Privacy Statement
On This Page:
How We Collect Your Information
Use of Cookies
Personal or Institutional Information
Google User ID
Orcid User ID
Use of Whatsapp API to Contact Us
Notifications
Use of Google Analytics
How We Use Your InformationDelivery of Information
Follow-up
Announcements
Sharing With Affiliates or Licensors
Compliance With Law
How Long We Keep Your Information
Security Measures Taken by Us
Updating User Information
Safekeeping Data By the User
Changes to the Privacy Policy
Right of Withdrawl
Overview
This privacy statement is specific to this website ("Website") and overrides any other privacy policies appearing elsewhere on Journal of Commerce and Trade website. Journal of Commerce and Trade ("JCT", "we", "us" or "our") is committed to protect your privacy online. This privacy policy explains how we will protect your information. By using the Website, you are accepting the practices described in this statement. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact by emailing us at editorjct@gmail.com.
How We Collect Your Information
Use of Cookies
JCT website uses cookies (small text files that are placed on your computer) in order to enhance our website's functionality. Most web browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Please note, however, that certain features of JCT website might not function, if you delete or disable cookies. JCT website's cookies do not and cannot infiltrate a user's hard drive to collect any information stored on the hard drive.
Personal or Institutional Information
Journal of Commerce and Trade may ask to submit your personal, institutional or identifying information including name/s, address/es, mobile telephone number/s, email address/es, academic login ids, photograph/s, article text and so forth during registering or login while accessing our website or corresponding with us. It is clarified hereby that the amount of information you provide is completely voluntary; however, providing less information might limit your ability to access all of the site's features.
Google User ID
We use the Google User ID feature to associate the visit of an author for submission so that his/her efforts may be reduced by registering himself/herself on our website from different devices with a Google user ID. This data is used in accordance with Google’s policies, and we do not transmit personally identifiable information to Google.
Orcid User ID
We use the Orcid User ID feature also to associate the visit of an author for submission so that his/her efforts may be reduced by registering himself/herself on our website from different devices with a Orcid user ID. This data is used in accordance with Orcid’s policies, and we do not transmit personally identifiable information to Orcid. When an author provides his/her Orcid Id, his/her id is stored with us but we cannot scroll or change his/her personal data at the Orcid website. Integrating orcid ids in the research papers increase the worth of papers instead.
Use of Whatsapp API to Contact Us
We use Whatsapp for quick communication. Whatsapp media is one side on our website. It is you who can first make a message to us. This system on our website do not store any phone no or communicates back until you initiate.
Notifications
In order to receive notifications, you have to enable it on our website through your login dashboard. It means it is purely optional. If you donot tick the checkbox, it will never send automatic notifications. If you think that notifications are coming from website without your choice and bothering you, you can untick the checkbox from your dashboard.
Use of Google Analytics
Based on our legitimate interest in analyzing, optimizing and making necessary updations in our website or web operations, we are using Google Analytics, a web analytics service by Google LLC (“Google“). Google is using cookies. Google has been certified under the Privacy Shield Frameworks. Google will use this information on our behalf to evaluate the use of our online efforts, to compile reports about our website and internet usage. For this, pseudonymous user profiles of the users can be created from the processed data. We only use Google Analytics with activated IP anonymization. The IP addresses transmitted by the user’s browser will not be merged with other Google data. Users can prevent the storage of the cookies through a respective setting in their browser software. An opt out cookie will be set that prevents the future collection of your data when you visit this website: Disable Google Analytics
How We Use Your Information
The information received through JCT website will be utilized within JCT for publication, indexation, metadata generation, and citation of author/s articles. The information will be utilized as:
Delivery of Information
JCT will use your residential or institutional addresses, email addresses or mobile phone numbers to deliver you the content in print or in electronic form.
Follow-up
JCT needs users’ (visitor, inquisitor, subscriber or author) information for support services, including dealing with returns, rescheduling, cancellations, billing and payment issues, or other matters. JCT may also collect user information for routine follow-ups in order to provide you better navigation and visibility of papers published.
Announcements
JCT website might use personal or institutional information for periodic announcements to visitors, inquisitors, subscribers or authors. These can include notifications, updates regarding the JCT website, call for papers, citations, article read and download statistics and so forth.
Sharing With Affiliates or Licensors
As a general policy, we use personal and institutional information and other data for internal purposes only. We do not sell or rent information about you. We will not disclose personal information and institutional and other data to third parties without your consent, except as explained in this Privacy Policy. We share your information within JCT with our affiliates, licensors and suppliers, which assist us in making the website available to you (e.g., our hosting supplier). We may share your name, affiliate and your research paper and the contents within it or metadata for citation purposes, archiving purposes and indexing purposes only to various repositories. This disseminates your writings world over and do not violate any copyright and Intellectual Property Rights.
Compliance With Laws
JCT cooperates with government and law enforcement officials to enforce and comply with the law. We may therefore disclose personal and institutional information, usage data, meta data, and any other information about you, if we deem that it is reasonably necessary to: (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request; (b) enforce the Terms of Use, including investigation of potential violations thereof; (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; or (d) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of JCT, its users or the public, as required or permitted by law.
How Long We Keep Your Information
We have to retain your information for a long time. Because in absence of the information, we have collected any time from you may destroy your paper’s visibility and its metadata provided to various indexing and other academic sites by us.
Security Measures Taken by Us
We use the SSL procedure (Secure Socket Layer) in connection with the highest respective level of encryption supported by your browser. Normally this will be 256 Bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256 Bit encryption, we will use the 128 Bit v3 technology. Whether an individual page of our website is transmitted in encrypted fashion, you will recognize by the display of the key or lock icon in the status bar of your browser. We furthermore utilize suitable technical and organizational security measures to protect your data against manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or the unauthorized access by third parties. Our security measures will be constantly improved following the most recent technological developments. However, the policy should also emphasize that it's impossible for the JCT to completely guarantee that user data will be immune from malicious attack or compromise; as such, the users should understand that their transmission of personal data is always at their own risk.
Updating User Information
The user should be permitted to correct, update, or change their personal information, or adjust or cease the frequency with which they receive JCT communications. The user should also have the ability to disable their account, in accordance with the Terms of Use. In any case, if you choose to deactivate your account you can contact us through email. Once your account is deactivated, it may not be reinstated.
Safekeeping Data By the User
Finally, this privacy policy reminds all users (visitors, inquisitors, subscriber and authors) to carefully protect the personal and institutional information that they submit on our website — including their passwords, usernames, location, images, and articles — so that third parties can't manipulate their accounts or assume their identities. In case you find that your data is leaked or disclosed, please inform us immediately. If you communicate with other authors or see their work or other information, do not disclose any sensitive information in the public domain.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
JCT might make changes to its privacy policy from time-to-time and that it should periodically revisit the policy for any updates. JCT makes every effort to quick notify its users of any policy changes. In any case, users who continue to interact with the site following a revision of the company's privacy policy will automatically be subject to the new terms.
Right of Withdrawal
Provided that your personal data are processed based on legitimate interest, you have the right of withdrawal against the processing of your personal data according to Right to Privacy under Article 21 of Indian Constitution, 1949.
Queries
In case of any query, message or email to editor.
Updated: 25 July, 2022
