The Russian version is the governing one.
1. General provisions
1.1. This policy describes how the website of the Russian Psychological Journal (the Site) processes personal data. It follows Federal Law No. 152-FZ of 27 July 2006 "On Personal Data" (152-FZ), including Article 18.1.
1.2. Personal data operator: the Russian Psychological Journal. Enquiries on personal data: editor@rpj.ru.com.
1.3. The journal has been published since 2004. Founder: the Russian Psychological Society; publisher: KREDO Publishing House. Submission and peer review of manuscripts take place on this Site.
1.4. Consent to processing is given separately at registration, on the basis of the Consent document.
2. Whose data we process
Visitors (readers); registered users; authors and co-authors; reviewers; editors and editorial staff.
3. What data we process
Readers. Technical data: IP address, browser and device information, pages visited, date and time. Cookies: necessary (session) always; analytics (Yandex.Metrica) only with your consent. See the cookie notice.
Registered users. Given name, family name, affiliation, country, e-mail, username and password (stored only as an irreversible hash). Optionally: ORCID, research interests, phone, mailing address, signature, biography, photo, personal web page, preferred language; chosen roles (reader, author, reviewer) and notification preferences.
Authors. Data entered in the submission form: names, affiliations, countries, e-mail addresses and ORCID of the author and co-authors; the manuscript and supplementary files; correspondence with the editors; decisions on the manuscript.
Reviewers. Profile, reviews and their text, deadlines and correspondence.
Editors. Profile, roles and actions on the Site (event log).
We do not process special categories of personal data or biometric data.
4. Purposes
- registration, identification and access to the user account;
- receiving, reviewing, editing and publishing manuscripts; communication with authors and reviewers;
- publishing articles and author information (name, affiliation, country, ORCID, contact e-mail) in open access;
- assigning DOIs and registering metadata with Crossref; passing metadata of published articles to indexing services and databases (eLIBRARY.ru/RSCI, Scopus, DOAJ, CyberLeninka and others);
- service messages (registration confirmation, manuscript status, review requests) and, if you agreed, notifications on new issues;
- the journal's paid publication services (terms are given on the "Information for authors" page): processing and accounting;
- security and operation of the Site, detecting abuse;
- visit statistics (Yandex.Metrica), only with your consent.
5. Legal grounds
Consent of the data subject (Art. 6(1)(1) of 152-FZ) for registration, profile, mailings and analytics cookies; contract (Art. 6(1)(5)) for handling and publishing manuscripts and providing publication services; the operator's legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(7)) for site security and technical logs. Consent to make data available to an unlimited number of persons (Art. 10.1) is given separately for author information published in open access.
6. How we process data
Collection, recording, organising, accumulation, storage, updating, use, transfer, anonymisation, blocking, deletion and destruction, with and without automation. Data of Russian citizens are recorded, stored and updated in databases located in the Russian Federation (hosting: AdminVPS, data centre in the Russian Federation).
7. Disclosure to third parties
We do not sell personal data. Disclosure is limited to what the purposes in section 4 require:
- Crossref — metadata of published articles (author names, affiliations, ORCID) for DOIs;
- eLIBRARY.ru (RSCI), Scopus, DOAJ, CyberLeninka and other indexers — metadata of published articles;
- Yandex LLC — visit data through Yandex.Metrica, only if you accepted analytics cookies;
- hosting provider and mail service — technically, to operate the Site;
- public authorities — where required by law.
Published author information is available to all readers and search engines.
8. Retention
User profile — while the account exists, until consent is withdrawn or the account is deleted. Manuscripts, reviews and correspondence — for the period required by the editorial process and journal archive: 5 years from the last decision on the manuscript. Published articles and author information — indefinitely, as part of the scholarly record (unless the law requires otherwise). Technical logs — no longer than 30 days. Cookies — as stated in the cookie notice. After the purposes are achieved, consent is withdrawn or on request, data are deleted or anonymised, unless the law requires retention.
9. Your rights
You may obtain information on whether your data are processed and review them; demand correction, blocking or destruction of incomplete, outdated, inaccurate or unnecessary data; withdraw consent; complain to Roskomnadzor or a court.
10. How to contact us
Write to editor@rpj.ru.com stating your name, the e-mail used on the Site and your request. We reply within the period set by 152-FZ (normally 10 working days). Consent may be withdrawn the same way. Withdrawal does not affect lawfulness of processing before it; if a manuscript is already published, author information is removed from the archive only within what the law and publication ethics allow.
11. Security
Role-based access control, password hashing, HTTPS, manuscript files stored outside the public web folder, backups, software updates.
12. Changes
The operator may amend this policy; the new version is published on this page. Version dated 12 November 2026.