Privacy Policy
Effective Date: October 1, 2024
Manuskrito is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled securely and responsibly.
1. Information We Collect
- Account Information: Name, email address, institution affiliation, contact details.
- Manuscript and Submission Information: Title, author names, institution, year, digital file or link, metadata.
- Metadata Submissions: Manuscript title, author names, year of publication, institution details.
- Usage Data: Search queries, pages viewed, features accessed, submission and file downloads, analytics data.
- Payment Information: For royalty-based access, collected through third-party payment processor. Credit card details are not stored.
2. How We Use Your Information
- Providing Services: Facilitate manuscript submissions, metadata submissions, and searches; allow users to access and download manuscripts; provide authors with analytics.
- Communication: Send notifications regarding submissions, new features, updates, or policy changes; respond to support inquiries.
- Analytics and Improvement: Analyze platform usage, measure engagement, provide feedback to authors and institutions.
- Security and Fraud Prevention: Ensure platform security, prevent fraud, monitor for malicious activity.
3. Information Sharing and Disclosure
- Service Providers: Hosting services, data analytics services, payment processing services.
- Legal Obligations: If required by law or to comply with legal processes.
- Protecting Our Rights: When necessary to enforce Terms and Conditions or protect safety.
4. Data Retention
Personal information is retained as long as necessary to provide services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce agreements.
5. Your Rights
- Access and Correction: Update account information at any time via account settings.
- Manuscript and Metadata Removal: Authors and users may request removal.
- Data Portability: Request a copy of personal data in a commonly used format.
- Right to Object: Object to processing for certain purposes such as marketing communications.
- Right to Erasure: Request deletion of personal information.
6. Security
Reasonable technical and organizational measures are taken to protect personal information. No method of transmission is 100% secure.
7. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Manuskrito may use cookies to recognize users, remember preferences, and understand usage patterns. Third-party analytics tools may also be used.
8. Children's Privacy
Manuskrito is not intended for use by children under the age of 13.
9. Changes to the Privacy Policy
Users will be notified of updates via email or platform notification.
10. Contact Information
For privacy-related inquiries, please contact us.
See also our Terms and Conditions.