Privacy Policy

Advances in Nursing and Health (ANH), affiliated with the State University of Londrina (UEL), recognizes the importance of privacy and personal data protection for authors, reviewers, editors, readers, and other users of its editorial platform. Personal data will be processed for purposes related to editorial management, scholarly communication, peer review, publication, and preservation of the scholarly record, in accordance with applicable legislation, particularly Brazil's General Data Protection Law (LGPD — Law No. 13,709/2018).

1. Collection of Personal Data

ANH may process information provided during registration, manuscript submission, and editorial participation, including names, email addresses, institutional affiliations, countries, ORCID identifiers, professional information, and editorial correspondence.

The editorial platform may also process technical information necessary for its operation and security, depending on the configurations and services actually used.

2. Purposes of Processing

Personal data will be used to:

Manage user registration and platform access;
Receive and process manuscript submissions;
Conduct peer review and editorial communication;
Identify authors and affiliations in published articles;
Support editing, publication, indexing, and preservation;
Comply with applicable legal and institutional obligations.

Processing must rely on the applicable legal grounds and is not necessarily based solely on consent.

3. Information Sharing

Access to personal data will be limited to individuals and services requiring such information for editorial, technical, institutional, or legal purposes.

Author names and affiliations may be disclosed as part of the published scholarly record.

Where necessary, data may be processed by technology service providers or shared with scholarly identification, indexing, and preservation services, subject to legitimate purposes and applicable legal requirements.

ANH will not use personal data for sale or purposes incompatible with its editorial activities.

4. Confidentiality and Security

ANH must observe appropriate administrative and technical measures to protect personal data against unauthorized access, improper disclosure, loss, alteration, or unlawful processing.

Access to manuscripts under review, reviewer reports, and editorial correspondence must comply with the journal's confidentiality requirements.

5. Storage and Retention

Personal data will be retained for as long as necessary to fulfill editorial purposes, comply with legal and institutional obligations, and preserve the integrity of the scholarly record.

Retention periods and criteria must comply with applicable regulations and UEL institutional practices.

Requests for deletion may be subject to lawful retention requirements and the need to preserve scientific and editorial records.

6. Data Subject Rights

Under the LGPD, individuals may exercise applicable rights concerning their personal data, including confirmation of processing, access, correction, information about data sharing, anonymization, restriction or deletion where legally permitted, and withdrawal of consent when consent is the applicable legal basis.

Requests will be assessed in accordance with current legislation and the responsibilities of the relevant data processing parties.

7. Research Data Submitted to the Journal

Authors are responsible for complying with ethical and legal requirements concerning personal data relating to research participants.

Clinical information, images, and other potentially identifiable data must comply with ethical requirements, consent for publication where applicable, and appropriate participant protection measures.

8. Contact and Requests

Questions about this policy and requests concerning personal data processing in the editorial context may be sent to anh@uel.br.

Requests falling within the institutional responsibilities of the data controller or data protection officer must be referred to the appropriate UEL contact channel.