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1. Acceptance of Terms

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2. Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise stated, the articles published in SIDJ are open-access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). You are free to share and adapt the material for non-commercial purposes, provided you give appropriate credit and distribute your contributions under the same license.

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3. User Conduct

Users are prohibited from:

• Using the website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website.
• Using the website in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful.
• Conducting any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website without express written consent.

4. Registration and Accounts

To submit manuscripts or access certain features, you may be required to register an account on our Journal Management System (JMS). You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer.

5. Peer Review and Submissions

Authors submitting manuscripts agree to abide by the Journal\'s ethical policies and author guidelines. The Journal reserves the right to reject any submission that does not meet its scientific or ethical standards.

6. Governing Law

These terms and conditions are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of India, and any disputes relating to these terms and conditions will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of India (specifically the jurisdiction of the registered office of the Society).