Privacy Statement

Those involved in editing this journal seek to be compliant with industry standards for data privacy, including the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provision for “data subject rights” that include (a) breach notification; (b) right of access; (c) the right to be forgotten; (d) data portability; and (e) privacy by design.

The data collected from registered users at this site is within the scope of the standard functioning of peer-reviewed journals. It makes communication possible for the editorial process and is used to inform readers about newly published content. All published material is accessible without registration.

The minimal required data for user registration is: first name, last name, email address, username, and password. If you register as an author and plan to publish your manuscript, it is beneficial but not mandatory to also enter an affiliation and your ORCID. This helps readers to identify you and associate you with your other works. Submitting authors are also asked to enter the full names and email addresses of all of their co-authors.

Co-authors do not have their own accounts and will only be contacted by the editorial team once their manuscript is submitted, an editorial decision is made, the manuscript is published, or misconduct is suspected. Author and co-author names (and, if entered, affiliations and ORCIDs) are displayed publicly alongside published manuscripts. Email addresses are not published on the website, but author contact data is included in the downloadable manuscript file as provided by the authors.

Personal user data will be stored on a server at the Julius Kühn Institute (Quedlinburg, Germany) and can only be accessed by the site administrator, the server administrator, the journal managers, and the user themselves.

Data that will assist in developing this publishing platform may be shared with its developer "Public Knowledge Project" (PKP) in an anonymized and aggregated form. Metadata of published manuscripts including author names are shared with third parties for DOI registration and for indexing of published content in scholarly databases such as Scopus, DOAJ, CNKI, and the like.

Users can review and change their personal data (except the username) in their accounts. They can change their involvement with any journal they are enrolled in. However, to delete an account completely, please contact the site administrator at ojs@julius-kuehn.de or the respective managing editor.

The GDPR recognizes “the public interest in the availability of the data,” which is of particular importance when maintaining the public record of scholarly publishing. Thus, personal data, which is associated with published material, will be stored indefinitely.

If you have any questions or complaints, please contact ojs@julius-kuehn.de or the managing editor of the respective journal. The general data privacy statement of the Julius Kühn Institute is available at https://www.julius-kuehn.de/en/data-privacy-statement/.

User tracking

No third parties (Google Analytics and the like) are involved in tracking user habits. This website uses the OJS Shariff plugin to embed social media sharing buttons. The respective social media companies are not able to track our users until the users enable them to by clicking the share button.

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When visiting this website, a cookie (‘OJSSID’) will be installed in your browser. This cookie stores a session ID and is necessary to log in to the OJS and maintain a session. The lifetime of this session ID is 30 days. If your browser blocks cookies by default, you will be able to browse the website and download content, but you cannot log in and, thus, will not be able to submit a manuscript or check your account. No personal user information is stored in this cookie.