This Privacy Statement sets out how the Journal of Computers, Mechanical and Management, published by AAN Publishing, collects, uses, retains, and shares personal data of authors, reviewers, editors, and registered readers. The journal is committed to protecting the privacy of its users and to handling personal data lawfully, transparently, and only for purposes that are necessary to operate the journal.
This statement is informed by the principles of data minimisation, purpose limitation, and storage limitation that underpin internationally recognised data-protection frameworks, and by the guidance of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) for journals operating on Open Journal Systems.
The data controller for personal data collected through the journal's website is AAN Publishing, the journal's publisher. The journal's editorial operations are conducted by the editorial team led by the Editor-in-Chief. Both the publisher and the editorial team are bound by this Privacy Statement.
For data-protection inquiries, write to:
The journal collects personal data only where necessary to operate the editorial workflow. The categories of data collected are:
The journal does not collect special-category personal data (such as data concerning health, ethnicity, political opinions, or religious beliefs) and does not request such data through any form on the journal site. Where any such data is incidentally provided in a manuscript (for example, in a study on a clinical population), it is handled as confidential research material under the journal's Publication Ethics and editorial-confidentiality protocols, not as the user's own personal data.
Personal data is processed for the following purposes only:
The journal does not use personal data for marketing, advertising, profiling, or sale to third parties. The journal does not sell mailing lists.
Personal data is shared only where necessary to operate the journal and only with parties that handle the data under their own confidentiality obligations:
The journal does not transfer personal data to any other third party except where required by law.
The journal site uses session cookies to maintain authenticated sessions and to remember user preferences within a session. The site does not use third-party tracking cookies, advertising cookies, or behavioural-profiling cookies. Server logs retain access information for operational and security purposes only.
Personal data is retained for as long as it is needed for the purpose for which it was collected. Specifically:
Users have the right to:
To exercise any of these rights, write to journalmanager@jcmm.co.in. The journal aims to respond to such requests within 30 days. Note that account closure does not retract or remove published articles; published articles remain part of the scholarly record under the licensing terms in force at the time of publication.
The journal site operates over HTTPS with current security practices for an Open Journal Systems installation. Passwords are stored as one-way hashes. Access to personal data within the editorial workflow is limited to users with the relevant editorial role for a specific submission. The journal cannot guarantee absolute security of any internet-based service, but applies reasonable measures to protect data in transit and at rest.
The journal's hosting infrastructure and editorial operations are based in different countries (the publisher in Malaysia, the editorial team in India, hosted infrastructure in regions selected by the publisher). By using the journal site, users acknowledge that their personal data may be transferred to and processed in any of these jurisdictions, in accordance with this Privacy Statement.
The journal's services are intended for use by researchers, students, and scholarly readers. The journal does not knowingly collect personal data from children. Where the journal becomes aware that data of a child has been provided without appropriate consent, the data is deleted.
This Privacy Statement is effective from 25 April 2026. Material revisions are dated, and the previous version is preserved for audit purposes. Where revisions affect users' rights or the way data is handled, registered users are notified through the journal's notification system.
For any inquiry related to privacy or personal data, write to journalmanager@jcmm.co.in. The Editor-in-Chief at editor@jcmm.co.in is the alternative contact for inquiries about editorial-process data.
The journal's Article Processing Charge will move from USD 250 to USD 1,000 for manuscripts submitted from 1 October 2026 onwards. Submissions received on or before 30 September 2026 (23:59 UTC) will continue to be processed at USD 250. A tiered waiver scheme based on the World Bank country classification applies from 1 October 2026.
