Privacy Statement

Blake uses Open Journal Systems (OJS), a journal management system developed by the Public Knowledge Project at Simon Fraser University, to publish content and register users. We pay PKP Publishing Services to host the journal with a commercial-level internet service provider based in Canada.

OJS employs cookies to manage session history—they are required to maintain a log-in session. Cookies are stored on your computer; for information on managing them, see https://​www.​whatarecookies.​com.

Individual subscriptions purchased through OJS are processed by PayPal. We do not have access to any of your financial information, since the transaction is conducted on the PayPal site.

Blake does not sell or give your registration information to anyone. You create a username, which we can see, and a password. The password is encrypted in the application database. You can change your account information (other than your username) by logging in and editing your profile.

We use your e-mail address to send reminders when your subscription is about to expire, with the marketing system MailChimp to send a notification when a new issue appears online, and with the print-on-demand vendor MagCloud to inform you when the hard-copy version of an issue is available.

Like other journals, we use proprietary third-party software systems for editing and production that may include AI-integration.

We track with Google Analytics general information about visitors to the journal’s website, such as type of browser and country. This does not give us any kind of identifying information, such as IP address.

Please contact us at blakequarterly@rochester.edu with questions, concerns, or requests.