About Our Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy contains the following.
Gardenwink.com which owns or operates the Service, is the primary controller of your personal information provided to, or collected for, the Service as identified therein.
For information about how we handle personal information contained in the content of our Service, please read our Processing Notices.
For information about our processing of personal information in accordance with applicable U.S. laws, see our U.S. Consumer Privacy Notice.
Information that you provide to us.
Account login credentials, such as usernames and passwords, password hints, and similar security information;
Other account registration and profile information, including academic, professional, and other background information, such as your field of study, current position, practice area, and areas of interest, gender, ORCID ID, and photo;
Content that you upload and share or store in your account, such as annotations, comments, contributions, and replies;
Your Organization Data
We may obtain information about you from the organization with which you are employed or affiliated in order to enable and manage your access to and use of the Service, including:
Contact details, such as your name and organizational email address, mailing address, and phone number;
Other account registration information, such as job title; and/or
Organizational User ID
Data from other sources
We may also obtain contact details and other information about you from other organizations within RELX and third parties, including:
Social networks that you allow the Service to access your data on one or more networks.
Service providers that help us determine a location so that we can customize specific products based on your location.
Partners with whom we offer co-branded services or engage in joint marketing activities. and/or
To verify or supplement publicly available sources and data providers information that we have or to support the Service.
How we use your information.
To provide, enable and manage your access to and use of the Service;
To process and fulfill requests, orders, downloads, subscriptions or other transactions.
To offer you customized content and other personalization to make the Service more useful to you and more relevant to your interests and geography.
To improve and enhance the Service, such as by adding new content and features.
To notify you about changes, updates and other announcements related to the Service;
To provide you with targeted advertisements, promotional messages and other information relevant to the Service and your interests.
To provide technical, product and other support and to help keep the Service operating, safe and secure.
And/or
To respond to your requests, inquiries, comments or concerns;
Invite you to submit or review manuscripts or otherwise participate in our publishing programs.
Issue payments and statements, such as royalties and editorial fees;
Conduct and administer user testing and surveys, as well as sweepstakes, contests and similar promotions;
Provide you with relevant promotional messages and other information about our products, events and services, our group companies and third parties such as societies and sponsors;
Sharing your information
We share your personal information in the following ways and contexts.
Your organization
If you access the Service through a subscription managed by your organization, your personal information and certain usage data collected by the Service, such as the number of items you have downloaded, any fee-based items you have accessed, and test scores, may be accessed. or shared with administrators authorized by your institution for usage analysis, subscription management, course administration, and testing and remediation purposes. If your institution is a corporation or other business entity, additional usage data, such as the types of records you view and the number of searches you perform, may also be shared for cost attribution and departmental budgeting purposes. We may also disclose non-personally identifiable information, such as reports and aggregated information of anonymous usage data, to your institution or other third parties, subject to any applicable legal or contractual obligations.
Our Group Companies and Service Providers
Depending on the service provided, we share your personal information with:
Affiliates, trading names and divisions within the Elsevier group of companies (for a list, see and certain RELX companies that provide technology, customer service and other shared services functions; and/or
Your Choices
We may also share your personal information with our group companies and sponsors, joint venture partners and other third parties, including entities for which we are acting as agents, licensees, application hosts or publishers, such as societies, who wish to send you invitations, surveys and program.
Information about their products and services that may be of interest to you as determined by your choices in managing your communication preferences and other settings.
Legal reasons
To detect, investigate and help prevent security, fraud or technical problems; and/or
To protect the rights, property or safety of Elsevier, our users, employees or others;
and as part of a corporate transaction, such as the transfer of a journal or other assets or an acquisition or merger by another company