Privacy Statement

• Registration: name, email, institutional affiliation, country, ORCID, language and, for reviewers, areas of interest and expertise.
• Submission: manuscripts, metadata, supplementary files and editorial communications with authors, editors and reviewers.
• Review: reviewer reports, recommendations and editorial decisions.
• Technical data: IP address, access logs and session cookies required for the platform to work.

• Managing the editorial process: submission, peer review, production, publication and preservation of articles.
• Communicating with registered authors, reviewers, editors and readers, including through platform notifications.
• Ensuring platform security, scientific integrity and compliance with legal obligations.
• Producing aggregated usage statistics that do not identify individuals.

We do not sell or give personal data to third parties and do not use it for advertising. Processing is limited to the situations below:

• Public information of published articles: authors’ names, affiliations and ORCID appear in the article and its metadata, which are deposited with Crossref (DOI) and harvested by indexers and repositories. Users’ email addresses are not disclosed.
• Service providers for hosting and platform infrastructure, which process data on behalf of the journal under a duty of confidentiality.
• Legal obligation or an order from a competent authority.

The journal uses double-blind review: reviewers’ identities are not revealed to authors, and authors’ identities are not revealed to reviewers during the review. Manuscripts, reviewer reports and editorial communications are treated as confidential.

We adopt technical and administrative measures to protect data against unauthorized access, loss or alteration, including periodic backups. Account data is kept while the account is active. Manuscripts, reviewer reports and editorial records may be kept for as long as needed for the integrity and traceability of the editorial process. Data of published articles is part of the scholarly record and remains available.

In accordance with Brazil’s General Data Protection Law (LGPD, Law No. 13,709/2018), you may request:

• confirmation that processing exists and access to your data;
• correction of incomplete, inaccurate or outdated data;
• anonymization, blocking or deletion of unnecessary data or data processed in breach of the law;
• information about the sharing of your data and withdrawal of consent, where applicable.

You can update your data directly in your platform profile. Requests to delete data of articles already published will be assessed in light of the interest in the integrity of the scholarly record and applicable law.

The platform uses only session cookies required for login and for the system to work. We do not use advertising or behavioral tracking cookies.

Retail Management Review is maintained by CEBRAEV — Brazilian Center for Retail Studies, in partnership with Editora Alumni IN. To exercise your rights or ask questions about this statement, use the journal’s contact page: alumnijournals.org/rmr/about/contact

This statement may be updated; the date of the last revision appears at the top of the page.