Cookies Policies

July 21st 2024

Rviews Press (“Rviews, Marseille, France,” we, our, or us), respects people concern about the privacy. For the optimal functioning and improvement of our services, our journal and preprint platforms, as well as some of our partners use cookies to acquire some information about the usage. Herein, we present the context and policies of the cookies collection, management, storage and usage by our services or partners.

This Cookies Policies applies to all the website of Rviews Press and explains how we use cookies and other similar technology to recognize the visitors when they visit our websites that link to this Notice (the “Site”). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

The present notice was inspired by the cookies notice of creative commons, to which Rviews Press adheres.

 

Definition of the term “cookies”

Cookies are text files that are downloaded to your devices when users visit a website and store information about the Site usage. They are useful because they allow websites to recognize a user’s device and allow the proposition of relevant and improved content. They are then returned to the original website on each subsequent visit or to any other website that recognizes them. For more information about cookies on https://knowcookies.com.

Here the term “cookie” assembles all technology intended to this information collection purpose and include web beacons and log files.

 

Information collection and purpose

As stated above, cookies help to better understand people use of our Site and, as a result, allow us, to offer a personalized and consistent content and experience. Here are examples of the types of information that are collected through cookies:

  • Counting user Rviews Press as well as its published journal sites,
    • the frequency of the views,
    • the pages viewed,
    • the clicks made on the Site
    • and the total duration of the Site visit;

  • The name of the website visited prior to the Rviews Press Sites;
  • Whether users are visiting our Site for the first time or not;
  • Your viewing preferences (e.g. journal, preprints, type of article, subject, discipline, type of galley, sizing preferences, language etc.) ;
  • The submission information ;
  • The reader or author name, email addresses, the type of browser used and your IP address, so that we can identify people during their next visits and adapt our services to better suite the perceived need they may have.

In addition, cookies allow to analyze trends: We and our partners such as Google Analytics may compile information on our Site visits and analyze them as a whole in aggregated form.

This type of study aims to identify trends among many visitors to our Site, rather than analyze the information of a particular visitor. No personal data are taken in such analysis.

 

Cookies in Rviews Press website

They include first- and third-party cookies. Indeed, to provide our service, we use technologies that require “essential” cookies for technical reason in order to the Site to be correctly functional. These cookies are necessary and are accepted by default as long as the user is connected to the website.

Other cookies are aimed at tracking and targeting the interests of the Site users and to enhance the experience of the visitors on the Site. There are also third parties’ cookies that are commissioned from external partners for analytics purposes.

 

First-party cookies: 

These cookies are included by the website technology of Rviews Press. They allow visitors to browse the journal Site, use its features and benefit from the global usage of the site.

 

Third-party cookies: 

In addition, third-party partner companies may place cookies on your computer, access them and associate web beacons with them. These cookies enable third-party features or functionalities to be provided through the Sites of Rviews Press journals. The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your device both when it visits our Site and when it visits certain other websites.

 

 The types of first- and third-party cookies used on the Sites of Rviews Press included but are not limited to:

  • Essential website cookies: strictly necessary to provide users with services available through our Site, such as access to secure areas that require registration. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the Site to you, users cannot refuse them without impacting Site functionality. The are accepted by default.

  • Functional cookies:  allow users to browse our Site or benefit from some of its features, such as memorizing language preferences, secure submission and communication through the platform. Similar to essential cookies, if these cookies are disabled, it could impact your experience to use some site functionality, such as your set preferences. They are also accepted by default in the same type of cookies as the “essentials”.

  • Analytics and advertisement cookies: allow the analytics and advertisement partners to collect statistics on the use of the Site by visitors. Thanks to this information, Rviews Press is able to improve the features offered on its Site and the visitors are provided with services that are likely to improve its experience on the Site and discover new products and services the may be beneficial to their activities.

 

Storage of cookies locally on your device

The duration of storage of cookies on your device may vary, depending on the category to which they belong: temporary or permanent.

Temporary: 

We use temporary cookies on all secure pages of Rviews Press website to assign and register a session identifier. Visitors can browse the entire Site without interruption. This identifier is also used for internal reporting purposes. It does not allow us to identify users by name and this type of cookie does not leave any information recoverable on their hard drive. They expire when on the closure of the internet browser.

 

Permanent: 

Some of our Site cookies and third-party cookies are often permanent. They allow the understanding of visitors’ browsing behavior over a longer period of time or to provide users with features related to the Site customization requests and the content that users have saved or stored. They can stay on your computer for 24 hours, a week or several years, depending on their function. These cookies survive after your browser is closed and can be used by our Site to recognize your computer when users reopen your browser later.

 

 Cookie management

Users can decide whether to accept or reject cookies. If users want to refuse cookies, please follow the instructions below:

 

 All cookies:

Users can exercise their preference to receive all types of cookies by managing cookies from the web browser. As the means by which to activate or deactivate cookies varies from one web browser to another, users should consult the web browser’s help menu for more information on cookie preferences. Users can also configure the browser at any time to be notified of the receipt of a cookie, so that users can decide whether to accept it or not. Cookies do not under any circumstances read the data from the hard drive and users can delete them from their computer at any time (e.g. deleting the cache for the site or for all site). At the moment, it is technically impossible for users to synchronize their settings between browsers and devices. Users must set them on each browser/device currently used and each time they use a new browser or device.

 

Analytics cookies:

To disable analytics cookies managed by our third-party analytics partners, either use the browser disablement mechanisms described above, or use the analytics opt-out mechanisms maintained by our analytics providers:
Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

 

Consequences of deactivation of all cookies

If users choose to deactivate cookies, users may continue to use certain parts of our Site. However, some useful features may not work anymore, depending on which cookies users deactivate. Please note that if users have disabled one or more cookies, we may continue to use the information that was collected by such cookies before they were deactivated. However, we will cease to collect any information via the opted-out cookie once a cookie has been deactivated.

 

Cookie management provider

Rviews Press may use the service of partners to manage all, or part of the cookies collected from our Sites. This aims at being effective in the management of the collected cookies and for legal compliance purpose.

 

Update on the cookie policies

The cookie policies of Rviews Press may be revised occasionally and update to comply to our mission and vision as well as legislation evolutions. Any changes made will be reflected on this Site. Please revisit this Cookies Policies regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies. If users have any questions, please contact us as explained below.

 

Contact us

If users have questions about the use of cookies on our Site, do not hesitate to contact us by email at: support@rviews.org. Users will also find more general information about the types of information we collect about users and how users may exercise their data privacy rights in our Privacy Policies.