Privacy Statement

The African Journal of Nephrology (AJN), published by the African Association of Nephrology (AFRAN), respects the privacy of the authors, reviewers, editors and readers who use this site. This statement explains what personal information we collect, why, how it is used and protected, and the choices you have. We aim to handle personal information in a manner consistent with the principles of the South African Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Information we collect

When you register on this site, or submit, review or edit a manuscript, we collect the personal information you provide — typically your name, affiliation, email address, country and, where you supply them, your ORCID iD, biography and areas of interest. For submitted manuscripts we also process the content and metadata of the work, including the names and affiliations of all authors.

How we use it

This information is used only to operate the journal: to manage registration, the submission and peer-review process, editing, publication and communication with you about your account or your manuscript. We do not use it for advertising, and we do not sell it or share it for marketing.

Publication and sharing

AJN is an open-access journal. When an article is published, the names, affiliations and ORCID iDs of its authors, and the email address of the corresponding author, are published with the article and form part of the permanent scholarly record. To make published work discoverable and citable, we share article metadata with third parties including Crossref (for DOIs), DOAJ, indexing and abstracting services and the PKP Preservation Network (for long-term archiving). The site is hosted by PKP Publishing Services, whose own privacy policy also applies; see https://pkp.sfu.ca/ps-privacy-policy/.

Peer review at AJN is single-blind: reviewers' identities are not disclosed to authors.

Cookies

The site uses a session cookie to keep you logged in as you move between pages. It is required for the site to function and is not used for tracking or advertising.

Retention and security

We keep account and submission data for as long as needed to run the journal and to maintain the integrity of the published record, and we take reasonable measures to protect it against loss or unauthorised access. Published articles and their author information are a permanent part of the scholarly record and are not normally removed or altered.

Your rights

You may review or update the personal information in your account at any time by logging in and editing your profile, or by contacting us. You may ask us to delete your account and associated personal data, except where that information forms part of the published scholarly record, which we are obliged to preserve. To exercise any of these rights, or to ask a question about this statement, contact ajnephrol@gmail.com.