Privacy Policy

Your personal data is processed by our company, as data controller, whose details are given below.

Depending on how you use our services, we may process:

• Identity and contact details: name, title, email address, phone number, institution, country and ORCID iD.
• Publication data: manuscripts and supplementary files you submit, author and affiliation details, reviewer reports and correspondence with editors.
• Account data: your username and a one-way hash of your password.
• Purchase and billing data: billing name, national ID or tax number, billing address, order and payment records.
• Technical data: IP address, browser type, pages visited and time of access.

Card details are never passed to us or stored by us; card payments are taken on the secure payment page of the bank or payment institution.

• To run submission, peer review, editorial decisions and publication.
• To publish authors’ names, affiliations and ORCID iDs as part of the scholarly record, and to deposit them with DOI registration and indexing services.
• To create and secure your account.
• To provide, invoice and account for the services you purchase.
• To answer your requests, questions and complaints.
• To meet our obligations under tax and commercial law and to protect our rights in a dispute.

We rely on the grounds in Article 5(2) of KVKK: performance of a contract (c), compliance with a legal obligation (ç), data made public by the data subject, for authors’ details in published articles (d), the establishment, exercise or defence of a right (e) and our legitimate interests, provided they do not override your fundamental rights (f).

Promotional electronic messages are sent only with your explicit consent under Law No. 6563, which you may withdraw at any time. Authors and readers in the European Union have the corresponding rights under the GDPR; the grounds above correspond to Article 6(1)(b), (c) and (f) GDPR.

• The editors and reviewers of the journal considering your manuscript.
• Crossref, for DOI registration, and academic indexing services — only the bibliographic details of published articles.
• Our hosting, content delivery and email providers.
• The bank or payment institution that takes your payment.
• Public authorities, where the law requires it.

Some providers, such as Crossref and Cloudflare, operate servers outside Türkiye. Such transfers are made with the safeguards required by Article 9 of KVKK.

Electronically: through forms on this site, our journals’ submission and management systems, email, the payment page and server logs.

Published articles and their metadata

Indefinitely, as part of the scholarly record

Unpublished submissions and review records

5 years from the decision

Invoices and accounting records

10 years (Tax Procedure Law, Turkish Commercial Code)

Server access logs

For the period required by law

Account data

For as long as the account is open

When a retention period ends, the data is deleted, destroyed or anonymised.

All connections between your browser and this site are encrypted with SSL/TLS. Passwords are stored as one-way hashes, access to our systems is restricted by role, and data is backed up regularly.

Under Article 11 of KVKK you may ask us whether your data is processed and for information about it; learn the purpose of processing and whether it is used accordingly; know the third parties it is transferred to in Türkiye or abroad; have incomplete or inaccurate data corrected; have it erased or destroyed under the conditions of Article 7; have corrections and erasures notified to those third parties; object to a decision against you based solely on automated processing; and claim compensation for damage caused by unlawful processing.

Send your request to info@adbascientific.com from the email address registered with us, so that we can verify your identity, or by signed letter to our postal address above. We answer free of charge within thirty days. If your request is refused, the answer is unsatisfactory or no answer is given in time, you may complain to the Turkish Personal Data Protection Board.

We may update this policy when the law or our services change. The current version is always published on this page with the date of its last update.