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Berkala Ilmiah Pertanian (operated by Jember University Press, Universitas Jember, and accessible via our official website and emails at bip@journal.unej.ac.id or Bip@unej.ac.id) is deeply committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal information when you interact with our journal as an author, reviewer, editor, subscriber, or website visitor.

By accessing our website, submitting a manuscript, or communicating with us via our official email addresses, you consent to the data practices described in this policy.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect, store, and process several categories of personal and professional data to facilitate our scholarly publishing operations:

• Personal Identification & Contact Information: Full name, institutional affiliation, academic title, postal address, email address (including correspondence sent to bip@journal.unej.ac.id or Bip@unej.ac.id), and telephone numbers.

• Academic & Professional Credentials: User account credentials, research fields of interest, biographies, publication histories, and persistent digital identifiers such as ORCID iDs.

• Manuscript Submission & Peer-Review Data: Metadata associated with submitted papers, manuscript files, revisions, reviewer reports, editorial feedback, and all related communications between authors, editors, and reviewers.

• Financial Information (If Applicable): Details required for processing article processing charges (APCs) or publication fees, handled securely through authorized institutional payment gateways.

• Technical & Usage Data: Standard log information such as Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser types, operating systems, referring URLs, access timestamps, and pages viewed on our journal website.
  
  

2. How We Use Your Information

The personal data collected is used strictly for legitimate academic publishing and editorial management purposes, including:

• Processing, evaluating, tracking, and publishing submitted manuscripts.

• Managing the double-blind or single-blind peer-review process and facilitating communication among authors, editors, and reviewers.

• Notifying you about the status of your submission, editorial decisions, corrections, or upcoming issues of the journal.

• Displaying author and affiliation details publicly on published articles to ensure academic attribution, indexing, and transparency.

• Sending periodic updates, calls for papers, or newsletters related to the journal (users may opt out of non-essential communications at any time).

• Maintaining archival records in compliance with national and international digital preservation standards (e.g., Crossref, DOIs, and archiving databases).

• Analyzing website traffic and user behavior to improve our digital platform, user experience, and journal performance.
  
  

3. Confidentiality, Disclosure, and Data Sharing

• Peer-Review Integrity: To maintain the objectivity and integrity of the peer-review process, the identities of reviewers are kept strictly confidential from authors, and vice versa (in accordance with our double-blind review policy), unless an open peer-review model is explicitly agreed upon.

• No Commercial Sale of Data: Berkala Ilmiah Pertanian does not sell, trade, rent, or lease your personal information to third parties for marketing or commercial purposes.

• Service Providers & Hosting: We may share necessary data with trusted service providers who assist us in operating our website, hosting our Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform, or managing digital object identifiers (DOIs) and plagiarism detection software. These partners are bound by confidentiality obligations.

• Legal and Institutional Compliance: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law, court order, or governmental regulations, or if necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of Universitas Jember, our staff, or our scientific community.
  
  

4. Data Security

We implement robust administrative, technical, and physical security measures—such as secure servers, password protection, encrypted communications, and restricted database access—to protect your personal data and unpublished manuscripts against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

5. Data Retention

We retain personal data and manuscript records for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, comply with academic archiving mandates, resolve disputes, and enforce our publishing agreements. Published articles and their corresponding metadata (including author names and affiliations) are permanently archived as part of the scholarly record.

6. Your Rights Regarding Your Data

Depending on your jurisdiction, you possess certain rights regarding your personal information, including:

• Access & Rectification: You have the right to access, update, or correct your personal information and profile details at any time by logging into your journal account.
  
  

• Data Deletion / Erasure: You may request the deletion of your personal data, subject to legal, ethical, and archival obligations that require journals to preserve historical records of published works and editorial processes.
  
  

• Restriction of Processing: You can request limits on how your data is processed under specific circumstances.
  
  

7. External Links & Third-Party Sites

Our journal website and emails may contain links to external websites, indexing services, social media platforms, or partner databases (e.g., Google Scholar, Crossref, SINTA). We are not responsible for the privacy practices, terms of use, or content of these external sites. We encourage you to review their respective privacy policies.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

Berkala Ilmiah Pertanian reserves the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time to reflect operational enhancements, technological updates, or legal changes. Any revisions will be posted directly on this page with an updated revision date.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or how your data is handled, please reach out to our editorial office:

• Official Email: bip@journal.unej.ac.id or Bip@unej.ac.id
  Publisher: Jember University Press, Universitas Jember, Indonesia