Regulations and policy

This privacy policy sets out how the Journal of Neuroscience and Cognition uses and protects any information that the authors give when publishing in this journal. The Journal of Neuroscience and Cognition is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information during the publication process, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

The Journal of Neuroscience and Cognition may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. This policy is effective from 1st of May 2010.

The Journal of Neuroscience and Cognition
The Journal of Neuroscience and Cognition is an internal academic report of the Master Programme Neuroscience and Cognition of the University Utrecht (NL). Its main aim is to give its students a first grasp of the world of publishing.

The peer review process
The Journal of Neuroscience and Cognition employs a peer review process; all submissions to the journal will be sent to a peer student active in the same research field, this review report will be sent back to the author for revision and can be sent in for a second time. After this, the editorial board, which consists of eight first-year students assigned to the board for the duration of one year, will decide which articles will get published in the journal’s upcoming issue. Please note, a submission can be rejected by the editorial board at all times.

Release
The Journal of Neuroscience and Cognition is released twice a year, usually in spring and in fall. In addition, the abstract booklet of the Mind the Brain Symposium will be released as a supplement to the journal’s spring issue.

What do we collect?
We may collect the following information:

• Name, job title and institutional affiliation of the author and his/her supervisor(s)
• Contact information including email addresses of the author and his/her supervisor(s)
• Other information relevant to the Journal of Neuroscience and Cognition

What do we do with the information we gather?
We require this information for publication of articles and for archiving, in particular for the following reasons:

• Internal record keeping
• The peer review process
• Ensuring agreement from the author and his/her supervisor(s)
• Internal publication and associated activities (e.g. posters and/or presentations)

Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, the contents of the Journal of Neuroscience and Cognition cannot and should not be made available anywhere else, unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. The Journal of Neuroscience and Cognition is an internal report, therefore its contents will and should not be made available to anyone not participating within the Master Programme Neuroscience and Cognition. In this way, unpublished results or results to be published elsewhere can be published within this Journal. To ensure that all parties agree with publication, an agreement form has to be signed by the supervisor of the student-author and be sent back to the Journal of Neuroscience and Cognition before the date of release. Furthermore, names and email addresses will exclusively be used for publication of the journal and its other aims. Therefore, this information will not be available to other parties and for other purposes. If you would like a copy of the information held on you or if you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to journal.nc@gmail.com.

Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, we cannot be held responsible for the protection and privacy of any information whilst visiting such sites, nor are these sites are governed by this privacy statement.