Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy Introduction

euNOMIKA Legal Journal recognizes the value of, and is highly committed to, your privacy and personal data protection. As a peer-reviewed scientific legal journal published by the Center for Criminological, Legal, and Sociological Studies (CSC), our trusted relationship with our contributing authors, esteemed audience, the legal field, academic community, and general readers matters. This Privacy & Personal Data Protection Policy covers your personal data handling in connection with our website (https://eunomika.com/), article submission, events, and general interaction with key principle members of our Editorial Board. We urge you to read this policy carefully as it contains important information about what we do with your personal data, your rights, and your privacy-related entitlements that we endeavor to respect.

Information About euNOMIKA Legal Journal and Our Privacy Commitment

euNOMIKA Legal Journal is owned by the Center for Criminological, Legal and Sociological Studies (CSC), situated at 3000 West End Ave Ste 84, Nashville TN 37203, United States, which focuses on the advancement of legal and scientific scholarship in the USA. We are dedicated to upholding the highest standards of privacy and data protection by considering both US legal requirements and best practices relevant to scholarly journalism. Our editorial board, consisting of Domenico Martinelli as chairman, Rita Giorgi as Counsellor, and Claudio Mariani as members, recognizes the importance of privacy and confidentiality for any data we may receive, whether it pertains to article submissions, references, correspondence, or user activity within the euNOMIKA online platform. We are committed to being responsible, diligent, and transparent in our operations.

Privacy Policy Scope

This Privacy Policy is applicable to all readers of the euNOMIKA Legal Journal website, or Visitor(s) to the site (as further defined below), who access, browse, or otherwise use or interact with the euNOMIKA Legal Journal website, submit material for publication, and attend events or other activities organized by euNOMIKA (including editorial communication). This Privacy Policy applies to all personally identifiable information that is collected through the website (https://eunomika.com/), via email with the editorial team [[email protected]], by phone ((615) 531 2799), and in connection with any services we may provide in collaboration with other partners such as the International Library Scripta hic Sunt. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any third-party websites or services that you may link to through the use of our website; we urge you to review carefully the privacy policies of those external websites and services independently.

Types of Information Collected

Here are the kinds of information that euNOMIKA Legal Journal collects in order to fulfill its publishing functions and to provide, enhance, and safeguard the services it provides.

  • Personal Data: Names, email addresses, phone numbers, and institutional affiliations provided by authors, reviewers, and correspondents.
  • Content Data: Abstracts, CVs, article manuscripts, supplemental files, and metadata submitted with article manuscripts.
  • Credentials: Information about academic or professional credentials for verification and publication purposes.
  • Analytics Data (Website Usage): IP address; type of web browser; device identification number; type of device; operating system; access times; and other geo-location data. These data are collected using cookies (see our Cookie Policy) and web analytics tools.
  • Communications Content Data: Records and copies of correspondence you send us such as emails and letters, including feedback you provide to us and questions you send us.
  • Event Participation Data: Information submitted when you register for a legal conference, webinar or collaborative project, including professional affiliation and attendance participation history.
  • Legal Compliance Data: Information about you will be created in accordance with applicable U.S. laws, including information necessary to comply with legal requirements (e.g., conflicts of interest disclosures, publisher copyright and disclosure statement).

We limit the collection of data for these purposes to the minimum necessary.

Information Collection Methods

Information is collected in the following ways:

  • Provision: When you submit articles, abstracts, CVs, queries, etc., through our website forms, via email or other official correspondence.
  • Website activity: Cookies, analytic scripts, server logs and other automated technologies collect information regarding your web activity, device and usage to enhance site functionality and security.
  • Event registration: When you register for events or conferences, symposiums or webinars we collect registration information about you including professional background information.
  • Submissions: Personal information such as recommendations, reviews and evaluations may come from peer review and editorial activities as part of our evaluation process and are kept centrally for editorial and archival reasons.
  • Collaborations: Information may be shared during collaborative efforts with universities, law libraries or other partner collaborations, but only with strict Non-Disclosure agreements in place.

We maintain a transparent approach at every stage of collection, and request your permission where applicable.

Purposes for Data Collection and Processing

euNOMIKA Legal Journal collects and processes your information for the following purposes:

  • Editorial Review and Publication: To review, edit, publish and promote scholarly content, including by corresponding with authors, reviewers and editors.
  • User Account Management: To register and manage contributor identities, process submissions to our journal, manage our publication pipeline and record publication status.
  • Communication: To respond to questions or comments, send you updates and generally provide information about activities and events of euNOMIKA or other authors.
  • Event Organisation: To register and manage participants at public legal events, workshops, conferences or other scholarship and education activities of euNOMIKA.
  • Quality Assurance: To monitor and improve the performance of our website, its functionality and user experience and ensure that our peer review process maintains its high integrity.
  • Legal Compliance Requirements: To ensure we comply with all required legal, regulatory or ethical requirements, including copyright matters and potential legal conflicts of interests.
  • Security: To detect, prevent and respond to security incidents or misuse of our services.
  • Research and Statistical Analysis: De-identified data is analysed in order to understand readership trends, in order to improve content, editorial insights and our open-access mission.

We do not use your information for commercial or advertising purposes not related to the scholarly and/or journalistic mission of our journal.

Lawful Bases for Personal Data Processing

Our processing of your personal data is based on various lawful bases as defined in U.S. data privacy laws and, where applicable, international best practices (e.g., the GDPR), including:

  • Consent: In several instances, we process your data on the basis of your voluntary submission of information or consent to receive information.
  • Contractual necessity: In cases where processing is required to perform obligations to you (as an author, referee, or event attendee).
  • Compliance with law: In cases where the processing is required by statute or regulation.
  • Legitimate interests: In cases where the processing is required to ensure the operating and security of our journal, peer review, quality assurance, academic integrity, etc. We perform such processing in consideration of your rights and expectations.

By maintaining policies and procedures for protecting your information we do our utmost to ensure that your data is processed fairly, consistently, transparently, and in full respect of your rights.

Information Storage and Security

euNOMIKA Legal Journal uses appropriate administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect your Personal Data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure or destruction. Among these safeguards are:

  • Secure servers and encrypted data storage of electronic submissions and correspondence
  • Controlled access, so that only authorized personnel and editors have access to your information
  • Regular security audits and assessments of our site and database systems for vulnerabilities
  • Secure backup of information to guard against data loss in the event of a system failure
  • Confidentiality agreements with all editorial board members, reviewers and third party vendors
  • IT Staff are trained periodically on data privacy and proper handling of information

Though we make every effort to provide reasonable security measures for your information, no method of transmission or method of storage is completely secure. We continuously monitor, update and improve our measures to meet new security threats and risks.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

We operate a strict policy on confidentiality and do not sell, lease or trade in personally identifiable information to any third parties. Information will only be shared in the following limited circumstances:

  • Editorial and peer review process: Article submissions and reviewer comments may be shared with editors, reviewers and, where appropriate, third-party specialist consultants who are bound by letters of agreement under confidentiality provisions.
  • Institutional collaborations and joint projects: Where research projects have been developed jointly (for example between euNOMIKA and the International Library Scripta hic Sunt), required data may be shared under strict data protection arrangements.
  • Legal requirement: We will cooperate with law enforcement agencies and regulators, e.g. by complying with legal requests to disclose information when we are required to do so by law, regulation or under the order of a competent court or authority.
  • Service providers: We employ trusted third-party vendors (for example, outsourced software development, IT support services and data back-up services) for the purpose of processing data and providing ancillary support to us, under detailed data protection agreements. Service providers will never use your data for their own purposes.
  • We only share limited data with co-organisers or speakers for the purposes of organising events.

We don’t share your data for commercial marketing or other non-related purposes without your explicit consent.

Data Retention Periods

We retain your personal data as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, or as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law. We may retain your information as follows:

  • Article submissions, correspondence and peer review records are retained for the purpose of archival, scholarship, and legally sufficient record-keeping as is standard academic publishing practice.
  • Contributor and reviewer profiles are retained for as long as the contributor or reviewer is affiliated with the journal, or until a deletion request has been made.
  • Event registration and participation is retained for the purpose of event management, follow-up and reporting after which event registration data is securely archived or deleted.
  • Website use data and analytics are generally retained in deidentified, aggregated form indefinitely in order to optimize our website operations.
  • Legal compliance records (e.g., copyright notices, conflict of interest declarations etc.) are stored until such time as they are no longer required by relevant laws.

When personal data is no longer necessary, it will be securely deleted or anonymized to the extent possible.

Your Information Rights and Options

As a user, contributor or collaborator (“contributor”) with euNOMIKA Legal Journal you have certain rights regarding your personally identifiable information (“PII”):

  • Access: You may access the personally identifiable information that we hold about you and can request a copy of your PII.
  • Rectification: You can request rectification of inaccurate or incomplete information that we hold about you.
  • Deletion: You may request erasure of your PII, subject to any retention obligations for legal, academic or scholarly purposes.
  • Restriction: Under certain circumstances, you can request restriction of our processing of your PII.
  • Objection: You can object to some forms of processing based on our legitimate interests, such as analytics or quality control.
  • Withdrawal of Consent: Where our processing is based on your prior consent, you have the right to withdraw consent at any time where the processing is based on that consent.

To exercise any of these rights, please email our editorial office at [email protected] or reach us by telephone at (615) 531-2799. We will assess all requests and respond accordingly in accordance with local law and academic publishing guidelines.

Information Security Measures

We acknowledge the significance of data security in legal and academic publishing. euNOMIKA Legal Journal takes a series of precautions to safeguard your data:

  • SSL encryption for all data exchanged via our website.
  • Password-protected access to editorial and submission administration systems.
  • Regular updates and patching of our website infrastructure against known vulnerabilities.
  • Two-factor authentication of editorial board user accounts.
  • Physical safety at our editorial office, storage media storage and servers secured and access-restricted.
  • Incident response procedures for any suspected compromise or attempted unauthorized access to our systems.

If your personal information were compromised due to a security incident, we would notify you as soon as possible and take measures to reduce the impact and prevent it from happening again.

Cookies and Website Usage Analytics

Our website uses cookies and other similar technologies to process your usage on this site, as well as aggregate site analytics, and to authenticate site security and integrity. Cookies are small data files that are stored on your computer. We use cookies to:

  • Remember preferences (e.g., your language and accessibility preferences)
  • Collect aggregate data about how our site is used and its performance (e.g., the pages that people visit the most or certain performance information thereof)
  • Enable a secure log-in for site contributors and reviewers
  • Facilitate the recognition and prevention of site abuse or fraud

Cookies can be deleted or turned off in the settings of most browsers; however, some functionality on this site may not work without them. We do not use cookies for advertising purposes by third parties, or in any commercial-tracking way. For more details, please see our Cookie Policy.

External Links and Third-Party Services

The euNOMIKA Legal Journal site may include links to third-party sites, legal sites or partner-sites, such as the International Library Scripta hic Sunt. Third-party websites have their own privacy and security practices, separately and independently from those of euNOMIKA Legal Journal. We are not responsible for the content, security practices or data practices of third-party websites. We encourage users to read and understand partner websites’ privacy policies before divulging any personal information or using their services.

International Data Transfers

Although euNOMIKA Legal Journal is U.S.-based, and its content and services are directed at U.S. legal and academic communities, the nature of our open access platform and international partnerships may result in transborder transfer of personal data. euNOMIKA Legal Journal does everything possible to make sure such international transfers take place in compliance with applicable U.S. legal standards as well as those articulated by the academic publishing community and, to the extent applicable, transnational data protection instruments. All transfers are carried out with appropriate safeguards in mind including, by way of example, contractual instruments and confidentiality arrangements, in order to protect your rights and privacy.

Children’s Online Privacy

The euNOMIKA Legal Journal (“euNOMIKA”) is accessible to legal practitioners, scholars, and adult members of the public. It does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children under the age of 16. If we learn that we have collected or received personal information from a minor without verified parental consent, we will delete such information. If you are a parent or guardian concerned with your child’s improper use of our service, please contact us at [email protected].

Author and Contributor Privacy Practices

Authors, editors, and other scholarly contributors provide personal and proprietary material to us in connection with submissions, peer review and other processes. We respect that information:

  • Submission files and authors’ personal information are managed and accessed only by relevant editorial staff and peer reviewers, and by professional advisers or consultants on a confidential basis as necessary.
  • We do not disclose information about authors before publication without prior consent in instances other than as necessary to publish the submission (e.g., author names and affiliations with published work).
  • Identities of peer reviewers are kept confidential, unless otherwise agreed, and comments provided in peer review are anonymous, except as otherwise agreed.
  • Authors can request that we update or remove submission data to the extent practicable by contacting our editorial office.

We do all of this to respect authors’ privacy and other academic values.

Reviewer and Editorial Board Privacy Practices

  • The names of reviewers will not be made public, except where open peer review is deliberately initiated and agreed in advance.
  • Profiles of editorial board members will only be published with prior agreement and limited to professional experience and position.
  • Editorial correspondence, recommendations and assessments will be held in confidence, stored securely and only available to authorized persons.
  • Reviewers and editors may request the amendment or deletion of personal information for other than necessary academic and legal retention.
  • We seek to ensure a culture of ethics and respect in editorial and reviewing processes.

User Account and Security Measures

euNOMIKA Legal Journal Contributors and Reviewers who create user accounts are responsible for keeping their login credentials private. euNOMIKA suggests that contributors and reviewers:

  • Set strong, unique passwords and change them regularly
  • Notify us via email immediately at [email protected] if you suspect your account has been unlawfully accessed
  • Log out once your euNOMIKA Account has been accessed on a shared or public device

We monitor user accounts for unusual activity and will suspend or terminate accounts if security risks are posed or terms of use are prohibited.

Our technical support team is available to assist with account recovery and security matters.

Submission Handling Procedures and Supplementary Materials

When submitting an article, abstract, curriculum vitae, and any supplementary materials, please do not include extraneous personal data or sensitive information. We process and store submission files behind strict access controls and only use these files for editorial review and publication processing. Where supplementary information includes personal or third party details, authors must ensure they have permission from the relevant parties to process this data as stipulated. Published articles will include only that information necessary for scholarly communication purposes according to academic publishing standards.

Transparency in Scholarly Publishing

Transparency is a fundamental expectation of the euNOMIKA Legal Journal. Our authors and readers can access clear information regarding editorial policies, the peer-review process, data presentation, and author handling. Comprehensive details concerning author/authorship requirements, conflict of interest, copyright policies, and retractions are available on our website. We are committed to promptly communicating any changes to our privacy practices or editorial policies to our community.

Legal Compliance and Regulations

As a legal journal based in the United States, euNOMIKA Legal Journal is subject to applicable federal and state data protection laws and regulations, including but not limited to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and other relevant laws and statutes, as well as best practices of academic publishing. To the extent relevant, euNOMIKA Legal Journal also complies with applicable international norms, rules and standards, including the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) in relation to its international contributors, clients and readers. We keep abreast of legal developments and update our privacy practice as appropriate.

Privacy Policy Changes

We may revise and modify this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect our changing business, services, legal or best practices requirements. In the event of significant changes, we will provide a prominent notice on our website and, when appropriate, we will also contact registered users via email. The latest effective date appears at the top of this policy. We ask that all website users review this policy from time to time to ensure they are aware of how we use and protect your information.

Contact Us

For questions, comments, requests or complaints with respect to this Privacy Policy or our privacy procedures and practices, please contact the Privacy Contact for euNOMIKA Legal Journal at:

Our Privacy Contact will respond to your question, comment, request or complaint promptly and transparently. We hope that you find our response to your questions, concerns or complaints of data practices satisfying. We value your trust and confidence in our services and are committed to safeguarding your information.

Your Agreement and Consent

By using the euNOMIKA Legal Journal website, submitting articles or information or attending our events, you agree to the terms of our Privacy Policy as set forth in this Privacy Policy. Also, the continued use by you of any of our services signifies your acceptance of such Policy. If you do not agree to all of these terms, we recommend you not use our website, or submit any personal information. We wish to earn and to preserve your trust by employing responsible and thoughtful information handling practices.

Additional Resources and Support

Editorial Privacy Statement:

For general information about privacy rights, the standards governing academic publishing, or the protection of legal data, it may be prudent to contact other centres of expertise, such as the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), or the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Alternatively, our Editorial team shall be pleased to assist you with specific queries regarding our privacy statement at [email protected]. At euNOMIKA Legal Journal, we are most concerned about your privacy, security, and academic integrity.