Privacy Statement
Dampak: Jurnal Teknik Lingkungan, published by the Department of Environmental Engineering, Universitas Andalas, respects the privacy of its authors, reviewers, readers, and everyone else who uses its website (jurnaldampak.ft.unand.ac.id). This statement describes what personal information the journal collects, why it is collected, who may see it, and how it is protected. By using the website and its services, you accept the practices described here.
Our commitments
- Names and email addresses entered on this website are used only for the journal’s stated purposes. They are not made available to any other party or for any other purpose.
- The journal takes reasonable precautions, but hacking and data-mining techniques available on the Internet keep advancing. Dampak therefore cannot guarantee that third parties will never harvest users’ email addresses by some means found online.
1. What We Collect
| Who you are | What we collect | When |
|---|---|---|
| Author | Name, email address, postal address, telephone number, institutional affiliation, optional biographical details, and the manuscript itself. A manuscript may contain personal data of research participants if the author has not fully anonymized it. | When you submit a manuscript |
| Reviewer | Name, email address, institutional affiliation, areas of expertise, and the content of your review report | When you agree to review a manuscript |
| Reader or registered user | Name, username, email address, and affiliation | When you register an account on the journal’s Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform |
| Anyone who writes to us | Your contact details and the content of your message | When you contact the editorial office |
| Any visitor | Server log data recorded automatically: IP address, browser type, operating system, referring page, pages visited, device information, search terms, and cookie information | Whenever you use the website |
2. Why We Use It
- Publishing process: handling submissions, peer review, editorial decisions, copyediting, production, and publication.
- Communication: contacting authors, reviewers, editors, and readers about manuscript status, review requests, decisions, and enquiries.
- Website operation: running, securing, and improving the website and OJS platform, including remembering login details.
- Records and preservation: keeping journal records and preserving the scholarly record, including archiving published content.
- Legal compliance: meeting legal requirements and protecting the rights, property, and safety of the journal, Universitas Andalas, users, and the public.
- Statistics: producing anonymized or aggregated figures on usage, submissions, and readership.
3. Grounds for Processing
The journal collects and uses personal information only when at least one of the following applies:
- You have given consent.
- It is necessary to carry out the publishing process you have asked for, such as handling your submission and publishing your article if it is accepted.
- It serves the journal’s legitimate interests, such as running the journal, managing peer review, protecting the integrity of the scholarly record, and communicating with you, and these interests do not override your rights.
- The law requires it.
4. Who Can See Your Information
| Recipient | What they may see | Why |
|---|---|---|
| The public | Author names and affiliations, and the corresponding author’s email address, published with each article | Attribution and scholarly communication |
| Authors and reviewers (in review) | Nothing about each other’s identity. Peer review is blind, and reviewer identities are not revealed to authors without the reviewer’s consent. | Fair and confidential review |
| Service providers | Only what each service needs, covering website hosting, plagiarism checking with Turnitin, DOI registration with Crossref, archiving services, and technical support for OJS. These providers must protect confidentiality and may not use the information for other purposes. | Running and preserving the journal |
| Indexing and abstracting services | Article metadata, including author names, affiliations, and abstracts | Making articles easier to find |
| Universitas Andalas | Relevant information, handled by authorized staff of the university and the Department of Environmental Engineering | Journal administration and oversight |
| Authorities | Information that the law requires, or that is needed to comply with a legal obligation, protect rights or property, prevent fraud, protect personal safety in urgent cases, or guard against legal liability | Legal and safety reasons |
The journal does not sell, rent, or lease personal information to third parties for their marketing.
5. Security and Its Limits
The journal applies appropriate technical and organizational measures to guard personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, loss, or destruction. The OJS platform has security features, and access to personal data is limited to authorized staff. No method of transmitting or storing data over the Internet is completely secure, however, so absolute security cannot be guaranteed. As stated above, this includes the possibility that third parties may harvest users’ email addresses through methods found online.
6. How Long We Keep Information
Personal information is kept only as long as needed for the purposes in this statement, to protect the scholarly record, and to meet legal obligations, such as archiving under the journal’s Archiving page or resolving disputes. Information tied to published articles is kept permanently as part of the scholarly record. Data linked to rejected manuscripts or inactive accounts is managed or deleted according to the journal’s retention practices and applicable law.
7. Cookies
Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your device. The journal’s website, which runs on OJS, uses them as follows:
- Essential cookies: needed for the site to work, for example to let authors, reviewers, and editors log in to secure areas.
- Functional cookies: remember choices such as your username or language preference.
You can set your browser to refuse cookies or to warn you when one is sent. If you refuse them, some parts of the website may not work.
8. Links to Other Websites
The website may link to sites run by others. The journal does not control these sites and is not responsible for their content or privacy practices, so please read the privacy policy of each site you visit.
9. Changes to This Statement
The journal may update this statement when its practices, services, or legal requirements change. Significant changes will be posted on this page. Please review the statement from time to time.
10. Contact
For questions or concerns about this statement or the way the journal handles personal information, contact the editorial office of Dampak: Jurnal Teknik Lingkungan through the Contact page.
