# Conflict of Interest Policy ### CHAOSS D\&I Badging Conflict of Interest Policy A conflict of interest in peer review arises when a situation where you, the reviewer, are unable to make a fair judgment. The CHAOSS D\&I Badging Project aims to promote a transparent and impartial environment to evaluate Diversity and Inclusion, as well as consciously avoiding situations where conflicts of interest may appear. As a reviewer, Conflicts of Interest for **event submission reviews** are your present or previous associations with any event organizers and the event committee of a submission. The following situations are considered conflicts and should be avoided: * Organizing for the submitted event. * Having a personal relationship (e.g.family, close friend) with the event organizer(s). * Receiving personal benefit resulting from the review. * Recent association (past year) with the same organization of an applicant, for example, being employed at the same institution. If you have a conflict of interest with a submission, you should disclose the specific reason to the moderator team. After the discussion within the moderator team, you may not be eligible to review the submission. Declaring actual, perceived, and potential conflicts of interest are required under professional ethics. If in doubt, ask the moderators. ### **Statement** The D\&I Conflict of Interest Policy is derived from [JOSS Conflict of Interest Policy](https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reviewer_guidelines.html#joss-conflict-of-interest-policy) and takes references from [Elsevier Conflict of Interest Policy.](https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-and-software-technology/policies/conflict-of-interest-guidelines-for-reviewers) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://handbook.chaoss.community/community-handbook/badging/reviewing/conflict-of-interest-policy.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.