Legal / Privacy

Privacy Along the Waterline

This notice explains personal-data handling connected with this journal. Effective 1 January 2026.

Who is responsible

Mangokivanto Publishing Ltd is the controller for personal information it receives through journal correspondence. Our registered office is 41 Constitution Street, Edinburgh EH6 7BG, United Kingdom; company SC826941. Contact [email protected] for privacy enquiries.

Reading the website

The supplied site does not use analytics scripts, advertising trackers, accounts or embedded social-media tools. Normal website delivery involves technical information such as your IP address, requested page, browser information and request time. Hosting and security systems may process this information to deliver pages, detect abuse and investigate faults. Such processing is based on legitimate interests in operating a reliable, secure publication.

Images, styles and scripts are served as site files. External websites are not embedded; following an external link takes you to a service with its own privacy practices.

The dock-note tool

Text entered into the contact tool stays in the current page’s browser memory. The tool has no submission endpoint and does not send your draft to us. Copy places the prepared text on your clipboard with your permission. Download creates a text file on your device. Your browser, operating system and any clipboard-sync or backup services you use may handle those copies under their own settings.

The site does not intentionally save drafts in local storage. Your browser may separately offer form autofill or session restoration. Avoid entering sensitive personal information or another person’s private data.

If you email us

We receive the information you choose to send, including your address, message and any attachments. We use it to answer enquiries, investigate corrections and maintain relevant correspondence. Our usual legal basis is a legitimate interest in managing the publication and responding to readers. Where necessary, we may process information to comply with a legal obligation or address a legal claim.

We do not sell correspondence or use it to add you to a marketing list. We may use hosting, email and technical service providers acting under appropriate arrangements. Authorities or professional advisers may receive information where legally required or necessary to establish or defend rights.

Retention and international processing

We keep correspondence only as long as reasonably needed for the enquiry, related editorial records and any applicable legal requirements. Routine enquiries are normally reviewed for deletion within 12 months of closure; a substantiated correction record or legal matter may need longer retention. We seek to minimise identifying details in continuing editorial records.

Where a service provider processes personal data outside the UK, applicable transfer requirements must be met, including adequacy arrangements or appropriate contractual safeguards where required. You may ask us for information about safeguards relevant to your correspondence.

Browser preferences

The cookie settings tool stores your chosen preference in local storage on your device. It is not an advertising identifier and is not transmitted by the tool. Read Your Harbour Cookie Settings for the key, purpose and removal options.

Your rights

Depending on the circumstances, you may request access, correction, erasure, restriction or portability of personal data, and object to processing based on legitimate interests. Where processing relies on consent, you may withdraw that consent without affecting prior lawful processing. We may need proportionate information to confirm your identity. These rights have legal conditions and exceptions.

Send requests to our contact email or registered office. We normally respond within one month, subject to lawful extensions. You can complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, and may have rights to contact your local supervisory authority.

Changes

We will update this page if the journal’s data practices change. Check the effective date when reviewing the notice.