Privacy policy
We do not share information about our clients with the third parties. This includes, but not limited to emails content and addresses, physical addresses, telephone numbers, institutional affiliation, social network records. This information is being used exclusively for business of indexing and cannot be disclosed to anyone without explicit permission of our clients.
Files shared by our clients, such as page proofs, indexing guidelines, payroll forms, contractor agreements, etc. are retained for the duration of 12 month, thereafter these records are to be destroyed.
We do not express our opinion about the quality of manuscripts received from our clients, neither we discuss the integrity of academic research. We leave such discussions to book reviewers.
We do not share information about indexing rates for specific projects. The exact amount of payment for any given indexing work is confidential; it is determined during negotiations with the clients. Indexing rates are vary from project to project.
Copyright policy
We share copyright policy articulated by the American Society for Indexing:
“The Client understands and acknowledges that the Indexer owns the Work until final payment is made by the Client to the Indexer. Once the final payment is received by the Indexer, however, the Indexer understands and acknowledges that ownership passes to the Client, and the Client has the right to apply for and obtain copyright protection for the Work.”
AI policy
We follow recommendations of the American Society for Indexing articulated in the Statement on AI and Book Indexing:
“As part of ASI’s continuing commitment to excellence in indexing, ASI has formed a committee to investigate potential impacts of AI on indexing.
The committee’s tests indicate that AI tools based on large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT and Claude, do not produce viable book indexes, either in whole or in part. The resulting indexes fail in terms of navigability (guiding the reader to subtopics and related topics), completeness (providing the reader access to all substantive information), conciseness (not cluttering the index with unhelpful entries), and accuracy (containing only correct information and reflecting the author’s terminology). They require extensive review and correction by a human, which is almost always more time-consuming and costly than working with a professional indexer from the start.
We recognize the desire to have good indexes quickly and cheaply. However, AI is not currently capable of producing even adequate indexes. High-quality indexes that meet reader needs and expectations still require the fine-grained human judgment of a professional indexer.
Thus, at this time, we recommend AI-generated indexes not be used in books.”