Privacy Statement

The data collected from registered and non-registered users of SHARE Books falls within the scope of the standard functioning of peer-reviewed publications. It includes information that makes communication possible for the editorial process; it is used to informs readers about the authorship and editing of content; it enables collecting aggregated data on readership behaviors, as well as tracking geopolitical and social elements of scholarly communication. 

The SHARE Books editorial team uses this data to guide its work in publishing and improving the hosted presses. Data that will assist in developing this publishing platform may be shared with its developer Public Knowledge Project in an anonymized and aggregated form, with appropriate exceptions such as books metrics. The data will not be sold by SHARE Books or PKP nor will it be used for purposes other than those stated here.

The authors published in SHARE books' series are responsible for the human subject data that figures in the researches reported here.

Those involved in editing books series seek to be compliant with industry standards for data privacy, including the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provision for “data subject rights” that include (a) breach notification; (b) right of access; (c) the right to be forgotten; (d) data portability; and (e) privacy by design.

The GDPR also allows for the recognition of “the public interest in the availability of the data,” which has a particular saliency for those involved in maintaining, with the greatest integrity possible, the public record of scholarly publishing.