1. Introduction
The African Journal of Insurance and Finance (AJIF) is committed to protecting the privacy, confidentiality, and personal information of authors, reviewers, editors, readers, researchers, and other users who interact with the Journal and its online publishing platform.
Personal information collected by AJIF will be processed responsibly and securely, and only for legitimate scholarly publishing, administrative, communication, and related purposes. The Journal seeks to apply recognized principles of data protection, research integrity and ethical scholarly publishing.
2. Information Collected
AJIF may collect personal information when individuals register on the Journal website, submit manuscripts, participate in peer review, subscribe to notifications, communicate with the editorial office, or otherwise interact with the Journal.
- Names and professional titles;
- Institutional affiliations;
- Postal and physical addresses where necessary;
- Email addresses and telephone numbers;
- ORCID iDs and other researcher identifiers;
- Academic qualifications and areas of expertise;
- Biographical information;
- Manuscript submission and publication records;
- Peer-review history;
- Editorial correspondence;
- Conflict-of-interest declarations;
- Website registration and account information; and
- Technical information generated through use of the Journal online platform, including IP addresses, browser information and access logs where applicable.
AJIF will only collect information that is reasonably necessary for the operation and development of the Journal.
3. How Personal Information Is Used
Information collected by AJIF may be used to:
- Administer manuscript submission, screening, peer review, editorial decision-making and publication;
- Identify and communicate with authors, reviewers, editors and other contributors;
- Match manuscripts with suitably qualified reviewers;
- Maintain accurate records of editorial and peer-review processes;
- Publish author names, institutional affiliations, ORCID identifiers and other information normally associated with scholarly publications;
- Facilitate indexing, abstracting, citation, DOI registration and research discoverability;
- Communicate journal announcements, calls for papers and other scholarly information to users who have elected to receive such communications;
- Maintain the security and integrity of the Journal's digital publishing platform;
- Prevent plagiarism, research misconduct, fraud, duplicate submission or other breaches of publication ethics;
- Produce aggregated and anonymized statistics relating to submissions, readership, geographic reach and Journal performance; and
- Fulfill applicable legal, regulatory and institutional obligations.
Personal information will not be used for purposes that are materially inconsistent with the purpose for which it was collected without appropriate notice or consent.