Privacy Notice

1. Who we are

Journal Indexes is run by Yuvijen, a project of Vijayakumar P and Rani C ("we", "us"). We decide how the personal data described below is used. Contact: contact@journalindexes.com or the contact page.

2. What we collect, and why

We do not sell your personal data, and we do not use it for advertising.

3. Cookies and similar storage

• Sign-in cookie (yj_sess): keeps you signed in for up to 90 days. It is needed for sign-in to work. You end it by signing out.
• Sign-in check cookie (yj_oauth): lasts 10 minutes while you sign in, to protect against forged requests.
• Browser storage: your saved journals and display preferences may be kept in your browser.
• Analytics cookies: set by Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics.

4. Our basis for using your data

• Your consent, for your account and your comments: you choose to sign in and to post.
• Our legitimate interests, for running and securing the site, preventing abuse and measuring use.
• Legal obligation, where we have to keep or release data by law.

5. Who we share it with

We use service providers who process data for us:

• Cloudflare: hosts our database and API, and provides the spam check.
• GitHub: hosts the website pages, and provides GitHub sign-in.
• Google: provides Google sign-in, Tag Manager and Analytics.
• Resend: sends confirmation emails, journal alerts, replies to contact messages, and the reply emails you ask for.

We may also disclose data if the law requires it or to protect people from harm. Your comment is public once posted, and anyone, including search engines and AI tools that copy pages, may see it or keep a copy.

6. Where data is stored

Our providers operate in several countries, including outside India. Data may therefore be processed outside your country.

7. How long we keep it

• Comments: until they are removed. When you or we remove a comment it is hidden at once, and we permanently delete it within 90 days.
• Account details and saved journals: until you ask us to delete your account.
• Journal alerts: until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete them.
• Contact messages: for as long as needed to deal with them, then 12 months.
• Records of takedown requests and our decisions: 3 years.
• Spam-check and posting-limit data: short-term only.

8. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

• ask what we hold about you, and for a copy;
• have wrong data corrected;
• have your data, your comments or your account deleted;
• withdraw consent, which you can do by deleting your comments or asking us to close your account;
• complain to the data-protection regulator in your country.

To use these rights, write to contact@journalindexes.com from the email address on your account. We will reply within 30 days, or sooner if the law says so. We may need to confirm who you are first.

9. Children

The community is for people aged 18 or older. If you believe a child has posted or signed up, tell us and we will remove the data.

10. Complaints

Write to us at contact@journalindexes.com and we will respond within 30 days.

11. Security

Data is sent over encrypted connections, and the sign-in cookie cannot be read by page scripts. No system is perfectly secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

12. Changes

We may update this notice. The date at the top shows the latest version. If a change matters to you, for example a new use of your data, we will say so on the community page.