Privacy Statement

The BRICS Strategy and Technology Review (BSTR) is committed to protecting the privacy and personal data of authors, reviewers, and readers, using the information provided exclusively for editorial purposes, academic communication, and journal management. Personal data are neither shared with third parties nor used for commercial purposes and are handled in accordance with principles of confidentiality, security, transparency, and anonymization whenever possible.

The editorial process is managed through the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), which adopts recognized technical standards for data protection, ensuring the integrity of submissions and the preservation of anonymity throughout the peer-review process. In addition, BSTR ensures that its legal relationship with PKP is supported by privacy protection clauses, which establish measures of mutual cooperation to prevent information security incidents.

Data subjects may, at any time, exercise their rights through the official channels of BSTR and PKP, in accordance with Federal Law No. 13,709/2018 (Brazilian General Data Protection Law).