Privacy Statement

At Jurnal Hurriah: Journal of Educational Evaluation and Research, we respect the privacy of our authors, reviewers, editors, and readers. Personal information provided to the journal is used strictly for the administration, peer review, publication, and preservation of scholarly work, as well as essential journal communications.

We handle personal information responsibly and never sell, rent, or disclose personal data for unrelated marketing or commercial purposes.

1. Information Collected by the Journal

Information provided through user registration, manuscript submission, peer review, or general correspondence may include:

• Full names, institutional email addresses, affiliations, and countries of origin.
• Academic identifiers such as ORCID IDs, research interests, and professional profiles.
• Submitted manuscripts, peer-review reports, conflict-of-interest declarations, and editorial correspondence.
• Billing details and payment confirmations when administrative or publication fees apply.

Note: Users should provide accurate information and avoid submitting unnecessary personal identification documents or sensitive data unrelated to the publishing process. Authors submitting on behalf of co-authors must ensure that all co-authors are informed of the submission and the intended use of their data.

2. Purposes of Information Use

Personal data is utilized exclusively as necessary to:

• Create and manage user accounts and manuscript tracking records.
• Facilitate communication between authors, handling editors, and peer reviewers.
• Administer the double-blind peer-review workflow, authorship verifications, and research integrity checks.
• Prepare accepted articles and associated metadata for publication, indexing, discovery, and archiving.
• Process publication fees and maintain corresponding financial records.
• Ensure website security, maintain platform functionality, and send essential journal notifications.

3. Information Published with Articles

Publishing scholarly research requires making certain author details publicly accessible. Published metadata normally includes:

• Author names, institutional affiliations, and country locations.
• Contributor role statements (CRediT) and corresponding author contact details.
• Funding acknowledgments and competing-interest declarations.
• ORCID identifiers (where provided).

Authors should carefully review these details prior to publication. Unnecessary private contact numbers, residential addresses, and personal identifiers should never be included in manuscripts. Once published, articles and metadata are distributed to academic indexers, search engines, and digital preservation networks.

4. Confidentiality and Necessary Disclosures

• Editorial Confidentiality: Access to unpublished manuscripts, reviewer identities, and private correspondence is strictly limited to authorized editorial personnel and reviewers. Editors and reviewers must treat all submission materials as confidential.
• Double-Blind Review: Author identities are shielded during peer review in accordance with the journal's Peer Review Process. Authors must ensure identifying details are removed from review files.
• External Disclosures: Limited data may be shared with authorized publishing service providers, academic indexing bodies, or institutional research integrity committees only when strictly necessary to investigate a formal ethics concern or meet legal obligations.
• Research Ethics: Authors must protect the privacy of human research participants and obtain proper informed consent before publication. Sensitive participant data must not be disclosed in public supplementary files.
• AI Restrictions: Confidential manuscripts, reviewer identities, and private communications must never be uploaded to external AI services, in compliance with the journal's AI Policy.

5. External Services and Website Technologies

The journal website utilizes technical logs and session cookies to support secure sign-in, smooth navigation, and system protection. Technical data collected may include IP addresses, browser types, access timestamps, and page requests.

Embedded resources, visitor statistics counters, or external links may operate under their own independent privacy notices. Users should review those policies when interacting with external features.

6. Data Security and Retention

• Security Safeguards: The journal and its technical administrators implement robust access controls and security measures to protect non-public information against unauthorized access or disclosure.
• Retention Period: Personal information is retained only as long as necessary for its stated editorial, financial, or legal purposes. Data no longer required is securely deleted or anonymized.
• Permanent Scholarly Record: Published articles and core publication metadata are preserved permanently as part of the scholarly record. Closing an account does not remove published authorship records or documents required for editorial accountability.