Privacy Statement

Urwatul Wutsqo: Jurnal Studi Kependidikan dan Keislaman is committed to protecting the privacy and personal information of authors, reviewers, editors, readers, and other users of the journal's website and Online Journal System (OJS).

Personal Information Collected

The journal may collect personal information voluntarily provided by users through the journal's website or OJS, including:

• names and email addresses;
• institutional affiliations;
• ORCID identifiers, where provided;
• academic or professional information relevant to authorship, editorial work, or peer review; and
• other information necessary for manuscript submission, editorial processing, peer review, and publication.

Use of Personal Information

Personal information collected through the journal's website and OJS may be used for legitimate scholarly publishing purposes, including:

• managing manuscript submissions and editorial workflows;
• facilitating communication among authors, editors, and reviewers;
• conducting and administering the peer-review process;
• preparing and publishing article metadata;
• supporting journal administration and publication management;
• maintaining the security and integrity of the journal system; and
• supporting legitimate scholarly publishing services such as indexing, metadata registration, and digital preservation.

Publication of Author Information

As part of the scholarly publication record, certain author information may be made publicly available with published articles. This may include the author's name, institutional affiliation, ORCID identifier where provided, and other relevant article metadata.

Such information is published for scholarly identification, attribution, discoverability, citation, and preservation purposes.

Reviewer Confidentiality

Information relating to reviewers and the peer-review process will be handled in accordance with the journal's peer-review and confidentiality policies. Reviewer identities and confidential review information will not be publicly disclosed except where disclosure is authorized or required by applicable ethical or legal obligations.

Protection and Disclosure of Personal Information

The journal takes reasonable measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access, misuse, disclosure, alteration, or loss.

Personal information collected through the journal will not be sold or used for unrelated commercial purposes. Access to such information should be limited to authorized persons and services where necessary for legitimate journal operations.

Personal information may be disclosed where reasonably necessary to comply with legal requirements, protect publication integrity, investigate ethical concerns, maintain system security, or fulfill legitimate scholarly publishing functions.

Third-Party Scholarly Services

The journal may use legitimate third-party services that support scholarly publishing, such as similarity screening, DOI and metadata registration, indexing, archiving, and other publication infrastructure. Where such services require information to be processed, only information reasonably necessary for the relevant scholarly publishing purpose should be used.

Data Retention

Personal and publication-related information may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to support editorial workflows, maintain the scholarly and publication record, fulfill research-integrity obligations, administer the journal, and comply with applicable institutional or legal requirements.

User Responsibility

Users are responsible for ensuring that personal information provided through the journal's website or OJS is accurate and appropriate for the intended scholarly publishing purpose.

Contact

Questions concerning this Privacy Statement or the use of personal information by Urwatul Wutsqo: Jurnal Studi Kependidikan dan Keislaman may be directed to the Editorial Office:

Email: urwatulwutsqo.jombang@gmail.com