1. Information We May Collect

BJHS may collect information reasonably necessary to administer manuscript submission, peer review, publication, editorial communication, and operation of the journal website. This information may include:

• Full name, academic title, institutional affiliation, department, and country.
• Email address and other contact information voluntarily provided through the journal platform.
• ORCID iD or other researcher identifiers provided by the user.
• Manuscript information, author declarations, funding information, conflict-of-interest disclosures, and other submission-related records.
• Reviewer expertise information, review reports, recommendations, and relevant peer-review records.
• Editorial correspondence, submission history, and records generated during editorial processing.
• Limited technical information generated through website use, such as IP address, browser type, device information, server logs, and essential cookie-related data where applicable.

2. Use of Personal Information

Personal information may be used for legitimate journal operations, including:

• Receiving, screening, processing, tracking, and managing manuscript submissions.
• Administering the journal's peer-review process and facilitating communication among authors, reviewers, editors, and relevant editorial personnel.
• Preparing and maintaining article metadata, author information, publication records, and other bibliographic information associated with published content.
• Supporting publication-ethics procedures, editorial administration, website operation, record keeping, and other legitimate scholarly publishing functions.

3. Publicly Available Publication Information

For published articles, certain bibliographic and scholarly information may form part of the public publication record. Depending on the article and information supplied, this may include:

• Author names, institutional affiliations, country information, ORCID iDs where provided, corresponding-author contact information where published, funding disclosures, conflict-of-interest statements, author-contribution information, and relevant ethics or trial-registration information where applicable.

4. Manuscript Confidentiality & Data Sharing

Unpublished manuscripts and associated submission materials are treated as confidential editorial records. Editors, reviewers, and other individuals involved in manuscript assessment should not use, disclose, distribute, or reproduce unpublished material except as necessary for legitimate editorial and peer-review purposes. Where the journal applies double-blind peer review, author and reviewer identities are withheld from one another during the review process to the extent supported by the submitted files and editorial workflow.

Information may be shared with individuals or service providers involved in legitimate journal operations, such as editors, reviewers, copyeditors, production personnel, hosting or technical service providers, and relevant archiving or publication-support services where applicable. When a serious publication-ethics, research-integrity, legal, or regulatory concern arises, relevant information may also be disclosed to an author's institution, research-integrity body, ethics committee, competent authority, or other appropriate organization where such disclosure is reasonably necessary or legally required.

5. Security, Cookies & Data Retention

6. Personal Information Requests & External Websites

Individuals may contact the journal regarding access to or correction of personal information held in connection with their journal account or editorial interactions, subject to applicable legal, operational, and scholarly-record requirements. Certain information associated with a published article may need to remain part of the permanent scholarly record. Requests affecting published information will therefore be assessed in relation to publication integrity, legal requirements, and the journal's applicable post-publication policies.

The BJHS website may contain links to external websites, repositories, databases, or other third-party services. BJHS does not control the privacy practices, security arrangements, or content of independent third-party websites. Users should review the relevant privacy information provided by those external services.

Official Contact

Questions, requests concerning personal information, or other privacy-related concerns may be submitted to the journal's Editorial Office: