Privacy Notice

1. Personal information controller

QualiSearch Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Development, through QualiSearch Academic Press, is responsible for the personal data described in this Notice. Contact: journals@qualisearchglobal.com; B12 L55 Oregano Street, Tagaytay Heights Subdivision, Tagaytay City, Cavite 4120, Philippines.

2. Data we collect

• Account data, including name, email address, role, authentication identifiers, and account activity.
• Professional and scholarly data, including affiliations, author information, reviewer profiles, ORCID identifiers when supplied, manuscripts, reviews, declarations, and editorial correspondence.
• Transaction and verification data, including applicable fee details and payment-proof records.
• Technical and security data, including security-verification results, timestamps, device or browser information, and server or access logs generated when the service is used.
• Communications and support information that you voluntarily provide.

3. Why we process personal data

Data is processed to create and secure accounts; receive, evaluate, review, edit, publish, preserve, and index scholarly works; communicate workflow decisions; manage reviewers; verify payments; prevent abuse; respond to requests; meet contractual and legal obligations; and protect publication integrity.

Processing is based, as applicable, on steps requested before or in performance of a service or contract, legal obligations, legitimate interests that do not override individual rights, and consent where the law specifically requires it.

4. Signup acknowledgment and email

The required signup acknowledgment confirms that this Notice was made available to you. It does not enroll you in promotional email. The Press may send necessary account, security, submission, peer-review, payment, editorial, and publication messages related to services you request or perform.

5. Who may receive data

Access is limited according to role and purpose. Data may be handled by authorized editors, administrators, assigned reviewers, publishing staff, and contracted technology providers supporting authentication and databases, hosting, security verification, transactional email, file processing, and publication operations. Public article metadata may include author information intentionally approved or required for scholarly publication.

The Press does not sell personal data. Providers may process data only for authorized services and are expected to apply appropriate safeguards.

6. International processing

Some technology providers may process or store data outside the Philippines. Where this occurs, the Press will use reasonable contractual, organizational, and technical safeguards appropriate to the data and service.

7. Retention

Account and operational data is retained while an account or publishing relationship is active and afterward only as needed for security, dispute handling, legal compliance, and legitimate scholarly records. Unpublished submission and review records are retained according to editorial and research-integrity needs. Published article, authorship, licensing, DOI, correction, retraction, and preservation records may be retained indefinitely as part of the scholarly record. Payment and audit records are retained for the period required by applicable law and legitimate accounting needs.

When data is no longer required, it will be securely deleted, anonymized, or access-restricted, subject to technical backup cycles and lawful preservation requirements.

8. Security

The Press uses role-based access controls, authentication, database security policies, security verification, protected storage, and operational safeguards designed to prevent unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or loss. No online system is completely risk-free, so users should protect their credentials and promptly report suspected misuse.

9. Your rights

Subject to applicable law, you may request information about processing, access to your personal data, correction of inaccurate data, erasure or blocking where appropriate, objection, data portability where applicable, withdrawal of consent for processing based on consent, and assistance concerning damages or a complaint. Some requests may be limited by legal, contractual, research-integrity, or scholarly-record obligations.

10. Requests and complaints

Send privacy requests to journals@qualisearchglobal.com. Verification may be required before disclosing or changing account information. You may also contact or lodge a complaint with the National Privacy Commission.

11. Changes to this Notice

Material changes will receive a new version and effective date. The current Notice will remain publicly accessible, and users will receive appropriate notice when a change materially affects their account or use of personal data.