Author Guidelines
Rules on publication
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The editor of the journal "Intercultural Communication" does not accept email articles.
The received article is subjected to the initial review in terms of form and content by the editors of the journal and if found to be incompatible with the rules, it is returned to the author.
Each submitted article is checked by the anti-plagiarism system.
The Editor reserves the right to reject texts and revise the received works.
The final decision on acceptance for publication, acceptance after the correction or in the case of comments about rejecting the work is not subject to appeal.
If an author's correction is required, the Author is obliged to correct the work in accordance with the reviewers' suggestion and take into account any comments from the editorial office.
While making the correction, the Author cannot make changes which exceed 3% of the manuscript's volume, unless these changes have been consulted with the editors. Changes involving, inter alia, adding new paragraphs to the text or replacing them with new paragraphs of the text are allowed only with the agreement of the editor.
After the correction is made, the author is obliged to present the corrected version of the article.
If the Author, after being requested twice, fails to amend, or violate any point of those Guidelines, the work will be returned to him or her and it will not be published.
There is only one publication of each author allowed per annum.
The accuracy of information, opinions and statements contained in published material is the sole responsibility of the author. The editors of the journal "Intercultural Communication" is not responsible for the consequences of possible unreliability.
The main author submitting the multi-authors material takes primary responsibility for published work. His duty is to reveal the contribution of individual authors in the creation of the publication.
All co-authors are required to submit a written declaration about the reliability of disclosed contribution of individual authors, in which they confirm that, according to their knowledge, in the submitted material, the contributors of co-authors were indicated fairly and truthfully.
The fee for the publication of the article is 100 euros.
Privacy Statement
According to the law procedures of the Republic of Poland and the legal system of the European Union the personal data remain under the particular legal protection. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regulates processing of the personal data in the European Union by the entities subject to these regulations. Within the national law, the Personal Data Protection Act established 10 May 2018 defines the standards of conduct with the personal data in the companies and specifies certain regulations from the GDPR legal act. The University of Euroregional Economy (WSGE) is subject to these legal acts. The main actions taken in order to fulfill these legal obligations in WSGE are i.a.:
- cataloging all processes with the usage of the personal data and the categories of these data,
- ensuring the confidentiality of the employees of WSGE by conducting the courses regarding personal data protection, giving the authorizations to the constrained range of processes to the employees,
- conducting an external audit regarding the state of the personal data protection,
- implementation of leading the registry of the personal data processing, introducing the data protection closures in the agreements and internal legal acts, realization of the information obligation, ensuring right to moving, deleting, changing and objecting against the personal data processing,
- deleting the unnecessary personal data from the WSGE databases, for which the processing duration has ended and, according to the rule of data minimization, storage of only the data necessary for the processing,
- preparing and establishing the Information Security Policy – a document regulating personal data processing in WSGE
- establishing the Data Protection Officer in WSGE,
- conducting ongoing trainings, internal audits, analysis, verifications and data processing optimizations.
Moreover, the University of Euroregional Economy, taking care of the reliable data processing, attaches great importance to the information obligation regarding people, whose data is processed in our entity. According to the legal guidelines, the data processing agreements should contain the following information:
- the identity and the contact details of the controller,
- the contact details of the data protection officer,
- the purposes of the processing for which the personal data are intended as well as the legal basis for the processing,
- the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party,
- the recipients or categories of recipients of the personal data,
- the fact that the controller intends to transfer personal data to a third country or international organization,
- the period for which the personal data will be stored, or if that is not possible, the criteria used to determine that period;
- the existence of the right to request from the controller access to and rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing concerning the data subject or to object to processing as well as the right to data portability;
- the existence of the right to withdraw consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal;
- the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority;
- the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling.
In case of questions or doubts, we welcome to contact the WSGE Data Protection Officer Wojciech Sitek. E-mail: ws@wsge.edu.pl
