Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Press is committed to protecting the privacy of authors and others who use its manuscript submission systems and journal websites. The limited personal data that are collected are never shared with advertisers. They are shared only with organizations such as site hosting services with which CSHL Press partners to fulfill its publishing mission. All reasonable practices are followed to ensure the ongoing protection of author, referee, and user personal data that may be collected and used during article ingestion, review, editing, production processing, publication, printing, posting, and delivery of information related to all aspects of publication operations.
Your use of our websites and manuscript submission systems indicates your acceptance of this Privacy Policy.
To enable the processing of papers submitted for journal review, CSHL Press collects personal data such as author names, ORCID IDs, email addresses, affiliations, phone and fax numbers, and other details in order to accurately identify authors as well as the individual submitting a manuscript, should that person not be a coauthor of the paper.
The terms noted below provide an accounting of how personal data are collected and used for the express purposes of preparing and publishing content, which include but are not limited to reviewing, editing, processing, publishing, hosting, billing for, and indexing content as part of routine publication publishing processes, as well as online article purchasing services through secure measures. In using CSHL Press journal sites, as well as the submission system known as BenchPress and operated by HighWire Press Inc., authors and users agree to the privacy terms stated below and to BenchPress's own Acceptable Use Policy.
As an author, referee, or site user, if you have any objections to any of the policies noted herein, you should not use our journal sites or any related services, including the manuscript submission system related to our sites.
Specifics related to the collection and use of personal data:
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy as required. Updates will be indicated by a "Last Update" date at the bottom of the page. Any continued use thereafter also constitutes your acceptance of the terms noted herein.
Last update: May 24, 2018