Seminare protects the personal data of authors, reviewers, members of the journal’s governing bodies, readers, and other persons using the editorial system or cooperating with the Editorial Board.

The controller of personal data processed in connection with the editorial and publishing activities of Seminare is the Francis de Sales Scientific Society (TNFS), the publisher of the journal. Seminare uses the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw Journals Platform and the Open Journal Systems (OJS) system, in which personal data may be processed to the extent necessary for the technical operation of the publishing process.

Personal data are used exclusively for purposes related to the journal’s scholarly, editorial, and publishing activities, in particular for managing user accounts, manuscript submissions, the peer-review process, communication, and the publication of articles and their metadata. Personal data are not disclosed to third parties for marketing or commercial purposes unrelated to the journal’s activities. Authors’ data intended for publication, such as name and surname, affiliation, ORCID identifier and – in the case of the author designated for correspondence – e-mail address, may be made publicly available as part of the publication and its metadata.

Personal data are protected in accordance with applicable data-protection laws and the confidentiality principles governing the editorial and peer-review processes. They are retained for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes for which they were collected, taking into account requirements concerning documentation and the integrity of the publishing process.

Persons whose personal data are processed have the rights provided for under applicable data-protection laws, in particular the right to access their data, rectify or erase them, restrict their processing, and object to their processing, insofar as these rights apply. Any questions, requests concerning personal data, or reports of personal-data breaches should be addressed to the Francis de Sales Scientific Society via the contact form available on the TNFS website.

A person who believes that their personal data is being processed in breach of the regulations also has the right to lodge a complaint with the President of the Personal Data Protection Office (UODO) of Poland.