This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone opts to use our service.
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Peer Review System
Peer Review process plays a crucial role for the best outcome of an article. All the Editors, Reviewers and Authors need to acknowledge the mails that are received from the Editorial Office within the desired time to enable swift process.
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Privacy Policy
We respects your trust and confidence in us and ensures to maintain confidentiality regarding all the information that you provide. The Privacy Policy describes what information we collect; how do we use the information we collect and with whom will the information be shared.
If you choose to use our Service, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. The Personal Information that we collect are used for providing and improving the Service. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.
The terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, which is accessible at www.saods.net, unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy.
Information Collection and Use
For a better experience while using our Service, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, phone number, and postal address. The information that we collect will be used to contact or identify you.
Log Data
We want to inform you that whenever you visit our Service, we collect information that your browser sends to us that is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.
Cookies
Cookies are files with small amount of data that is commonly used an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer’s hard drive.
Our website uses these “cookies” to collection information and to improve our Service. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies and know when a cookie is being sent to your computer. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
Service Providers
We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:
To facilitate our Service;
To provide the Service on our behalf;
To perform Service-related services; or
To assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.
We want to inform our Service users that these third parties have access to your Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.
Security
We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.
Plagiarism Policy
The journal is strictly against any unethical act of copying or plagiarism in any form. Plagiarism is said to have occurred when large portions of a manuscript have been copied from existing previously published resources. All manuscripts submitted for publication to SAODS are cross-checked for plagiarism using ITHENTICATE software. Manuscripts found to be plagiarized during initial stages of review are out-rightly rejected and not considered for publication in the journal. In case a manuscript is found to be plagiarized after publication, the Editor-in-Chief will conduct preliminary investigation, may be with the help of a suitable committee constituted for the purpose. If the article is plagiarized below acceptable percentage, the journal will contact the author’s Institute / College / University and Funding Agency, if any. A determination of misconduct will lead SAODS to run a statement bi-directionally linked online to and from the original paper, to note the plagiarism and provide a reference to the plagiarized material. The paper containing the plagiarism will also be marked on each page of the PDF. Upon determination of the extent of plagiarism, the paper may also be formally retracted.
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Waiver Policy
We grant waiver to authors who are unable to afford article publication fee.
The applications from corresponding authors belongs to Low Income Countries may be granted up to 75% waiver and from Lower Middle Income Countries may be granted up to 40% waiver.
The waiver policy is managed by accounts department not involved in decisions about acceptance of article.
Corresponding authors who are requesting for waivers must strongly explain the reason for their waiver applications to be granted. Authors who are eligible for waivers should send application along with the submission of their manuscripts.
Submit your application for waiver to Accounts Department at editor@saods.net
Waiver Application Process
Authors must demonstrate the reason for their waiver applications should be granted.
The application should be submitted along with the manuscript submission.
The application should contain the following information.
Title of the Manuscript
Corresponding Author with Affiliation and Country
List co-author(s) with Affiliation(s) and Country
Reason for applying waiver
We reserve the right to approve or reject a waiver application. The approval will be communicated with the corresponding author within 15 days after the application for waiver.
Refund policy
Scientific Archives of Dental Sciences do not offer any refunds for Open Access articles once they have published after peer review process.
