Privacy Statement

FourthIR Limited is committed to protecting the privacy and personal data of its users, including authors, reviewers, editors, and readers. We will work as hard as possible not to collect any of your personal information. However, if we do, the following applies:

The names, email addresses, institutional affiliations, and other personal information entered on this site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and publisher. These purposes include manuscript processing, peer review, editorial communication, publication, indexing, and site administration. Such data will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party except as required to support journal operations or as required by law.

Personal data may be processed in accordance with applicable data protection regulations and best practices in scholarly publishing. Information may be shared with trusted third-party service providers (e.g., hosting services, indexing services, DOI registration agencies) strictly for operational and publishing purposes.

User accounts are password-protected, and reasonable technical and organizational safeguards are implemented to protect personal information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of electronic transmission or storage is entirely secure, and users acknowledge this inherent risk.

Users may request access to, correction of, or deletion of their personal data by contacting the publisher through the official contact channels provided on this site, subject to legal and publishing record retention requirements.

By registering with this site or submitting a manuscript, users consent to the collection and use of their information in accordance with this Privacy Statement.