Privacy Statement

Information concerning the processing of personal data on the basis of Art. 13 of GDPR*.

1. Data controller

The data controller who decides how the personal data is used is the University of Warsaw (UW) with registered office at ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, 00-927 Warsaw. The controller can be contacted via one of the forms of contact indicated on the website: https://www.uw.edu.pl/kontakt

2. Data Protection Officer (DPO)

The Controller has assigned a Data Protection Officer, who can be contacted in matters related to your personal data. You can contact the DPO of UW by sending an e-mail to: iod@adm.uw.edu.pl

3. The purposes and legal basis of personal data processing

Your personal data will be processed in order to register and create an account on the website www.fn.uw.edu.pl and to allow you to use the functions of the above-mentioned website, in particular: submitting papers for publication, carrying out the anonymous review process, and correspondence with authors concerning the papers submitted by them. Your personal data can also be used to inform you about conferences and other scientific events organised or co-organised by the FILOZOFIA NAUKI / THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE journal. The legal basis for personal data processing is article 6, section 1, letter “a” of GDPR: consent to the processing of personal data. The consent can be withdrawn at any time without providing reasons, by sending an e-mail to: thephos@uw.edu.pl

4. Data storage period

The data will be processed during the period of 5 years from the moment of removing the account or withdrawing the consent to processing.

5. Data recipients

Personal data will be made available to the employees of the University of Warsaw authorised for that purpose, and in justified cases, to the journal's partners in the scope necessary to carry out editorial work. Other recipients of your personal data can be entities providing IT services with whom the University of Warsaw has signed a contract under which they become the processor of personal data, as well as entities entitled to receive the data on the basis of law.

6. Rights related to data processing

We guarantee to respect all the rights resulting from GDPR, namely: the rights of access to and rectification or erasure of personal data, restriction of processing and revocation of consent at any time. If you consider that the processing of your personal data is carried out in breach of the provisions of GDPR, you can file a complaint to the President of the Personal Data Protection Office. 

7. Obligation to provide personal data and consequences of not providing them

The provision of data is voluntary. If you don't provide them, you will not be able to make use of the full functionality of the the journal's website. 

Consent to the processing of personal data

I hereby consent to the processing of my personal data by the University of Warsaw within the scope specified in the registration form, for the purpose of:

  • registering and creating my user account on the www.fn.uw.edu.pl website;
  • submitting papers for publication, subjecting them to the anonymous review process, and corresponding with authors in relation to the papers submitted by them;
  • receiving information about conferences or other scientific events organised or co-organised by the  journal.
  • I am aware that I have the right to withdraw my consent at any time, by sending an e-mail to the address: thephos@uw.edu.pl. I have read the information on personal data processing.

*Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation)