Privacy Policy

This policy explains what personal information VidhiAagaz collects on vidhiaagaz.com, why, who sees it, how long it is kept, and the rights you have over it. It is written to the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. The journals IJLMH and IJLSI and CLRS Academy publish their own policies on their own websites. This version is dated 9 November 2026.

Who we are

VidhiAagaz is an academic publisher based at Maihar, Madhya Pradesh 485771, India. For anything in this policy, write to support@vidhiaagaz.com.

What we collect, and why

Authors. Your name, affiliation, email address, telephone number, ORCID iD where you give one, and your manuscript and its declarations. We use them to review, edit, publish and index your work, to register its DOI, to issue your certificate and to write to you about it. An author’s name and affiliation become part of the published record and stay with the work.

Buyers of printed books. Your name, delivery address, telephone number and email address, and the reference of your payment. We use them to fulfil and track the order and to answer questions about it. Card and UPI details are entered with the payment provider, not with us, and we never see them.

Applicants to the Journal Infrastructure Grant. The journal’s details, the institution’s details, the Faculty Editor’s name, designation and contact details, the letter from the head of the institution and any sample issue. We use them to assess the application and, where a grant is made, to administer it.

Applicants to the Student Correspondents Fellowship. Your name, contact details, institution, programme and year of study, your statement and piece of writing, and the name, designation and contact details of the referee you choose. We use them to consider your application and to write to you and to your referee about it.

Referees. If an applicant names you as a referee, we hold your name, designation and contact details as the applicant gave them, and use them only to ask you about that application.

Everyone who writes to us. Your name, email address and message, used to answer you.

Visitors. Our server records the address and pages requested, as every web server does, to keep the site running and secure. The site uses Google Analytics, through Google Tag Manager, to count visits and see which pages are read, and a Crisp chat widget so you can message us. Each of these sets cookies and processes some information under its own policy. We do not use advertising cookies.

Who else sees it

We share personal information only where the purpose needs it: with Crossref and indexing services, which receive the names and affiliations of authors as part of the metadata of published work; with the printer and courier that produce and deliver a book, who receive the buyer’s name, address and telephone number; with our payment providers, who process payments under their own terms; with the email and hosting providers that run our systems; and with a referee, who is told only that the applicant has named them. We do not sell personal information, and we do not share applicants’ details with any institution other than, where a grant is made, the applicant’s own.

Where it is kept

Our websites are hosted by a commercial provider whose servers may be outside India. Letters and documents uploaded with applications are stored outside the public web folder and are available only to the people who assess applications. We use encrypted connections, limited access and regular backups.

How long we keep it

• The published record, including author names and affiliations, is permanent, because that is what a publication is.
• Declined manuscripts and the correspondence about them are kept for VidhiAagaz’s records and deleted on request; correspondence about a published work is kept with that work.
• Grant and Fellowship applications are kept for VidhiAagaz’s records and deleted on request; a successful application is kept at least for the term of the grant or fellowship.
• Order records are kept for as long as tax and accounting law requires.

Your rights

You may ask what personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, ask us to delete it where it is not part of the published record and we are not required by law to keep it, and withdraw a consent you gave us, from the date you withdraw it. A Fellowship applicant may withdraw an application at any time. Write to support@vidhiaagaz.com; we answer within thirty days. If you are not satisfied with our answer, you may approach the Data Protection Board of India.

Children

Our journals, books and programmes are for adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under eighteen.

Changes to this policy

When we change this policy we post the new version here with its date. The date at the top tells you which version you are reading.