Privacy Policy
Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy was last updated on 17 January 2024.
This Cookie Policy explains how and why Molecule Publishing House uses Cookies and similar technologies to recognise you when you visit our website (www.moleculepub.com). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
For further information regarding our privacy practices, please review our Privacy Policy.
I- What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device by websites that you visit. Cookies are widely used by website owners to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information. Cookies may store user preferences and other information to enhance your experience on the site or be used to track you when you navigate to other sites.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Molecule Publishing house) are called “first party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third party cookies”. Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
Most web browsers such as Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, are set to automatically accept cookies. But you may choose to change these settings in your browser. If your browser has disabled cookies, some websites might not function optimally.
II- Why do We use Cookies?
We use first party and third party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Website. Third parties serve cookies through our Website for analytics, and other purposes.
III- What types of Cookies do We use?
The specific types of first and third party cookies served through our Website and the purposes they perform are described in the table below (please note that the specific cookies served may vary depending on the specific Online Properties you visit):
Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are necessary to provide you with services available through our Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.
Analytics and customization cookies: These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Website for you. Google Analytics, which is a web analytics tool, allows us to understand how users engage with our websites. Google Analytics uses First-Party Cookies to track user interactions and are used to collect information about how users use our website.
Social Media Cookies: These are set by third parties, including LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, and allow you to share what you’ve been doing on our websites on social media.
IV- What Cookies are used on Our Website?
| Name | Type | Provider / Domain | Expires | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _cfuvid | Strictly necessary | moleculepub.com | End of browser session | This cookie is used to identify the web link used to direct visitors |
| OJSSIDMOLECULE | Strictly necessary | journals.moleculepub.com | End of browser session or 30 days | Contains a machine-generated session-id for the OJS-platform that will keep track of your browsing session and log-in to the OJS-webpage. This cookie is normally deleted at the end of the browsing session. If you check "remember me" when you log in, you may quit your browser and open it at a later time, and you will still be logged in. In that case this cookie will expire after 30 days since your last visit or until you log out and close your browser. This cookie is necessary in order to log in to the OJS platform. You will still be able to access all articles on the OJS platform with cookies disabled, but you will not be able to perform any tasks that requires the user to be logged in |
| _ga | Analytics | Google LLC/moleculepub.com/ journals.moleculepub.com | 1 year 1 month | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. |
| _ga_NS75JKCZES | Analytics | Google LLC/ moleculepub.com | 1 year 1 month | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state. |
| _ga_92NV554BZW | Analytics | Google LLC/ journals.moleculepub.com | 1 year 1 month | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state. |
V- How can You control Cookies?
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in the Cookie Consent Banner. The Cookie Consent Banner allows you to select which categories of cookies you accept or reject. Essential cookies cannot be rejected as they are strictly necessary to provide you with services.
If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. You may also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.
VI- How often will you update this Cookie Policy?
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
VII- How to contact Us?
If you have any questions about our Cookie Policy, please email us at editorial.office@moleculepub.com.
