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Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how Jivaro collects, uses, shares, stores, and protects information across the website, articles, research section, apps, tools, store, services, forms, accounts, communications, and related features.
Jivaro aims to collect only the information reasonably needed to operate the platform, provide requested services, process transactions, improve the site, protect users, comply with law, and communicate with readers, customers, contributors, and users.
Jivaro does not sell or rent personal information.
Data may be shared with providers needed to operate the site and services.
Many tools are designed to run locally or store settings in the browser.
Users may request access, correction, deletion, unsubscribe, or account-related help.
Effective date and scope
This Privacy Policy applies to Jivaro and to pages, tools, apps, store features, forms, research submissions, services, and communications operated through Jivaro unless a specific feature or service provides a separate privacy notice.
This policy applies when you visit the website, read content, create or use an account, submit a form, subscribe to communications, buy a product or service, donate, upload files, submit research material, comment, use apps or tools, or otherwise interact with Jivaro.
Last updated
May 15, 2026
Jivaro may update this Privacy Policy as the website, apps, store, research section, services, or legal requirements change.
Information Jivaro may collect
The information Jivaro collects depends on how you use the site. Not every type of information listed below is collected from every user.
Contact and support information
When you use contact forms or request support, Jivaro may collect your name, email address, message contents, topic, attachments, and any information you choose to include.
Newsletter and communications
When you subscribe to newsletters or updates, Jivaro may collect your email address, subscription preferences, confirmation status, unsubscribe activity, and related communication records.
Store purchases and services
When you buy digital products, order services, donate, or download paid resources, Jivaro may collect transaction details, contact information, billing-related details, order history, download information, service instructions, and customer-support records.
File uploads
If you upload files for services, support, research submissions, or other features, Jivaro may collect the uploaded files, filenames, metadata, and related instructions or communications.
Research submissions
For research submissions, Jivaro may collect author names, contact information, affiliations, manuscripts, abstracts, references, declarations, conflict-of-interest statements, funding statements, reviewer communications, editorial decisions, and related submission records.
Accounts and login information
If account or login features are available, Jivaro may collect account identifiers, email addresses, login records, account settings, order history, saved preferences, and information needed to manage the account.
Comments and public submissions
If comments or public contribution features are available, Jivaro may collect the information you submit, display names, timestamps, moderation records, and related technical information.
Apps and tools
When you use Jivaro apps or tools, the tool may process user inputs, settings, files, calculations, or other information depending on the tool. Many tools are designed to run locally or store settings in the browser.
Analytics and technical information
Jivaro and its service providers may collect technical information such as IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, referring pages, pages visited, timestamps, errors, performance data, general location derived from IP address, and server logs.
Affiliate and advertising interactions
Jivaro may use affiliate links, advertising partners, or tracking technologies that record clicks, referrals, purchases, or other interactions needed for attribution, analytics, fraud prevention, and commission reporting.
How Jivaro may use information
Operate and improve the platform
Jivaro may use information to operate the website, maintain apps and tools, improve performance, troubleshoot issues, develop new features, measure traffic, understand reader needs, and improve content, products, and services.
Provide requested services
Information may be used to respond to messages, provide support, process orders, deliver downloads, complete service requests, manage donations, handle accounts, and communicate about transactions or requested features.
Manage research and editorial workflows
Research submission information may be used to screen submissions, communicate with authors, coordinate editorial review, manage peer review, make editorial decisions, handle corrections, maintain publication records, and support research integrity.
Send communications
Jivaro may use contact information to send newsletters, updates, service messages, account notices, order confirmations, support responses, research-related messages, and other communications users requested or that are reasonably related to their interactions.
Protect the site and users
Information may be used to detect spam, abuse, fraud, unauthorized access, security threats, policy violations, payment issues, technical problems, and other activity that could harm Jivaro, users, customers, contributors, or the public.
Comply with obligations
Jivaro may use and retain information to comply with legal, tax, accounting, recordkeeping, contractual, dispute-resolution, security, fraud-prevention, and regulatory obligations.
How information may be shared
Jivaro does not sell or rent personal information. Jivaro may share information only in limited circumstances described in this policy.
Service providers
Jivaro may share information with service providers needed to operate the website, host content, process payments, deliver products, send communications, manage forms, provide support, run analytics, maintain security, store files, process orders, or provide related services.
Payment and commerce providers
Payment and commerce providers may process billing information, payment details, fraud checks, tax-related information, receipts, refunds, disputes, and order records. Jivaro does not need to directly store complete payment-card details when payment processors handle them.
Research and publication workflows
Research submission information may be shared with editors, reviewers, publishing-support providers, indexing or archiving services, ethics reviewers, or other parties involved in the research and publication process, where appropriate.
Legal, safety, and security reasons
Jivaro may disclose information if required by law, legal process, court order, government request, tax requirement, security investigation, fraud prevention, rights protection, safety concern, or to enforce site policies and terms.
Business transfers
If Jivaro is involved in a merger, acquisition, sale, financing, restructuring, transfer of assets, or similar business event, information may be transferred or reviewed as part of that process.
Aggregated or de-identified information
Jivaro may use or share aggregated, statistical, or de-identified information that does not reasonably identify a specific person.
Third-party services
Jivaro may use third-party services to operate, improve, monetize, and support the site. These services may process information under their own privacy policies and terms.
Website and infrastructure
Jivaro may use Squarespace, GitHub, hosting services, domain services, file services, and other infrastructure providers to publish, maintain, and secure the site and related resources.
Payments, store, and donations
Jivaro may use services such as Stripe, PayPal, Buy Me a Coffee, Ko-fi, Patreon, or similar providers to process payments, donations, purchases, subscriptions, downloads, and support transactions.
Analytics and search tools
Jivaro may use services such as Google Analytics and Google Search Console to understand traffic, performance, search visibility, errors, user behavior patterns, and technical issues.
Advertising and affiliates
Jivaro may use Google AdSense, Google Ads, Amazon Associates, affiliate networks, or similar services for advertising, attribution, referral tracking, and commission reporting.
AI and productivity tools
Jivaro may use OpenAI or other AI, productivity, design, or automation tools to support permitted workflows, subject to Jivaro’s AI Use Policy and applicable third-party terms.
Design and media tools
Jivaro may use Canva or other design, media, image, document, or creative tools to produce website assets, store products, visuals, templates, and related materials.
Cookies and similar technologies
Basic functionality
Jivaro and its service providers may use cookies, local storage, pixels, tags, scripts, and similar technologies for basic site functionality, account features, security, analytics, store features, forms, embedded services, and performance.
Targeted advertising
Jivaro does not currently use targeted advertising as a core practice. However, third-party services, advertising networks, affiliate systems, analytics tools, embedded content, or future features may use cookies or similar technologies according to their own policies.
User controls
You can usually control cookies and similar technologies through your browser settings. Blocking or deleting cookies may affect site functionality, store features, forms, login features, embedded content, or certain apps and tools.
Apps, tools, and local storage
Jivaro offers apps and tools that may process information differently depending on the tool. Many tools are designed to run locally in the browser and do not intentionally send user inputs to Jivaro servers.
Some tools may save preferences, settings, drafts, calculations, or other data locally using browser storage. Local browser storage is generally stored on your device or in your browser environment and may be cleared through your browser settings.
Important app-data note
Do not enter sensitive medical, financial, legal, personal, account, or confidential information into Jivaro apps or tools unless the tool is specifically designed for that purpose and clearly explains how the data is handled.
Tool behavior may vary
Some apps or tools may have their own notices, instructions, or data-handling details. If there is a conflict between a specific app notice and this general Privacy Policy, the more specific notice should be read together with this policy.
Health, finance, research, and sensitive information
Sensitive information
Users should not submit sensitive medical, financial, legal, personal, account, or confidential information unless it is necessary for a specific service, tool, research submission, support request, store order, or other feature they intentionally use.
Health and finance content
Jivaro content is educational and informational. It should not be treated as personalized medical, financial, legal, tax, investment, or professional advice.
Research submissions
Research submissions may include author names, affiliations, conflicts of interest, funding statements, manuscript information, reviewer communications, and publication records. Some research-related information may become public as part of normal academic or editorial publishing.
Store and service orders
Store purchases and service orders may require information needed to complete the transaction, provide the service, deliver the product, communicate with the customer, process payment, resolve disputes, and maintain business records.
No healthcare-provider role
Jivaro does not intentionally collect protected health information as a healthcare provider and does not provide medical diagnosis, treatment, or patient care.
Data retention
General retention
Jivaro keeps personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
Legal and business records
Some records may be retained for legal, tax, accounting, fraud-prevention, support, dispute, security, audit, or compliance reasons.
Store and service records
Store, order, donation, payment, service, and customer-support records may be retained longer than ordinary contact messages because they may be needed for accounting, tax, support, refund, dispute, or legal purposes.
Research records
Research submission, editorial, peer-review, publication, ethics, correction, and archival records may be retained for editorial integrity, publication history, research ethics, dispute handling, and recordkeeping.
Security
Jivaro uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect information from unauthorized access, misuse, loss, alteration, or disclosure. However, no website, app, payment system, service provider, database, email system, or internet transmission can be guaranteed completely secure.
Users are responsible for avoiding unnecessary sensitive submissions, protecting their own devices and accounts, using strong passwords where accounts exist, and reviewing information carefully before submitting it through forms, tools, uploads, store orders, or research submissions.
Your choices and rights
Depending on where you live and how you interact with Jivaro, you may have rights or choices regarding your personal information. Jivaro will respond to reasonable privacy requests as required by applicable law.
Access
You may request information about personal information Jivaro maintains about you, where applicable.
Correction
You may request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal information where legally and technically possible.
Deletion
You may request deletion of personal information where legally possible. Some information may need to be retained for legal, accounting, security, publication, research, dispute, or business reasons.
Email choices
You may unsubscribe from marketing or newsletter emails using available unsubscribe links or by contacting Jivaro.
Account or stored-data requests
If account features or stored-data features are available, you may request help accessing, correcting, exporting, or deleting account-related information where applicable.
Regional rights
Region-specific privacy rights may apply, including rights similar to those under GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA, or other privacy laws. Jivaro may need to verify your identity before acting on certain requests.
Children’s privacy
Jivaro is not intended for children who are too young to consent to online services under applicable law. Jivaro does not knowingly collect personal information from children in a way that requires parental consent. If a parent or guardian believes a child has submitted personal information to Jivaro, they may contact Jivaro to request review or deletion where appropriate.
International users
Jivaro may use service providers located in different countries. By using Jivaro, submitting information, purchasing products, donating, using apps or tools, or submitting research material, information may be processed, transferred, stored, or accessed in countries that may have different privacy laws than your country of residence.
External links and embedded content
External websites
Jivaro may link to external websites, products, stores, services, research sources, affiliate partners, social media platforms, and third-party tools. Jivaro is not responsible for the privacy practices of external websites or services.
Embedded content
Embedded content such as videos, social posts, widgets, images, maps, or third-party forms may collect data according to the third party’s own privacy policy, cookies, and tracking practices.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Jivaro may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Updates may reflect changes to the website, apps, tools, store, research section, services, third-party providers, legal requirements, or data practices. The “Last updated” date should reflect the most recent version.
Privacy contact
For privacy questions, data requests, account-related requests, or concerns about how information is handled, contact Jivaro through the Contact page.
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