Privacy Statement

Configurações: Revista de Ciências Sociais respects the General Data Protection Regulation [(EU) 2016/679] and is committed to guaranteeing the privacy of authors and collaborators through the correct use of the collected data.

1. Entity responsible for processing personal data

The data collected will be processed by the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences - University of Minho Hub (CICS.NOVA.UMinho), based at Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga.

2. Purpose and reasons for collecting and processing personal data

Personal data is made available by the data subjects in accordance with publicised publication rules and is processed and stored digitally with their consent.

The information is handled confidentially and used exclusively for the purposes of editorial management of the scientific publication in which the data subject collaborates, and is not made available for other purposes or to third parties.

When submitting an article or other research results to the [journal / thematic issue], the following information is requested from the authors in order to be able to consider, process and possibly publish the work in accordance with the published publication rules: name, academic degree, email address, telephone number, institutional affiliation. The same information is requested from editors or coordinators and scientific reviewers.

Authors’ personal data is used to process, contact, facilitate editorial review and peer review, and to send notification when the article is published.

The personal data of editors or coordinators and scientific reviewers is used to contact them as part of their collaboration and to send news and updates about the [journal / thematic issue].

Publishing a scientific article is intrinsically a public process. The name and email address of all the authors of an article in the journal Configurações will be available to the journal’s readers to enable scientific communication.

Configurações reserves the right to disclose personal information if required to do so by law, or in a good faith belief that such action is reasonably necessary to comply with a legal procedure, respond to complaints or to protect its rights, property or safety.

3. Personal data retention periods

Personal data is kept and used for as long as necessary to comply with applicable legal requirements, resolve disputes and fulfil agreements, in accordance with the criteria set out below:

  • Author of unpublished work: data deleted after 1 year without contact/ inactive;
  • Author of published work, editor or coordinator or reviewer: data deleted after 3 years of no contact/ inactive;
  • Article, review publication: permanent storage. 

 4. Exercising your rights as data subjects

Data subjects are guaranteed the right to access, update, rectify, forget or delete their personal data at any time, by sending their request to the following email address: configurações_cics@ics.uminho.pt

If necessary, you can lodge a complaint with the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (National Data Protection Commission) (CNPD).