User Data and Privacy

Our commitment
Respecting and protecting user data and privacy are key priorities at Elsevier as maintaining the trust of the people who use our products and services is critically important to us. We are committed to being transparent about the data we use, how it is used, how it is stored, for how long and why. We work closely with the research and healthcare communities that we serve so that, together, we can continually improve the safeguarding of personal data and privacy.
Here you can learn more about our approach to data privacy and the tools available to help our community of users manage their personal data.
Elsevier Privacy Principles
We recognize that the proper handling of personal data is very important to our customers and the communities we serve. We support the right of individuals to manage how their personal information is collected and used. The Elsevier Privacy Principles reflect our commitment to responsible privacy and security practices.
Value
We carefully use personal data to help us support customers and individual users through customization and personalization options in our products, to inform product development, to operationally monitor our systems, for security purposes and to comply with our legal and contractual obligations.
Transparency
We tell users about the personal information we collect, including how and why we will use and share it.
Choice
Users are given choice over the collection, use and sharing of their personal information.
Anonymization
We depersonalize and aggregate personal information where individual identification is not necessary.
Accountability
We are committed to acting as a responsible steward of personal information.
Elsevier Privacy Center
The Elsevier Privacy Center is part of our commitment to being transparent about personal data. The Center offers users the option to review and adjust their privacy settings for products accessible through their Elsevier account and manage other privacy preferences.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Elsevier’s User Data and Privacy FAQs address the most common questions about the data we use, how we use it, how it is stored, how long we keep it and the reasons behind our data practices.