Privacy Statement

The Editorial Board of GSU-IF is committed to the responsible management of the personal data of all parties involved in the publication of the journal. Data protection is a core value in the proper conduct of research activities within the workflow of the journal, leading to the implementation of fundamental principles such as accountability, value and transparency. The only personal data used in the operation of the journal are names, email addresses, affiliations, and standardized ISO Personal Identifiers (PIDs), such as ORCID, which are made publicly available on this website and in the Annual itself. This data is used solely for the stated purposes of GSU-IF, namely the publication of a scholarly journal, and is not shared for any other purpose or with any other party. As the Annual is a core publication of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski,” the University’s privacy policy applies. The Annual’s website does not collect tracking data or host analytical services. Should there be a future request for such a service from an indexing and abstracting service, the Editorial Board guarantees that it will be open source and self-hosted, with a notice on the front page of the website and notifications to authors in future issues. No third-party tracking services will be used beyond the intended scope of the Annual, with the only possible exception being a citation metrics service if requested by indexing and abstracting services.

As the Annual of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”—Faculty of History is published in an EU Member State, it fully complies with the REGULATION (EU) 2016/679 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 27 April 2016, concerning the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation).

Therefore, in accordance with Article 13, paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Regulation (GDPR), the editorial office of the journal informs that:

  • The administrator of the personal data of all parties involved (Editors/Authors/Reviewers) is the Editorial Board, represented by the Editor-in-Chief of GSU-IF;
  • The personal data of all parties involved will only be processed for the purpose of carrying out the reviewing and publishing procedures of the journal in an orderly and transparent manner. This means that if an author/co-author/reviewer needs information about the other individuals involved for the review process, this information will be made available to them. As far as publication is concerned, personal data will be processed to meet the requirements of abstracting and indexing services1. The above examples will only be carried out with the explicit consent of the data subject. (GDPR, Art. 6, paragraph 1, point a);
  • The recipients of the personal data (i.e. names, email addresses, ORCID, affiliations) of the parties involved (editors/authors/reviewers) are the readers of the journal, other persons involved in the publishing process, and users of the abstracting and indexing services;
  • As the Annual only collects the data necessary to publish academic content, this data is stored indefinitely as it is core to the publication process itself;
  • Prior to publication of a given issue of GSU-IF, Editors/Authors/Reviewers reserve the right to:
    • request the Editorial Board, represented by the Editor-in-Chief of GSU-IF, to access and rectify or erase personal data concerning the data subject, or to restrict processing thereof, or to object to processing thereof, as well as the right to data portability;
    • Individuals have the right to withdraw their consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of the processing based on the consent given prior to its withdrawal.
    • file a complaint with the Data Protection Commissioner of Sofia University
  • After publication, the Editorial Board of GSU-IF due to the technical constraints associated with such a For example, the Editorial Board of GSU-IF cannot undo the printing of the current volume of the Annual, nor can it force the retrieval of the online content from cold storage, which is intended to safeguard open access knowledge.
  • The provision of personal data is an obligatory condition for the submission of an article, whether the subject is an author, co-author, or reviewer. Therefore, in case of failure to comply with this requirement, the Editorial Board will be forced to refuse the consideration/publication of the article or review in question in the Annual of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" - Faculty of History.