This Privacy Policy explains how Vidwana ("we", "us") collects, uses, and protects information when you use our research repository and publishing services.
Information we collect
When you create an account or use Vidwana, we may collect:
- Account details you provide — name, email, username, affiliation, and profile information such as your bio, disciplines, ORCID, and links.
- Content you submit — publications, abstracts, PDFs, questions, answers, messages, and comments.
- Usage information — pages viewed, publications read, and basic technical data such as your browser type and approximate location, used to keep the service secure and working.
How we use your information
- To operate the repository — display your profile and publications, calculate reads and citation metrics, and power search and discovery.
- To communicate with you — account notifications, messages from other researchers, and important service updates.
- To improve and secure the platform, and to prevent spam and abuse.
Public information
Vidwana is a scholarly repository built for discovery. Your name, profile, published works, and their metadata are public by design so that your research can be found and cited. You control much of your profile from your account settings. PDFs marked private are only accessible to the owner and named co-authors.
Citation metrics
To show real citation metrics, we retrieve publicly available citation data from external scholarly sources such as CrossRef, OpenAlex, and Semantic Scholar, using identifiers like your DOI. We cache these values to keep pages fast.
Sharing
We do not sell your personal information. We share data only as needed to run the service (for example, secure hosting), to comply with the law, or with your consent.
Your choices
- You can edit or update your profile at any time.
- You can request correction or removal of your account by contacting us.
- Authors listed on a work via an unclaimed profile can claim it by registering with a matching name.
Contact
For any privacy questions or requests, please contact us through the details on our Contact page.
We may update this policy from time to time. The latest version will always be available on this page.