Who we are
Our website address is: https://pccmreports.com. PCCM Reports is an open-access, peer-reviewed medical journal dedicated to publishing scholarly research, case reports, and quality improvement initiatives in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.
Manuscript Submissions and Peer Review
When authors submit manuscripts to the journal, we collect personal data including names, institutional affiliations, email addresses, and ORCID iDs to facilitate the editorial process. In accordance with our double-blind peer-review policy, author identities are strictly blinded from reviewers, and reviewer identities are strictly hidden from authors. Peer-review correspondence and editorial evaluation records are retained securely to maintain scholarly transparency and indexing integrity.
Comments and Discussion
When visitors leave comments on published articles or discussion boards, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist in automated spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media and Figures
If you upload images or clinical figures as part of a manuscript submission, you should ensure that all patient identifiers are completely removed in compliance with HIPAA guidelines. Authors should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images publicly hosted on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When editorial board members, reviewers, or authors log into our editorial system, we set up several cookies to save login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit, review, or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just processed. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, external data tracking, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
We do not sell or commercially share user, author, or reviewer data. If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. For published articles, metadata including author names, institutional affiliations, and ORCID iDs are shared with academic indexing databases and registration agencies (such as Crossref) to assign Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and ensure permanent global searchability.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (including authors, reviewers, and editors), we store the personal and professional information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any metadata linked to finalized, peer-reviewed, and published medical manuscripts, which must be retained indefinitely to protect the permanent scholarly record.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments and manuscript submissions may be checked through an automated spam and plagiarism detection service.