Privacy Statement

JCDS journal does not collect information from non-registered users. The data collected from registered users of this journal falls within the scope of the standard functioning of peer-reviewed journals.

It includes information that makes communication possible for the editorial process; it enables collecting aggregated data on submissions and publications,  as well as tracking geopolitical and social elements of scholarly communication.

This journal’s editorial team uses this data to guide its work in publishing and improving this journal. Data that will assist in developing this publishing platform may be shared with its developer Public Knowledge Project in an anonymized and aggregated form, with appropriate exceptions such as article metrics.

The data will not be sold by this journal or PKP nor will it be used for purposes other than those stated here.

The authors published in this journal are responsible for the human subject data that figures in the research reported here. Those involved in editing this journal seek to be compliant with industry standards for data privacy, including the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ) provision for “ data subject rights ” that include (a) breach notification; (b) right of access; (c) the right to be forgotten; (d) data portability; and (e) privacy by design. The GDPR also allows for the recognition of “the public interest in the availability of the data,” which has a particular saliency for those involved in maintaining, with the greatest integrity possible, the public record of scholarly publishing.

Articles published in Journal of Contemporary Dental Sciences are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, unless otherwise agreed with Qassim University Publishers. When sharing or reusing any article, attribution must be given to the original source, using the statement "The final, published version of this article is available at https://jcds.qu.edu.sa/index.php/JCDS/index. Reuse for commercial purposes requires permission from the publisher.