Privacy Policy & Scholarly Data Governance
1. Data Controller & Scope
SourceRole Atlas ("Atlas", "we", "our", or "us") operates educational repositories, research taxonomy guides, and citation analysis frameworks across our digital platform. We maintain strict academic standards regarding information confidentiality, privacy compliance, and scholarly user protection.
This Privacy Policy applies to all interactions with our online guides, interactive reference modules, educational course catalog, and research editorial publications located across our domain.
2. Information We Collect
To deliver accurate reference matrices and maintain our academic taxonomy directory, we collect specific categories of technical and voluntary data:
Direct Inquiries & Registration Data
When you communicate via our Contact Us channel, submit a curriculum inquiry for Courses, or subscribe to peer review alerts, we collect your name, institutional email address, academic affiliation, and message details.
Citation Parsing & Query Strings
Queries executed inside our Guides search modules, style selectors (APA 7th, MLA 9th, Chicago 17th, IEEE), or methodology filters are processed locally in your browser to maintain reference anonymity.
Technical Diagnostics & Device Information
Standard log metrics including IP address, browser type, operating system version, referring URLs, and interaction timestamps are recorded to ensure system availability and protect platform integrity.
3. Scholarly Data Processing & Usage
SourceRole Atlas does not commercialize, sell, or rent personal data or individual researcher activity. We process collected data strictly under the following legitimate academic purposes:
- Delivering educational taxonomy guides, citation frameworks, and structured reference breakdowns.
- Improving curriculum quality and editorial standards for academic guides and peer-review tutorials.
- Responding promptly to academic inquiries, research feedback, and institutional licensing requests.
- Diagnosing technical server errors and optimizing layout accessibility for mobile and desktop screens.
- Preventing abusive automated scraping and ensuring server stability for the global academic community.
5. Data Retention & Archiving Standards
We retain inquiry logs and direct communication records only for as long as necessary to fulfill academic support and administrative recordkeeping obligations. Diagnostic server logs are routinely purged after ninety (90) calendar days unless security audit protocols require temporary extension.
All stored information is protected by industry-standard encryption protocols in transit and at rest, in strict alignment with scholarly infrastructure guidelines.
6. Your Rights & Data Choices
Under applicable international data protection laws (including the EU GDPR and California Consumer Privacy Act), you retain comprehensive rights regarding your personal records:
Right to Access
Request a copy of any personal information held in our records.
Right to Rectify
Correct inaccurate or outdated contact information.
Right to Erasure
Request complete deletion of stored communication histories.
Right to Restrict
Limit processing activities while disputes are investigated.
7. Privacy Compliance & Contact Protocol
For questions regarding data processing standards, exercising your individual rights, or reporting potential compliance concerns, reach out directly to our editorial governance desk: