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Privacy Statement

Journal of Education and Development Lab (JEDL)
Journal Website: https://jedl.us/
Publisher: Journal of Education and Development Lab (JEDL)

Effective Date: 1 June 2026
Last Updated: 9 September 2026

The Journal of Education and Development Lab (JEDL) is committed to protecting the privacy, confidentiality, and personal information of its authors, reviewers, editors, readers, website visitors, and other users of the journal platform.

This Privacy Statement explains what personal information JEDL may collect, why it is collected, how it is used and protected, when it may be shared, and the rights available to individuals whose information is processed through the journal website and editorial system.

By using the JEDL website, submitting a manuscript, registering an account, reviewing a manuscript, subscribing to notifications, or otherwise interacting with JEDL, you acknowledge this Privacy Statement.

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1. Scope of This Privacy Statement

This Privacy Statement applies to personal information processed through:

• The JEDL journal website;

• The JEDL online journal management and publishing system;

• Manuscript submission and peer-review activities;

• Author, reviewer, editor, and reader accounts;

• Email communications related to journal activities;

• Published article and issue metadata;

• Journal announcements and notifications;

• Technical and security logs associated with the website.

This statement does not necessarily apply to external websites or services linked from the JEDL website. Users should review the privacy policies of those external services independently.

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2. Information We Collect

JEDL may collect information that users voluntarily provide, or that is generated automatically through use of the journal platform.

2.1 Information Provided by Authors

When authors create an account or submit a manuscript, JEDL may collect:

• Full name;

• Institutional affiliation;

• Academic or professional position;

• Email address;

• Country or geographic affiliation;

• ORCID iD, where provided;

• Biography and professional information;

• Manuscript title and abstract;

• Keywords;

• Manuscript files;

• Figures, tables, supplementary materials, and datasets;

• Author contribution information;

• Funding information;

• Conflict-of-interest declarations;

• Ethical approval information, where applicable;

• Corresponding-author information;

• Information contained within submitted manuscripts and supporting documents.

Authors should not submit unnecessary personal or confidential information belonging to themselves or third parties.

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3. Information Provided by Reviewers

For peer-review purposes, JEDL may collect:

• Name;

• Email address;

• Institutional affiliation;

• Academic or professional expertise;

• ORCID iD, where provided;

• Areas of research interest;

• Reviewer comments and recommendations;

• Conflict-of-interest declarations;

• Confidential communications with editors;

• Review history and editorial correspondence.

Reviewer identities will be handled according to the journal's applicable peer-review policy.

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4. Information Provided by Editors and Editorial Staff

Editors and editorial staff may provide or have associated with their accounts:

• Name;

• Institutional affiliation;

• Professional position;

• Email address;

• ORCID iD;

• Biography;

• Editorial role;

• Areas of expertise;

• Editorial correspondence;

• Manuscript assignments;

• Peer-review decisions and recommendations.

Certain professional information about editors may be publicly displayed on the JEDL website as part of the journal's editorial transparency.

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5. Reader and Website Visitor Information

Visitors may use portions of the JEDL website without creating an account.

JEDL may automatically receive limited technical information, such as:

• IP address;

• Browser type and version;

• Operating system;

• Device information;

• Date and time of access;

• Pages visited;

• Referring website;

• Basic server and security logs.

This information is primarily used for website operation, security, troubleshooting, performance monitoring, and statistical analysis.

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6. How We Use Personal Information

JEDL may use personal information for legitimate journal and publishing purposes, including:

1. Creating and managing user accounts;

2. Processing manuscript submissions;

3. Conducting peer review;

4. Communicating with authors, reviewers, editors, and readers;

5. Managing editorial workflows;

6. Publishing accepted articles and issues;

7. Maintaining accurate bibliographic and scholarly metadata;

8. Assigning DOI, ORCID, indexing, and other persistent identifiers where applicable;

9. Depositing or distributing metadata through scholarly services;

10. Maintaining journal archives;

11. Responding to inquiries and support requests;

12. Sending journal-related announcements;

13. Detecting plagiarism, research misconduct, fraud, or other publication-ethics concerns;

14. Maintaining website security;

15. Preventing unauthorized access or abuse;

16. Improving journal services and website performance;

17. Meeting legal, regulatory, ethical, and publishing obligations.

JEDL does not use personal information for unrelated commercial purposes.

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7. Published Information

Academic publishing requires certain information to become publicly available.

For published articles, JEDL may publicly display:

• Author names;

• Author affiliations;

• ORCID iDs, where provided;

• Article title;

• Abstract;

• Keywords;

• Article content;

• Publication date;

• DOI or other persistent identifiers;

• Funding and conflict-of-interest statements;

• Author contribution statements;

• Corresponding-author information, where appropriate;

• Citation and bibliographic metadata.

Once published, scholarly metadata and article information may be distributed through indexing services, discovery systems, repositories, library catalogs, scholarly search engines, and other third-party platforms.

Authors should therefore understand that information associated with a published article may remain publicly accessible and may be indexed or archived by third parties.

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8. Manuscript Confidentiality

Manuscripts submitted for consideration are treated as confidential during the editorial and peer-review process.

JEDL will take reasonable measures to prevent unauthorized disclosure of unpublished manuscripts and related editorial materials.

Unpublished manuscripts will not ordinarily be disclosed to individuals outside the editorial and peer-review process except where:

• The author has provided permission;

• Disclosure is necessary for legitimate editorial or publishing purposes;

• Disclosure is required to investigate suspected misconduct;

• Disclosure is required by law or a competent authority;

• Disclosure is necessary to protect the rights, safety, or security of JEDL or others.

Reviewers are expected to maintain the confidentiality of manuscripts and review materials.

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9. Peer-Review Privacy

JEDL may operate a single-masked, double-blind, or other peer-review model depending on the journal's applicable policy.

Where reviewer confidentiality applies, reviewer identities will not ordinarily be disclosed to authors.

Likewise, where anonymous review is required, authors and reviewers should not attempt to identify each other through the review process.

JEDL may retain records of peer-review activity for editorial, quality-control, publication-ethics, and administrative purposes.

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10. ORCID and Persistent Identifiers

Authors, reviewers, and editors may voluntarily provide an ORCID iD.

Where an ORCID iD is supplied, and publication or editorial workflows require it, JEDL may transmit relevant information to ORCID or other scholarly infrastructure services.

The use of ORCID is subject to ORCID's own terms and privacy policies.

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11. DOI and Scholarly Metadata

For articles and other scholarly objects, JEDL may deposit bibliographic metadata with DOI registration agencies or other scholarly infrastructure providers.

Such metadata may include:

• Author names;

• Affiliations;

• Article title;

• Abstract;

• Keywords;

• Publication dates;

• DOI;

• References;

• ORCID iDs;

• Funding information;

• License information.

Metadata deposited with external scholarly infrastructure may become publicly accessible and may be redistributed by third parties.

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12. Indexing and Discovery Services

JEDL may make article and journal metadata available to appropriate scholarly indexing, abstracting, discovery, repository, and library services.

These may include, where applicable:

• OpenAIRE;

• BASE;

• Google Scholar;

• Crossref;

• ORCID;

• RePEc;

• institutional repositories;

• library discovery systems;

• other legitimate scholarly databases and indexing services.

JEDL cannot control how independent third-party services subsequently process, store, index, or display publicly available information.

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13. Cookies and Similar Technologies

The JEDL website may use cookies or similar technologies necessary for the operation and security of the website.

Cookies may be used to:

• Maintain user sessions;

• Support login functionality;

• Preserve user preferences;

• Provide website functionality;

• Improve security;

• Monitor technical performance.

Where analytics or optional cookies are used, JEDL will seek to provide appropriate information and controls where required by applicable law.

Users may configure their browser to restrict or turn off cookies. However, turning off certain cookies may affect the functionality of the journal website.

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14. Server Logs and Security Information

JEDL's hosting environment may automatically record technical information for security and operational purposes.

Server logs may contain information such as:

• IP address;

• Request date and time;

• Requested resource;

• Browser or user-agent information;

• Referrer information;

• Error information.

These logs may be used to detect security incidents, investigate abuse, diagnose technical problems, and maintain the reliability of the website.

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15. Data Sharing and Disclosure

JEDL does not sell personal information to third parties.

Personal information may be shared only where reasonably necessary for legitimate journal, publishing, technical, legal, or security purposes.

Recipients may include:

• Journal editors and authorized editorial staff;

• Peer reviewers;

• Publishing and technical service providers;

• DOI and scholarly metadata registration services;

• ORCID, where authorized or necessary;

• Indexing and abstracting services;

• Repository and scholarly communication services;

• Website hosting and infrastructure providers;

• Security and anti-abuse service providers;

• Government or regulatory authorities where legally required.

JEDL seeks to limit disclosure to information reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose.

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16. Third-Party Services

JEDL may integrate with external services to support scholarly publishing and website functionality.

Examples may include services for:

• DOI registration;

• ORCID authentication;

• plagiarism or similarity checking;

• indexing;

• metadata harvesting;

• repository deposits;

• email delivery;

• website hosting;

• analytics;

• security.

Third-party services operate under their own terms and privacy policies.

JEDL is not responsible for the independent privacy practices of third-party websites or services.

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17. Research Ethics and Sensitive Information

Authors are responsible for ensuring that manuscripts comply with applicable research-ethics requirements.

Authors should not submit unnecessary personally identifiable information, confidential records, medical information, student records, photographs, or other sensitive information concerning research participants.

Where research involves human participants, authors must comply with applicable ethical requirements, including informed consent and institutional or ethics-committee requirements where applicable.

JEDL may request evidence of ethical approval or consent when appropriate.

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18. Children's and Students' Information

JEDL does not intentionally collect personal information from children for unrelated purposes.

Authors conducting research involving children or students are responsible for obtaining appropriate consent, ethical approval, and authorization before submitting research materials containing identifiable information.

Authors should anonymize or remove unnecessary personally identifiable information before submission.

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19. Data Retention

JEDL may retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to:

• Operate the journal;

• Maintain editorial records;

• Preserve publication history;

• Document peer-review and editorial decisions;

• Address publication-ethics concerns;

• Maintain scholarly archives;

• Meet legal or regulatory obligations;

• Resolve disputes;

• Protect the integrity of the scholarly record.

Published scholarly records may need to be preserved permanently as part of the academic record.

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20. Archiving and Preservation

JEDL may participate in digital preservation and archiving services to ensure long-term access to published scholarly content.

Archived content may include article files, bibliographic metadata, publication history, and associated scholarly records.

Because scholarly publications form part of the permanent academic record, deletion of a published article or associated metadata may not always be possible.

Where corrections, retractions, or removals are necessary, JEDL will follow its applicable editorial and publication-ethics procedures.

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21. Data Security

JEDL takes reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal information against:

• Unauthorized access;

• Unauthorized disclosure;

• Loss;

• Misuse;

• Alteration;

• Destruction.

Security measures may include access controls, authentication, secure server configuration, software updates, backups, monitoring, and other appropriate technical safeguards.

However, no internet-based system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Users are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of their account credentials and should immediately notify JEDL if they suspect unauthorized access to their account.

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22. User Responsibilities

Users should:

• Provide accurate information;

• Keep account information up to date;

• Protect their login credentials;

• Avoid submitting unnecessary personal information;

• Avoid uploading confidential information unnecessarily;

• Respect the confidentiality of manuscripts and peer-review materials;

• Notify JEDL of suspected unauthorized account activity.

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23. Access, Correction, and Updating of Information

Users may request access to personal information associated with their JEDL account, where applicable.

Users may also request correction or updating of inaccurate information.

Requests may include:

• Correcting a name;

• Updating institutional affiliation;

• Updating email address;

• Updating ORCID iD;

• Correcting account information;

• Updating professional information.

Some information associated with published articles may be subject to scholarly-record preservation requirements and therefore may not be completely removed or altered.

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24. Requests for Deletion

Users may request deletion of personal information where applicable and where retention is not required for legitimate journal, legal, ethical, archival, or scholarly-record purposes.

Deletion of an account does not necessarily result in deletion of:

• Published articles;

• Author names associated with published articles;

• DOI metadata;

• Editorial records that must be retained;

• Peer-review records required for publication-ethics purposes;

• Legally required records;

• Archived scholarly material.

JEDL will evaluate deletion requests on a case-by-case basis.

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25. Withdrawal of Manuscripts

Authors may request withdrawal of manuscripts in accordance with JEDL's manuscript withdrawal policy.

Withdrawal of an unpublished manuscript may involve removal of the manuscript from the active editorial workflow.

If an article has already been formally published, withdrawal may not be possible in the same manner. Corrections, retractions, or other actions may instead be handled according to applicable publication-ethics procedures.

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26. Communications

JEDL may contact users regarding:

• Manuscript submissions;

• Peer review;

• Editorial decisions;

• Revisions;

• Publication;

• Account-related matters;

• Journal announcements;

• Important changes to journal policies;

• Technical or security issues.

Users may be able to manage optional notification preferences through their JEDL account.

Essential communications relating to submissions, peer review, publication, or account security may continue even when optional notifications are disabled.

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27. Open Access and Public Availability

JEDL is committed to open scholarly communication.

Published articles and associated scholarly metadata may be freely accessible and may be copied, indexed, archived, cited, and redistributed in accordance with the applicable article license and copyright terms.

Public availability of scholarly information means that JEDL cannot guarantee that third parties will remove copies or indexed records from their own systems.

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28. Links to External Websites

The JEDL website may contain links to external websites, databases, repositories, social-media platforms, indexing services, and other resources.

JEDL does not control the privacy practices, security, or content of external websites.

Users should review the privacy statements of external services before providing personal information to them.

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29. International Data Processing

Because scholarly publishing involves international authors, reviewers, editors, indexing services, repositories, and infrastructure providers, personal information may be processed or stored in countries other than the country in which the user resides.

JEDL will take reasonable steps to ensure that such processing is conducted for legitimate journal or publishing purposes and with appropriate safeguards where required.

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30. Changes to This Privacy Statement

JEDL may periodically update this Privacy Statement to reflect:

• Changes in journal operations;

• Changes in technology;

• Changes in publishing practices;

• Changes in legal or regulatory requirements;

• Changes in third-party services.

The updated version will be posted on the JEDL website with the revised effective or updated date.

Users are encouraged to review this statement periodically.

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31. Contact Us

Questions, requests, or concerns regarding privacy and personal information may be directed to the JEDL editorial or administrative team through the contact information provided on the journal website.

Journal of Education and Development Lab (JEDL)
Website: https://jedl.us/

Email: editor@jedl.us

For privacy-related requests, please clearly identify the nature of your request and provide sufficient information for JEDL to determine the relevant account or record.

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32. Acceptance of This Privacy Statement

By using the JEDL website, creating an account, submitting a manuscript, participating in peer review, serving as an editor, or otherwise using JEDL's online services, users acknowledge that they have read and understood this Privacy Statement.

Where applicable, users may be required to provide additional consent for specific processing activities.

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Last Updated: 9 September 2026

Journal of Education and Development Lab (JEDL)
Open Access | Peer-Reviewed | Multidisciplinary