Copyright & Privacy Policy
Copyright Notice
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- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
Privacy Statement
The Journal of Media and Communication Studies (JMCS) aspires to select and publish, through peer review, the highest quality research in communication studies. We follow a strict privacy policy and the information you provide is used for our personal use and is not provided to a third party. In some cases like helping us develop the website and our services, we may provide some information to third parties. However this will not include any information that can be used to identify any individual. We recognise the importance of respecting and protecting your personal information and privacy so you are required to read it carefully.
We may collect your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, affiliation, academic institution etc. and can be used to process your application correctly and fairly as it is our obligation to you. These details may be used to:
- contact individuals;
- carry out obligations originating from any contracts entered into between you and us;
- to provide you with the information regarding products and services;
- notify you about changes to our service
You have the following rights:
- to obtain access to, and copies of, the personal information that we have about you;
- to require us to correct the personal/other information we hold about you if it is incorrect;
- to require us to erase your personal/other information;
- to object, on grounds relating to a particular situation, to any of our particular processing activities where you feel this has an unequal impact on your rights; and
- where our processing is based on your consent, the right to withdraw that consent (without affecting the lawfulness of our processing based on consent before its withdrawal);
- to require us not to send you marketing communications.
Please note that these rights are not absolute. We may be authorised to refuse requests where exceptions apply. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please Contact us on the provided email.