Privacy Statement

JICN adheres strictly to privacy-preserving practices in scholarly communication.     User data collection is limited to registered contributors and serves exclusively to facilitate:

Peer review operations
Aggregate analysis of submission patterns and publication metrics
Geospatial tracking of academic collaboration networks
The Editorial Board employs these anonymized datasets to enhance publication quality while maintaining full GDPR compliance.     This includes implementation of:

Mandatory breach notification protocols
Subject access rights management systems
Data portability interfaces (JSON/XML formats)
Privacy-by-design architecture
Author Responsibilities
Corresponding authors must certify compliance with institutional ethics board requirements for human subject data.

Contact Information Usage
Email addresses and institutional affiliations are solely utilized for:

Manuscript status notifications via encrypted channels (TLS 1.3+)
ORCID synchronization through OAuth 2.0
Citation alert services (OPT-in basis)
No personally identifiable information is shared beyond the platform boundaries.     Historical records adhere to NIST 800-88 media sanitization standards upon request for erasure.