Editorial Policy

This Editorial Policy explains the standards OFAIF applies to content published on this website — whether authored by OFAIF or contributed by community members. It reflects OFAIF's commitment to operating as a credible, independent and responsible financial-awareness platform.

• Accuracy. Content must be factually accurate to the best of the author's knowledge and supported by identifiable sources where claims are specific or quantitative.
• Source attribution. Where content references regulatory statements, market data, research or statistics, the source should be identified and, where publicly available, linked.
• Transparency. The nature of content — whether it is factual information, educational explanation, analysis, commentary or opinion — should be clear to the reader. OFAIF distinguishes between these categories where relevant.
• Independence. OFAIF does not accept payment for editorial coverage. Content published on this platform must not be undisclosed commercial promotion of any financial product, service or entity.
• Educational purpose. All content must serve a genuine financial-awareness, financial-literacy or investor-education purpose.
• No misleading claims. Content must not contain statements that are misleading, speculative without appropriate context, or likely to create false impressions about financial products, markets or regulatory matters.
• No guaranteed returns. Content must not state or imply that any investment, strategy or financial product guarantees a return.
• No personalised recommendations. Content must not constitute a personalised investment recommendation, solicitation or offer directed at any individual reader.
• No undisclosed commercial promotion. Contributors must not use content published on OFAIF as a vehicle for the undisclosed promotion of financial products, services or entities with which they have a commercial relationship.

Where relevant, OFAIF aims to make the nature of content clear to readers:

• Factual information — descriptions of financial products, regulations, market structure or economic concepts drawn from publicly available sources.
• Educational explanation — plain-language explanations of financial concepts, processes or terminology.
• Analysis or commentary — interpretation or contextualisation of financial developments, data or trends, presented as the author's perspective.
• Opinion — a contributor's view on a financial-literacy, policy or awareness-related topic, clearly identified as opinion.

Contributors submitting content for publication on OFAIF must:

• Submit content that is original or for which they have the right to submit.
• Provide sources for specific factual claims, statistics and regulatory references where possible.
• Disclose material conflicts of interest relevant to the content submitted.
• Disclose relevant professional or commercial interests where those interests could reasonably affect the content or its reception.
• Avoid content that constitutes personalised investment advice or trading calls.
• Avoid statements that guarantee investment returns or imply assured outcomes.
• Avoid undisclosed promotion of financial products, services or entities.

Where a contributor is associated with a SEBI-registered entity, AMFI-registered distributor, insurance intermediary or other regulated financial-services provider, they should disclose that relationship in the context of their contribution where it is relevant to the subject matter.

OFAIF reserves the right to:

• Review all submissions before publication.
• Edit content for clarity, accuracy, tone or compliance with this policy.
• Reject content that does not meet the standards set out in this policy.
• Correct factual errors after publication, with a note where material corrections are made.
• Update content to reflect changed circumstances, regulations or market conditions.
• Remove content that no longer meets editorial standards or that is identified as inaccurate, misleading or inappropriate.

Publication on OFAIF does not imply OFAIF's endorsement of a contributor's professional services, products or commercial interests.

OFAIF is committed to correcting errors promptly. If you identify a factual error in content published on this platform, please contact us at ofaifodisha@gmail.com. Please provide the specific article or page, the claim you believe is incorrect, and the basis for the correction. OFAIF will review and respond to correction requests in good faith.

OFAIF is an independent financial-awareness and investor-education platform. OFAIF does not accept payment for editorial coverage. Editorial decisions are made independently, without direction from commercial sponsors, advertisers or affiliated organisations. If commercial arrangements are entered into in the future, they will be clearly disclosed and kept separate from editorial content.

This Editorial Policy may be updated from time to time. The effective date at the top of this page will reflect the date of the most recent revision.

For questions about this Editorial Policy, to report a concern about published content, or to submit a correction request, please write to: ofaifodisha@gmail.com