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Privacy Statement

About Our Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how Highlights in BioScience collects and uses the personal information you provide to Highlights in BioScience online system. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information.

  1. Personal information we collect   
  2. How we use your personal information
  3. How long we retain your information
  4. Protection your personal information
  5. Updates to this Privacy Policy
  6. Contact us regarding your personal information


1. Personal information we collect

We request personal information from you When you register on a Journal's online system to submit a manuscript to consider in Highlights in BioScience, we will ask for the following information so that we may consider, process, and possibly publish your manuscript, in conformance with accepted publishing standards: your name, title, telephone number, email address, institution, department, address, degree, fax number, position, ORCID iD, state or province, and areas of interest or expertise. Additionally, Highlights in BioScience online system ask you to register you as a potential reviewer on our database or not.

2. How we use your personal information

If you are an author, we use your personal information for the purpose of processing, reviewing, communicating about, facilitating editorial review and peer review and for publishing your article.

If you are an editor or reviewer, we use your personal information to contact you about your potential or actual role as an editor or reviewer, to request and facilitate your review and handling of manuscripts, and to update you on news and developments at Highlights in BioScience as it may affect your work with us.

If you submit a manuscript to us for possible publication, we will send the title and abstract of your manuscript, to one or more potential external/volunteer editors and reviewers to gauge their interest in reviewing your content. If they agree to review your content, the Journal's system will allow them to access your full manuscript and any revisions and relevant comments you have provided. If your manuscript is accepted for publication, we share information about you, your manuscript, or other research content as reasonably necessary with our editing team to publish it.

We will not sell or lease your personal information to any third party.

3. How long we retain your information

We keep your personal information for as long as is necessary to provide services to you, and for as long as your account and/or registration with Highlights in BioScience is active.

4. Protection your personal information

We use reasonable and appropriate physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect your information from unauthorized use, access, loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. We endeavor to protect the personal information we receive, gather, and store, by such means as password protection, firewalls, and other means.

5. Updates to this Privacy Policy

Highlights in BioScience may make changes to this privacy policy from time to time. Changes to this privacy policy will be made by updating this page. Please visit this privacy policy regularly to read the current version. If there are material changes to how we use your personal information, we will endeavor to provide you with reasonable notice of such changes, either by a prominent notice on Highlights in BioScience web site or to your email address of record.

6. Contact us regarding your personal information

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, you may contact our editorial office at editorial@highlightsin.org.