Privacy Statement

Employee Relations Law Journal respects the privacy of authors, reviewers, editors, readers, subscribers, and visitors to its website. This Privacy Statement explains how personal information may be collected, used, stored, and protected in connection with the journal's website, editorial activities, manuscript submission, peer-review process, publication, and related services.

We may collect personal and professional information that is voluntarily provided by users, including:

  • Name and academic or professional affiliation

  • Email address and contact details

  • Postal address, where required

  • ORCID iD and other professional identifiers

  • Manuscript information and author details

  • Reviewer information and areas of academic expertise

  • Editorial correspondence and communication records

  • Payment or billing information, where applicable

  • Information provided when users register, submit manuscripts, communicate with the editorial office, or use journal services

We may also collect limited technical information, such as IP address, browser type, device information, operating system, referring pages, and website usage information, for security, maintenance, and website improvement purposes.

Personal information may be used for legitimate journal and publishing purposes, including:

  • Processing and managing manuscript submissions

  • Communicating with authors, reviewers, editors, and readers

  • Conducting and administering the peer-review process

  • Managing editorial and publication activities

  • Verifying author, reviewer, or editorial information

  • Processing applicable publication or service-related payments

  • Maintaining publication and editorial records

  • Responding to enquiries and requests

  • Improving website functionality and user experience

  • Preventing fraud, misuse, unauthorized access, and other security risks

  • Complying with applicable legal and regulatory requirements

Personal information will not be used for purposes unrelated to the journal's legitimate publishing and editorial activities without appropriate notice or consent, where required.

Manuscripts submitted to the Employee Relations Law Journal are treated as confidential during the editorial and peer-review process, subject to the journal's policies and applicable legal requirements.

Information relating to reviewers and peer-review activities will be handled in accordance with the journal's peer-review procedures. Reviewers should not disclose or use confidential manuscript information for purposes unrelated to the review process.

Information necessary for scholarly publication may become publicly available when a manuscript is published. This may include the author's name, institutional affiliation, ORCID iD, article title, abstract, acknowledgements, and other bibliographic or professional information included in the published article.

Authors should ensure that they have the necessary permissions before submitting personal information relating to other individuals.

The journal website may use cookies or similar technologies to maintain website functionality, remember user preferences, improve security, analyze website usage, and improve the user experience.

Users may be able to manage or disable cookies through their browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect some website functionality.

Employee Relations Law Journal does not sell or rent users' personal information.

Personal information may be shared with authorized individuals or service providers where reasonably necessary to operate the journal, including editorial and publishing service providers, website hosting providers, payment processors, information technology providers, and other organizations supporting journal operations.

Information may also be disclosed where required by applicable law, regulation, court order, or legitimate legal process.

Reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures are used to protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, loss, or misuse.

However, no method of electronic transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Users should therefore exercise appropriate care when transmitting information through the internet.

Personal information may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, including maintaining editorial, publication, authorship, peer-review, financial, and legal records.

Published scholarly records may be retained permanently as part of the academic publication record.

The journal website may contain links to external websites, databases, indexing services, repositories, payment platforms, or other third-party services. The privacy practices of those websites are governed by their respective privacy policies.

Employee Relations Law Journal is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, or content of external websites.

The journal's services are intended primarily for researchers, academics, professionals, students, reviewers, editors, and other users involved in scholarly communication. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children for purposes unrelated to legitimate journal activities.

Subject to applicable law, individuals may have rights regarding their personal information, including the right to