Archivos Españoles de Urología is committed to protecting the privacy of authors, referees, and others who use our manuscript online systems and journal websites. The limited personal data that are collected are never shared with advertisers or other third parties not directly connected to Archivos Españoles de Urología. Personal Data are shared only with organizations such as site hosting services used to publish Archivos Españoles de Urología. All reasonable practices are followed to ensure the ongoing protection of author, referee, and user personal data that may be collected and used during article submission, review, editing, production processing, publication, posting, and delivery of information related to all aspects of publication operations.

Your use of our websites and manuscript online systems indicates your acceptance of this Privacy Policy.

To enable the processing of papers submitted to Archivos Españoles de Urología, Archivos Españoles de Urología collects personal data such as author names, ORCID IDs, email addresses, affiliations, phone and fax numbers, and other details in order to accurately identify authors as well as the individual submitting a manuscript, should that person not be a coauthor of the paper.

The terms noted below provide an accounting of how personal data are collected and used for the express purposes of preparing and publishing content, which include but are not limited to reviewing, editing, processing, publishing, hosting, billing for, and indexing content as part of routine publication processes through secure measures. In using Archivos Españoles de Urología Journal sites, as well as the online systems, authors and users agree to the privacy terms stated below.

As an author, referee, or site user, if you have any objections to any of the policies noted herein, you should not use Archivos Españoles de Urología Journal websites or any related services, including the online editorial system related to our sites.

1. Specifics Related to the Collection and Use of Personal Data

Personally identifiable information: The collection of author and referee details is required for accurate identification in the manuscript submission system, and is necessary for communication with editorial and production staffs. Personal data collected at the time of submission are also used to register authors and referees for accounts within the submission system. Visitors may choose not to supply personally identifiable information, but this may prevent the use of some or all of the features and functionality of the sites.

2. Non-Personally Identifiable Information

This is information that is neither used nor intended to be used to personally identify an individual and is neither associated with nor linked to personally identifiable information. These are data collected via Archivos Españoles de Urología–branded websites, and include information such as your Internet protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser language, and the date and time of your visit.

3. Aggregated Data

Data about the collective behavior of visitors to our sites may be aggregated and displayed. However, personally identifiable information is never disclosed other than as described herein.

4. Accessing and Removing Personally Identifiable Data

Users, authors, and referees can access the personally identifiable data we have collected about them at any time, by signing into an Archivos Españoles de Urología's online editorial system and clicking on ‘Download Copy of My Records'. Users can request that any data they have provided to us be removed from our servers and computer networks by clicking the ‘Contact' link in the footer of the website or directly emailing help@aeurologia.com and making the request. Note that the request must come from the email address that is registered for the record in question.

5. Referee Data

The collection of details about manuscript reviewers in Archivos Españoles de Urología's online editorial system is required for proper solicitation of reviewers as well as appropriate editorial staff engagement in the processing of decisions on manuscripts submitted. Referee information will be held indefinitely but never shared with other parties, apart from other select journals with explicit permission of the referees.

6. Author Data

Author details are captured from our online editorial system and used in the processing and publication of articles. They are also shared confidentially with Archivos Españoles de Urología production staff. Minimal author metadata are shared with third-party vendor(s) to permit article composition, including metadata capture, delivery of page proofs to the corresponding author, resolution of queries as processed by Archivos Españoles de Urología production staff, and the sharing of metadata as part of routine indexing of published content in professional publishing databases, such as PubMed, Web of Science, Crossref, ORCID, etc.

7. Editor and Editorial Advisory Board Member Data

The collection of details about editors and editorial advisory board members in Archivos Españoles de Urología's online editorial system is required for appropriate editorial staff engagement in the processing of decisions on manuscripts submitted. Editor and editorial advisory board member information will be held indefinitely but never shared with other parties.

8. Publication Site Hosting

Author and site user emails are collected by our online editorial system.

IP addresses are used to allow institutional subscribers to activate and for statistical purposes including geographical data. IP addresses are not used to identify individuals.

At times, information may be disclosed under the strictest confidentiality to Archivos Españoles de Urología consultants as required for internal business reviews.

All other personal information collected at the manuscript submission stage, at any point during Archivos Españoles de Urología Journal article production process, or on pages that offer to authors or site users additional alerting, announcement or other services is used expressly for the stated purpose.

Archivos Españoles de Urología reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy as required. Updates will be indicated by a “Last Update” date at the bottom of the page. Any continued use thereafter also constitutes your acceptance of the terms noted herein.

9. Others

Third-party sharing: Author metadata are shared with third-party vendors for the creation of articles and indexing services. Search engines index content directly from published content on Archivos Españoles de Urología Journal websites.

Personal data stored in online editorial system: Author and reviewer account profiles, with identifiable personal details, are preserved in Archivos Españoles de Urología's online editorial system after the processing of a specific article and are visible only to authorized staff within online editorial system and Archivos Españoles de Urología. Email addresses or other personal information are never sold to third parties.

Updated on 18 April 2022