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PATTIMURA Legal Journal (PELA), managed and published by the Postgraduate Program Doctoral in Law, Universitas Pattimura, Indonesia, is committed to protecting the privacy and personal information of authors, reviewers, editors, readers, and all users of the journal website.
The names, email addresses, affiliations, and other personal information entered on this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of the journal, including manuscript submission, peer review, editorial communication, publication processes, indexing, and journal management. Such information will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party without appropriate consent, except where disclosure is required by applicable law, legitimate institutional requirements, or recognized academic publishing standards.
All manuscripts submitted to PATTIMURA Legal Journal (PELA) are treated confidentially. The journal applies a peer-review process in which submitted manuscripts, reviewer comments, editorial assessments, and related editorial communications are accessible only to authorized editorial personnel, assigned reviewers, and other individuals who are legitimately involved in the editorial process.
The journal expects editors, reviewers, and other authorized personnel who have access to confidential submission information to respect the confidentiality of such information and not use unpublished manuscript content for personal, commercial, or other unauthorized purposes.
This journal website, powered by Open Journal Systems (OJS), may use cookies and standard web technologies to support login sessions, maintain user authentication, improve website functionality, enhance user experience, and maintain website security. Users may disable or restrict cookies through their browser settings; however, some features of the journal website may not function properly as a result.
The journal may collect or process technical information associated with normal website operation, such as browser information, IP address, access time, session information, and other technical data generated through the operation and security of the website. Such information may be used for authentication, troubleshooting, system administration, security monitoring, abuse prevention, and maintaining the reliability of the journal platform.
Metadata of published articles, including author names, affiliations, article titles, abstracts, keywords, references, publication dates, DOI information, and other bibliographic information, may be publicly displayed and shared with indexing, abstracting, discovery, and scholarly communication services for the purposes of academic dissemination, indexing, citation tracking, and discoverability.
The journal may transmit or expose appropriate bibliographic metadata to third-party scholarly communication and indexing services where this is necessary to support the discoverability and dissemination of published research. Such metadata may remain publicly accessible as part of the permanent scholarly record.
Personal information that is not part of the published scholarly record will not intentionally be disclosed for unrelated purposes. Where information must be shared with service providers or technical systems necessary for journal operation, the journal expects such information to be handled only for legitimate operational, technical, security, or publishing purposes.
The journal may retain submission, editorial, peer-review, publication, and account-related information for as long as reasonably necessary for journal administration, publication records, research integrity, dispute resolution, auditing, security, and preservation of the scholarly record, subject to applicable legal and institutional requirements.
While reasonable technical and organizational measures are implemented to protect personal information and maintain the security of the journal platform, the journal cannot guarantee the absolute security of information transmitted electronically over the internet or stored in any information system.
Users are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of their account credentials and should promptly notify the journal if they become aware of unauthorized access or other security concerns relating to their account.
By using the PATTIMURA Legal Journal (PELA) website and submitting personal information through the journal platform, users acknowledge that their information may be collected, processed, stored, and used for legitimate journal-related purposes in accordance with this Privacy Statement.
Where a user voluntarily provides personal information through the journal website, the information will be processed in the context of the relevant journal activity, such as registration, manuscript submission, peer review, editorial communication, publication, or other services provided by the journal.
This Privacy Statement may be reviewed and updated from time to time to reflect changes in the journal's publishing practices, website technologies, security measures, applicable requirements, or scholarly publishing standards. Any significant revision will be communicated through the journal website or other appropriate editorial communication channels.
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Statement or the handling of personal information by PATTIMURA Legal Journal (PELA), please contact the Editorial Office through the journal's official communication channels.
