Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

SchoRes Publishing and our partner IOARP (“we”, “us”, “our”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy explains how we collect, use, and share your personal information, and your rights in relation to the personal data we hold.

2. How We Collect Your Personal Information

2.1. Information You Provide Us: 

We may collect personal information when you:

  • Access our websites, register to use our services, submit or review articles, subscribe to our services, search for a product, place an order, participate in discussion groups, request a complimentary copy of a book, apply for employment, report a problem, or request content or information.
  • Correspond with us by post, telephone, email, or otherwise.

The information you provide may include your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, financial or credit card details, academic institution, affiliation, job title, and subject specialism.

2.2. Information We Collect About You: 

We may also process personal information about you that you have not provided directly, such as:

  • Data available in the public domain, including contact details, research interests, courses taught, and institutional affiliation. We ensure this is in your interest and inform you about our use of your data and your right to object.

2.3. Information from Other Sources: 

We may receive information about you from third parties, such as:

  • Business partners, web hosting providers, email service providers, and list brokers.
  • Conference proceedings, journal or book transfers, business acquisitions, or societies and associations we work with.

2.4. Cookies: 

We use cookies to enhance your experience on our websites. For more details, please refer to our Cookies Policy. You can disable cookies through your browser settings, but some functionality may be limited.

3. How We Use Your Information

3.1. To Deliver Our Products and Services: 

We use your personal information to:

  • Fulfill our contractual obligations and provide you with requested information, products, and services (Legal basis: Performance of a contract).
  • Notify you about changes to our services (Legal basis: Performance of a contract and legitimate interests).
  • Allow access to restricted areas of our websites (Legal basis: Consent).

3.2. To Improve Our Products, Services, and Marketing Communications:

We use your personal information to:

  • Administer our websites and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical, and survey purposes (Legal basis: Legitimate interests).
  • Improve our websites and ensure content is presented effectively (Legal basis: Legitimate interests).
  • Keep our websites safe and secure (Legal basis: Legitimate interests).
  • Measure the effectiveness of advertising and deliver relevant advertising to you (Legal basis: Legitimate interests).
  • Provide information about similar goods and services, unless you opt out (Legal basis: Legitimate interests).
  • Make suggestions and recommendations based on your previous transactions and interests (Legal basis: Legitimate interests).

3.3. Data Minimization and Purpose Limitation: 

We ensure that personal data collected is limited to what is necessary for the purposes for which they are processed. All purposes for data collection are explicitly mentioned and justified.

3.4. Transparency and Information to Data Subjects: 

We provide detailed information about the legal basis for each type of data processing activity. Data subjects are informed about their rights in a clear and accessible manner, including the right to withdraw consent and how to exercise their rights.

3.5. Data Retention: 

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to complete transactions and for six years after your last interaction with us, unless a longer retention period is required by law. We have a detailed retention schedule that outlines specific retention periods for different types of data based on business needs and statutory requirements. This schedule is regularly reviewed and updated to ensure compliance with data protection laws.

3.6. Data Subject Rights: 

Under the international laws, you may have the right to:

  • Access and obtain copies of your personal information.
  • Correct inaccurate personal information.
  • Erase your personal information.
  • Restrict data processing activities.
  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
  • Receive your personal information in a portable format.
  • Object to processing activities based on your particular situation.

3.7. International Data Transfers: 

If personal data is transferred outside of the country, we specify the safeguards in place to protect the data.

3.8. Data Security: 

We outline the technical and organizational measures in place to protect personal data, including encryption, access controls, and regular security assessments.

3.9. Your Marketing Preferences: 

You can update your marketing preferences by:

  • Emailing info@schores.org.
  • Sending postal mail to SchoRes Publishing, Flat 5, Block 1, PHA E-Type Flats, Street 132, G11/4, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Clicking the unsubscribe link in marketing emails.

3.10. Sharing Information with Third Parties: 

We may share your personal information with:

  • Business partners providing business management, e-marketing, web analytics, order fulfillment, and support services,
  • Third parties in the event of a business transfer or acquisition.

3.11. Third-Party Processors: 

We ensure that all third-party processors are listed and that we have appropriate data processing agreements in place with them.

3.12. Data Protection Officer (DPO): 

We have appointed a Data Protection Officer to oversee compliance with data protection laws. You can contact our DPO at info@schores.org.

 3.13. Data Breaches: 

In the event of a data breach that is likely to result in a high risk to your rights and freedoms, we will inform you without undue delay.

3.14. Contact Us: 

If you have any questions or concerns about this policy or how we handle your personal information, please contact our DPO at info@schores.org.

3.15. Regular Reviews: 

We are committed to regularly reviewing and updating our privacy policy to ensure compliance with data protection laws and best practices.

3.16. Updates and Changes to the Policy: 

We may update this policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page, and where required, notified to you by email. This policy was last updated in October 2024.



Cookies Policy

2.1. What are Cookies?

A HTTP cookie (also called web cookie, Internet cookie, browser cookie, or simply cookie) is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored on the user’s computer by the user’s web browser while the user is browsing. Cookies are designed to be a reliable mechanism for websites to remember stateful information (such as items added in the shopping cart in an online store) or to record the user’s browsing activity (including clicking particular buttons, logging in, or recording which pages were visited in the past). They can also be used to remember arbitrary pieces of information that the user previously entered into form fields such as names, addresses, and passwords.

Cookies perform essential functions in the modern web. Perhaps most importantly, authentication cookies are the most common method used by web servers to know whether the user is logged in or not, and which account they are logged in with. Without such a mechanism, the site would not know whether to send a page containing sensitive information, or require the users to authenticate themselves by logging in. Tracking cookies could be used as ways to track the location of the user through their Internet Protocol (IP) address. Some other commonly used cookies may collect data about the browser type and version, the type of device used to access the website, time zone settings, number of visits to a website, the way a user has progressed through and from a website, as well as the content that has been searched for or viewed on a website.

The main aim of collecting cookies on SchoRes Publishing and our partner IOARP’s websites is to improve our customer’s experience and ensure that we provide secure services to different types of users on our website. We use cookies to know whether the user is logged in or not, and which account they are logged in with. We use cookies to remember customers who want us to remember them on our website, so they aren’t always required to remember a username or password. We also use cookies to remember items that have been added to your basket/cart.

2.2. IOARP Cookies Policy

To be able to fill out some forms on our websites such as login forms, registration forms, article submission or resubmission forms, or order forms quickly using autofill functionality, you will need to have cookies enabled. If you do not enable cookies, you will still be able to browse our site without any hindrance.

We use cookies to know whether the user is logged in or not, and which account they are logged in with. We use cookies to remember customers who want us to remember them on our website, so they aren’t always required to remember login credentials. We also use cookies to remember items that have been added to the shopping cart. We don’t store any sensitive personal or financial information in cookies.

We use information to compile reports or to improve the site. We use cookies to collect information about how visitors use our site and the cookies that collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from, and the pages they visited.

This information is being provided to ensure that we are being transparent about our use of cookies, to make it clear how we use the information we collect and to be in compliance with international legislation.

2.3. Third Party Cookies

On our websites we allow our users to conveniently be able to share information about products of interest via different platforms such as Twitter and Facebook or even by a simple email. The functionality has been created by the companies themselves and provided to us to display on our site. By using these functions there may be cookies being created or updated on your machine that are not set by us but by these third parties. Because we don’t control the settings of these cookies, please check the third party websites for more information.

We may utilize re-marketing and re-targeting tracking cookies to permit certain third party companies (such as Google AdWords, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook) to help us deliver advertisements and special promotions to you across their advertisement networks.

Similarly, to provide a secure payment mechanism and to avoid the need to store sensitive personal and financial information on our websites, we provide checkout through PayPal and World Pay. Using checkout functionality may result in cookies being created or updated on your machine. These cookies are created by third parties and we do not control the setting of these cookies.

For more information on cookies and how to manage them visit www.aboutcookies.org; please note that www.aboutcookies.org is not an IOARP website and IOARP cannot be responsible/accountable for content on third party websites.

2.4. Managing Cookies

Having cookies enabled will ensure that you get the best user experience and secure services when using the SchoRes Publishing and our partner IOARP’s websites. Your use of the websites will signify your consent to our use of cookies. If you would like to restrict, block or delete cookies from our websites, you can do this through your browser settings. Please note that disabling cookies on your computer might prevent some pages from our websites displaying properly.

2.5. IOARP Cookies

Cookie

Name

Purpose

Expires (you may control these through your browser settings)

Google Analytics

_utma

 _utma cookie is used to collect information about how visitors use a site. It tracks the number of times a user has visited the site, the time of their first visit, and the time of their most recent visit. This information helps compile reports and improve the site by analyzing visitor behavior in an anonymous form

2 years

Google Analytics

_utmb

This cookie is used to determine new sessions or visits. It takes a timestamp of the exact moment a visitor enters the site.

30 minutes

Google Analytics

_utmc

This cookie works with _utmb to determine whether the user was in a new session or visit. It takes a timestamp of the exact moment a visitor leaves the site.

When browser closes

Google Analytics

_utmz

Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site.

6 months

Cookie Notice Display

QMhasVisited (IOARP_Visited)

Signifies you have responded to our website's cookie notification banner. If you remove this cookie, the notification will display again.

1000 days

Session Cookie

PHPSESSID

This is a random unique number or string of letters and numbers. A session cookie is required to follow your progress through the website. It is essential to ensure that any information you enter or routes you take are remembered by the website. Without this cookie, every page you visited would treat you as a completely new visitor. This cookie does not identify you personally and is not linked to any other information we store about you.

When browser closes

Session Identifier

Kms_ctamuls

It stores an identifier for the current session. This is a completely random string of letters and numbers. The purpose is to be able to identify the session and know if a website visitor is logged in to the system.

It expires after the current session is over

Web Login Cookies

Cookies used by the web-login service and services using it are named 'cosign' or start with the word 'cosign'

The Web Login service uses cookies to store your login status, username, and access duration. These cookies are essential for accessing password-protected content via the IOARP login system. We do not track any information beyond your login and usage of the web service.

These cookies are only valid for the time of your login and expire when you end your session.

Login Cookies

ioarp_email, ioarp_password

These cookies are set when you log in to access content that is password protected. They are necessary for the login process to work and ensure that you remain logged in as you navigate through the site. These cookies do not track any information other than the fact that you have logged in and used a particular web service.

These cookies are only valid for the time of your login and expire when you end your session.

Remember Cookie

ioarp_remember

This cookie is used to remember your login credentials if you choose the “Remember Me” option when logging in. It allows you to stay logged in on your device for a specified period, so you don’t have to re-enter your username and password each time you visit the site. This cookie does not store your password in plain text and is encrypted for security purposes.

1000 days or when you clear your cookies or when you log out manually

 

2.6. Disable or Enable Cookies:

For the latest guides on how to enable or disable cookies on both Mac and PC, please refer to online resources. At the time of creating this document, the following steps were valid for enabling or disabling cookies on Mac and PC:

For Mac (Safari):

For PC (Chrome):

  • Open Chrome.
  • Click the three dots in the top right corner and select Settings.
  • Scroll down and click Privacy and security.
  • Click Cookies and other site data.
  • To enable cookies, select Allow all cookies. To disable cookies, select Block all cookies.

 

2.7. Regular Reviews and Changes to this Policy

We are committed to regularly reviewing and updating our cookies policy. We may update this policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page. This policy was last updated in October 2024.