Privacy policy

This policy explains how [Legal name of the business], trading as Inventive International Publishers (“Inventive”, “we”), handles your personal data. We are the data fiduciary for the data described here, under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (“DPDP Act”) and the Information Technology Act, 2000.

What we collect

• What you give us in forms: your name, email address, WhatsApp or phone number, institution, designation, role, and the details of your work.
• Your work: abstracts, chapters, papers, manuscripts, proposals and CVs that you upload.
• Quotes and orders: the package and options you choose, and the amounts quoted.
• Payments (from when online payment opens): the amount, date and payment reference. Card, UPI and bank details are entered on the payment provider’s page and are never seen or stored by us.
• Technical data: your IP address when you submit a form, kept to stop abuse of the forms.

Why we use it

We use your data only to:

• assess, review, edit and publish your work, and issue certificates;
• prepare quotes, agreements, payment links and receipts;
• reply to your messages and send you updates about your submission or order by email or WhatsApp;
• tell you about new calls for chapters, if you asked us to;
• meet our legal and accounting obligations.

We rely on your consent, given when you submit a form, and on the legitimate uses allowed by the DPDP Act. You can withdraw your consent at any time by writing to us; this does not affect what was done before.

What becomes public

When your chapter, paper or book is published, your name, designation, institution and the published text become public, as in any publication. Reviewers’ identities and review reports are not published.

Who we share it with

• Volume editors and peer reviewers, who see your work for review. Journal reviewers do not see your name.
• Service providers who help us run the website and our work: our web host, our email and messaging providers, and from Phase 3 our payment provider. They act on our instructions.
• Distributors such as Amazon and Kindle, for published books, and registration agencies for ISBNs and DOIs.
• Authorities, when the law requires it.

We do not sell your personal data.

How long we keep it

We keep submission and publication records for as long as the work stays published, and accounting records for as long as Indian tax law requires. Files of work that is not accepted are deleted within 12 months of the decision. Call-alert numbers are kept until you ask us to stop.

Cookies

This website uses only the cookies it needs to work: a session cookie and a security token for forms. We do not use advertising or tracking cookies.

Your rights

Under the DPDP Act you can ask us for a summary of the personal data we hold about you, ask us to correct, complete or update it, ask us to erase it where we no longer need it, nominate someone to exercise these rights on your behalf, and complain to us about how we have handled it. If you are not satisfied with our reply, you can complain to the Data Protection Board of India.

Children

If you are under 18, please use this website and submit work only with the verifiable consent of a parent or lawful guardian.

Security

Uploaded manuscripts are stored privately and are never reachable from the web. Access is limited to the people who need it for the purposes above.

Grievance officer

[Name of grievance officer]
[Legal name of the business]
[Registered address]
Email: [grievance@domain]

We acknowledge every grievance and aim to resolve it within the time the law allows.

Changes

If we change this policy, we will post the new version here with a new date.