Protecting you and your data whilst encouraging open publication

Read our Data Protection Notice and Privacy Statement below. This includes:
  • a statement of your rights under the General Data Protection Regulations
  • a Legitimate Interests Assessment, which is the basis under which JDR is allowed to collect and process data
  • links to further information 
JDR keeps two types of data:
  • data that enables the submission, Peer Review and publication process
  • an email database of​ subscribers to our Newsletters and Conference Briefings
If you wish to opt out of either or both, or you wish to see, use, amend or otherwise enquire about your data, click here
Journal of Dairy Research Data Protection Notice and Privacy Statement
The Journal of Dairy Research (www.journalofdairyresearch.org “JDR”) is fully committed to protecting the interests of its Community members and recognizes the need to balance open publication of research findings with appropriate author, reviewer and member privacy and confidentiality. JDR complies fully with the requirements of EU REGULATION 2016/679 (referred to here as General Data Protection Regulation, “GDPR”). To that end, JDR will ensure that all personal data are:
  1. collected and processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner
  2. collected and processed for the specific and legitimate purposes of i) enabling the publication of novel research findings relevant to the scope of JDR and ii) disseminating those published research findings within the JDR Community
  3. adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to these purposes
  4. accurate and kept up to date
  5. kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the stated purposes
  6. processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures
 
JDR will not share your data with any third party other than those organisations and individuals directly involved in the defined purposes (Cambridge University Press, Hannah Dairy Research Foundation and individual Peer Reviewers and, with your agreement, JDR Community Members), nor will it undertake any automated decision making or profiling using your data. JDR will take all necessary steps to ensure your rights to privacy and confidentiality, ensuring that you have:
  1. The right to be informed
  2. The right of access
  3. The right to rectification
  4. The right to erasure
  5. The right to restrict processing
  6. The right to data portability
  7. The right to object
 

 
 
Operating as a Data Controller under the terms of the GDPR legislation, JDR collects and processes data to achieve its stated purposes under the provision of Legitimate Interests, defined within GDPR  as:
Processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data
 
To this end JDR has conducted a Legitimate Interests Assessment (LIA) which concludes that:
  1. The publication of original research within the scope of JDR is with the consent of the authors, benefits the authors directly and has a positive societal impact globally
  2. Dissemination of the published research within the JDR Community benefits individual Community members as well as authors
  3. Participation in JDR’s Peer Review Process is necessary for ensuring the quality of the published research, is undertaken only by consent and benefits the individuals conducting the Peer Review
  4. The interests of the author and those of the Peer Reviewer must both be respected and provision made for ensuring that these interests do not come into conflict  
 
JDR understands its responsibility to protect your interests and has: 
  1. checked that legitimate interests is the most appropriate basis
  2. conducted a legitimate interests assessment (LIA) and kept a record of it, to ensure that we can justify our decision
  3. identified the relevant legitimate interests.
  4. checked that the processing is necessary and there is no less intrusive way to achieve the same result
  5. done a balancing test, and are confident that your interests do not conflict with or override those legitimate interests
  6. undertaken to use your data only in ways you would reasonably expect
  7. undertaken not to use your data in ways which could cause you harm
  8. undertaken through the use of opt out not to use your data in ways you would find intrusive
  9. undertaken to avoid conflict of interest between authors and Peer Reviewers through the use of selective opt out (for both parties) and anonymity (for the latter)
  10. undertaken to keep our LIA under review, and repeat it if circumstances change
  11. undertaken not to process children’s data
  12. considered safeguards to reduce the impact where possible
  13. included information about our legitimate interests in our privacy information
 
 
Further information on GDPR can be found in the relevant EU Legislation and in guidance provided by the UK’s Information Commissioners Office