Privacy Policy
Effective: May 25, 2018
Privacy Policy eCM Journal
1. Introduction and scope
eCM Journal provides a multidisciplinary high-level forum for biomedical research (Orthopaedics, Cell & tissue engineering, Biomaterials science, and Biomedical engineering). eCM Open Access Scientific Journal (Eur Cell Mater) is published by FORUM MULTIMEDIA PUBLISHING, USA, (in this Notice, “publisher”).
Your personal information is stored by the publisher. Personal information is that which does, or could, identify you.
This Privacy Notice is provided in the context of the publisher`s role in collection, use, transfer, security and eventual disposal (collectively “processing”) of your personal information or data.
Throughout this notice, “eCM”, “we”, “us” or “our” means the publisher.
2. Changes to this notice
We will update this Notice from time to time and will communicate material changes to you before they become effective by the best means available to us (for example, by a prominent notice on eCM websites).
3. Personal information collected
Personally identifiable information: Detailed information about authors and reviewers is collected to accurately identify them in the submission system and to communicate with editors and production staff. Personal information collected at the time of submission is also used to register authors and reviewers for accounts in the submission system. Visitors may choose not to provide personally identifiable information, but may not be able to use some or all of the features of the site.
4. Purpose of processing
4.1. Relationship management: we use ProPub to manage our workflow for the eCM journal and send you e-mails relating to your paper submissions, reviewing and editing activities. Occasionally, we will send you news relevant to the journal using an e-mail delivery system
4.2. Marketing: to keep in contact with you about our news, events, new website features, services or new products that we believe may interest you.
4.3. Analytics: to use data analytics to improve our website, services and experiences.
Note: EU GDPR article 6 (lawfulness of processing) information: as data controller, each publisher determines the legal basis upon which it processes the personal data of European individuals. These bases may include your consent and the necessity of fulfilling a contract with you.
5. Recipients of the information
Your personal information that we hold will be:
5.1. Accessed by publisher employees whose roles require access to your data. Our personnel are bound to confidentiality terms, which cover their obligations to protect personal data.
5.2. Transferred to a third party as a result of any merge, acquisition or similar corporate event involving Clarivate or WorldPay.
5.3. Disclosed when required to by law.
6. Information security
We maintain appropriate administrative, technical and physical security measures to protect your personal information from accidental loss and unauthorised access or use. These measures include firewalls, role-based data access, intrusion-detection software and physical access controls to data centres. However, we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse, unauthorised acquisition or alteration of your data will never occur.
7. Data retention
The period for which your information will be retained will be set by you, as you can delete your user account at any time ProPub and can unsubscribe at any time from eCM Journal news mail using the link at the bottom of the circulated e-mail.
8. International transfer
eCM Open Access Scientific Journal currently owned by Forum Multimedia Publishing LLC., Part of IMR Press.
9. Your right and choices
You may contact us with questions or requests concerning our use of your information, for example to request access to the data that we hold about you, or request that it be corrected or erased. If you registered the information (as in section 3) on ProPub, where it is then held, we will contact them on your behalf for correction or erasure of data if we are unable to do it directly.
10. Sharing data directly with third parties
You might end up providing personal information directly to third parties as a consequence of your interactions with our website and other services offered by us. For example, you may attend an event hosted by us where you communicate personal information directly with other attendees. We are not responsible for how such third parties use personal data provided by you.
Please be responsible with personal information of others when using our website and the services available on it. We are not responsible for your misuse of personal information or for the direct relationship between you and others when takes place outside of the website or our services.
11. Contact us
For privacy requests and queries, contact us