Privacy & Cookie Policy

Who we are

Lips Nexora (lipsnexora.com) is a scholarly e-journal published by DLCARD. This policy explains how the platform handles personal data for authors, reviewers, editors, and readers.

What we collect

• Account data — name, email address, affiliation, country, and ORCID iD provided when you register or are invited to a role.
• Submission data — the article you compose, co-author details, declarations, uploaded figures and supplementary files, and all review correspondence, processed solely to run peer review and publishing.
• Billing data — where an Article Processing Charge applies: billing name, email, institution, address, any tax identifier you supply, the transaction reference and the payment receipt you upload. We never see or store card numbers; payment is made outside this platform.
• Reviewer records — for reviewers, a count of reviews invited, completed and declined, and average turnaround time. These are visible only to editors and are used to allocate work fairly.
• Correspondence log — a record of the workflow emails we send you (recipient, subject, time and delivery outcome), kept so editors can demonstrate that a notification was sent. Message bodies are not stored, and the log is deleted automatically after 180 days.
• Usage counts — anonymous, aggregate article view and download counters. We do not build individual visitor profiles.

Cookies we use

• ln_session (strictly necessary) — an encrypted, httpOnly session cookie that keeps you signed in. It contains no tracking identifiers and expires after 7 days.
• Cloudflare Turnstile (strictly necessary) — spam protection on login, registration, and submission forms may set short-lived cookies to verify you are human.
• ln-cookie-consent (preference) — remembers your choice on the cookie notice, stored in your browser's local storage.

We do not use advertising cookies, cross-site trackers, or third-party analytics profiles.

Legal bases & retention

Account and submission data are processed to perform the publishing agreement with you and to maintain the integrity of the scholarly record. Published articles and their metadata are retained permanently as part of that record — a published article cannot be withdrawn from the literature, though it can be corrected or retracted with a public notice. Unsuccessful submissions and their review correspondence are retained for five years to support any subsequent integrity enquiry, then deleted. Billing records are kept for as long as tax law requires. You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your account data (subject to the requirements of the published record) by contacting [email protected].

What becomes public

Publication is, by design, an act of disclosure. When an article is published, the following become permanently public: the title, abstract, keywords, full text, figures and tables, and for every author their name, affiliation, country and ORCID iD. Each author also gains a public profile page listing their articles in this journal.

Author email addresses are published only for the corresponding author, and only because readers must be able to contact them about the work. Everything else you give us — declarations, cover letters, reviewer reports, billing details, internal editorial notes — stays private to the editorial team.

Data sharing

Metadata of published articles (titles, authors, affiliations, abstracts, DOIs) is shared openly with indexing services such as Google Scholar, DOAJ, Crossref and OAI-PMH harvesters — this is the purpose of scholarly publishing. Unpublished manuscripts are visible only to the editorial team and assigned reviewers, under the journal’s double-blind policy; reviewers do not see author identities, and authors do not see reviewer identities.

We rely on a small number of processors to operate the journal:

• Cloudflare — file storage for figures, supplementary material and generated PDFs, and Turnstile spam protection.
• Our email provider — delivery of workflow notifications.
• Our hosting provider — the application and its database.

We do not sell personal data, and we do not share it for advertising or any purpose unrelated to publishing this journal.

Contact

Questions about this policy or your data: [email protected].