Last updated: 4 June 2026
Landscape Architecture respects the privacy of authors, reviewers, editors, readers, subscribers, website visitors, and all individuals who communicate with the journal. This Privacy Policy explains how the journal collects, uses, stores, shares, and protects personal information in connection with manuscript submission, peer review, editorial communication, publication, indexing, and use of the journal website.
By using the journal website, submitting a manuscript, reviewing a manuscript, joining the editorial process, or contacting the journal, users acknowledge that their information may be handled in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We Collect
Landscape Architecture may collect personal information when users submit manuscripts, contact the editorial office, participate in peer review, register for journal updates, or use the journal website.
The information collected may include:
Name
Email address
Institutional affiliation
Department or organization
Country or region
ORCID iD, where provided
Postal address, where required
Telephone number, where provided
Manuscript title and submission details
Author contribution information
Reviewer comments and editorial correspondence
Conflict of interest, funding, ethics, and data availability statements
Files submitted by authors, including manuscripts, figures, tables, supplementary material, and revision documents
Technical information related to website use, such as IP address, browser type, device information, access time, and pages visited
The journal collects only information that is necessary for editorial, publication, communication, indexing, administrative, and website-related purposes.
2. How We Use Personal Information
Personal information is used for legitimate journal operations, including:
Receiving and processing manuscript submissions
Communicating with authors, reviewers, editors, and readers
Managing peer review and editorial decisions
Checking manuscript completeness and ethical declarations
Handling revisions, proofs, corrections, and publication records
Assigning articles to journal issues
Preparing article metadata for publication, indexing, DOI registration, and archiving
Maintaining accurate records of authorship, correspondence, and editorial decisions
Responding to questions, complaints, appeals, and ethical concerns
Improving journal services and website functionality
Sending important journal-related notices where appropriate
The journal does not sell personal information to third parties.
3. Manuscript Submission and Peer Review Data
When authors submit manuscripts to Landscape Architecture, the journal collects and stores information necessary to evaluate and process the submission. This may include author details, manuscript files, reviewer reports, editorial comments, decision letters, revision files, proof corrections, and related correspondence.
The journal uses a single-blind peer review process. Reviewers know the identity of authors, but reviewer identities are not disclosed to authors. Reviewer names, contact details, review reports, and editorial communications are treated as confidential and are used only for editorial and journal management purposes.
4. Publication and Indexing Information
After acceptance and publication, certain information becomes part of the scholarly record. This may include:
Author names
Affiliations
Corresponding author email address, where published
Article title
Abstract
Keywords
Funding information
Conflict of interest statement
Ethical approval statement
Data availability statement
References
DOI and article metadata
Published article metadata may be shared with indexing services, abstracting databases, DOI registration agencies, library platforms, preservation services, repositories, and academic discovery systems to support citation, discoverability, archiving, and long-term access.
5. Email Communication
The journal may use email to communicate with authors, reviewers, editors, readers, librarians, and other users. Email communication may include manuscript updates, review invitations, editorial decisions, revision requests, proof corrections, publication notices, policy updates, and responses to inquiries.
Users should ensure that the information they provide to the journal is accurate and up to date. Authors should include the manuscript title and manuscript ID, if available, when contacting the editorial office about a submission.
6. Cookies and Website Data
The journal website may use cookies or similar technologies to support basic website functionality, improve user experience, analyze website traffic, and maintain website security.
Cookies are small files stored on a user’s device. Users may disable cookies through their browser settings, but some website features may not function properly if cookies are disabled.
The website may collect non-personal technical information, such as browser type, device type, IP address, pages visited, date and time of access, and referring website. This information is used to monitor website performance, improve accessibility, and protect the website from misuse.
7. Sharing of Personal Information
Landscape Architecture may share personal information only when necessary for legitimate journal operations. Information may be shared with:
Editors and editorial board members
Peer reviewers
Editorial office staff
Copyeditors, typesetters, and production staff
Website hosting and technical service providers
DOI registration and metadata services
Abstracting and indexing databases
Digital preservation and archiving services
Legal, ethical, institutional, or regulatory bodies where required
The journal does not share personal information for unrelated marketing purposes and does not sell user data.
8. Third-Party Services and Links
The journal website may contain links to third-party websites, databases, indexing services, repositories, DOI platforms, or external resources. Landscape Architecture is not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or data handling policies of external websites.
Users are encouraged to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites they visit through links provided on the journal website.
9. Data Retention
The journal retains personal information for as long as necessary to support editorial, publication, legal, ethical, indexing, and archival purposes.
Manuscript records, editorial correspondence, peer review files, publication metadata, authorship records, and ethical documentation may be retained to preserve the integrity of the scholarly record and to handle future corrections, disputes, appeals, or publication ethics matters.
Information that is no longer required may be securely deleted, anonymized, or archived according to the journal’s administrative and editorial needs.
10. Data Security
Landscape Architecture takes reasonable measures to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure. Access to manuscript files, review records, and editorial correspondence is limited to individuals involved in the editorial, review, production, or administrative process.
However, no method of electronic storage, email communication, or internet transmission is completely secure. Users should avoid sending unnecessary sensitive personal information by email or through manuscript files.
11. User Rights and Requests
Users may contact the journal to request access to, correction of, or removal of personal information held by the journal, subject to editorial, legal, ethical, archival, and scholarly record requirements.
The journal may be unable to remove information that forms part of the published scholarly record, official editorial history, peer review documentation, publication metadata, DOI records, indexing records, or legal and ethical compliance files.
Requests related to personal information should be sent to the editorial office using the contact details below.
12. Privacy of Published Articles
Information included in published articles becomes part of the permanent scholarly record. This may include author names, affiliations, correspondence details, acknowledgements, funding statements, conflict of interest declarations, ethical statements, and article metadata.
Authors are responsible for ensuring that personal, institutional, participant-related, or third-party information included in a manuscript may be lawfully and ethically published.
13. Children’s Privacy
The journal website and editorial services are intended for academic, professional, and scholarly use. Landscape Architecture does not knowingly collect personal information from children for journal submission or editorial purposes.
14. Changes to This Privacy Policy
Landscape Architecture may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in journal operations, website services, editorial procedures, publication practices, or applicable requirements. Any updated version will be posted on the journal website with a revised update date.
Users are encouraged to review this page periodically.
15. Contact Information
For questions about this Privacy Policy, general journal matters, editorial policies, indexing, permissions, or publication ethics, please contact: editor@landscarchitmag.org
For manuscript submission, manuscript status, revision files, peer-review progress, proof corrections, or publication-related support, please contact: editassist@landscarchitmag.org