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Privacy Policy

How we handle personal data across the journal's submission, review and publication workflows.

Last updated: 5 May 2026

Who we are

The African Journal of Education, Skills and Innovation (AJESI) is published by the African Skills and Innovation Network (ASIN). For privacy enquiries, contact us at editor@ajesi.org.

Information we collect

  • Account data — name, affiliation, email, ORCID and chosen role(s).
  • Submission data — manuscripts, metadata, co-author details, correspondence, decisions and review reports.
  • Reviewer data — areas of expertise, invitation history, declarations of interest.
  • Technical data — IP address, browser, device and pages viewed, used to keep the site secure and measure reach.

Why we use it

We use personal data to operate peer review, communicate with authors and reviewers, publish accepted work, attribute authorship, comply with scholarly recordkeeping obligations, and improve the journal. Lawful bases include contract (running your submission), legitimate interest (running the journal and maintaining the scholarly record), legal obligation, and — for optional analytics or marketing — your consent.

Sharing

Author names, affiliations and ORCIDs appear on published articles. Reviewer identities are confidential under our double-blind policy unless a reviewer chooses to sign. We share data with service providers (hosting, infrastructure, indexing services such as Crossref and DOAJ) only as needed to publish and preserve the scholarly record.

Retention

Submission records are retained for the lifetime of the scholarly record. Account data is retained while your account is active and for a reasonable period afterwards to support audit and integrity investigations.

Your rights

Subject to applicable law (including GDPR and POPIA), you may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data, object to certain processing, or withdraw consent for optional processing. Requests that would alter the public scholarly record (e.g. retroactively removing authorship) will be assessed against publication ethics standards.

Security

We use industry-standard transport encryption, role-based access control and audit logging. No system is perfectly secure; please report suspected vulnerabilities to editor@ajesi.org.

Changes

We will post material changes to this policy here with a revised "Last updated" date.