The Journal of Sports, Exercise, and Performance (JOSEP) is committed to protecting the privacy and personal data of its users, including authors, reviewers, editors, readers, and registered visitors. Personal data collected through this journal website are processed only for legitimate scholarly publishing purposes and in accordance with applicable data protection principles.

The names, email addresses, affiliations, ORCID iDs, submission files, editorial correspondence, peer-review records, and other information entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of the journal. These purposes include manuscript submission, editorial assessment, peer review, publication, indexing, archiving, communication with users, research integrity procedures, and the maintenance of the scholarly record.

Personal data will not be sold, rented, or used for unrelated commercial or marketing purposes. Data may be accessed only by authorized journal personnel, editors, reviewers, technical service providers, and publishing-related partners when necessary for the operation of the journal. Where required for publication and dissemination, article metadata may be shared with DOI registration agencies, indexing databases, abstracting services, archiving platforms, and other scholarly infrastructure providers.

For published articles, author names, affiliations, ORCID iDs, article metadata, and contact information designated for publication may become publicly available as part of the permanent scholarly record. Reviewer identities and confidential peer-review materials will not be disclosed publicly unless the journal adopts an open peer-review model or explicit consent is obtained.

The journal takes reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal data against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Access to personal data is limited to individuals who need such access for editorial, publishing, technical, legal, or ethical purposes.

Personal data are retained only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes of scholarly publishing, editorial accountability, publication ethics, indexing, archiving, legal compliance, and the preservation of the academic record. Users may request access to, correction of, or deletion of their personal data, subject to legal, ethical, archival, and publication-record obligations.

By registering, submitting a manuscript, reviewing for the journal, or using this website, users acknowledge that their personal data may be processed for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement. For privacy-related inquiries or data protection requests, users may contact the editorial office through the contact information provided on the journal website.