Communications on Applied Electronics (CAE) is intent on protecting your privacy. The following explains how we treat personal information that we collect and receive, including information related to your past use of CAE products and services. By “personal information” we mean information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available. This policy only applies to CAE and its employees.
When you submit a typrescript to CAE, we collect information such as your name, email address, institution, expertise and the like. This information may be combined with information we obtain from public sources, business partners, or other companies. Once you apply for publication, and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us. We may also collect other information when you visit CAE pages or the pages of certain CAE partners. Security of such information is a high priority for us. For some products we may also ask for your address or credit card information. Be assured that credit card information is encrypted and stored only on secure machines. Communications on Applied Electronics automatically receives and records information on our server logs from the information that your browser sends to us, including your IP address, cookies, and the page you request. Communications on Applied Electronics uses information to customize the content you see or are notified of. We use it to fulfill your requests for products and services. We use it to improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients. Other uses include storing names of the reviewers of manuscripts submitted to journals and displaying these names for editors.
Communications on Applied Electronics does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances: We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Communications on Applied Electronics under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Communications on Applied Electronics communicate with you about offers from Communications on Applied Electronics and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information. We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Communications on Applied Electronics’ terms of use, or as otherwise required by law. We transfer information about you if Communications on Applied Electronics is acquired by or merged with another company. Communications on Applied Electronics works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business.
Communications on Applied Electronics may set and access cookies on your computer. Communications on Applied Electronics lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Communications on Applied Electronics' cookies.
We encourage you to update your CAE information, at any time. We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the Communications on Applied Electronics service, such as service announcements or administrative messages that are considered part of your Communications on Applied Electronics service, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.
We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with regulations to protect personal information about you.
Communications on Applied Electronics may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your information with CAE or by placing a prominent notice on our site. If you have questions or suggestions, please contact us at: editor@caeaccess.org