Privacy Policy

Introduction

Your privacy is important to NIJ JOURNALS. This privacy declaration provides information about the personal information that NIJ JOURNALS gathersmanuscripts and the ways in which NIJ JOURNALS uses that private information.

Private information collection

NIJ JOURNALS will assemble and make use of personal information that is necessary for the processing and publication of manuscripts submitted to us. This information may include names, associations, and gather manuscripts, and contact details; including postal addresses, emails, phone numbers, and fax numbers.

Using personal information

Any private information received by NIJ JOURNALS will only be used to:

process and publish manuscript.
manage this website;
personalize the website for you;
enable your access to and use of the website services;
process manuscript;
publish manuscript;
send to you about your manuscript
send to you as statements and invoices
collect payments from you; and
send you marketing communications.

Where NIJ JOURNALS discloses your private information to its agents or sub-contractors for these purposes, the agent or sub-contractor in question will be compelled to use that private information in accordance with the terms of this privacy statement. In addition to the disclosures reasonably essential for the purposes identified elsewhere above, NIJ JOURNALS may disclose your personal information to the extent that it is required to do so by law, in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, and in order to establish, exercise or defend its legal rights.

Securing your data

NIJ JOURNALS will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

Cross-border data transfers

Information that NIJ JOURNALS collects may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which NIJ JOURNALS operates to enable the use of the information in accordance with this privacy policy. In addition, personal information that you submit for publication on the website will be published on the internet and may be available around the world.

Updating this statement

NIJ JOURNALS may update this privacy policy by posting a new version on this website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are familiar with any changes.

Other websites

This website contains links to other websites. NIJ JOURNALS is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third party.

Contact NIJ JOURNALS

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or NIJ JOURNALS’ treatment of your personal information, please send an email to nijeditor@nijournals.org.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Introduction

These terms and conditions direct your use of this website; by using this website, you accept these terms and conditions in full. If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use this website.

NIJ editors identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred. In the event that NIJ editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct, NIJ editors shall deal with the allegations appropriately.

Retraction/correction

For retraction/correction of your published articles, the author/authors should write the managing editor and give appropriate reason/reasons why the article/articles should be retracted. If the reason is discussed by the editorial board and approved, the paper will be retracted/corrected immediately. NIJ is always willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.

License to use website

Unless otherwise stated, NIJ JOURNALS and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved. You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.

You must not:

republish material from this website (including republication on another website);
sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;
show any material from the website in public;
reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose;
edit or otherwise modify any material on the website; or
redistribute material from this website except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution.

You may reproduce, duplicate, copy, edit, modify and redistribute content that is specifically made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International License. However, you may not claim ownership or pretend to be the content owner by republishing without adequate citation and credit with links to the original source of the content.

Acceptable use

You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

User content

In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose.

You grant to NIJ JOURNALS a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media.

Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or NIJ JOURNALS or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint. NIJ JOURNALS reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website.

No warranties

This website is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. NIJ JOURNALS makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, NIJ JOURNALS does not warrant that:

this website will be constantly available, or available at all; or
the information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading.

Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind.

Limitations of liability

NIJ JOURNALS will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website.

Reasonableness

By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in these terms and conditions are reasonable.

If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website.

Other parties

You accept that, as a limited liability entity, NIJ JOURNALS has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its officers and employees. You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against NIJ JOURNALS officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website. You agree that the limitations of warranties and liability set out in this website disclaimer will protect NIJ JOURNALS’ officers, employees, agents, subsidiaries, successors, assigns and sub-contractors as well as NIJ JOURNALS.

Indemnity

You hereby indemnify NIJ JOURNALS and undertake to keep NIJ JOURNALS indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by NIJ JOURNALS to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of NIJ JOURNALS’ legal advisers) incurred or suffered by NIJ JOURNALS arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions.

Breaches of these terms and conditions

Without prejudice to NIJ JOURNALS’ other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, NIJ JOURNALS may take such action as NIJ JOURNALS deems appropriate to deal with the breach.

Variation

NIJ JOURNALS may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of this website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on this website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

PUBLICATION ETHICS AND MALPRACTICE STATEMENT

NIJ Journals require all the authors to obey the International ethical standards as approved by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME).

Plagiarism or copying someone else’s work/ideas and passing them as one’s own is strongly abhorred in NIJ Journals.

All the manuscripts submitted should be the original work/works of the author/authors.

Authors should not to submit one manuscript to more than one journal at the same time.

Manipulation, fabrication or falsification of data is strongly abhorred and those found guilty of such misconduct will be blacklisted.

Authors are advised to use only appropriate citations in there manuscripts. Unrelated references to submitted manuscripts are not acceptable in NIJ Journals.