PRIVACY AND DATA USE STATEMENT

The ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL IN SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES - SOCIOHUMANITIES, due to the reception of articles and peer evaluation, keeps a record of personal data in its databases, to keep adequate support for the processes it manages. 

I hereby freely, previously, expressly and informedly authorize Editorial de las Ciencias, hereinafter “SOCIOHUMANIDADES”, to process my personal data provided, according to the Level of Confidence I select, in the following manner:

  • Low confidence level:email and password.
  • Average confidence level:names, surnames, type and identification number, date of issue of the identification document, date of birth, place of birth, sex, telephone number, email, home address, department and municipality.
  • High confidence level:For this level, user credentials will be associated with the use of digital certificates.

The data collected will be processed for the following purposes:

  1. Create and activate the user record on the authentication platform;
  2. Verify, register, and update digital attributes in order to provide certainty about the user's identity in the Digital Authentication service;
  3. Provide authentication mechanisms at the time of registration;
  4. Verify the authentication mechanisms presented to access a State procedure or service at a low, medium, or high level of trust;
  5. Store the User's authentication credentials;
  6. Personalization of service profile according to the level of trust and choice of the user as follows:
    1. Low confidence level: change password, choose a custom name;
    2. Medium, high level of trust: credential management, enabling and disabling two-factor authentication via authenticator mobile app, text message (SMS) and/or email; trust level management; updating personal data; management of dependents, public officials or contractors of the State and/or companies; migration of registration data to a new provider when the user selects it.
  7. Create and maintain the database of users of the Digital Authentication service; and
  8. Facilitate access to the digital authentication gateway.

The personal information that SOCIOHUMANIDADES accesses may be obtained directly from the Owner or from the Entities that, through any suitable information exchange mechanism, allow access to the person's digital attributes. Therefore, the data that SOCIOHUMANIDADES will have access to may be classified as public, private or semi-private, in accordance with the classification included in the personal data protection laws.  

I explicitly authorize SOCIOHUMANIDADES to collect and process the following personal data of my dependents: type and number of document, date of issue of the document, first and last names and type of legal representation, in order to manage the credentials of my dependents and allow the completion of procedures that involve them and through which their best interests are met and respected and their fundamental rights are ensured. Such data will be kept with strict security measures to prevent its adulteration, loss or misuse and is provided directly in my capacity as legal representative of the dependents. 

I declare that I am aware of the Personal Data Processing Policy of SOCIOHUMANIDADES, which is available on the website https://sociohumanidades.com/index.php/Inicio/index and that I am aware of my rights as Owner of the information established in Law 1581 of 2012, to know, update, rectify and/or delete my personal data, which I may exercise at the physical address or through the email Soporte@sociohumanidades.com on the magazine platform: https://sociohumanidades.com/index.php/Inicio/index according to the procedure established in the Data Processing Policy.

Terms and conditions of use.

ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL IN SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES - SOCIOHUMANITIES, an indirect decentralized entity with the character of a civil association, with public participation and a private nature, with its own assets, hereinafter “SOCIOHUMANIDADES”, as the articulator and provider of Editorial Services and scientific research, is the entity that administers this Authentication service platform, hereinafter “the Platform” / “The Gateway”, which aims to facilitate access to the digital authentication service, for carrying out procedures and other scientific research procedures, book publishing, etc., before state entities and organizations of statistics, Scientometrics and scientific sciences. 

The Digital Authentication service, hereinafter "the Service", is intended to offer users a single authentication service that allows them to access in a safe and reliable manner the different procedures and services offered by SOCIOHUMANIDADES according to the level of trust required by the procedure or service. Likewise, the key activities of this Service are: identifying and registering users, issuing authentication mechanisms and authenticating users who access through the Gateway.   

By accessing and using “the Platform” / “The Gateway”, you as a user fully accept, without reservation and in their entirety, these Terms and Conditions of Use, hereinafter “Terms and Conditions”. If you do not agree with these Terms and Conditions or with the provisions established in the Personal Data Processing Policy of the ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND HUMAN SCIENCES - SOCIOHUMANIDADES, we suggest that you refrain from accessing the Service and/or browsing the Platform provided, since the Service is personal and non-transferable.  

Use of the Site and Service

The registration and/or login of the User (understood as the natural person, national or foreign, or the legal person, public or private, that makes use of the service, hereinafter "the User") "the Platform" / "The Gateway" will be considered as the acceptance of these Terms and Conditions. The data provided by the User must be true, complete, exact, updated, verifiable and understandable and consequently the user assumes all responsibility for the lack of truthfulness or accuracy of these.

Access to the Service will be done through the access credentials generated from the Platform.  

The basic characteristics of the credentials or mechanisms delivered for the low trust level will be:

  1. Email: must be a valid email with the following structure text@domain.text ; and
  2. Password: must be no less than 8 digits, must have at least one number, one lowercase letter and one uppercase letter.

The basic characteristics of the credentials or mechanisms delivered for the medium level of trust will be: 

  1. User ID: type and document number;
  2. Password: must be no less than 8 digits, must have at least one number, one lowercase letter and one uppercase letter; and
  • validation against attribute sources.

The User or legal representative of a dependent may, in the Service customization module, include the dependents required in order to carry out procedures that involve them and through which their best interests are met and respected and their fundamental rights are ensured.

The use of “the Platform” / “The Gateway” of the Service or the information contained therein will be made for legitimate and legal purposes, and in compliance with these Terms and Conditions.

Platform Features

The platform will have the following basic functions: 

  • Create and activate the user record on the authentication platform.
  • Verify, register, and update digital attributes in order to provide certainty about the user's identity in the Digital Authentication service.
  • Provide authentication mechanisms at the time of registration.
  • Verify the authentication mechanisms presented to access a State procedure or service at a low, medium, high and very high level of trust.
  • Store the User's authentication credentials.

Personalization of service profile according to the level of trust and choice of the user as follows:

  • Low confidence level:change password, choose a custom name;
  • Medium, high confidence level:Credential management, enabling and disabling two-factor authentication via authenticator mobile app, text message (SMS) and/or email; trust level management; updating personal data; management of dependents and/or companies; migration of registration data to a new provider when the user selects it.

Create and maintain the database of users of the Digital Authentication service.

Functions of the gateway

The Catwalk will have the following basic functions:

  • Facilitate access to the Digital Authentication Gateway.
  • Create and maintain the Service user database.

Obligations

The User of “the Platform” / “The Gateway” and the Service has the following obligations:

  • Safeguard your authentication credentials, which are confidential, personal and non-transferable.
  • Make correct use of the Platform and the Service.
  • Ensure the proper use of the information to which you have access through the Service.
  • Communicate to the ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES - SOCIOHUMANITIES, any information to which you have access that could imply a compromise to the security of the information or the Service.
  • Find out about the terms of the Service.
  • Inform the competent authorities when a security event occurs that may affect the identity and personal data of the owner, as well as the integrity of the operation of the Service.

Prohibitions

The User of “the Platform” / “The Catwalk” has the following prohibitions:

  • Accessing restricted data or attempting to breach security barriers to access it.
  • Commit or participate directly or indirectly in fraudulent activities through the Service.
  • Conduct searches for vulnerabilities or exploit them for any purpose.
  • Disclose information about the detection of vulnerabilities found in the Service.
  • Attempt to access other users' accounts or prohibited services, or extract information from other users.
  • Impersonating another user.
  • Introduce, upload or transmit material that contains viruses or malicious programs or carry out actions, including the use of hardware and software, that may alter, damage, interrupt, destroy, restrict, harm, generate errors, affect the integrity or cause damage to documents and digital information, data, physical and logical systems, telecommunications networks or infrastructure and third party services.
  • Promote, advocate or display pornography, obscenity, vulgarity, blasphemy, hatred, bigotry, racism and/or violence.
  • Providing personal data of third parties without the corresponding authorization of the owner.
  • Obstructing the access of other users by massively consuming the Service's computing resources, or imposing unreasonable or disproportionate loads on the network systems of “the Platform” / “The Gateway” or any other network infrastructure used by “the Platform” / “The Gateway”.
  • Infringing the intellectual property rights of the ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES - SOCIOHUMANITIES, among other conduct that is harmful to third parties or applicable laws.

Any violation of these Terms and Conditions, abuse or misuse of “the Platform” / “The Gateway” and the Service, may be investigated and all measures may be taken and all legal and extra-legal actions may be initiated against the User to obtain the cessation of the conduct or the remedies and compensations that may be appropriate under applicable law. Violation of these Terms and Conditions may result in civil or criminal liability for the User and/or the cancellation or suspension of the User's account.

Intellectual and industrial property rights

"The Platform" / "The Catwalk" is a modification to the open journal systems software, open source programs used by https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/, owner of the intellectual and industrial property rights of the modification of the design and source codes of the Platform, but not of the contents included therein. The use of the Service does not grant the User any intellectual and industrial property rights over "the Platform" / "The Catwalk" or the Service, the contents, brands, logos, images and other materials to which it has access. Any unauthorized use that violates the intellectual and industrial property rights of the ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES - SOCIOHUMANITIES, may imply the initiation of the corresponding legal actions by it. 

The intellectual property of the contents of the Web portal (texts, graphics, logos, animations, sounds and databases, among others) are part of the heritage of the ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES - SOCIOHUMANITIES, and is public information governed by Colombian laws on access to public information.  

Protection of personal data

In accordance with Law 1581 of 2012 and its regulatory decrees, ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND HUMAN SCIENCES - SOCIOHUMANIDADES, collects and processes the User's personal data in accordance with the provisions of its Personal Data Processing Policy, which can be accessed through the website https://sociohumanidades.com/index.php/Inicio/index, which are processed for the following purposes:   

  1. Create and activate the user record on the authentication platform;
  2. Verify, register, and update digital attributes in order to provide certainty about the user's identity in the Digital Authentication service;
  3. Provide authentication mechanisms at the time of registration;
  4. Verify the authentication mechanisms presented to access a State procedure or service at a low, medium, or high level of trust;
  5. Personalization of the service profile according to the level of trust and choice of the user as follows:
    1. Low confidence level: change password, choose a custom name;
    2. Medium, high level of trust: credential management, enabling and disabling two-factor authentication through authenticator mobile application, text message (SMS) and/or email; trust level management; updating personal data; management of dependents and/or companies; migration of registration data to a new provider when the user selects it; and,
  6. create and maintain the database of users of the Digital Authentication service.

Likewise, the ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL IN SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES - SOCIOHUMANIDADES, processes personal data in accordance with the provisions of its Personal Data Processing Policy, which can be accessed through the website https://sociohumanidades.com/index.php/Inicio/index

The data requested at the time of registration are the minimum necessary to carry out the Authentication process.     

The ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES - SOCIOHUMANIDADES, carries out impact assessments on the processing of personal data and has a comprehensive personal data management program. The User may exercise their rights to know, update, rectify and/or delete their personal data at the physical address or through the email addresses: Soporte@sociohumanidades.com , following the procedure established in the Personal Data Processing Policy.

Applicable legislation and jurisdiction

Access and use of “the Platform” / “The Gateway” and the Service is carried out within the framework of title 17 of part 2 of book 2 of the Single Regulatory Decree of the Information and Communications Technologies sector, Decree 1078 of 2015, by means of which the general guidelines for the use and operation of Digital Citizen Services are established, and in other regulations, manuals or complementary guides of the services. The Terms and Conditions will apply throughout the Colombian territory and in any place where “the Platform” / “The Gateway” is used.

Conflict resolution

The conditions of use of “the Platform” / “The Gateway” are governed by the laws of the Republic of Colombia and by these Terms and Conditions. In the event of a dispute, controversy or conflict of interpretation of the Terms and Conditions, or of the use that the User makes of “the Platform” / “The Gateway”, it will be resolved first through direct settlement mechanisms. In the event that the above mechanisms fail, the differences will be submitted to the judges of the Republic of Colombia.

Links to other websites 

“the Platform” / “The Catwalk” may contain links to websites and/or content from other persons or entities. The ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND HUMAN SCIENCES - SOCIOHUMANITIES is not responsible for such content, does not control, endorse or guarantee the content included in such sites, nor is it responsible for the operation or accessibility of the linked web pages, nor will it be responsible for the results obtained by the User on such linked websites, including any changes or updates made to the linked site or the accuracy or completeness of the information provided there.  

Consequently, the User accepts that the ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND HUMAN SCIENCES - SOCIOHUMANITIES is not responsible for any content, associated link, resource or service associated with a third party site, nor will it be liable for any loss or damage of any kind arising from the use made of third party content. 

The Portal of the ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES - SOCIOHUMANITIES, provides links to offer in one place all the procedures, services, participation exercises and information of the country and the existence of these in the portal does not imply that at any time a third party approves or maintains current contractual relationships with the organizations or companies to which it links, or to their products or services and vice versa for the organizations or companies that link to the portal sites. 

Security  

The ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL IN SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES - SOCIOHUMANIDADES, has appropriate, effective and verifiable security measures that allow to demonstrate a level of protection of "the Platform" / "The Gateway", complying with good practices of security and privacy of the information, in order to safeguard and protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the information, providing a reliable and secure service. It has an information security policy that can be accessed through the website https://sociohumanidades.com/index.php/Inicio/index  

Encryption of information 

The Service will rely on asymmetric encryption to store user credentials.

Modifications 

The ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES - SOCIOHUMANITIES, reserves the right to make updates to "the Platform" / "The Gateway", such as the creation and modification of functionalities, after notifying the User of these changes. Likewise, the ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES - SOCIOHUMANITIES, reserves the right to modify, at any time, after notifying the User, these Terms and Conditions.  

Validity 

These Terms and Conditions shall be effective as of April 18, 2022.

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