Journal’s Terms And Conditions Of Use

The Terms and Conditions of use of the Journal’s Website hereinafter refers to Indraprastha Law Review (www.indraprasthalawreview.in). These terms and conditions govern 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.

Unless otherwise stated, Indraprastha Law Review and/or editors 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 Indian Copyright Act, 1957 and the Information Technology Act, 2000. 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, root kit 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 Indraprastha Law Review 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 Indraprastha Law Review 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.

Indraprastha Law Review 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.  Indraprastha Law Review 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, Indraprastha Law Review 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

Indraprastha Law Review will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contract, 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, Indraprastha Law Review has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its officers and employees.  You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against Indraprastha Law Review 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 Indraprastha Law Reviews’ Editor-in-Chief, Editors, student team members, web-developers, successors, assigns and sub-contractors as well as Indraprastha Law Review. 

Indemnity

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

Breaches Of These Terms And Conditions

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

Variation

Indraprastha Law Review 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.

Governing Law And Jurisdiction

This User Agreement shall be construed in accordance with the applicable laws of India. The Courts at Delhi shall have exclusive jurisdiction in any proceedings arising out of the Journal’s Terms and Conditions of use.

Journal’s Copyright Policy

Ownership Of Copyright

The copyright in this website and the material on this website (including without limitation the text, computer code, artwork, photographs, images, music, audio material, video material and audio-visual material on this website) is owned by Indraprastha Law Review and its editors.

Copyright License

Indraprastha Law Review grants to you a worldwide non-exclusive royalty-free revocable license to:

  • View this website and the material on this website on a computer or mobile device via a web browser;
  • Copy and store this website and the material on this website in your web browser cache memory; and
  • Print pages from this website for your personal use.
  • All manuscripts published by Indraprastha Law Review are governed under the Indian Copyright Act, 1957. This permits anyone to copy, redistribute, reconstruct, transmit and adapt the work provided the original work and source is appropriately cited.
  • Indraprastha Law Review does not grant you any other rights in relation to this website or the material on this website.   In other words, all other rights are reserved.
  • For the avoidance of doubt, you must not adapt, edit, change, transform, publish, republish, distribute, redistribute, broadcast, rebroadcast or show or play in public this website or the material on this website (in any form or media) without appropriately and conspicuously citing the original work and source or Indraprastha Law Review prior written permission.  

Permissions

You may request permission to use the copyright materials on this website by writing to usllsiplr@ipu.ac.in

Enforcement Of Copyright

Indraprastha Law Review takes the protection of its copyright very seriously.

  •  If Indraprastha Law Review discovers that you have used its copyright materials in contravention of the license above, Indraprastha Law Review may bring legal proceedings against you seeking monetary damages and an injunction to stop you using those materials.  You could also be ordered to pay legal costs.
  • If you become aware of any use of Indraprastha Law Reviews’ copyright materials that contravenes or may contravene the license above, please report this by email to usllsiplr@ipu.ac.in

Infringing Material

If you become aware of any material on the website that you believe infringes your or any other person’s copyright, please report this by email to usllsiplr@ipu.ac.in

Journal’s Plagiarism Policy

We at Indraprastha Law Review, strictly observe the guidelines under Promotion of Academic Integrity and Prevention of Plagiarism in Higher Educational Institutions Regulations of 2018, set by University Grants Commission (UGC) to promote  academic integrity amongst authors, readers, subscribers and the publishers. The main motive of UGC behind these regulations is to create awareness regarding the conduct of research, thesis, and dissertation along with the prevention of any kind of misconduct which primarily includes plagiarism. It focuses on the development of systems for the detection of Plagiarism and the prevention from plagiarism as well as setting criteria to punish students, researchers, faculty or staff for the act of plagiarism. Therefore, Indraprastha Law Review has implemented these regulations to create awareness amongst the authors for the right conduct of research and academic activities in order to maintain the ethics of research and publication.