Bases for Being Independent
Overview
The Ikoku Group and The Ikoku Services are committed to civil liberties and fundamental freedoms as the founding and continual bases for their independence.
Therefore, persons engaged in activity within, for, on behalf of, in reference to and otherwise pertaining to The Ikoku Services are expected to uphold the following:
Civil Liberties as Respected
— that The Ikoku Services make every reasonable effort to ensure civil liberties are respected and not violated.
Freedoms as Respected
— that The Ikoku Services make every reasonable effort to ensure fundamental freedoms are respected and not violated.
Independence as Essential
— that The Ikoku Services make every reasonable effort to ensure its independence is essential to its work, maintained, respected and not violated.
Accordance with Ethics
— that The Ikoku Services ensure following the above principles further remains in accordance with the Codes and Policies and especially the Founding and Governing Code of Ethics.
Further Considerations
Your Knowledge and Agreement
The Ikoku Services strongly recommends you develop and maintain your knowledge of all the Codes and Policies, and so asks that you read, understand and regularly visit this page and other communications regarding the Policy on Independence and Freedoms, as well as the Codes and Policies. The Ikoku Services takes your continued visiting and use of its Products and Services, including its Sites, as active indication of your knowledge, understanding, legally binding acceptance and agreement.
Your Duty to Company Integrity
To protect the company and organizational integrity of The Ikoku Services — as well as the properties, rights and protections of the company and its official persons — The Ikoku Services requires 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 Company and Division Integrity.
The Ikoku Services reminds you that the Policy on Company and Division Integrity forms part of The Ikoku Services User Agreement and Code of Conduct. Thus, The Ikoku Services takes your continued visiting and use of its Products and Services, including its 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@ikokuservices.com 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@ikokuservices.com 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 Group, definitions for terms used here can be found in the main Codes and Policies page. Please do continue with the Policy on Independence and Freedoms via further reading below.
Freedoms and Liberties
Provision
Along with the above key principles, the Policy on Independence and Freedoms requires your adherence to correlative freedoms and liberties delineated below.
A — Of Community
Freedoms of Affiliation
— that the fundamental freedoms of persons to affiliation — as they pertain to affection, family, friendship, marriage, partnership and relations — be fulfilled, fully enjoyed, protected and neither interfered with nor diminished.
Freedoms of Arts and Culture
— that the fundamental freedoms of persons to arts and culture — as they pertain to expression, inquiry, practice and theory — be fulfilled, fully enjoyed, protected and neither interfered with nor diminished.
Freedoms of Association
— that the fundamental freedoms of persons to association — as they pertain to assembly, gathering, participation and spirituality — be fulfilled, fully enjoyed, protected and neither interfered with nor diminished.
B — Of Persons
Freedoms of Autonomy
— that the fundamental freedoms of persons to autonomy — as they pertain to being informed, cognition, consent, decision-making, emotion, reason, thought and use of humans as means — be fulfilled, fully enjoyed, protected and neither interfered with nor diminished.
Freedoms of Dignity and Integrity
— that the fundamental freedoms of persons to dignity and integrity — as they pertain to capabilities, equanimity, humanity, personhood and respect — be fulfilled, fully enjoyed, protected and neither interfered with nor diminished.
Freedoms of Exchange
— that the fundamental freedoms of persons to exchange — as they pertain to consented, legal and respectful communication, ownership, property and trade — be fulfilled, fully enjoyed, protected and neither interfered with nor diminished.
C — From States
Freedoms from Public and State Intrusion
— that the fundamental freedoms of persons from intrusion — as they pertain to imposition or violation by the community, professions, public and state — be fulfilled, fully enjoyed, protected and neither interfered with nor diminished.
Liberties of Independence
— that the civil and human liberties of persons to independence be fulfilled, fully enjoyed, protected and neither interfered with nor diminished.
Liberties of Citizenship
— that the civil and human liberties of persons to citizenship be fulfilled, fully enjoyed, protected and neither interfered with nor diminished.
Questions and Violations
If you have any questions regarding this Policy, or wish to report any violations you notice (or feel may be occurring), please contact us at policies@ikokuservices.com.
Central and Associated Policies
Provision
As stated earlier, The Ikoku Services User Agreement and Code of Conduct consist of several Codes and Policies that collectively govern all of your activity with, within, for or pertaining to The Ikoku Services (as well as its divisions, series, subsidiaries and affiliates). 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. We provide access to all of the described 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 Services.
Ethics in the Division, and Company
The Codes and Policies above deeply reflect the founding and mission of The Ikoku Group and The Ikoku Services. They inform each instance of commitment, effort and work to achieve benefit, impact and success. The result, therefore, are three features evident in the company, the division, their products, services, sites, and most importantly, their communities:
The Ikoku Group as a Company of and about Ethics
The company ethics and policies are carefully crafted, then adhered to by a range of individuals and divisions working in varied relation to The Ikoku Group to establish, develop and provide a private company dedicated to fostering care and creativity, ethics and innovation.
Built with Integrity and Respect in Mind
Who take as their basis the most robust conceptions of respect, humanity, integrity, civil liberties and civil rights — up to and beyond what the law protects and provides for — as they carry out and embody the mission and purposes of The Ikoku Group.
In Divisions that are Safe, Secure and Respectful
And who also join in ongoing efforts to ensure that The Ikoku Group, its Divisions and its Products and Services remain safe, secure and respectful places to do work, to express and discuss, to teach and learn, to form, inform and even alter local and global communities.
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