Material featured on SCL website may be reproduced free of charge after taking proper permission by sending a mail to us. However, the material has to be reproduced accurately and not to be used in a derogatory manner or in a misleading context. Wherever the material is being published or issued to others, the source must be prominently acknowledged. However, the permission to reproduce this material shall not extend to any material which is identified as being copyright of a third party. Authorization to reproduce such material must be obtained from the departments/copyright holders concerned.

These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed according to the Indian Laws. Any dispute arising under these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of India.

Links to external websites/portals: At many places in this SCL website, you shall find links to other websites/portals. These links have been placed for your convenience. SCL is not responsible for the contents of the linked destinations and does not necessarily endorse the views expressed in them. Mere presence of the link or its listing on this portal should not be assumed as endorsement of any kind. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all the time and we have no control over availability of linked destinations.

Links to SCL Website by other websites: We do not object to you linking directly to the information that is hosted on SCL website and no prior permission is required for the same. However, we would like you to inform us about any links provided to this website so that you can be informed of any changes or updates therein. Also, we do not permit our pages to be loaded into frames on your site. The pages belonging to this site must load into a newly opened browser window of the User. 

SCL Website does not automatically capture any specific personal information from you (like name, phone number or e-mail address), that allows us to identify you individually. If you choose to provide us with your personal information, like names or addresses, when you visit our website, we use it only to fulfil your request for information.

We do not sell or share any personally identifiable information volunteered on this site to any third party (public/private). Any information provided to this website will be protected from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

We gather certain information about the User, such as Internet protocol (IP) address, domain name, browser type, operating system, the date and time of the visit and the pages visited. We make no attempt to link these addresses with the identity of individuals visiting our site unless an attempt to damage the site has been detected.

The Guidelines for Indian Government Websites (GIGW) stipulate that expired contents must not be presented or flashed on the website. Therefore, as per the content archival policy adopted by this department, contents will be deleted from the site after its expiry date. Important data will be shifted to the archives page. Therefore, the content contributors should revalidate/modify the content periodically to ensure that expired data is not present/flashed in the site. Wherever contents are no longer needed to be displayed, suitable advice may be sent to the web information manager for their archival/deletion.

Each of the content components is accompanied by meta data, source and validity date. For some of the components the validity date may not be known i.e., the content is stated to be perpetual. Under this scenario, the validity date should be Ten years.

For few of the components like announcements, tenders, only the live content is shown on the website and whose validity has been expired, shall be moved to archive within two working days from expiry date. For other components like datasheets, documents, services, and contact directory there is a need for timely review of the same as per the Content Review Policy.

Content needs to be contributed by the authorized respective Designated Responsible Member (DRM) of SCL in a consistent fashion to maintain uniformity and to bring in standardization along with associated metadata and keywords.

The content on the portal goes through the entire life-cycle process of:-

• Creation
• Modification
• Approval
• Moderation
• Publishing
• Expiry
• Archival

Once the content is contributed it needs to be approved and moderated prior to being published on the Website. The moderation could be multilevel and is role based. If the content is rejected at any level, then it is reverted back to the originator of the content for modification.

The SCL website would require a security clearance certificate “safe to host” issued by the cybersecurity auditors empaneled by CERT-In/STQC before hosting. Any new sub-website should have been audited by the CERT-in-empanelled auditor, and all the vulnerabilities should have been fixed prior to their forwarding for hosting. On completion of the fixing of all vulnerabilities, a security clearance certificate of CERT-In empaneled auditor should have been received.

Note: A periodic check on the requirement of a security certificate is recommended for the web information manager in case there are changes in the functionality or the environment.