Privacy Statement
Insight respects the privacy of the people who interact with the journal as authors, reviewers, editors, and readers. The journal complies with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the EU GDPR, and applicable equivalents.
Data controller
Dr Mahmood Ul-Hassan Ahmad (GMC 6071047), in his capacity as the founder of the 786-MIII Medicine platform, is the data controller. Correspondence should be sent via the journal's Contact page.
What we collect
Account registration: name, email, country, affiliation, optional profile information (ORCID iD, biographical statement, photograph). Manuscript submission: manuscript files, co-author contact details, supplementary materials. Reviewing: reviewing interests and the content of reviews. Server logs: IP address, browser type, pages accessed (for security and abuse prevention).
Lawful basis
Account, submission, and review data are processed on the basis of your consent and our legitimate interest in operating a scholarly journal. Server logs: legitimate interest in maintaining a secure service.
Retention
Account data: while active plus two years after last activity. Submission records: indefinitely as part of the scholarly record. Server logs: ninety days.
Sharing
Personal data are not sold or traded. We share data only with assigned reviewers and editors; with indexing and archiving services (Crossref, DOAJ, PMC, ORCID, PKP PN, Internet Archive) for accepted articles; with hosting sub-processors under written data-processing agreements; or where compelled by law. Reviewer identities are not shared with authors under single-anonymised review unless the reviewer has opted in to open review.
Your rights
You have the right to access, rectify, erase (subject to the scholarly-record exemption), restrict or object to processing, data portability, and complain to your national supervisory authority (in the UK, the ICO at ico.org.uk).
Exercising your rights
Send a written request to the Editor-in-Chief via the Contact page. We respond within thirty calendar days. There is no fee for a Subject Access Request.
Cookies
Insight uses only essential session and authentication cookies. No third-party tracking, advertising, or analytics cookies are set.