Last Updated: September 2026

Welcome to Shodhmitra Education and Research (“Shodhmitra”, “we”, “our”, or “us”). We operate the website site.shodhmitra.com and are committed to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and security of personal and academic information entrusted to us by researchers, authors, reviewers, customers, and website visitors.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect the following categories of information:

• Personal & Contact Details: Full name, email address, mobile/telephone number, postal/delivery address, and institutional/academic affiliation provided during registration, book checkout, manuscript submission, or inquiry.

• Academic & Editorial Submissions: Manuscripts, research papers, edited book chapters, theses, abstracts, reports, and related research files submitted for publication, peer review, similarity/plagiarism checking, or academic consulting.

• Transaction & Billing Details: Records of products and services purchased (e.g., book purchases, Article Processing Charges (APCs), publication fees). Note: We do not collect or store debit/credit card details, CVVs, or UPI PINs. All payments are securely routed and processed through PCI-DSS compliant payment gateways (e.g., Razorpay).

• Technical & Log Information: Device type, browser type, IP address, referral URLs, and browsing actions gathered via standard cookies and server logs for security, troubleshooting, and platform performance.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use collected information strictly for operational and legitimate academic purposes:

• To process and ship orders for physical books, edited volumes, monographs, and academic merchandise.

• To manage manuscript submissions, editorial workflows, peer reviews, copyediting, DOI registrations, and metadata indexing for journals and books.

• To provide similarity detection reports and academic consultation services.

• To communicate order confirmations, tracking numbers, peer-review outcomes, and official receipts.

• To comply with legal obligations, prevent fraud, and maintain academic publication records and permanent archival standards.

3. Academic Confidentiality & Document Security

• Zero Third-Party Sharing: Research papers, draft chapters, and academic documents submitted for review, editing, or plagiarism checking are strictly confidential. They are never sold, rented, leased, or distributed to any unauthorized third party.

• Review Process Security: Manuscripts submitted to our journal(s) are shared only with designated section editors and peer reviewers under confidentiality requirements.

• Storage & Encryption: We employ industry-standard SSL encryption, secure servers, and restricted access protocols to ensure that unpublished academic work remains safe and uncompromised.

4. Third-Party Integrations & Disclosure

We share limited data only with trusted third parties strictly necessary to deliver our services:

• Logistics Partners: Courier services and postal authorities (e.g., India Post) for physical book and certificate deliveries.

• Payment Gateways: Razorpay for secure checkout and payment processing.

• Academic & Indexing Bodies: Crossref (for DOI generation), ISSN International Centre, and indexation indexing agencies for accepted and published literature.

• Academic Software Providers: Licensed similarity detection platforms (such as Turnitin or DrillBit) to evaluate academic manuscripts.

5. Cookies & Analytics

We use standard cookies to ensure website functionality, maintain user sessions, and gather anonymous analytical data. Users can disable cookies via browser settings, though certain checkout or submission features may be affected.

6. Data Retention & Author Rights

• Contact details and customer accounts are retained as long as necessary to fulfill contractual and legal compliance.

• Published academic works become part of the permanent scholarly record and are archived indefinitely under open-access preservation standards.

• Users may request verification, correction, or deletion of personal account data by writing to support@shodhmitra.com.

7. Contact Us

For privacy-related inquiries:

• Entity: Shodhmitra Education and Research

• Email: support@shodhmitra.com

• Website: https://site.shodhmitra.com