Privacy Policy

Exploration and Verfication Publishing (abbreviated as EXPLOVER) fully guarantee non-disclosure of personnel privacy. This is applicable to all users of the journal website, including readers, authors, reviewers, editors, etc. In this term, organizations such as site hosting services used to publish EXPLOVER (rather than advertisers or other third parties indirectly related to EXPLOVER), may share the limited collected personal data. When sharing, the above potential users' personal data throughout the whole publication process should always be protected.

Herein, explicit explanations are made in the terms to show the secure measures concerning proper use of personal data throughout the entire publication process. All users should adhere to the requirements of the privacy terms stated below when getting access to our websites and online submission & editorial system.

  1. Specifics related to the collection and use of personal data
  2. Aggregated data
  3. Accessing and removing personally identifiable data
  4. Referee data
  5. Author data
  6. Editorial board member data
  7. Publication site hosting
  8. Others

1. Specifics related to the collection and use of personal data

Individual identification information: To ensure accurate identification in our submission system and successful communication with our editorial and production staffs, details of authors and reviewers should be collected. Please register your own account regarding the authors or reviewers within the submission system. Any visitors can keep their personally identifiable information confidential, however, may be limited to use part or all of sites' features and functionality.

Non-personally identifiable Information: The journal website and submission system will collect your own Internet protocol (IP) address, type and language of browser you chose, as well as the date and time of you visit, which is inapplicable to identify an individual.

2. Aggregated data

We may aggregate and show the data involving visitors' collective behavior, such as number of visits, number of citations, change trends of visitors, etc., but by no means disclose any individual identification information.

3. Accessing and removing personally identifiable data

Authors and reviewers can contact the editorial office to access to their individual identifiable data collected by the journal, and can make removal requests from our servers and computer networks, concerning the previous provided data. The e-mail used to make the requests should be the one that was initially registered.

4. Referee data

We may collect your personal information through the submission system for inviting suitable reviewers. Editorial staffs processing the submitted manuscripts are also able to access these information. We may retain the reviewers' information but never shared with other parties, apart from select journals with explicit permission of the referees.

5. Author data

We may collect the authors' information for reviewing, production and publication of their articles. Production team will protect confidentiality of these information. For metadata capture, proofreading, production staff's queries, as well as potential routine indexing of published content in known publishing databases, such as PubMed, PubMed Central, Web of Science, Crossref, ORCID, etc., the author's metadata may be shared with third-party vendor(s) at the minimum level.

6. Editorial board member data

Information of editorial board members will be collected and exhibited on the journal website. With the permission of the editor, it may also be included in published webpage if the editor participates in decision-making on this paper. Herein, we retain such information without sharing with other parties.

7. Publication site hosting

The journal website may collect the email addresses of relevant authors and site users. We use IP addresses to enable activation of institutional subscribers and integrate information such as where the site users come from, rather than identifying individuals.

For internal business reviews, EXPLOVER sometimes can make requests to access the potential users' information with the strictest confidentiality. 

We may collect other personal information at the time of submission, during the article production process, or under the circumstances that additional alerting, announcement or other services should be released to all potential users (e.g., authors, reviewers, website visitors, etc.).

This Privacy Policy would be updated by EXPLOVER on request, with an indicative “Updated on” date at the bottom of the page. Your use of the updated privacy policy indicates that you accept the terms noted herein.

8. Others

Sharing with the third-party: For creating articles and indexing services, the third party could share authors' metadata. Search engines can index content directly from what is published on EXPLOVER’s Journal websites. 

Individual data deposited in our system: In the processing of a specific article, the accounts of authors and reviewers with their individual identification information are stored in EXPLOVER system. Editorial staff can access the above information only after authorization is authorized. Email addresses or other personal information will never be sold to third parties.

Updated on 31 March 2023