Personal data that you provide to Publishers when you create and use an account, for example, your contact information and details about your academic or scholarly résumé including affiliations and areas of expertise. Special category data including race, gender and ethnicity for the Publisher’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) reporting. Providing this data is optional and will only be used for the Publisher’s DEI reporting. If you choose not to provide this information, it will have no effect on your ability to use ScholarOne. Data that other ScholarOne users may input to create an account for you when you have co-authored a manuscript with them, or they are interested in your taking part in the peer review process. ScholarOne’s “Reviewer Locator” functionality assists Publishers to find potential reviewers from Clarivate’s Web of Science database. Like most web-based services, ScholarOne uses standard technologies like web server logs and cookies to collect information about end-users’ use of the service. We use these technologies only to save individual user configurations and preferences, and for troubleshooting and product development purposes. ScholarOne does not use these technologies for any tracking or marketing purposes.
Clarivate processes your personal data in ScholarOne only to provide our services to the Publishers. We do not use it for our own separate purposes. Web server log, cookies, and related technologies are used by Clarivate for ScholarOne product improvement and troubleshooting purposes. Publishers use ScholarOne to manage their workflow with you, for example to give you access to their ScholarOne site, and send you e-mails relating to your reviewing and editing activities. Publishers may choose to activate a ScholarOne tool that helps detect fake peer reviews, in part through the processing of personal data, for example e-mail addresses and submission statistics. Publishers may use your ScholarOne contact information to send you marketing communications. Each Publisher is responsible for obtaining your consent, if required, to send you marketing communications and for managing your marketing preferences. Publishers may use the special category data you provide for DEI reporting. They will not use your special category data for any other purpose.
EU GDPR ARTICLE 6 (LAWFULNESS OF PROCESSING) INFORMATION: As data controller, each Publisher determines the legal basis upon which it processes the personal data of European individuals. These bases may include your consent and the necessity of fulfilling a contract with you.
Clarivate employees and contractors whose roles require access to your data. Our personnel are bound to confidentiality terms which cover their obligations to protect personal data. Clarivate suppliers who process personal data on our behalf (“processors”); for example, ScholarOne is hosted on third-party servers. Clarivate suppliers are contractually bound to protect your data to the same standard as set out in this Notice. The Publishers that are the “controllers” of your personal data and who may disclose your data to other organizations and individuals. Your data may be transferred to a third party as a result of any merger, acquisition, or similar corporate event involving Clarivate. We will disclose your personal data when required to by law.
the existence of a European Commission adequacy decision (covering, for example, transfers to Canada, New Zealand, and Switzerland); Clarivate’s Intra-Group Agreement incorporating the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission (“Standard Contractual Clauses”) and, if applicable, the United Kingdom Addendum approved by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office; Standard Contractual Clauses and other contract terms executed between Clarivate and applicable third parties that ensure personal data remains protected in accordance with applicable law; or the existence of binding corporate rules or other certification mechanism approved by applicable law.