Privacy Policy

Effective date: 25 August 2026  |  Last updated: 25 August 2026

This Privacy and Cookie Policy explains how the International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Research (IJSER), available at www.ijser.in, collects, uses, stores and protects information when you visit the website, submit a manuscript, register as a member, contact the journal, make a payment or use any other service offered through the website.

Information We Collect

Depending on how you use the website, we may collect:

• Your name, designation, institution, postal address, country and other profile information.
• Your email address, telephone number and correspondence with the journal.
• Manuscript, authorship, peer-review, publication and membership information.
• Payment references, billing details and transaction status. Complete payment-card or banking credentials are processed by the relevant payment service provider and are not intentionally stored by IJSER.
• Technical information such as IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, referring page, visited pages, approximate location, access time and website activity.
• Information submitted through feedback, rating, comment, survey or support forms.

How We Use Information

We may use collected information to:

• Process submissions, peer review, publication, certificates, memberships and related requests.
• Communicate with authors, reviewers, readers, members and service providers.
• Process and reconcile payments, prevent fraud and maintain accounting records.
• Operate, secure, analyse and improve the website and its services.
• Respond to enquiries, complaints, copyright notices and legal requests.
• Send service messages and, where permitted or consented to, relevant journal announcements. You may unsubscribe from promotional messages at any time.
• Meet legal, regulatory, tax, audit and publication-ethics obligations.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

IJSER and authorised service providers may use cookies, web beacons, local storage and similar technologies. These technologies may be necessary for website operation and security, or may help measure traffic, remember preferences, prevent abuse and deliver advertising. You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling necessary cookies may affect some website functions.

Google Advertising

IJSER may use Google AdSense and other Google advertising services. Google and its advertising partners may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses or device identifiers to serve, measure and personalise advertisements, limit repeated advertisements, detect fraud and prepare advertising reports. Google may use information from your visits to this and other websites to provide advertisements about goods and services that may interest you.

You can learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services at How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services. You may manage personalised advertising through Google My Ad Center and review additional controls at YourAdChoices. Availability of a particular opt-out mechanism may depend on your country.

Consent for Advertising and Cookies

Where applicable law requires consent, including for eligible visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, IJSER will request consent through a consent-management platform before using non-essential cookies or processing data for personalised advertising. You may use the website's privacy or cookie settings, when displayed, to accept, reject or change your choices. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that occurred before withdrawal.

Sharing of Information

We may share information only as reasonably necessary with editors, reviewers, publishing and DOI services, hosting and security providers, email providers, analytics and advertising providers, payment processors, professional advisers, regulators or law-enforcement authorities. Service providers may process information only for authorised purposes and subject to their contractual and legal obligations. We do not sell personal information for money.

Published Information

Names, affiliations, countries, author biographies, article metadata and other information forming part of the scholarly record may be published openly and supplied to indexing, archiving, DOI and discovery services. Once included in the permanent scholarly record, this information may remain available through third-party archives and indexes even after a correction or removal request.

Data Security and Retention

We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards to protect information. No internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Information is retained only for as long as reasonably required for the purposes described in this policy, including preservation of the scholarly record and compliance with legal, accounting, dispute-resolution and fraud-prevention obligations.

Your Privacy Rights

Subject to applicable law and preservation of the scholarly record, you may request access to, correction of or deletion of your personal information; object to or restrict certain processing; withdraw consent; or request a portable copy of eligible information. We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request. You may also complain to the competent data-protection authority in your jurisdiction.

Children's Privacy

The website and journal services are not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from a child under 13 without appropriate authorisation. A parent or guardian who believes that a child has supplied personal information may contact us to request its review or removal.

External Links

The website may link to third-party websites. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies, and IJSER is not responsible for those practices.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy when our practices, services or legal obligations change. The revised version will be posted on this page with a new last-updated date.

Contact Us

For privacy questions or requests, contact the International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Research (IJSER) at editor.ijserin@gmail.com. Please write Privacy Request in the subject line.