Privacy Policy

Last updated: 15 October 2026

Premier Academic Publishers ("we", "us") runs this website and its open-access journals. This policy explains what personal information we collect, why, how long we keep it, and your rights. It applies to visitors, authors, reviewers and editors.

Who is responsible for your data

Premier Academic Publishers is the data controller for personal data processed through this website. Questions or requests about your data: [email protected].

What we collect

• Account details — your name, email address, affiliation, country and (optionally) ORCID iD when you create an account. Your password is stored only in an irreversible, encrypted (hashed) form; we cannot see it.
• Manuscripts and submission information — the files you upload, title, abstract, keywords, co-author names and affiliations, and declarations (competing interests, funding, ethics approval, waiver requests).
• Editorial correspondence — status updates, editors' messages and emails exchanged about your manuscript.
• Contact form messages — your name, email address and message.
• Technical information — like most websites, our server records basic information such as IP address, browser type and the pages requested, for security and to keep the site working.
• Payment information — article processing charges are paid by bank transfer outside this website. We keep a record that payment was received; we do not collect or store card or bank account numbers on the site.

Why we use it

• To run your account and process your submission through editorial checks, peer review, decision and publication.
• To contact you about your manuscript and your account (submission receipts, status updates, password resets).
• To publish accepted articles, including the authors' names, affiliations and ORCID iDs, which are part of the scholarly record.
• To answer enquiries, keep the website secure, and meet our legal and publishing-ethics obligations.

We process this information to perform the publishing service you ask us for, with your consent where required, and for our legitimate interest in running a secure, ethical journal. We do not sell personal data and do not use it for advertising.

Who we share it with

• Editors and reviewers of the journal you submit to. Peer review is anonymous: reviewers receive the manuscript without author names.
• Readers — once an article is published, its author names, affiliations and ORCID iDs are public, as in any academic journal.
• Indexing and identifier services (such as DOI registration agencies and academic indexes) receive article metadata needed to make published work discoverable.
• Service providers that host the website and its email, under their own security obligations.
• Authorities, where the law requires it.

Cookies

We use a single essential cookie that keeps you signed in. It is deleted when you close your browser. We do not use advertising or analytics cookies. Pages load fonts from Google Fonts, which means your browser connects to Google's servers to download them.

How long we keep it

• Accounts — until you ask us to close your account.
• Manuscripts and editorial records — kept for the journal's editorial record, as is standard publishing practice; published articles are kept permanently as part of the scholarly record.
• Contact messages and email records — only as long as needed to deal with the matter.
• Backups — copies of the database are kept for 14 days, then deleted automatically.

How we protect it

The site is served over an encrypted connection (HTTPS). Submitted manuscript files are stored privately and can be downloaded only by the author and the journal's assigned editors. Staff access is limited to the journals each editor is assigned to.

Your rights

Under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 (and, where it applies to you, similar laws such as the GDPR) you may ask to access the personal data we hold about you, correct it, delete it, restrict or object to how we use it, or receive a copy of it. You can update most account details yourself under Profile. For anything else, email [email protected]. Some information cannot be deleted once an article is published, because it forms part of the permanent scholarly record. If you are unhappy with how we handle your data, you may complain to the Nigeria Data Protection Commission.

Children

This website is intended for researchers and professionals. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy. The date at the top shows when it last changed.