Privacy Policy
Nursing Horizons (“Nursing Horizons”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, disclose, and protect information when you visit or use nursinghorizons.com, register on our website, submit articles/manuscripts, purchase services or publications, subscribe to our communications, or otherwise interact with us.
By using our website, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect information that you voluntarily provide to us, including:
- Full name
- Email address
- Mobile/telephone number
- Postal address
- Institution, college, university, hospital or organisation details
- Professional and academic information
- Nursing registration or professional details, where relevant
- Manuscript/article submission information
- Login and account information
- Payment and transaction details
- Information provided through contact forms, registration forms or enquiries
- Any other information you voluntarily provide to us
We may also automatically collect certain technical information when you visit our website, including IP address, browser type and version, device information, operating system, pages visited, date and time of visits, referring website, and website usage and interaction information.
2. How We Use Your Information
- Creating and managing user accounts
- Processing registrations and subscriptions
- Processing payments and transactions
- Providing journal-related services
- Receiving and managing manuscript/article submissions
- Communicating with authors, reviewers, subscribers and users
- Responding to enquiries and requests
- Sending important service-related communications
- Sending newsletters, updates and promotional communications where permitted
- Improving our website, services and user experience
- Maintaining website security and preventing fraud or misuse
- Maintaining records and complying with applicable legal requirements
- Resolving disputes and enforcing our terms and policies
3. Legal Basis and Consent
We process personal information for lawful and specified purposes, including where you provide consent, where processing is necessary to provide a service you have requested, to comply with legal obligations, or where otherwise permitted under applicable law.
Where consent is required, you may withdraw your consent subject to applicable legal and contractual limitations.
4. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to maintain login sessions, remember user preferences, understand website traffic and usage, improve website functionality, analyse website performance, support security and fraud prevention, and provide relevant communications or marketing where applicable.
You may control or disable cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect some website functionality.
5. Payment Information
Where payments are made through the website, payment transactions may be processed through third-party payment service providers.
Nursing Horizons generally does not require or intend to store complete card numbers, CVV numbers, PINs or other sensitive payment credentials on its own servers.
6. Sharing of Information
We do not sell or rent your personal information. We may share information where reasonably necessary with payment gateways, website hosting and technology providers, email and communication providers, IT support providers, professional advisers, government authorities or law-enforcement agencies where legally required, and other parties where disclosure is necessary to protect our legal rights, users, website or property.
7. Manuscripts, Articles and Publications
If you submit an article, manuscript, research paper, case study or other publication material to Nursing Horizons, the information contained in your submission may be processed for editorial, peer-review, publication, indexing, archiving and related journal activities.
Information intended for publication may become publicly available after publication, including author names, affiliations, article information and other details that form part of the published work.
8. Data Security
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, misuse, loss or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
9. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including providing services, maintaining records, fulfilling legal or regulatory obligations, resolving disputes and enforcing agreements.
Published journal content and associated publication records may be retained for archival, scholarly, indexing and historical purposes.
10. Your Rights
Subject to applicable law, you may have rights relating to your personal information, including requesting information about personal data we process, requesting correction of inaccurate information, requesting deletion where legally applicable, withdrawing consent where processing is based on consent, and raising a grievance regarding processing of your personal information.
11. Children's Privacy
Our services are not intentionally directed toward children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children in violation of applicable law.
12. Third-Party Websites
Our website may contain links to third-party websites, services or platforms. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security or content of third-party websites.
13. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our services, technology, legal requirements or business practices. Any updated version will be published on this page with the revised effective date.
14. Grievance and Contact
Nursing Horizons
Website: nursinghorizons.com
Email: info@nursinghorizons.com
Phone: +91 77381 55944
Address: 111, Ecstasy Business Park, JSD Road, Mulund West, Mumbai – 400 080, Maharashtra, India
15. Acceptance
By using nursinghorizons.com, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy and agree to the collection and use of information as described above, subject to applicable law.
Last Updated: 17 August 2026