Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 2026

Explorations in Linguistic Review (ELR) respects the privacy of authors, reviewers, editors, readers, and other users of this website. This Privacy Policy explains what personal information may be collected through the ELR website and journal management system, how that information is used, and the choices available to users.

1. Information We Collect

Depending on how you use the website, ELR may collect information including:

• your name, email address, username, and account information;
• institutional affiliation, postal address, biography, and ORCID identifier where provided;
• information contained in manuscript submissions and associated files;
• communications with editors, reviewers, authors, and journal staff;
• peer-review and editorial records;
• technical information such as IP address, browser information, server logs, and session data; and
• other information that you voluntarily provide through the journal platform.

2. How We Use Personal Information

Personal information may be used to:

• create and administer user accounts;
• receive, evaluate, edit, review, and publish scholarly submissions;
• communicate with authors, reviewers, editors, and readers;
• manage peer review and editorial workflows;
• maintain the integrity and security of the journal and its scholarly record;
• provide website functionality and technical support;
• produce necessary administrative and usage statistics; and
• meet applicable legal, ethical, archival, and scholarly publishing obligations.

ELR does not sell personal information and does not provide personal information to third parties for commercial advertising or unrelated marketing purposes.

3. Submission and Peer-Review Data

Information supplied during manuscript submission and peer review is used for scholarly publishing and editorial purposes. Relevant information may be made available to editors, reviewers, authors, and technical personnel where this is necessary for the editorial and publication process.

Confidential peer-review information is not made publicly available except where disclosure is required by law or is consistent with an explicitly adopted open-review policy.

4. Published Articles and Scholarly Metadata

Information forming part of a published scholarly record, including author names, affiliations, ORCID identifiers, article titles, abstracts, bibliographic information, citations, and other publication metadata, may remain publicly available on a long-term basis.

Published metadata may also be distributed to scholarly indexing, preservation, discovery, identifier, and bibliographic services. Requests concerning the scholarly record may therefore be handled through appropriate correction, retraction, or other publishing procedures rather than deletion.

5. Cookies and Technical Information

The ELR website may use cookies and similar technical mechanisms that are necessary for functions such as authentication, session management, security, preferences, and operation of the journal platform.

Server and security logs may also record technical information needed to operate, protect, diagnose, and maintain the website.

6. Third-Party and Technical Services

ELR may use third-party technical services where necessary to operate the journal, including website hosting, content delivery and security services, email services, persistent identifier services, scholarly indexing and preservation services, and researcher-identifier services such as ORCID.

Only information reasonably necessary for the relevant service should be transmitted to such providers. Their handling of information may also be subject to their own privacy policies and applicable law.

7. Data Retention

Personal information is retained for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including operation of user accounts, editorial and peer-review workflows, security, legal requirements, and maintenance of the scholarly record.

Certain editorial, publication, and archival records may need to be retained for extended periods in order to preserve the integrity and provenance of the academic record.

8. Data Security

ELR takes reasonable technical and organizational measures intended to protect information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, loss, or misuse. No internet-based service, however, can guarantee absolute security.

9. Your Rights and Choices

Subject to applicable law and legitimate scholarly-record requirements, you may contact ELR to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information associated with you.

Some information cannot necessarily be deleted where retention is required for published scholarship, research integrity, peer-review records, legal obligations, security, or the preservation of the scholarly record.

10. Children's Privacy

The ELR website and journal submission system are intended for scholarly and professional use and are not directed toward children. ELR does not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children for commercial purposes.

11. Changes to This Policy

ELR may revise this Privacy Policy when journal practices, technical services, or legal requirements change. The date shown at the top of this page indicates the most recent revision.

12. Contact

Questions or requests concerning privacy and personal information may be sent to:

Explorations in Linguistic Review
Email: [email protected]