Privacy & Data Protection Policy

The Grab Medical Innovation Journal (GMIJ) operates under rigorous academic autonomy as an international, peer-reviewed clinical journal. This Privacy & Data Protection Policy dictates the handling, pseudonymization, storage, and publication lifecycle of all electronic information provided by authors, reviewers, editorial committee members, institutional subscribers, and clinical readers.

Unlike commercial publishers that monetize reading metrics or institutional usage patterns, GMIJ operates as a Diamond Open Access venue. We do not sell, rent, commercialize, or profile personal data under any circumstances. All operational telemetry collected is restricted strictly to measuring publication reach, ensuring server availability, and satisfying scholarly citation indexing requirements.

GMIJ adheres strictly to double-blind peer review protocols to preserve absolute intellectual impartiality and protect junior or dissenting reviewers from commercial or institutional retaliation.

GMIJ maintains transparency regarding the information that is made publicly available through its scholarly publishing activities. Personal identifying information is never disclosed unless required by law or explicitly authorized by the individual concerned.

GMIJ adheres strictly to the FAIR Principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) while maintaining unconditional protections for human clinical trial subjects and genomic sequences.

Because GMIJ is fully funded by non-commercial research philanthropy, we enforce an unequivocal non-monetization policy across our entire digital infrastructure:

Scholarly publishing imposes a permanent obligation to preserve the veracity of human knowledge. Published clinical papers, their registered Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), and public author affiliations are entered into permanent digital escrow vaults: