ScholarView Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy, Editorial Disclaimer, and Website Use Notice
This page explains how ScholarView handles user information, contributor submissions, editorial responsibility, third-party links, advertisements, and website use.
1. Who We Are
ScholarView is an interdisciplinary academic and research communication platform. Our website address is https://scholarview.in.
ScholarView publishes and hosts academic, research-oriented, and interdisciplinary content, including curated posts, science articles, humanities and society essays, research methods articles, resources, interviews, short biographies, research commentary, and academic reflections.
2. Information We Collect
ScholarView may collect limited personal information when you voluntarily interact with the website. This may include:
- Name
- Email address
- Website address, if provided
- Affiliation or institution, if provided
- Messages submitted through contact or submission channels
- Article title, abstract, manuscript details, uploaded files, or other submitted material
- Comments submitted on posts or pages, if comments are enabled
- Technical information such as IP address, browser type, device type, approximate location, pages visited, and website usage data collected through analytics, security, or anti-spam tools
We do not intentionally collect sensitive personal information such as financial details, government identification numbers, health information, caste, religion, political opinions, biometric information, or precise location data.
3. How We Use Your Information
ScholarView may use collected information for the following purposes:
- To respond to queries, feedback, collaboration requests, and article submissions
- To review submitted articles, resources, essays, biographies, interviews, or academic content
- To communicate with contributors regarding editorial decisions or publication-related matters
- To improve website content, readability, structure, performance, and user experience
- To monitor website traffic, spam, abuse, and security
- To comply with applicable legal, administrative, security, or technical requirements
ScholarView does not sell or rent personal information to advertisers, data brokers, or third parties.
4. Comments
If visitors leave comments on the website, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection and website security.
An anonymized string created from your email address, also called a hash, may be provided to the Gravatar service to check whether you are using it. After approval of your comment, your profile picture may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
5. Media and Uploaded Files
If you upload images, photographs, manuscripts, or other files to ScholarView, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data, such as EXIF GPS data. Visitors to the website may be able to download and extract location data from images if such data is embedded in the file.
If you submit author photographs, profile images, article illustrations, figures, or other media files for publication, you should ensure that you have the right to share them and that they do not contain private, sensitive, copyrighted, or restricted metadata.
6. Contact and Submission Communication
When you contact ScholarView or submit material for consideration, the information you provide is used to respond to your message, process your submission, review proposed content, or communicate with you regarding editorial matters.
Please do not submit confidential, sensitive, unpublished, proprietary, legally restricted, or personally sensitive information unless you are comfortable sharing it for editorial communication and possible review.
7. Article Submissions and Contributor Information
If you submit an article, research showcase, biography, interview, methodology note, resource, essay, or other content to ScholarView, the information provided by you may be used for editorial review and possible publication.
If your submission is accepted, your name, affiliation, short biography, photograph, and other author details may be published only as required for proper attribution and only when provided or approved by you.
Submission does not guarantee publication. ScholarView reserves the right to edit, reject, remove, update, or request revision of submissions according to editorial standards, originality, relevance, accuracy, ethics, readability, and suitability for an interdisciplinary readership.
8. Author Responsibility and Views Expressed
The views, opinions, interpretations, claims, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in individual posts, essays, articles, interviews, comments, or contributor-submitted materials belong solely to the respective authors or contributors.
Such views do not necessarily represent the views, opinions, position, policy, or endorsement of ScholarView, its editors, administrators, reviewers, collaborators, or associated persons.
Authors and contributors are responsible for the originality, accuracy, integrity, legality, citations, data, statements, interpretations, and conclusions presented in their submissions.
9. No Independent Verification of All Author Claims
ScholarView may review submissions for relevance, readability, clarity, formatting, ethical suitability, and broad editorial quality. However, ScholarView does not independently verify every factual statement, dataset, experimental result, quotation, reference, claim, interpretation, or conclusion furnished by authors or contributors.
Publication on ScholarView should not be treated as certification, validation, peer review, professional endorsement, or independent verification of the claims made in an article.
Readers should independently evaluate information, consult original sources where applicable, and seek professional advice for specialized matters.
10. No Professional Advice
Content published on ScholarView is intended for academic communication, educational discussion, research awareness, scholarly reflection, and general informational purposes.
Nothing published on ScholarView should be treated as professional medical, legal, financial, investment, psychological, engineering, safety, or regulatory advice. Readers should consult qualified professionals before acting on information related to health, law, finance, safety, laboratory practice, chemicals, medicines, public policy, or other specialized areas.
11. Editorial Changes, Corrections, and Removal
ScholarView may edit submissions for grammar, clarity, formatting, length, style, readability, and website presentation.
ScholarView may correct, update, unpublish, or remove content if it is found to contain plagiarism, copyright violation, factual concerns, ethical concerns, legal risk, harmful claims, misleading information, conflict of interest, or unsuitable material.
12. Cookies
ScholarView may use cookies and similar technologies to improve website functionality, manage login sessions, support comments, prevent spam, analyze traffic, and improve user experience.
If you leave a comment on the website, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These cookies are for convenience and may last for one year.
When an authorized user logs in, WordPress may set cookies to save login information and screen display choices. Users may control or disable cookies through their browser settings, but disabling cookies may affect some website functions.
13. Analytics and Website Performance
ScholarView may use analytics tools such as Google Site Kit, Google Analytics, or Google Search Console to understand website traffic, search performance, and reader engagement.
These tools may collect aggregated or technical information such as pages visited, approximate location, device type, browser type, search queries, referring websites, and interaction patterns.
14. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on ScholarView may include embedded content such as videos, images, articles, social media posts, maps, or other materials from external websites.
Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited that external website directly. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.
ScholarView is not responsible for the privacy practices, content, accuracy, policies, or conduct of external websites.
15. Third-Party Links, Advertisements, and Affiliate Content
ScholarView may display third-party links, advertisements, sponsored content, affiliate links, recommended tools, books, products, services, or external resources.
ScholarView is not responsible for the content, claims, offers, pricing, safety, legality, privacy practices, data collection, user experience, delivery, quality, or consequences of visiting third-party websites, advertiser pages, affiliate platforms, or external services.
Clicking an advertisement, affiliate link, sponsored link, or external resource may take users to a third-party website outside ScholarView’s control. Users should review the privacy policy, terms, refund policy, safety information, and credibility of any external website before interacting with it, purchasing products, registering for services, or sharing personal information.
Advertisements, sponsored links, or affiliate links do not imply ScholarView’s endorsement of every claim, product, service, seller, conclusion, or external website. ScholarView may receive compensation, commission, or other benefit from some affiliate or sponsored links, if such arrangements are used.
16. Third-Party Services Used by ScholarView
ScholarView may use third-party services for website hosting, content management, analytics, security, spam protection, forms, email communication, search visibility, advertisement display, affiliate linking, and website performance.
- Hostinger for website hosting
- WordPress for website management
- Google Site Kit, Google Analytics, or Google Search Console for analytics and search performance
- WPForms or similar tools for contact or submission forms
- Akismet, security plugins, or automated spam detection services, if enabled
- LiteSpeed Cache or similar tools for website performance
- Advertising, affiliate, or external-link services, if enabled
17. Who We Share Your Data With
ScholarView does not sell or rent personal information.
We may share limited information with service providers necessary for website hosting, analytics, form handling, spam protection, security, email delivery, advertisement management, or website performance. We may also share information when required by law, regulation, legal process, or government request.
If you request a password reset for an account on this website, your IP address may be included in the password reset email.
18. How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata may be retained indefinitely. Contact messages, article submissions, editorial correspondence, and related metadata may be retained for a reasonable period for communication, editorial review, record-keeping, security, and administrative purposes.
For users who register on the website, if registration is enabled, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. Registered users can usually see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time, except they may not be able to change their username.
19. Data Security
ScholarView takes reasonable steps to protect submitted information from unauthorized access, misuse, loss, alteration, or disclosure. However, no website, hosting service, email system, database, or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Users should avoid sending highly confidential or sensitive information through website forms, comments, or email.
20. Children’s Privacy
ScholarView is intended primarily for students, teachers, researchers, scholars, and general readers interested in academic and research-oriented content. The website is not specifically directed toward children.
If a user below the applicable legal age submits personal information, it should be done with appropriate parental or guardian consent.
21. What Rights You Have Over Your Data
Depending on applicable law, users may request access to their personal information, correction of inaccurate information, withdrawal of consent where applicable, deletion of submitted information, or an exported file of the personal data held by the website.
This does not include data that we are required or permitted to keep for administrative, legal, security, editorial, or legitimate record-keeping purposes.
To make such a request, please contact: editor@scholarview.in
22. Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments, contact forms, and submission forms may be checked through automated spam detection, security, or form-processing services. Technical and analytics data may be processed by hosting, analytics, security, advertisement, and performance tools used by the website.
23. Limitation of Liability
ScholarView makes reasonable efforts to maintain a useful, responsible, and scholarly platform. However, ScholarView does not guarantee that all content will be complete, current, error-free, uninterrupted, verified, or suitable for every reader’s purpose.
ScholarView, its editors, administrators, contributors, or associated persons shall not be held responsible for any loss, damage, misunderstanding, action, reliance, decision, claim, or consequence arising from use of website content, author-submitted claims, advertisements, affiliate links, third-party websites, external resources, or technical issues.
Users access and use ScholarView at their own discretion.
24. Updates to This Policy
ScholarView may update this Privacy Policy, Editorial Disclaimer, and Website Use Notice from time to time to reflect changes in website features, forms, comments, analytics tools, advertisements, affiliate links, plugins, editorial practices, or legal requirements.
The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.
25. Contact
For privacy-related questions, correction requests, deletion requests, article submission concerns, content-related concerns, advertisement concerns, or general communication, please contact:
admin@scholarview.in