Privacy Statement

<p><strong>Privacy Statement</strong></p>

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QES MedPharm Journal respects the privacy of authors, reviewers, editors, readers, and all users of this journal website. The names, email addresses, affiliations, ORCID iDs, contact details, manuscript information, review records, and other personal information entered into this journal site will be used only for the stated purposes of journal management, manuscript submission, peer review, editorial communication, publication, indexing, archiving, and scholarly record maintenance.
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Personal information will not be sold, shared, or made available to any third party for commercial or unrelated purposes. Information may be used by authorized journal staff, editors, reviewers, technical administrators, indexing services, archiving services, DOI registration agencies, and publishing service providers only when necessary for legitimate journal operations.
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Authors are responsible for ensuring that any personal information included in submitted manuscripts, supplementary files, acknowledgements, patient information, images, or datasets has been collected and disclosed in accordance with applicable ethical, legal, institutional, and consent requirements.
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Reviewer identities and peer-review records will be treated confidentially according to the journal’s peer-review policy. Editorial and administrative records may be retained as part of the journal’s scholarly publishing record, quality assurance procedures, ethical oversight, and audit trail.
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Users may contact the editorial office if they wish to update their account information, request correction of inaccurate personal details, or ask questions about the use of their information on the journal website. Some information related to published articles, editorial history, metadata, indexing, archiving, and scholarly record preservation may need to be retained permanently to maintain the integrity of the published record.
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By registering with the journal website, submitting a manuscript, participating in peer review, or using the journal platform, users acknowledge that their information may be processed for the purposes described above.
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