Privacy Statement

Privacy Statement

The editorial office of Problems of Tribology, published by Khmelnytskyi National University, respects the privacy of authors, reviewers, editors, and registered users of the journal's website.

1. Collection and Use of Personal Data

Personal information provided during registration, manuscript submission, peer review, and editorial communication may include names, institutional affiliations, email addresses, ORCID identifiers, and other information necessary for the journal's publishing activities.

This information is processed for the purposes of managing manuscript submissions, organizing peer review, communicating editorial decisions, preparing articles for publication, and maintaining the journal's publishing records.

2. Confidentiality and Access to Information

Personal data are accessible only to authorized individuals to the extent necessary for performing their editorial, administrative, or technical responsibilities.

Information concerning unpublished manuscripts, peer-review reports, and editorial correspondence is treated as confidential in accordance with the journal's editorial policies.

3. Publication of Author Information

Names, institutional affiliations, ORCID identifiers, and other relevant bibliographic information of authors may be published together with accepted articles to ensure proper attribution, scholarly identification, and indexing.

4. Data Protection and Retention

The journal takes appropriate organizational and technical measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or loss.

Personal data are retained for as long as necessary to fulfill legitimate editorial, publishing, archival, and legal obligations.

5. Rights of Users

Users may contact the editorial office to request information about their personal data, correction of inaccurate information, or deletion of personal data where permitted by applicable legislation and legitimate publishing requirements.

6. Use of Personal Information

Personal information collected through the journal's website is used for purposes related to the journal's scientific publishing activities and is not sold or used for unrelated commercial purposes.

Where necessary for publishing, indexing, archiving, or technical operation, relevant information may be processed by authorized service providers in accordance with applicable data protection requirements.

7. Contact Information

Questions concerning the processing and protection of personal data may be addressed to the editorial office of Problems of Tribology through the contact information published on the journal's official website.

Journal website: https://tribology.khmnu.edu.ua/index.php/ProbTrib