Privacy Statement

1. Information We Collect

JBMIS may collect personal information from users when they register on the journal website, submit or review a manuscript, or otherwise interact with the journal. This information may include:

  • Name, email address, institutional affiliation, country, and other contact details;

  • Username and account-related information;

  • Academic biography, research interests, and ORCID identifier;

  • Manuscripts, supplementary materials, reviewer reports, editorial correspondence, and revision records;

  • Information provided during registration, manuscript submission, peer review, or communication with the journal; and

  • Technical information, such as IP addresses, browser types, access logs, and cookies.

2. How We Use Personal Information

JBMIS collects and uses personal information only for purposes related to the operation and management of the journal. This may include:

  • Managing manuscript submissions, peer review, editorial processes, and publication;

  • Communicating with authors, reviewers, editors, and readers;

  • Maintaining the integrity, quality, and security of the scholarly record;

  • Detecting plagiarism, research misconduct, fraud, or misuse of the journal platform;

  • Preparing internal reports and anonymized statistics;

  • Registering and distributing published articles through DOI registration agencies, indexing services, libraries, archives, and scholarly databases; and

  • Meeting applicable legal, regulatory, contractual, and research-integrity obligations.

JBMIS does not sell or rent personal information and does not use it for unrelated commercial purposes.

3. Publication of Author Information

When an article is accepted and published, certain author information—including names, institutional affiliations, ORCID identifiers, biographies, and designated contact details—may be made publicly available as part of the published article and the permanent scholarly record.

Information related to rejected or withdrawn manuscripts will generally remain confidential, subject to applicable legal requirements and the journal's obligations regarding record retention and research integrity.

4. Peer-Review Confidentiality

JBMIS treats manuscripts, reviewer identities, review reports, editorial decisions, and related correspondence as confidential. The handling of this information follows the journal's peer-review model and editorial policies.

Access is limited to authorized editors, reviewers, journal staff, and service providers who need the information to carry out their responsibilities.

5. Disclosure to Third Parties

JBMIS may share personal information with trusted third-party organizations when necessary to support the journal's operations. These organizations may include:

  • Website hosting and technical support providers;

  • Open Journal Systems (OJS) service providers;

  • DOI registration agencies;

  • Plagiarism detection and research-integrity services;

  • Manuscript production, preservation, and archiving services; and

  • Abstracting, indexing, and scholarly discovery services.

These third parties may use personal information only to provide the relevant services or to meet applicable legal obligations.

JBMIS may also disclose information when required by law or when reasonably necessary to investigate suspected research misconduct, security incidents, or violations of journal policies.

6. Cookies and Website Analytics

The JBMIS website may use essential cookies to support functions such as user authentication, website navigation, language preferences, and session management.

If analytics tools or other non-essential cookies are used, users will be informed and, where required by applicable law, their consent will be obtained.

7. Data Retention

JBMIS retains personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to operate the journal, maintain the scholarly record, resolve disputes, address ethical concerns, and meet legal or contractual obligations.

Information associated with published articles may be retained permanently, as published research forms part of the long-term scholarly record.

8. Data Security

JBMIS takes reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, loss, or misuse.

However, while we take appropriate steps to protect information, no online system can guarantee complete security.

9. International Data Processing

Scholarly publishing is an international activity. As a result, personal information may be accessed, processed, or stored in countries outside a user's province or country of residence.

When this occurs, JBMIS will take reasonable steps to ensure that personal information receives an appropriate level of protection. Users should also be aware that information processed in another jurisdiction may be subject to the laws of that jurisdiction.

10. User Rights

Depending on applicable law, users may have the right to request:

  • Access to their personal information;

  • Correction of inaccurate or incomplete information;

  • Withdrawal of consent when processing is based on consent;

  • Deactivation of their journal account; or

  • Deletion of personal information that JBMIS is not legally or ethically required to retain.

Some information may need to be retained to protect the integrity of the peer-review process, maintain editorial records, preserve published scholarship, or comply with legal and ethical obligations.

11. Email Communications

JBMIS may send users necessary operational communications related to their accounts, manuscript submissions, peer-review activities, editorial decisions, and publication.

Promotional announcements and newsletters will only be sent where permitted by applicable law. Recipients may unsubscribe from promotional communications at any time.

12. Changes to This Privacy Statement

JBMIS may update this Privacy Statement from time to time to reflect changes in its practices, technology, or legal obligations.

Any updated version will be published on the journal website and will include the effective date and the date of the most recent revision.