Terms of confidentiality and treatment of personal data
The data collected in this form will be processed and digitally stored.
The information provided will be treated confidentially and used exclusively for the purposes of accessing and using the UCP scientific journals management and publication system, and for the other purposes indicated in [3] of these terms.
1. Responsability for the treatment of your personal data
The responsability for the treatment of your personal data is Universidade Católica Portuguesa (hereinafter UCP).
If you need to contact the UCP you can do so through the following means:
Telephone contact: (351) 21 721 40 16
E-mail: joao.dias@ucp.pt or revistas@ucp.pt
2. Contacts of the Data Protection Officer of Universidade Católica Portuguesa
UCP has appointed a Data Protection Officer. If you need to contact him, you can do so using the following means:
Telephone contact: (351) 21 721 41 78
E-mail: compliance.rgpd@ucp.pt
3. Purposes and fundamentals of data processing and retention periods
UCP treats your personal data for the purpose of accessing and using the UCP scientific journals management and publication system, in particular for the purposes and with the foundations, as follows:
Finality |
Legal Basis |
Profile registration and management: Author |
Legitimate Interest |
Create reviewer |
Legitimate Interest |
Profile registration and management: Reviewer |
Legitimate Interest |
Profile registration and management: |
Contractual Execution |
Create co-author or translator (without system authentication data) |
Legitimate Interest |
Publication of article (author, co-author and translator) |
Legitimate Interest |
4. Storage deadlines
The period of time during which the data is preserved and stored by the UCP varies according to the purpose for which the information is used, being kept for the period necessary to satisfy each of them and according to legal requirements, namely the deadlines of archival conservation or others that, at any given moment, are applicable, in particular, according to the following criteria:
Finality |
Criteria for defining the deadlines |
Profile registration and management: Author |
Eliminated after 1 inactive year |
Create reviewer |
Eliminated after 1 year without response |
Profile registration and management: Reviewer |
Eliminated after 3 years of inactivity |
Profile registration and management: Directors (UCP employees), Section Editors and Assistants (UCP employees) |
Eliminated after 3 years of inactivity, or 6 months after termination of the contract |
Create co-author or translator (without system authentication data) |
Permanent storage |
Publication of article (author, co-author and translator) |
Permanent storage |
5. Entities receiving your personal data
The personal data of the holders may be processed by entities to which the UCP has subcontracted its processing, which entities will carry out this processing within the strict scope of the purposes indicated above and may not use the data for any other purposes of their own or others. Personal data may also be transmitted to administrative or regulatory authorities in order to comply with legal registration, communication or reporting obligations.
6. Your rights as a holder of personal data
As a holder of personal data, you can exercise, at any time, the following rights, provided that, in each case, the legal conditions on which your exercise depends: right of access, right of rectification, right of deletion, right of limitation treatment, right to portability and right to object to treatment. For further clarification on these rights, you can consult the information on the link: https://www.ucp.pt/rights-data-subjects?set_language=en.
7. Complaint to the supervisory authority
If necessary, you can also file a complaint with the Portuguese National Data Protection Commission (CNPD).