Privacy Statement

CETHE: Journal of Creative Economics and Trading Halal Ecosystem is committed to protecting the privacy, confidentiality, and personal information of authors, reviewers, editors, readers, and other users of the journal website and submission system. Personal information collected through the journal's submission, peer-review, publication, and communication processes will be used only for legitimate scholarly and editorial purposes.

1. Information Collected

The journal may collect information provided by users during registration, manuscript submission, peer review, correspondence, and other interactions with the journal. Such information may include:

  • Full name;

  • Institutional affiliation;

  • Academic or professional position;

  • Email address;

  • ORCID or other researcher identifiers;

  • Country or institutional information;

  • Manuscript and submission information;

  • Reviewer information;

  • Editorial correspondence; and

  • Other information voluntarily provided by users.

Users are responsible for ensuring that the personal information they provide is accurate and appropriate for the purposes of journal administration.

2. Use of Personal Information

Personal information collected by CETHE may be used for purposes including:

  • processing manuscript submissions;

  • managing peer review;

  • communicating editorial decisions and requests;

  • contacting authors, reviewers, and editors regarding journal activities;

  • managing publication and production processes;

  • maintaining the journal's editorial and publication records;

  • facilitating scholarly communication; and

  • complying with applicable publication-ethics and administrative requirements.

Personal information will not be used for unrelated purposes without appropriate authorization.

3. Confidentiality of Manuscripts

Submitted manuscripts, unpublished research findings, reviewer reports, editorial correspondence, and other confidential materials will be treated as confidential.

Because CETHE uses a double-blind peer-review process, information that could identify authors or reviewers should not be disclosed during the review process except where necessary for legitimate editorial or ethical purposes.

Reviewers, editors, and editorial staff are expected to maintain the confidentiality of all materials received through the journal's editorial process.

4. Protection of Personal and Research Data

CETHE takes reasonable measures to protect personal information and confidential research materials against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or misuse.

Authors and reviewers should not submit confidential personal information, unpublished research data, identifiable participant information, or other protected materials to external services or third-party tools unless appropriate authorization and ethical safeguards are in place.

Particular care should be taken when using generative AI or other external technologies in connection with manuscripts or research materials.

5. Research Participants

Authors are responsible for protecting the privacy and confidentiality of research participants.

Manuscripts involving human participants should not disclose personally identifiable information unless disclosure is ethically justified and appropriate consent has been obtained.

Authors should comply with applicable research-ethics requirements concerning informed consent, confidentiality, privacy, and data protection.

6. Sharing of Personal Information

CETHE does not sell, rent, or otherwise commercially distribute users' personal information.

Personal information may be disclosed when necessary for legitimate journal operations, publication-ethics investigations, legal obligations, or other circumstances permitted or required by applicable regulations.

Where information must be shared with third parties for legitimate editorial or technical purposes, the journal seeks to limit disclosure to information necessary for that purpose.

7. Published Information

Information that is part of a published scholarly article, such as author names, affiliations, article titles, abstracts, acknowledgments, and other publication metadata, may become publicly accessible as part of the scholarly record.

Authors should therefore ensure that submitted manuscripts do not contain unnecessary personal or confidential information that they do not intend to make publicly available.

8. Cookies and Website Usage

The journal website and its publishing platform may use cookies, server logs, or similar technical mechanisms to support website functionality, security, authentication, and basic usage of the journal platform.

Technical information may be collected automatically when users access the website, depending on the configuration of the publishing platform and associated services.

9. Third-Party Services

The journal may use external scholarly and technical services to support activities such as DOI registration, indexing, citation tracking, plagiarism detection, manuscript submission, website functionality, and research dissemination.

Information transferred to such services will be handled in accordance with their applicable policies and the legitimate requirements of the journal's publishing activities.

10. Email and Editorial Communication

Email addresses and other contact information provided to CETHE may be used to communicate about manuscript submissions, peer review, editorial decisions, publication processes, journal announcements, and other legitimate journal-related matters.

Users should ensure that their contact information remains accurate throughout the submission and publication process.

11. Data Retention

CETHE may retain submission records, publication records, editorial correspondence, reviewer information, and related administrative information for as long as necessary to maintain the scholarly record, manage editorial processes, address publication-ethics matters, and meet legitimate administrative or legal requirements.

Published article metadata and related scholarly records may be retained permanently as part of the academic record.

12. Privacy of Reviewers and Editors

Information identifying reviewers and internal editorial assessments will be treated confidentially in accordance with the journal's double-blind peer-review process and applicable editorial policies.

Reviewer identities will not be disclosed to authors unless disclosure is permitted or required under the journal's applicable review policy.

13. Children's and Vulnerable Participants' Data

Where research involves children or other vulnerable participants, authors must take particular care to protect their privacy, confidentiality, safety, and dignity.

Personally identifiable information should not be disclosed in manuscripts unless there is a legitimate ethical basis and appropriate consent or authorization.

14. Changes to This Privacy Statement

CETHE may update this Privacy Statement periodically to reflect changes in its editorial practices, publishing platform, research-ethics requirements, data-protection regulations, or scholarly publishing standards.

Any updated version will be made available through the journal website.

15. Contact

Questions or concerns regarding privacy, confidentiality, or the handling of personal information may be directed to the journal's editorial office through the official journal contact and submission system.

By registering with, submitting to, reviewing for, or otherwise using the CETHE journal platform, users acknowledge that their information may be processed as described in this Privacy Statement for legitimate scholarly, editorial, and publishing purposes.