Privacy Policy
Privacy, Data Protection & Research Confidentiality Policy
Elsewedy Evidence Center is committed to safeguarding personal and academic research data, ensuring absolute confidentiality for unpublished manuscripts, and complying with Egyptian Personal Data Protection Law No. 151 of 2020 alongside GDPR principles.
Law No. 151 of 2020 & GDPR Safeguards
Data processing strictly limited to service delivery with full rights to access, rectify, and erase records within 30 days.
Manuscript Confidentiality & Pre-publication Security
Strict non-disclosure of unpublished drafts, methodologies, and datasets to protect journal submission validity.
Human-Supervised AI Ethics & ICMJE Criteria
AI utilized solely as supervised linguistic and formatting aid. No synthetic data generation; full ICMJE author accountability.
Confidentiality and Data Protection
Official binding articles extracted from Elsewedy Evidence Center standard agreement
Article 20: Mutual Confidentiality
Both parties agree to maintain the confidentiality of any unpublished information acquired through this relationship, including unpublished research drafts, the Center's internal methodologies, and data of other cohort members. The researcher is specifically forbidden from publicly sharing any part of a manuscript in progress—including via social media or Preprint Servers—without prior written consent from the Center. This protects the submission validity for targeted journals with strict Prior Publication Policies.
Article 21: Personal Data Protection
★ Core Essential Clause21.1 The Center collects only the minimum data necessary to provide the service and does not sell or share it with third parties for marketing purposes without explicit consent. 21.2 The researcher acknowledges that service execution may require third-party tools (e.g., screening management tools, journal portals), which may involve hosting data on servers outside Egypt. The researcher consents to this as a prerequisite for the service. 21.3 Data processing complies with the Egyptian Personal Data Protection Law No. 151 of 2020. For researchers in the UK or EU, reasonable safeguards in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) principles will be applied. 21.4 The researcher has the right to access, correct, or request deletion of their data. The Center will respond within thirty (30) days, excepting data it is legally required to retain (e.g., financial records). Both parties acknowledge the inability to "delete" an author's name from an already published paper, as this is beyond the Center's control.
Article 22: Artificial Intelligence Usage Policy
★ Core Essential Clause22.1 The Center's team may use AI tools for specific assistance (e.g., initial linguistic drafting or reference organization), strictly under complete human supervision and review by the Center's specialized researchers. 22.2 AI is under no circumstances used to generate research data or results, make substantive methodological decisions, conduct final statistical analysis independently, or draft final scientific conclusions without specialized human review. 22.3 The Center commits to disclosing any use of AI tools in manuscript preparation in accordance with the target journal's disclosure policy. 22.4 No AI tool shall be considered an "author", aligning with international standards that require an author to be capable of assuming scientific and ethical accountability for the published work.
You may at any time request access, rectification, or permanent erasure of your personal and research records. The centre commits to responding within thirty (30) calendar days in accordance with Law No. 151 of 2020. To contact our Data Protection Officer: