Not too defend Elsevier, but I think this is ManuscriptCentral, used by Wiley and others. Still annoyed that Elsevier asks me to fill in their diversity questionnaire for every journal.

Oh that is a pita I fully fully understand the reason from collecting such information although you can always say a prefer not to say...

As an American immigrant in the UK of European extraction, my favorite is being asked where my ancestors *first* originated