Privacy Policy

UCL Press journals only collects the data that is required in order to provide services to you, that is:

  • Submitting an article for publication
  • Contacting you with information about our membership programme
  • Contacting us via our contact form
  • Monitoring our infrastructure for bugs or security issues
  • Non-intrusive cookies to track which articles are viewed and downloaded

If you wish to contact us to discuss any data we may have about you, you can contact us at uclpressjournals [at] ucl [dot] ac [dot] uk. Under UK GDPR legislation you have the right to withdraw your consent to our use of this data, however, it should be noted that Right to Erasure may not apply to authors of a submitted article as we have a legitimate interest in keeping your data to identify you as the author of a published and indexed text.


Data sharing

We may share some of your data with external persons for the following purposes only:

  • Editing, peer reviewing, copyediting, typesetting or proofing your article
  • Registering your article with Crossref
  • Registering your article with iThenticate Similarity Check (we only provide your manuscript file, no other data)


Automation

Janeway (our software platform we publish all of our journals on, provided by the Open Library of Humanities) does not profile your data in order to make an automated decisions.


Cookies

We utilise cookies for the following purposes:

  • Maintenance of login sessions
  • Prevention of cross site request forgery
  • Tracking views and downloads of our articles using the COUNTER method (https://www.projectcounter.org/)


Contacting the team

When using the contact form found across all our journals:

  • Personal data collected: email address


Infrastructure monitoring

Sentry and uptime robot.


Registration and authentication.

  • Personal data collected: country, email address, first name and last name
  • We additionally collect Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Bluesky, Github and Linkedin handles (optionally)


Changes to this notice

We may make changes to this Privacy Notice from time to time. We will post any changes to our site or notify you of any material changes by e-mail. This notice was last reviewed on 1 February 2024.