Privacy Policy

Introduction

Acta Oncologica is committed to manage personal data and information with the highest responsibility and standards of professionalism.

This privacy policy explains how we collect, use and protect personal information and how you can exercise your rights over your personal information.

Types of Personal Information

Personal information means any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual.

In this privacy policy, personal information refers to the types of personal information that we may collect and use, including:

  • Identifiers, such as name, postal address, phone number, social media ID and other contact information.
  • Demographic information, such as age or gender.
  • Professional information, such as education, affiliations and other professional information.
  • Images, including pictures and videos.
  • Financial information, such as bank account details and credit card numbers.
  • Engagement information, such as contributions to articles, feedback and other comments.
  • Website activity information, such as IP address and usage information, obtained through cookies or other tracking technologies.
  • Commercial information, such as purchase history and subscription information to products and newsletters.
  • Preferences, such as language, communication methods.
  • Sensitive personal information, some of the personal information that we process may constitute sensitive personal information, which can be defined differently according to each country’s local data protection laws. We will only process such sensitive personal information where this is necessary to fulfil a specific and legitimate purpose. 

Who’s Personal Information

This personal information relates to the following categories of people:

  • Authors
  • Customers
  • Editors
  • Prospects
  • Reviewers
  • Subscribers
  • Users of products
  • Sponsors
  • Service providers
  • Business partners
  • Other individuals interacting with the journal

How we Collect Personal Information

  • We may collect this information directly from you when you are communicating with us or via our web page, products, or platforms, for example if you contribute with content or register for one of our products or newsletters.
  • We also collect personal information through tracking technologies, including cookies.
  • We may also collect this information from third party partners, such as business partners that we work with to provide our services, and public sources to the extent permitted by applicable data protection law.

How we use Personal Information

Depending on the persons purpose of interaction with us, we use personal information where it is necessary to perform contractual obligations, where consent has been given, where it is necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation, or where we or a third party have a legitimate and lawful business need. 

This includes processing personal information for the following purposes:

  • Administration of products and services, such as providing, managing and supporting our products and services including, inter alia, production of articles.
  • Development of products and services, such as improving our products and developing our platforms.
  • Publishing services, such as including author name in connection to publishing an article.
  • For surveys and requests, such as asking about your opinion or interest of authorship or handling peer-reviews.
  • Marketing, such as informing about new articles, news alerts and other news.
  • Communication, such as responding to enquiries, requests, or other comments.
  • Business management and administration, such as complying with legal or regulatory obligations or handling payment.

Protection of Personal Information

We recognise the importance of protecting and managing personal information and have implemented security measures that are designed to protect personal information and prevent unauthorised access to or use or disclosure of it.

International Transfers

The journal is international, and personal information may be accessed by our people and staff and third-party service providers from locations all around the world.

We take necessary steps to ensure appropriate protection to make sure your personal information remains adequately protected and is treated securely and in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

Links to Third-Party Websites

This website include links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these websites. When using such links, please be aware that any third-party website is subject to its own privacy and data protection policies.

Sharing Personal Information

We may share personal information with:

  • affiliated companies, such as other journals within the same publishing company.
  • our service providers, such as IT suppliers and web hosting providers.
  • partner organizations, such as academic institutions and certain consortia.
  • public authorities, since we may be required to disclose personal information in response to lawful requests by public authorities.
  • other companies, in connection with corporate transactions, such as a transfer of a journal or other assets, merger, acquisition, consolidation, or change of control.

Personal information will only be shared with third parties if and to the extent it is necessary for them to provide our products and services to you.

 

Retention of Personal Information

We will only retain personal information for as long as is necessary and as permitted by applicable laws.

The length of time for which we will retain your personal information will depend on the purposes for which we need to retain it. After we no longer need to retain your personal information, it will be deleted or securely destroyed.

Your Rights

With the global reach, we operate in countries with data protection laws that provide different rights to individuals in respect of access, deletion, rectification and limiting processing of personal information. For further information regarding GDPR, please see Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection | IMY.

You have the right to ask for:

  • Access to the personal information we have about you.
  • An electronic copy of the personal information we have about you.
  • Correction of any errors in your personal information.
  • Deletion of your personal information.
  • Withdraw consent for processing personal information.
  • Restrictions or objections to how we process your personal information.

Contact

If you want to update your personal information, withdraw a consent, have any questions or comments about the use of your personal information, or if you wish to submit a complaint, please do not hesitate to contact us.

MJS Publishing
Medical Journals Sweden AB
Kungsängsvägen 27
753 23 Uppsala
Sweden
mjsenquiries@mjspublishing.se

Updates to our Privacy Policy

We periodically review this Privacy Policy to ensure it is up to date. This Privacy Policy was last updated on 2025-02-12.