Last updated: 1 November 2026
The Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences (JAPS) is published by the Pakistan Agricultural Scientists Forum. This policy explains what information this website (thejaps.org.pk) and the journal's submission system collect, why, and the choices you have.
Who is responsible
The Chief Editor, Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences, 146 Rizwan Block, Awan Town, Lahore, Pakistan. E-mail: editor@thejaps.org.pk.
Readers
- Server records. Like every website, our server records the address of each request, the time, the browser and the IP address. We use these records to keep the site secure, to stop abuse and to count downloads of papers. Download counts are published only as totals.
- Usage statistics. We use Google Analytics to understand which pages are read and how visitors find the journal. Google Analytics uses cookies and receives your IP address; we do not use it to identify you.
- Advertising. Some pages may show advertisements served by Google. Google and its partners use cookies to show ads based on your visits to this and other websites. You can turn off personalised advertising in Google Ads Settings or at aboutads.info. How Google uses information from sites that use its services is explained at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
- Consent. Visitors from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are asked for their consent before cookies for advertising and statistics are used, and can change their choice at any time.
Authors and reviewers
- When you submit a manuscript or review for the journal, we keep your name, e-mail address, affiliation, country, the manuscript files and the correspondence about them. We use them only for peer review, editing, publication and communication about your work.
- When a paper is published, the names and affiliations of its authors and the corresponding author's e-mail address appear with the paper, as is the practice of scholarly journals. Published metadata (title, authors, abstract, references) is shared with the DOI registration agency and with indexing and abstracting services so that the paper can be found and cited.
- Reviewers' identities are not disclosed to authors.
Cookies
A cookie keeps signed-in users signed in; it is removed when the browser is closed or the user signs out. Statistics and advertising cookies are described above. You can block or delete cookies in your browser; the journal's papers remain readable without them.
How long we keep information
Server records are kept only as long as needed for security and statistics. The editorial record of a submission is kept as part of the journal's archive. Published papers are a permanent scholarly record.
Your rights
You may ask to see, correct or delete the personal information we hold about you by writing to editor@thejaps.org.pk. Information that is part of a published paper can be corrected through the journal's correction procedure but not removed from the record.
Changes
We may update this policy; the date at the top shows the latest version.