MINDRADIX – ACADEMIC E-PUBLISHING PLATFORM
OPERATED BY: MEADOW EDUTECH PRIVATE LIMITED, INDIA
Terms and Conditions
Last Updated & Effective: May 16, 2026
1. PLATFORM IDENTITY & OWNERSHIP
MindRadix – An International Academic E-Publishing Platform is owned and operated by Meadow Edutech Private Limited, a company duly incorporated under the Companies Act, 2013, India. References to "MindRadix," "Platform," "Company," "we," "us," or "our" in these Terms shall refer to Meadow Edutech Private Limited and its authorized representatives, successors, affiliates, employees, and officers, as applicable.
The Company retains exclusive lawful rights relating to the operation, administration, editorial management, publication processes, branding, intellectual property, technical systems, financial activities, and commercial functions of the Platform. Users are granted only those rights expressly provided under these Terms or applicable publishing agreements.
2. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
By accessing, browsing, registering, creating an account, submitting manuscripts, or conducting transactions on the Platform, the user agrees to be legally bound by these Terms and Conditions and all related policies incorporated herein by reference, including the Privacy Policy, Author Agreements, Refund and Cancellation Policy, Publication Ethics, Editorial Policies, and Submission Guidelines.
Electronic acceptance, online acknowledgments, digital submissions, and payment confirmations shall constitute valid consent under the Indian Contract Act, 1872 and the Information Technology Act, 2000.
If the user does not agree with any part of these Terms or related policies, they must discontinue use of the Platform immediately.
3. NATURE OF PLATFORM & SERVICES
MindRadix operates as an international multidisciplinary academic e-publishing platform. The Platform may provide services including academic journal publishing, peer-reviewed articles, scholarly magazines, academic books, conference proceedings, edited volumes, institutional publishing support, DOI assistance, metadata optimization, plagiarism screening, editorial support, and digital repository hosting.
The Company reserves the right to modify, suspend, expand, restrict, discontinue, or update any service, feature, operational process, or platform functionality at its discretion, with or without prior notice, subject to applicable laws and operational requirements.
4. OPEN ACCESS POLICY & INDEXING DISCLAIMER
4.1 Open Access Model
MindRadix primarily operates under an Open Access publishing model intended to support global scholarly dissemination. Selected publications and scholarly materials may be made freely accessible online without subscription barriers. However, the Platform may also offer certain books, journals, magazines, conference proceedings, institutional publications, premium content, printed editions, digital archives, or specialized services on a paid, subscription-based, licensed, restricted-access, or commercial basis at its sole discretion.
Copyright ownership of submitted and published materials shall ordinarily remain with the respective author(s), unless otherwise agreed through a separate written publishing arrangement. By submitting content to the Platform, the author grants MindRadix a non-exclusive right to publish, reproduce, distribute, archive, display, index, host, and maintain the content as part of its academic publishing, repository, and distribution services.
The author shall remain solely responsible for the originality, legality, authenticity, permissions, ethical compliance, and intellectual property status of all submitted materials. Any copyright disputes, plagiarism allegations, legal claims, defamation complaints, or third-party objections arising from submitted content shall remain the sole responsibility of the author(s).
MindRadix and Meadow Edutech Private Limited shall not be held liable for author-submitted content or related disputes to the extent permitted under applicable law. The Company reserves the right to suspend, retract, restrict access to, monetize, commercialize, or permanently remove any content, journal issue, article, manuscript, publication material, or digital record if any legal, ethical, copyright, plagiarism, policy, administrative, operational, or compliance-related concern arises.
4.2 Critical Indexing & Recognition Disclaimer
Users acknowledge and agree that publication through MindRadix does not guarantee or imply UGC CARE listing, Scopus indexing, Web of Science inclusion, NAAS rating, Impact Factor assignment, institutional recognition, academic promotion, thesis approval, grant funding, scholarships, or professional advancement.
All indexing, accreditation, ranking, and recognition decisions are independently controlled by external organizations and evaluation agencies. MindRadix exercises no authority over such external entities and shall not be held responsible for their decisions.
5. ELIGIBILITY
To access or use the Platform and its services, users must be at least eighteen (18) years of age and possess the legal capacity to enter into binding agreements under applicable Indian law. Users are responsible for ensuring that all account, registration, and submission information provided to MindRadix is accurate, current, truthful, and complete.
Institutional or organizational accounts may only be created and operated by duly authorized representatives of the respective entity. Identity impersonation, fraudulent representation, or unauthorized account usage is strictly prohibited.
MindRadix reserves the right to deny, suspend, restrict, or terminate access, registration, or services to any individual or entity in accordance with its operational, legal, security, ethical, or policy requirements, to the extent permitted under applicable law.
6. USER CATEGORIES
These Terms and Conditions apply to all individuals, organizations, institutions, and entities interacting with the Platform worldwide, whether registered or unregistered. This includes, but is not limited to, readers, visitors, authors, co-authors, researchers, scholars, students, editors, associate editors, editors-in-chief, peer reviewers, external evaluators, academic institutions, NGOs, conference organizers, publishing partners, and API or technical integration users.
7. USER ACCOUNTS & SECURITY
7.1 User Responsibilities
Users are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality and security of their login credentials, passwords, API keys, authentication tokens, devices, and account access information. Users must promptly notify MindRadix of any suspected unauthorized access, security incident, credential compromise, or account misuse.
7.2 Limitation of Liability
MindRadix and Meadow Edutech Private Limited shall not be held liable, to the extent permitted under applicable law, for any losses, damages, unauthorized access, account compromise, data exposure, or consequences arising from user negligence, credential sharing, insecure devices, phishing attacks, malware infections, social engineering, or other security failures beyond the reasonable control of the Platform.
The Platform reserves the right to suspend, restrict, investigate, disable, or terminate any account suspected of fraudulent, abusive, unlawful, unethical, or policy-violating activity, with or without prior notice where operationally or legally necessary.
8. SUBMISSION OF CONTENT
Users may submit research articles, review papers, case studies, bulletins, book chapters, monographs, magazines, conference papers and proceedings, educational materials, white papers, technical reports, editorial content, policy papers, newsletters, e-books, institutional publications, multimedia academic materials, and other scholarly, educational, or publishing-related content through the Platform.
8.1 Author Representations and Warranties
By submitting content to MindRadix, the author represents and warrants that the submitted material is substantially original, lawful, accurate, and ethically compliant; is not under simultaneous consideration elsewhere unless properly disclosed; does not knowingly infringe any third-party intellectual property, confidentiality, or privacy rights; does not contain fabricated, manipulated, or falsified information; and that all listed co-authors or contributors have reviewed and consented to the submission.
8.2 Editorial Discretion
Submission of any manuscript or publication material does not guarantee acceptance, publication, indexing, distribution, or continued hosting on the Platform. MindRadix reserves editorial discretion regarding peer review, acceptance or rejection decisions, publication scheduling, formatting, typesetting, cover design, metadata management, DOI activation, indexing submissions, monetization, commercialization, and related publishing workflows.
Editorial and administrative decisions of the Platform shall generally be considered final, subject to applicable internal review or correction policies, where available.
9. COPYRIGHT & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LICENSE
9.1 Author Ownership
Authors shall ordinarily retain copyright ownership of their original intellectual property, subject to the publishing and distribution rights granted to MindRadix under these Terms or applicable publishing agreements.
9.2 License Granted to MindRadix
By submitting content to the Platform, users grant MindRadix and Meadow Edutech Private Limited a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, publish, reproduce, distribute, archive, display, index, preserve, and maintain the submitted content in digital, print, repository, indexing, promotional, and distribution formats as part of the Platform's publishing operations. Such license may continue for archival, preservation, indexing, and scholarly distribution purposes even after account closure or termination, subject to applicable law and platform policies.
9.3 Platform Intellectual Property
All platform trademarks, logos, branding elements, website interfaces, databases, workflows, software systems, designs, and proprietary operational materials are the exclusive intellectual property of the Company and are protected under applicable intellectual property laws. Unauthorized copying, extraction, reproduction, scraping, or misuse is prohibited.
9.4 Permanent Archiving
Published materials may be retained within permanent or long-term scholarly archives, repositories, indexing systems, backup infrastructures, or preservation networks maintained by or on behalf of MindRadix for academic preservation, citation continuity, and record integrity purposes.
10. OPEN ACCESS LICENSE FRAMEWORK
Unless otherwise specified for a particular publication, Open Access content published through MindRadix shall be distributed under licensing terms determined by the Platform and applicable publication policies. MindRadix reserves the right to apply publication-specific licensing conditions, restrict unauthorized commercial reuse, automated bulk extraction, scraping, derivative redistribution, or AI-based content harvesting, and enforce compliance with applicable licensing terms.
Authors are independently responsible for reviewing and understanding the licensing conditions applicable to their submissions prior to publication.
11. JOURNALS, BOOKS & MAGAZINES MANAGEMENT
ISSN-registered journals, magazines, serial publications, and related publishing titles operating under the MindRadix platform shall remain under the administrative control and management of Meadow Edutech Private Limited. Separate ISBN identifiers may be assigned to individual books, edited volumes, conference proceedings, print editions, or publication releases as applicable.
MindRadix reserves the right to modify, restructure, rebrand, merge, divide, discontinue, suspend, archive, or otherwise manage journals, books, magazines, publication series, conference proceedings, or related publishing entities in accordance with operational, editorial, legal, technical, or commercial requirements.
The Company may archive, deactivate, or remove discontinued, inactive, non-compliant, or operationally unsustainable publication titles, issues, or volumes from active platform interfaces, subject to applicable law and preservation policies.
12. EDITORIAL REVIEW & PEER-REVIEW POLICY
MindRadix may utilize various editorial, scholarly, technical, and peer-review processes for submitted content, including single-blind, double-blind, open peer review, internal editorial assessments, technical validations, formatting evaluations, plagiarism and similarity screening, and related quality control mechanisms depending on publication category, editorial workflow, or operational requirements.
12.1 Operational Adjustments
Review timelines, editorial workflows, and evaluation formats may vary depending on fast-track services, special publication tracks, institutional collaborations, conference proceedings, operational requirements, or publication categories. MindRadix reserves the right to reject, defer, suspend, or delay submissions at any stage in accordance with editorial, ethical, technical, administrative, or legal considerations.
12.2 Misconduct Consequences
Submissions involving plagiarism, fabricated or falsified data, fake reviewer identities, manipulated citations, fraudulent affiliations, copyright violations, unethical conduct, or other forms of academic misconduct may result in rejection, suspension, retraction, account restrictions, removal of published material, institutional notification where reasonably necessary, and appropriate legal or regulatory action in accordance with applicable law and publishing ethics standards.
Editorial and administrative decisions shall generally be considered final, subject to applicable correction, clarification, appeal, or internal review procedures where available.
13. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) USAGE & ACCURACY DISCLAIMER
MindRadix may utilize Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning systems, and automated technologies within its operational workflows, including plagiarism and similarity screening, metadata optimization, language and formatting evaluations, submission categorization, translation assistance, and editorial support processes.
Authors are responsible for appropriately disclosing any material use of generative AI tools in the preparation, drafting, editing, analysis, or generation of submitted manuscripts, where required under applicable publication or editorial policies.
MindRadix and Meadow Edutech Private Limited shall not be held liable, to the extent permitted under applicable law, for false positives, false negatives, algorithmic misclassification, automated overflagging or under-flagging, machine translation inaccuracies, AI-generated analytical errors, or editorial or operational decisions made with the assistance of automated systems or AI-supported tools.
14. PUBLICATION FEES & AUTHORIZED PAYMENT CHANNELS
14.1 Fee Framework
MindRadix may charge fees for Article Processing Charges (APCs), formatting or language assistance, DOI services, plagiarism screening, print production, certificate issuance or delivery, expedited processing, subscription services, premium publication features, and related academic or publishing operations.
All applicable taxes, including GST/VAT, banking charges, foreign remittance fees, payment gateway processing charges, currency conversion costs, and related transaction expenses shall ordinarily be borne by the user unless otherwise specified. Fee structures, pricing models, and service charges may be revised periodically in accordance with operational, commercial, or policy requirements.
14.2 Payment Security & Authorized Channels
Users must make payments only through officially authorized banking channels, payment gateways, dashboard billing systems, or verified financial accounts operated by Meadow Edutech Private Limited or officially published by the Platform.
MindRadix and Meadow Edutech Private Limited shall not be held responsible, to the extent permitted under applicable law, for losses arising from payments made to unauthorized accounts, fraudulent representatives, fake payment links, phishing systems, impersonators, or unverified third-party intermediaries.
Users are independently responsible for verifying payment instructions, banking details, invoice authenticity, and official communication channels prior to initiating transactions.
15. REFUND, CANCELLATION & PROCESSING DEDUCTIONS
15.1 Processing Stage Deductions
Editorial processing, plagiarism screening, technical validation, peer-review coordination, and publication workflows require operational, technical, and human resource allocation upon initiation. Accordingly, refunds, where applicable, may depend upon the processing stage reached at the time of cancellation or withdrawal.
Plagiarism Screening Stage: Once plagiarism or similarity screening has been initiated for a manuscript, book, journal, magazine, or related publication material using licensed software systems, the applicable screening and technical processing charges shall generally be non-refundable.
Peer-Review and Editorial Evaluation Stage: If a submission is rejected during editorial assessment, technical evaluation, or peer-review processes, administrative costs, reviewer honorariums, processing fees, hosting expenses, and related operational deductions may be applied before any eligible refund balance is processed.
Post-Publication Stage: Once content has been officially published, indexed, distributed, printed, or archived through the Platform, publication and processing charges shall ordinarily be non-refundable.
15.2 Physical Print Orders
Cancellation requests for printed books, magazines, certificates, or physical publication materials may be accepted only before packaging, printing finalization, or courier dispatch processes begin. Post-dispatch cancellations or return claims may not be eligible except where required under applicable law.
15.3 Duplicate or Technical Billing Errors
Users must report duplicate payments, gateway processing issues, banking errors, or technical billing discrepancies through official support channels within a reasonable reporting period. Verified duplicate transactions may be reviewed for correction or refund subject to payment verification procedures.
15.4 Retraction & Misconduct Liability
If published material is retracted, suspended, restricted, hidden, or removed due to plagiarism, fabricated data, duplicate submissions, fake authorship, copyright violations, unethical conduct, judicial orders, or academic misconduct, applicable publication and processing fees may remain nonrefundable.
Authors responsible for confirmed misconduct may also be held liable for reasonable investigation costs, reviewer expenses, administrative losses, legal compliance costs, or litigation-related expenses incurred by MindRadix and Meadow Edutech Private Limited, to the extent permitted under applicable law.
The Platform may issue retraction notices, ethical concern statements, corrections, institutional notifications, or related public integrity disclosures where reasonably necessary, ethically appropriate, or legally required.
16. PRINT PUBLICATIONS, SHIPPING & RETURN-TO-ORIGIN (RTO) POLICY
Estimated delivery timelines for printed books, journals, magazines, certificates, and related physical publication materials are indicative only and do not constitute guaranteed delivery commitments.
MindRadix and Meadow Edutech Private Limited shall not be held responsible, to the extent permitted under applicable law, for shipping delays, transit interruptions, customs clearance delays, regional delivery restrictions, force majeure events, third-party courier failures, or delivery issues arising from inaccurate or incomplete user-provided shipping information.
Once a shipment has been dispatched through an external courier or logistics provider, transit handling, delivery operations, and related transportation risks shall primarily remain under the responsibility of the respective courier or logistics service provider.
16.1 Return-To-Origin (RTO) & Reshipping Charges
If a shipment is returned to the Company due to incorrect address details, invalid contact information, repeated delivery failure, refusal to accept delivery, user unavailability, or related recipient-side issues, additional return handling, storage, repackaging, courier, and reshipping charges may apply before redispatch is initiated.
Users are responsible for ensuring accurate shipping details and delivery accessibility at the time of order placement.
17. WITHDRAWAL, RETRACTION & ARCHIVING
Content officially published through MindRadix may become part of the long-term scholarly and archival record of the Platform. Requests for withdrawal, correction, restriction, or removal may be reviewed in accordance with applicable publication ethics standards, legal obligations, archival integrity requirements, and operational policies.
MindRadix reserves the right to decline, restrict, defer, or condition removal requests where necessary for scholarly record preservation, legal compliance, citation continuity, research integrity, institutional obligations, or archival purposes.
Where appropriate, the Platform may issue corrections, errata notices, expressions of concern, retraction statements, restricted-access preservation records, or archival notices instead of permanent deletion.
Certain materials may continue to be retained within secure, restricted, legal, or archival preservation systems in accordance with applicable law, ethical standards, or scholarly recordkeeping requirements.
18. COPYRIGHT COMPLAINTS & TAKEDOWN REQUESTS
To submit a copyright infringement or intellectual property complaint, the complainant must provide reasonable proof of ownership, the exact allegedly infringing URL or material reference, relevant identification details, and a good-faith declaration confirming the accuracy of the complaint through the official grievance contact channel.
Upon receiving a complaint, MindRadix may temporarily restrict, disable, review, investigate, or remove the relevant content while seeking clarification from the publishing author, rights holder, or other involved parties where necessary.
MindRadix reserves the right to reject, dismiss, or disregard incomplete, fraudulent, abusive, repetitive, misleading, or bad-faith complaints.
Any knowingly false, malicious, or misleading copyright complaint may result in appropriate legal, administrative, or regulatory action in accordance with applicable law.
19. USER CONDUCT & PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES
Users shall not engage in unlawful, abusive, fraudulent, malicious, unethical, or technically harmful activities while using the Platform. Prohibited activities include uploading illegal or plagiarized content, distributing malware, unauthorized scraping or automated extraction, bypassing security systems, manipulating metadata or citations, misrepresenting academic identities, ORCID records, or researcher credentials, conducting citation manipulation, launching denial-of-service attacks, reverse engineering platform systems, or violating applicable laws including the Information Technology Act, 2000.
Violations may result in suspension or termination of access, manuscript rejection, publication removal or retraction, institutional notification where reasonably necessary, and appropriate legal, administrative, civil, or regulatory action in accordance with applicable law and publishing ethics standards.
20. USER COMMENTS & COMMUNITY INTERACTION
Users are solely responsible for all comments, reviews, peer-review remarks, forum discussions, messages, and other interactive content submitted through the Platform. Users must not post unlawful, abusive, defamatory, misleading, fraudulent, offensive, promotional, or unethical material through community or interactive features.
MindRadix does not routinely pre-screen all user-generated content; however, the Platform reserves the right to monitor, moderate, restrict, hide, or remove content that violates applicable laws, academic ethics standards, platform policies, or community guidelines, with or without prior notice where reasonably necessary.
Users agree to indemnify and hold harmless MindRadix and Meadow Edutech Private Limited against claims, complaints, liabilities, or legal actions arising directly from their submitted comments, reviews, or interactive communications, to the extent permitted under applicable law.
21. ADVERTISING & SPONSORSHIPS
MindRadix may display sponsored content, institutional promotions, academic event announcements, partner materials, third-party advertisements, or related promotional content through the Platform.
Unless expressly stated otherwise, MindRadix and Meadow Edutech Private Limited do not independently endorse, guarantee, verify, or warrant the accuracy, legality, reliability, quality, or safety of products, services, claims, or representations made by third-party advertisers or sponsors.
Users interacting with third-party advertisements, sponsored links, external offers, or promotional materials do so at their own discretion and risk. MindRadix shall not be held responsible, to the extent permitted under applicable law, for losses, damages, disputes, fraud, or transactional issues arising from user interactions with external advertisers or third-party promotional entities.
22. THIRD-PARTY LINKS & EXTERNAL SERVICES
MindRadix may integrate with, connect to, or provide links to third-party platforms, payment gateways, translation services, DOI registration systems, analytics platforms, indexing services, repository infrastructures, cloud providers, or other external technologies and service providers.
Such third-party systems operate independently and remain outside the direct operational control of MindRadix and Meadow Edutech Private Limited. Accordingly, the Platform does not guarantee the continuous availability, security, accuracy, functionality, or policy stability of external services.
MindRadix shall not be held responsible, to the extent permitted under applicable law, for operational failures, outages, technical interruptions, data breaches, integration issues, privacy policy changes, payment failures, or other consequences arising from third-party systems, platforms, or external service providers.
23. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
Platform services, content, software systems, dashboards, integrations, and publishing workflows are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis, subject to operational availability and technical limitations.
MindRadix and Meadow Edutech Private Limited do not guarantee uninterrupted platform access, continuous server uptime, error-free functionality, complete metadata accuracy, universal device compatibility, uninterrupted third-party integrations, or absolute protection against cyber threats, security vulnerabilities, malware, unauthorized access attempts, or advanced security exploits.
To the extent permitted under applicable law, the Company disclaims express, implied, and statutory warranties relating to platform performance, availability, reliability, operational continuity, or technical compatibility.
24. NO PROFESSIONAL ADVICE
Content published through MindRadix is provided primarily for educational, informational, research, scholarly communication, and academic discussion purposes only.
Nothing available on the Platform constitutes, replaces, or should be interpreted as professional medical, clinical, legal, financial, investment, engineering, agricultural, regulatory, corporate, or other licensed professional advice.
Users are responsible for independently consulting qualified professionals or licensed experts before relying upon, applying, implementing, or acting on any published content, research findings, recommendations, opinions, or materials available through the Platform.
MindRadix and Meadow Edutech Private Limited shall not be held responsible, to the extent permitted under applicable law, for decisions, actions, losses, damages, or consequences arising from reliance upon published content or scholarly materials.
25. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
To the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, the total aggregate liability of MindRadix, Meadow Edutech Private Limited, and its directors, officers, employees, editors, contractors, or representatives arising out of or relating to the Platform, publications, or services shall not exceed the total fees actually paid by the user for the specific service giving rise to the claim.
The Company shall not be held liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, punitive, academic, reputational, commercial, or speculative damages, including loss of citations, h-index decline, academic setbacks, research delays, grant denials, publication visibility issues, revenue loss, data corruption, institutional consequences, or career-related impacts arising from the use of the Platform or its services.
26. INDEMNIFICATION & LEGAL COSTS
Users agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless MindRadix, Meadow Edutech Private Limited, and their directors, officers, employees, editors, representatives, and affiliates against reasonable third-party claims, liabilities, legal proceedings, damages, penalties, regulatory actions, settlement obligations, legal notices, arbitration expenses, advocate fees, court costs, or related enforcement expenses arising from the user's conduct, submissions, misuse of the Platform, policy violations, research misconduct, copyright infringement, plagiarism, fraudulent declarations, unlawful activities, or non-compliance with applicable laws or publishing standards.
This indemnification obligation shall survive suspension, termination, account closure, publication withdrawal, or discontinuation of the user's relationship with the Platform, to the extent permitted under applicable law.
27. RELATIONSHIP OF PARTIES
Nothing contained in these Terms, Platform operations, editorial participation, or user interactions shall be interpreted as creating a partnership, joint venture, employment relationship, legal agency, fiduciary relationship, or representative authority between MindRadix, Meadow Edutech Private Limited, and any user, author, reviewer, editor, consultant, institution, or contributor.
Editorial board members, peer reviewers, authors, advisors, consultants, institutional collaborators, and external contributors shall generally operate as independent contributors or independent contractors unless expressly stated otherwise through a separate written agreement.
No user, contributor, reviewer, editor, consultant, or external participant shall have the authority to legally, financially, operationally, or contractually bind Meadow Edutech Private Limited without explicit written authorization from the Company.
28. SUSPENSION & ACCOUNT TERMINATION
MindRadix reserves the right to suspend, restrict, disable, investigate, terminate, or otherwise limit access to user accounts, dashboards, manuscript tracking systems, institutional workspaces, storage areas, or related platform services where reasonably necessary for operational, legal, ethical, security, technical, administrative, or regulatory purposes.
Such actions may be taken in cases involving suspected fraud, publishing ethics violations, plagiarism, cyber misuse, abusive technical activity, unauthorized access attempts, data manipulation, policy violations, regulatory non-compliance, or conduct that may threaten the integrity, stability, security, or lawful operation of the Platform.
Where reasonably practicable, MindRadix may provide notice or corrective opportunities prior to suspension or termination; however, immediate action may be taken where necessary for security, legal compliance, operational continuity, or risk prevention.
Termination or restriction of access shall not affect outstanding payment obligations, ongoing investigations, accrued liabilities, indemnification duties, intellectual property rights, archival preservation rights, or other surviving legal obligations under these Terms.
29. TECHNICAL DOWNTIME & SERVICE AVAILABILITY
MindRadix services, dashboards, manuscript systems, API integrations, DOI synchronization tools, databases, and related platform infrastructure may occasionally experience temporary interruptions, latency, limited availability, maintenance downtime, software upgrades, cloud hosting issues, infrastructure patches, feature deployments, or other technical disruptions.
Certain platform functionalities may become temporarily inaccessible with or without prior notice where operationally necessary.
MindRadix and Meadow Edutech Private Limited shall not be held responsible, to the extent permitted under applicable law, for delays, interruptions, synchronization issues, temporary inaccessibility, operational disruptions, data transmission failures, or related consequences arising from technical maintenance, infrastructure failures, third-party hosting services, or circumstances beyond the reasonable control of the Platform.
30. DATA BACKUP DISCLAIMER
Authors and users are primarily responsible for maintaining independent and secure backups of all submitted manuscripts, research materials, datasets, charts, tables, images, acceptance letters, correspondence, and other digital content associated with the Platform.
MindRadix and Meadow Edutech Private Limited do not guarantee permanent data preservation or uninterrupted data availability and shall not be held responsible, to the extent permitted under applicable law, for data loss, corruption, accidental deletion, formatting issues, file-conversion errors, hardware failures, server disruptions, cyber incidents, or technical malfunctions beyond the reasonable operational control of the Platform.
Users are encouraged to maintain secure local, institutional, or cloud-based backups of important materials at all times.
31. FORCE MAJEURE
MindRadix and Meadow Edutech Private Limited shall not be held responsible, to the extent permitted under applicable law, for delays, publication disruptions, operational interruptions, or workflow failures caused by events beyond the reasonable control of the Company, including natural disasters, floods, earthquakes, fires, pandemics, epidemics, power failures, internet outages, cyber attacks, ransomware incidents, transportation or logistics disruptions, labor strikes, governmental actions, regulatory restrictions, wars, civil disturbances, or similar force majeure events.
During the continuance of such circumstances, operational timelines, publication schedules, technical services, delivery commitments, or contractual obligations may be temporarily suspended, delayed, restricted, or reasonably modified until normal operations resume.
32. GOVERNING LAW, ARBITRATION & JURISDICTION
32.1 Governing Law
These Terms, Platform operations, publication workflows, and related agreements shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the Republic of India.
32.2 Amicable Resolution
Any dispute, claim, transaction issue, academic disagreement, or operational conflict arising from the Platform or related services shall first be submitted through formal written notice for good-faith amicable resolution within thirty (30) days from receipt of such notice.
32.3 Binding Arbitration
If a dispute is not resolved amicably, it shall be referred to and finally resolved through arbitration in accordance with the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 and its applicable amendments. The arbitration shall be conducted before a Sole Arbitrator appointed mutually by the parties. Proceedings shall be conducted in the English language, and the legal seat and venue of arbitration shall be Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India. The arbitral award shall be final and binding on the parties, subject to applicable law.
32.4 Exclusive Jurisdiction
Subject to the arbitration provisions above, courts located in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India shall have exclusive jurisdiction over matters requiring judicial intervention, interim relief, enforcement proceedings, or other non-arbitrable disputes.
32.5 Class Action Waiver
To the extent permitted under applicable law, users agree to pursue claims only in their individual capacity and not as part of any class-action, collective, representative, or multi-party proceeding against MindRadix or Meadow Edutech Private Limited.
33. MODIFICATIONS TO TERMS
MindRadix reserves the right to modify, update, revise, expand, replace, or discontinue any portion of these Terms, policies, operational procedures, publication guidelines, or platform features from time to time in accordance with legal, technical, operational, commercial, or regulatory requirements.
Updated Terms or policies shall become effective upon publication on the official Platform or within related dashboard interfaces, unless otherwise specified.
Continued access to or use of the Platform after such updates may constitute acceptance of the revised Terms and policies.
Users are encouraged to periodically review the latest version of the Terms and related policies to remain informed of updates and operational changes.
34. PRIVACY & DATA PROTECTION
User information, manuscript data, profile records, technical interaction logs, communication records, and payment-related information may be collected, processed, stored, archived, and managed in accordance with the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, the Information Technology Act, 2000, applicable Indian laws, and the Platform's Privacy Policy.
Use of the Platform, account registration, dashboard interaction, manuscript submission, or related service usage may constitute consent to such data processing activities in accordance with applicable legal and operational requirements.
Users who do not agree with the applicable privacy practices, data processing terms, or related policies should discontinue access to and use of the Platform.
35. LANGUAGE & TRANSLATION DISCLAIMER
MindRadix may provide machine-generated translations, multilingual interfaces, automated localization tools, or language assistance features for user convenience and accessibility purposes.
The Platform does not guarantee the completeness, accuracy, reliability, or legal precision of translated or localized content. Translation outputs may contain linguistic, contextual, technical, or interpretational variations.
In the event of any inconsistency, ambiguity, conflict, or discrepancy between a translated version and the original English-language version of any policy, agreement, publication, notice, or document, the original English version shall prevail and govern for interpretational and legal purposes.
36. INTERNATIONAL COMPLIANCE DISCLAIMER
Users accessing or using the Platform from jurisdictions outside India are primarily responsible for ensuring that their publishing activities, submissions, research dissemination, funding obligations, institutional requirements, and academic practices comply with applicable local laws, university regulations, research integrity standards, funding agency conditions, and governmental requirements within their respective jurisdictions.
MindRadix and Meadow Edutech Private Limited do not represent or guarantee that the Platform, publication workflows, policies, or services comply with the laws or regulatory standards of every country or institution outside India.
To the extent permitted under applicable law, the Company shall not be held responsible for legal, institutional, academic, regulatory, funding, or compliance-related issues arising from a user's failure to comply with applicable external jurisdictional requirements.
37. SURVIVAL & SEVERABILITY
If any provision, clause, or portion of these Terms is determined to be unlawful, invalid, unenforceable, or contrary to applicable law by a competent court, tribunal, or legal authority, such provision shall be severed or interpreted to the minimum extent necessary without affecting the validity, enforceability, or continued operation of the remaining provisions.
Notwithstanding any suspension, termination, withdrawal, account closure, discontinuation of services, or end of the relationship between the user and the Platform, provisions relating to intellectual property rights, licensing, refund obligations, investigation costs, limitation of liability, indemnification, dispute resolution, arbitration, governing law, archival rights, payment obligations, and related legal protections shall survive termination to the extent permitted under applicable law.
38. ADMINISTRATIVE & CONTACT INFORMATION
Official notices, grievances, copyright complaints, data protection requests, billing issues, legal communications, and other administrative inquiries relating to the Platform should be submitted through the official contact channels listed below.
| Operating Corporate Entity | Meadow Edutech Private Limited, India |
| Platform Name | MindRadix – Academic E-Publishing Platform |
| Head Office / Publishing Office Location | Baghelabari Naraini Banda, Uttar Pradesh, India – 210202 |
| Corporate Office Location | 557/412, Bagh Bri Housing Scheme, Allapura, Prayagraj (Allahabad), Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Seat & Venue of Arbitration | Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Exclusive Court Jurisdiction | Courts located in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Designated Grievance Officer | Mr. Amit Kumar Patel |
| Official Legal & Grievance Email | [email protected] |
| Official Technical & Billing Support | [email protected] |
| Official Support Contact Number | +91 9129888588 |
| Authorized Payment Channels | Official bank accounts and authorized payment gateways of Meadow Edutech Private Limited |
| Governing Law | Laws of the Republic of India |
Users are encouraged to communicate only through officially published contact channels and authorized payment systems of the Company.
39. FINAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT & BINDING AGREEMENT
By accessing the Platform, creating an account, using dashboard services, submitting manuscripts or data, initiating payments, or utilizing related platform features, users acknowledge that they have reviewed, understood, and agreed to be bound by these Terms, related policies, operational procedures, and applicable legal conditions governing the Platform.
Electronic actions, including registrations, dashboard interactions, manuscript submissions, checkbox confirmations, and digital payment processes, may constitute valid electronic consent and acceptance under applicable laws, including the Information Technology Act, 2000.
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