Privacy Statement

Privacy Statement

Privacy Statement

FIMH · Frontiers in Intelligent Medicine & Health
Print ISSN: XXXX-XXXX  |  Online ISSN: XXXX-XXXX

Frontiers in Intelligent Medicine & Health (FIMH), published by StarNexus Science Press (Hong Kong), operates under a Gold Open Access (Gold OA) model where all articles are immediately freely available upon publication. We are committed to protecting the privacy of all users who interact with our journal site, including authors, reviewers, editors, readers, and registered users. This Privacy Statement explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal information.

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Information We Collect

When you register, submit a manuscript, serve as a reviewer, or participate in the editorial process, we may collect the following:

  • Registration data: Name, email address, affiliation, ORCID iD, country or region, professional role, and research interests.
  • Submission data: Manuscript title, abstract, author list, keywords, declarations, ethics statements, funding information, and full-text files.
  • Review data: Peer review reports, recommendations, reviewer comments, editorial correspondence, and decision records.
  • Health research-related metadata: Ethics approval details, clinical trial registration information, data availability statements, and consent declarations where applicable.
  • Usage data: IP address, browser type, device information, access times, pages visited, and system logs, which may be anonymized and retained for security and service improvement purposes.
  • Cookies: Essential cookies for login, session management, submission workflow, and site functionality. No third-party tracking cookies are used without consent where consent is required.
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How We Use Your Information

  • To process manuscript submissions and facilitate editorial assessment and peer review.
  • To communicate editorial decisions, reviewer invitations, revision requests, production updates, and publication notices.
  • To display author names, affiliations, article metadata, funding statements, and published article information under the journal’s open access publishing model.
  • To support publication ethics, research integrity checks, plagiarism screening, authorship verification, and conflict-of-interest management.
  • To comply with legal obligations, institutional requirements, editorial policies, and COPE guidelines.
  • To maintain the security, reliability, and functionality of the journal website and online submission system.
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Information Sharing & Disclosure

  • Author names, affiliations, ORCID iDs where provided, article metadata, and funding information may be publicly displayed on published articles.
  • Reviewer identities remain confidential under the journal’s peer review model unless otherwise stated by journal policy or agreed by the reviewer.
  • Personal data is not sold, rented, or shared for unrelated marketing purposes.
  • Information may be shared with editors, reviewers, production partners, indexing services, archiving systems, and technical service providers only when necessary for journal operation and publication workflow.
  • Data may be disclosed when required by law, regulation, court order, institutional investigation, or publication ethics inquiry.
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Data Security

We implement reasonable technical and organizational security measures, including TLS/SSL encryption, access controls, role-based permissions, system monitoring, and regular backups, to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure. However, no online system can guarantee absolute security.

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Health and Patient Information

For manuscripts involving patients, clinical records, diagnostic images, genomic information, wearable-device data, or other health-related data, authors are responsible for ensuring that all submitted materials comply with applicable ethics approval, informed consent, anonymization, and data protection requirements. The journal may request supporting documentation when necessary for editorial or ethical review.

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Your Rights

You may have the right to access, correct, update, restrict, or request deletion of your personal data, subject to applicable legal, editorial, archival, and publication ethics obligations. To exercise these rights, please contact fimh@starnexus.press.

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Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as necessary to support editorial operations, publication records, legal compliance, research integrity, dispute resolution, and archiving obligations. Published article metadata and publication records may be retained permanently as part of the scholarly record.

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Policy Updates

This Privacy Statement may be updated periodically to reflect changes in journal operations, legal requirements, publishing standards, or data protection practices. Continued use of the journal website constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

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Last updated: May 2026. Frontiers in Intelligent Medicine & Health follows COPE guidelines.