NEHRU SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL (NSMJ) is dedicated to upholding your confidence in the privacy of your personal information. Please read this privacy policy of NSMJ Journal carefully to understand our practices about how we collect, use and share your personal information.

About our privacy policy 

When you use our website, other services, such as conferences and events, that refer to or link to this privacy policy (each, a "Service"), this policy applies to you. Additional privacy statements, terms, or notices provided to you may be included in this policy. The NSMJ Journal company that owns or administers the Service, as identified therein, is the primary controller of your personal information provided to, or collected by or for, the Service. 

Information we collect 

We collect information about you in three ways: directly from your input, from third-party, and through automated technologies.

1. Information about you, such as your name, email address, and phone number.

2. Other profile information, including educational, professional and other background information, such as your field of study, current position, practice area and areas of interests, ORCID ID.

3. Annotations, comments, contributions, and responses are all examples of content that you upload and share.

4. Information that you send to us, such as questions or other information.

5. Information you give us when you use the Service, like your favorites and search queries.

Data from your institution 

In order to activate and manage your access to and use of the institution's subscription to the Service, we may obtain information about you from the institution with which you are employed or affiliated, including:

1. Information about yourself, including your name, institutional email address, postal address, and phone number.

2. Other information about your account registration, like your job title; and/or

Data from other sources 

We also may obtain contact details and other information about you from other entities and from third parties, including:

1. when you grant the Service permission to access your data on one or more social networks.

2. Providers who assist us in locating a location so that we can tailor certain products to your location.

3. Partners with whom we collaborate on marketing campaigns or provide services under a single brand name.

4. We obtain data from publicly accessible sources and data suppliers to validate or add to our existing knowledge.

How we use your information

We are committed to providing you with an experience that is useful and relevant. We use your personal information for the following purposes, depending on how you interact with us and the Service:

1. Activate, manage, and provide access to the Service for you.

2. Provide you with content that is easy to use and other personalization to make the Service more user-friendly and relevant to your interests.

3. Add new features and content to the Service to enhance and improve it.

4. Notify you of Service-related updates, modifications, and other announcements.

5. Send you messages of promotion and other information about the Service and your interests.

6. Respond to your requests, inquiries, comments or concerns.

7. Develop new products, events, and services that we can improve upon; and/or

8. Comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.

Sharing of your information

We use the following methods and contexts to share your personal information.

1. Editors, reviewers, payment processors, customer support, email service providers, event venues and service providers, mailing houses, and IT service providers are examples of suppliers and service providers.

2. Your email address is shared with the Third-Party Community "ZENODO" by us.

3. Suppliers and service providers, including editors, reviewers, payment processors, customer support, email service providers, event venues and service providers, mailing houses, shipping agents and IT service providers.

4. We may also share your personal information with our group companies, sponsors, joint venture partners, and other third parties, such as societies, for whom we are acting as agent, licensee, application host, or publisher and who wish to send you information about their products and services that may be of interest to you based on your preferences and other settings for managing communications preferences.

Legal Reason

In addition, we will share your personal information if we believe that doing so is required to:

1. Abide by any applicable law, rule, legal procedure, or other legal requirement.

2. Detect, investigate and help prevent security, fraud or technical issues; and/or

3. Safeguard Elsevier, our customers, employees, or others' safety, property, or rights.

Use of Administrator Data

We will use your information to contact you about your institution's subscription to a Service and related services if you are the administrator of that institution. When we communicate with your coworkers about the Service, we may include a reference to you if you provide us with their contact information.

Data retention

We keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary to provide the Service and carry out the transactions you have requested, or as long as it is necessary for other essential purposes like adhering to our legal responsibilities, keeping track of our business and financial records, resolving disputes, maintaining security, spotting and preventing fraud and abuse, and enforcing our agreements.

Data security

Utilizing appropriate organizational and technical measures, we take measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, destruction, loss, and misuse.

Locations of processing

Location of processing the information provided by you is Kerala (India)

Contacting us

Please submit any questions, concerns or comments you have about this privacy policy or any requests concerning your personal data by

Email: editor@nsmj.in