restricted access to editorial records, password-protected accounts, secure communication practices, controlled access to manuscript files, and appropriate technical safeguards for the journal website and submission system.

However, no online platform, email system, or electronic storage method can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Users are encouraged to protect their own login credentials and to avoid sending sensitive personal information unless necessary.

15. User Rights and Requests

Depending on applicable law and circumstances, users may have the right to request access to, correction of, updating of, restriction of, or deletion of their personal information.

Users may also request clarification about how their personal information is used by the journal.

Requests may be submitted to the editorial office. The journal will review such requests in accordance with applicable editorial, ethical, legal, and scholarly recordkeeping obligations.

Certain information, especially information already published as part of the scholarly record, may not be fully removable. In such cases, the journal may correct inaccurate information or publish corrections where appropriate, but may be unable to remove information from archives, indexes, repositories, or third-party databases.

16. Email Communication

By submitting a manuscript, registering with the journal, agreeing to review a manuscript, or contacting the editorial office, users consent to receive journal-related communications.

These communications may include submission confirmations, reviewer invitations, editorial decisions, revision requests, publication updates, correction requests, ethical inquiries, technical notices, and other messages necessary for journal operation.

The journal does not send unrelated commercial marketing messages. Users may contact the editorial office if they no longer wish to receive non-essential communications.

17. Third-Party Links and Services

The journal website may contain links to third-party websites, databases, repositories, indexing services, institutional pages, DOI platforms, or publisher services.

Journal of New Technology and Materials is not responsible for the privacy practices, content, security, or data processing activities of external websites. Users are encouraged to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites they visit.

18. Children’s Privacy

Journal of New Technology and Materials is an academic journal intended for researchers, scholars, students, professionals, institutions, and readers interested in materials science, engineering, nanoscience, nanotechnology, and related fields.

The journal does not knowingly collect personal information from children for commercial purposes. If the journal becomes aware that personal information has been submitted by a child without appropriate consent, the journal may take reasonable steps to remove or restrict such information where appropriate.

19. Accuracy of Personal Information

Users are responsible for providing accurate and current personal information when submitting manuscripts, registering accounts, reviewing manuscripts, or communicating with the journal.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that author names, affiliations, email addresses, funding information, declarations, and other manuscript details are accurate before publication.

Requests for corrections to published information should be submitted to the editorial office. Corrections after publication may be handled according to the journal’s correction and publication ethics policies.

20. Changes to This Privacy Policy

Journal of New Technology and Materials may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in journal operations, publishing practices, website services, legal requirements, or editorial policies.

The updated version will be posted on the journal website with the effective date. Continued use of the journal website or services after updates are posted indicates acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy.

21. Contact

Questions, requests, or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or the handling of personal information may be directed to the editorial office of Journal of New Technology and Materials.

Please use the official contact information provided on the journal website.