This site collects the minimum information needed to operate an academic journal: your email address and display name when you sign in with Google, and the manuscript text you submit. We do not sell information to advertisers, we do not use tracking pixels, and we do not embed analytics tags that follow you across the internet.

The Generative Economic Review (the “Journal”, “we”, “us”) is an autonomous academic journal in economics, finance, and business management. The Journal is operated as an editorial project at genaireview.org. For privacy questions, write to idisyun@gmail.com.

2.1 Account information

When you sign in with Google, we receive your email address, your display name, and your Google account profile picture URL. We use this information to identify you across visits, to attribute submissions and public reviews to you, and to contact you about your submissions.

2.2 Submission content

When you submit a manuscript, we store the manuscript text, your declared affiliation, any disclosed AI-authorship details, and the timestamps of submission and decision. Submission content is processed by AI peer-review models for the purpose of evaluation. Accepted manuscripts become part of the Journal’s public catalogue.

2.3 Public reviews

When you post a public review or rating of a published paper, we store your rating, your written comment, and the email address associated with your signed-in account. Your display name and rating are shown publicly alongside the paper; your email address is not.

2.4 Server logs

Our web server records request paths, HTTP status codes, response sizes, and timestamps. These logs are kept for operational debugging and are retained for a maximum of 90 days. Server logs include the IP address making the request, which is necessary to operate the site and to protect against abuse.

2.5 Paper view counts

We maintain a first-party counter that records the number of times each paper page is visited. To avoid inflating counts on page refreshes, we store a one-way HMAC-SHA256 hash of your IP address together with the paper id and the calendar date of the visit. The same hash plus paper plus date counts as one read regardless of how many times the page is loaded. We do not store the raw IP address in this counter, we do not store your user-agent string in full (we retain only a coarse browser-family label such as “Chrome” or “Bot” for spam filtering), and the referring site is stored only as a hostname when it is external to the journal’s own domains. The counter is retained indefinitely as aggregated numbers; individual hashed rows older than 365 days are pruned.

2.6 What we do not collect

We do not use third-party advertising trackers, behavioural analytics tags, or social-network share buttons that send identifying information back to those networks. We do not embed Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, or comparable services.

• To operate the submission and review workflow.
• To send manuscript decisions and editorial correspondence.
• To attribute public ratings and reviews to a verified signed-in user.
• To detect and respond to abuse, including spam ratings and submissions.
• To comply with legal obligations (e.g. responding to lawful court orders).

We do not use submission content to train AI models other than for the immediate purpose of evaluating that submission. We do not share submission content with third parties for purposes other than the AI peer-review service described below.

Submitted manuscripts are evaluated by a three-persona panel of frontier large language models. At the time of writing, the active model provider is Anthropic (the Claude family of models). The manuscript text is sent to the provider via API for inference and is subject to the provider’s data handling commitments, which at the time of writing include a no-training-on-API-data commitment for the Anthropic API.

We may change the model provider as the underlying landscape evolves. When we do, we will update this policy to reflect the new provider and its data handling terms.

Site infrastructure runs on a combination of Vercel (frontend) and a local server exposed via a Cloudflare Tunnel (backend API and database). The primary database is located in the Republic of Korea. If you submit to this Journal from outside the Republic of Korea, the submission is necessarily transferred across borders for processing.

• Accepted manuscripts: retained indefinitely as part of the public scientific record, consistent with academic publishing norms.
• Rejected or withdrawn manuscripts: retained for two years after the decision, then deleted on request or on the two-year anniversary.
• Account information: retained for as long as the account is active. You may request deletion at any time (see Section 9).
• Server logs: retained for a maximum of 90 days.

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Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have rights including: the right to request a copy of the information we hold about you, the right to request correction or deletion, the right to object to certain processing, and the right to withdraw consent for processing that depends on consent.

To exercise any of these rights, write to idisyun@gmail.com from the email address associated with your account. We will respond within thirty calendar days.

You may delete your account at any time by writing to idisyun@gmail.com. On receipt of a verified deletion request we will (a) delete your account record and your public reviews, and (b) anonymise any unpublished submissions you authored. Published submissions remain part of the public catalogue but will be re-attributed to “Withdrawn Author” on request, subject to academic-integrity considerations.

The site is not directed at children under thirteen, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under thirteen. If we learn that we have collected such information, we will delete it promptly.

We may revise this policy from time to time. We will indicate the revision date at the top of the page and, for material changes, post a notice on the home page for at least thirty days. Continued use of the site after a revision constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

For privacy questions, write to idisyun@gmail.com.