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The website visitors, editorial board members and authors should note the following terms and conditions before going through this website in details. Please note that, if required, amendments to the terms and conditions can be made without prior notice and the visitor must update  himself or herself with our Terms and Conditions before going through our website. Going through our website will mean that you fully agree to the terms and conditions laid down by the CIBTech or Its Associated Journals which are as follows:

For Visitors and Authors:

• Website here means www.cibtech.org and all its web pages which include webpages of all the seven journals published by CIBTech.

• Visitor means anyone who visits www.cibtech.org.

• Journal/Journals means any/all the 16 Journals (see home page for their name and hyperlinks) published by CIBTech.

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• The visitor/user can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of open access articles (for non commercial purposes). Please see our Open Access Policy

• The visitor will not revise any material published in the Website.

• The visitors will not access any data not intended for them. Neither will he/she attempt to interfere with the services provided to other users.

• Uses of this Journal in whole or in part must include the customary bibliographic citation, including author attribution, date and article title.

• In no event shall the Journal be liable for any special, incidental, indirect, or consequential damages of any kind arising out of or in connection with the use of the articles or other material derived from the Journal, whether or not advised of the possibility of damage, and on any theory of liability.

• Though the articles published in Journal are peer reviewed yet we don't guarantee the accuracy of any data, opinion or statement thus published in this web site. The author acknowledges that he/she is responsible for the form, content and accuracy of any material submitted to the Journal for insertion in the website. Submitting any article means, matter such as photographs, diagrams etc originally belongs to the author. If the matter has been taken from somewhere else, the author must ensure that he/she has taken permission (to submit the matter for publication) in writing from the original author/publisher to whom the matter actually belongs.

• Similarly, accuracy of statement published in the advertisements herein is the responsibility of the advertiser concerned.

• Reviewer/editor/referee can put the article in any category after scrutinizing it i.e., an article submitted as research article can be categorized as General article after our referee's recommendations. No author can recommend or force CIBTech or Journal to change the category of the article.

• Author must ensure that the original article submitted or Galley proof returned by the author must not have any mistake. If it happens then the author will be responsible for that and will not hold editorial office of CIBTech or its journal, responsible  for it.

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• No author is allowed to enquire about the reviewer's/editor's/referee's identity or vice versa.

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For Advisory/Editorial/Reviewer Board Members:

• All the positions of advisory/editorial/reviewer board members are voluntary and temporary and no board member will claim for the permanent position in the respective board of Journal or in CIBTech. For the quality enhancement, contributions of board members will be evaluated every year before continuing their membership for the subsequent year.    

• Board members are expected to agree and follow all the terms and conditions given in our Instructions for Reviewers webpage while reviewing any article.

• All the papers submitted by our board members will undergo the same process of evaluation applicable to any other author of the Journal.

• Board members will have to actively contribute in successive quality enhancement and campaigning of the Journal. Critical suggestions for the same are always welcome.

• Board members/Reviewers or members of Journals/CIBTech must preserve the confidentiality of the unpublished works. Neither the Journals' members nor the CIBTech will disclose the identity of the reviewer to the author. Even if it happens by mistake, neither the reviewer nor the author will try to make any false remarks at each other. The decision of the Editorial Office will be final in this case and must be acceptable to both the parties.