Privacy Policy
Last updated: 21 October 2026
This policy explains how Discover STM Publishing Ltd, Ireland (“we”, “us”), acts as data controller for personal data collected through discoverpublish.com (the “Website”). You can contact us at any time through our contact page.
This policy covers this Website only. The journals we host or manage, and manuscript submission systems linked from them, are separate services with their own privacy notices.
| Situation | Data | Purpose and legal basis |
|---|---|---|
| Contact form | Name, email address, optional phone number, your message, and the IP address you submitted from | To respond to your enquiry (legitimate interests / steps at your request). The IP address is used to prevent spam and abuse (legitimate interests). |
| Customer account (books) | Name, email address, password (stored only as a one-way hash), and your library of books | To create and run your account and give you access to books you obtain (performance of a contract). |
| Website visit statistics (only if you click “Accept all”) | Page visited, referring page, browser/user-agent, a hashed form of your IP address, an approximate location (country and city, derived from your IP address using a database held on our own server), and a daily anonymous visit identifier that is not stored in a cookie | To understand which content is useful (consent). Nothing is recorded if you do not accept, if you choose “Essential only”, or if your browser sends a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal. |
| Security and operation of the Website | Standard server logs kept by our hosting provider (such as IP address, time, and requested page), and a session cookie | To keep the Website secure and working (legitimate interests). |
We do not use your personal data for automated decision-making or profiling that has legal or similarly significant effects on you. We do not sell personal data.
We use only the cookies described in our Cookie Policy. In short:
PHPSESSID) and a cookie that remembers your cookie choice (cookie_consent). These do not require consent.You can change your choice at any time from the Cookie Policy page.
We share personal data only with service providers that help us run the Website, acting on our instructions, such as our web hosting provider. If you accept optional analytics or marketing tools, the provider of that tool also receives data about your visit, as described in the Cookie Policy. We may disclose data where required by law or to protect our rights.
Our hosting provider and any optional third-party tools you accept may process data outside the European Economic Area. Where this happens we rely on the safeguards required by data protection law, such as adequacy decisions or standard contractual clauses.
We keep personal data only as long as needed for the purpose it was collected for. Contact enquiries are kept while we deal with your request and for reasonable record-keeping afterwards. Account data is kept while your account is open. Visit statistics are kept in an aggregated or hashed form. You can ask us to delete your data at any time (see below).
Under the General Data Protection Regulation you have the right to access your personal data, have it corrected or erased, restrict or object to its processing, and receive it in a portable format. Where we rely on consent you can withdraw it at any time without affecting earlier processing. To exercise a right, contact us through our contact page and describe your request; we may need to verify your identity, and we will respond within one month.
If you are unhappy with how we handle your data, please contact us first. You also have the right to complain to the Irish Data Protection Commission (dataprotection.ie) or your local supervisory authority.
We use reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal data, including encrypted connections (HTTPS) and hashed passwords. No system is completely secure, so please contact us promptly if you think your account has been compromised.
The Website is not directed at children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect their personal data.
We will update this policy when our practices change and revise the “Last updated” date above.