The GRWS International Journal of Applied Commerce and Strategic Management is committed to protecting the privacy, confidentiality, and personal information of authors, reviewers, editors, readers, website visitors, and service users.
This Privacy Policy governs personal data collected via the journal website, manuscript submission system, editorial correspondence, double-blind peer-review activities, publication records, and digital archiving systems.
Personal data is processed strictly to manage manuscript workflows, support legitimate scholarly publishing activities, preserve the publication record, secure platform operations, and comply with legal or ethical obligations.
Names, emails, affiliations, ORCIDs, country, funding, conflicts, contribution statements, uploaded manuscript files, and correspondence.
Subject expertise, review history, evaluation reports, availability, qualifications, affiliations, and confidential editorial communications.
IP addresses, browser/device specifications, session logs, notification settings, download analytics, and cookie identifiers.
For accepted articles, author names, affiliations, country, corresponding email, ORCID, abstracts, funding, ethical statements, and citations become permanent public scholarly metadata. Complete removal is restricted unless legally or ethically mandated.
Unpublished submissions are strictly confidential. Access is restricted to assigned editors, staff, and reviewers. Double-blind review protects reviewer identities. Unpublished content cannot be used for personal or commercial gain.
Generative AI Prohibition: Authors, reviewers, and editors must NEVER upload confidential manuscripts, review reports, or unpublished research data into public generative AI platforms or unauthorized external tools.
Fraudulent Payment Warning: The journal charges ₹0 Article Processing Charge. Beware of fraudulent emails requesting payment or bank details for publication.
The journal does NOT sell personal data to advertisers, data brokers, or commercial marketers. Information is shared strictly with:
Hosting providers, manuscript portals, typesetting systems, similarity-checking tools, DOI registries, and discovery engines.
Ethics committees, research institutions, funding bodies (during misconduct investigations), or legal bodies under official court order.
Protected via SSL encryption, role-based controls, secure servers, malware monitoring, and credential protection safeguards.
Published research records are kept permanently. Submission/peer-review logs are kept as needed for audits, disputes, and history.
Cookies manage user sessions and platform navigation. Analytics track general traffic to improve performance without selling user profiles.
Users may request access, corrections, account deactivation, or opt out of non-essential alerts. Deletion requests may be limited where data forms part of published research, peer-review records, or ethical audit files.
Studies containing human participant data must strictly ensure lawful ethical consent, anonymisation of survey/interview datasets, parental consent for minors, and complete removal of identifying metadata from files.
The GRWS International Journal of Applied Commerce and Strategic Management is committed to processing personal data responsibly, transparently, and securely. We protect confidential manuscripts, preserve reviewer anonymity, limit data collection to legitimate scholarly purposes, and uphold the integrity of global research communication.