Safety and Security
Overview
The Ikoku Charitable Trusts is committed to creating and maintaining safe and secure environments and spaces for all individuals engaging with the organization.
Therefore, persons engaged in activity within, for, on behalf of, in reference to and otherwise pertaining to The Ikoku Charitable Trusts are expected to uphold the following:
Safety and Security Defined
— that The Ikoku Charitable Trusts ensure the evocation of and reference to safety mean and include only evidence-based and proven causes or means of harm to mental and physical health and evidence-based and proven means of prevention or reduction of said harms.
— that The Ikoku Charitable Trusts ensure the evocation of and reference to security mean and include only evidence-based and proven causes or means of of theft, trespassing and other unauthorized use and visit of real and intellectual property and evidence-based and proven means of prevention or reduction of said occurrences.
Safety as Practice
— that The Ikoku Charitable Trusts provide and maintain safe environments and spaces for its activities and operations, and develop and integrate practices toward that end.
Security as Practice
— that The Ikoku Charitable Trusts provide and maintain secure environments and spaces for its activities and operations, and develop and integrate practices toward that end.
Safety and Security Risks (Incompatible)
— that The Ikoku Charitable Trusts hold the following, monitoring, stalking, targeting, tracking or surveillance of, or intimate or intrusive violation of the confidentiality and privacy of, any natural person without the express written consent of that person to constitute — without exception — a high degree of risk and high degree of harm to the safety and security of that person incompatible with the founding, mission and operation of The Ikoku Charitable Trusts.
— and that The Ikoku Charitable Trusts require and ensure that any activity, operation, program or other action involving any of the above be immediately ceased, reported to the Founder and President, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and reviewed for causes, remedy and further prevention.
Safety and Security Laws
— that The Ikoku Charitable Trusts obtain, keep current and comply with required safety and security permits and applicable law and regulation.
Accordance with Ethics
— that The Ikoku Charitable Trusts ensure following the above principles further remains in accordance with the Codes and Policies and especially the Founding and Governing Code of Ethics.
Central and Associated Policies
Provision
As stated earlier, The Ikoku Charitable Trusts User Agreement and Code of Conduct consist of several Codes and Policies that collectively govern all of your activity with, within, for, in reference to and otherwise pertaining to The Ikoku Charitable Trusts. By continuing, you indicate that you understand that these Codes and Policies include — but are not limited to — the Founding and Governing Code of Ethics, the Policy on Privacy and Confidentiality, the Terms and Conditions of Use and Service, and the Acceptable Use Policy along with all Associated Codes and Policies. Access to the aforementioned is provided below.
Founding Code of Ethics
Founding Code of Ethics (HTML and PDF)
Privacy and Confidentiality
Policy on Privacy and Confidentiality (HTML and PDF)
Terms and Conditions
Terms and Conditions of Use and Service (HTML and PDF)
Acceptable Use Policy
Acceptable Use Policy (HTML and PDF)
All Associated Policies
All Associated Policies (HTML and PDF)
*Note
*Note: Please see the main Policies page for notice on conditions incompatible with the founding and mission of The Ikoku Charitable Trusts.
To Further Consider
Your Knowledge and Agreement
The Ikoku Charitable Trusts strongly recommend you develop and maintain your knowledge of all the Codes and Policies, and so ask that you read, understand and regularly visit this page and other communications regarding the Policy on Reasonable Transparency, as well as the Codes and Policies. The Ikoku Charitable Trusts take your continued visiting and use of the Products and Services, including the Sites, as active indication of your knowledge, understanding, legally binding acceptance and agreement.
Your Duty to Corporate Integrity
To protect the corporate and organizational integrity of The Ikoku Charitable Trusts — as well as the properties, rights and protections of the Trusts Corporation and its Trustees and official persons — The Ikoku Charitable Trusts require all natural and legal persons concerned to read, understand, abide by and, where applicable, sign contracts and agreements delineated and described in the Policy on Corporate Integrity.
The Ikoku Charitable Trusts remind you that the Policy on Corporate Integrity forms part of The Ikoku Charitable Trusts User Agreement and Code of Conduct. Thus, The Ikoku Charitable Trusts take your continued visiting and use of the Products and Services, including the Sites, as active indication of your legally binding acceptance of this Policy as well as the Codes and Policies.
Your Questions and Feedback
Please contact policies@ikokutrusts.org with any feedback, issues or questions — which will be addressed by the President, CEO and Chair, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku.
Your Reporting of Violations
If you detect, notice or are informed of a possible breach or violation of this Policy or any of these Codes and Policies, please contact policies@ikokutrusts.org with any details you have — which will be addressed by the President, CEO and Chair, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku.
The Definitions
As with all official documents, materials, policies and statements of The Ikoku Charitable Trusts, definitions for terms used here can be found in the main Codes and Policies page.
Communities at The Trusts
The establishment of The Ikoku Charitable Trusts entails a set of core emphases that ensure and reflect the originating charitable mission and purposes. These emphases inform each instance of commitment, effort and work to achieve benefit, impact and success. And they furthermore produce three features evident in the resulting governance structure, operations and most importantly, communities:
Governace Suited to Local and Global Philanthropy
The governing structure of The Ikoku Charitable Trusts has been designed to be attentive to needs and operations at the local and global level, as well as across the complex states and societies where the served communities reside, living shared, interdependent lives.
With Respect Being Central to Ethics
At the core of the Founding and Governing Code of Ethics is a commitment to the most robust conceptions of respect, dignity and humanity, including and beyond what the law has protected and provided for, as The Ikoku Charitable Trusts fulfills its twin mottos: to serve the public interest in Africa and its global diasporas; and to account for the past while ensuring a shared and just future.
To Ensure a Just and Shared Future for Many
The Ikoku Charitable Trusts is inspired by peoples who have contributed to the foundations and development of their societies, despite a history of systemic difficulties. Who maintain an unyielding belief that the betterment of their human condition will foster the betterment of those living around them and will enhance the futures of the regularly disenfranchised, marginalized and underserved. . The Ikoku Charitable Trusts draws from these examples a vision of the public good and common community that is its hope and objective.
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