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The data collected from registered and non-registered users of this website falls within the scope of the standard functioning of peer-reviewed conference proceedings and presentations. It includes information that makes communication possible for the editorial process; it is used to inform readers about the authorship and editing of content; it enables collecting aggregated data on readership behaviours, as well as tracking geopolitical and social elements of scholarly communication.

The conference program committee and its web hosting service, the University of Alberta Libraries, use this data to guide their work in publishing and improving this website. Data that will assist in developing this software, Open Journal Systems may be shared with its developer Public Knowledge Project in an anonymized and aggregated form, with appropriate exceptions such as article metrics. The data will not be sold by this website, the University of Alberta Libraries, or PKP nor will it be used for purposes other than those stated here. The authors published on this website are responsible for the human subject data that figures in the research reported here.

The conference program committee and organizers seek to be compliant with industry standards for data privacy, including the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provision for “data subject rights” that include (a) breach notification; (b) right of access; (c) the right to be forgotten; (d) data portability; and (e) privacy by design. The GDPR also allows for the recognition of “the public interest in the availability of the data,” which has a particular saliency for those involved in maintaining, with the greatest integrity possible, the public record of scholarly publishing.