Disclaimer

All data and information provided on this site is for informational purposes only. While the core mission of ecojournalism.org is faithful to the tenets of accurate journalism, ecojournalism.org makes no representations as to accuracy, completeness, currentness, suitability, or validity of any information on this site.

ecojournalism.org and its partners will not be liable for any errors, omissions, or delays in this information or any losses, injuries, or damages arising from its display or use. All information is provided on an as-is basis.

By submitting articles and information to the site you agree to our Editorial Policy (see below) and that your articles may be rejected or edited on that basis. By using the site, you also agree to our Privacy Policy (see below).

Editorial Policy

We welcome submissions on all aspects of eco-journalism and environmental issues relating to Nigeria. We welcome previously published content as long as you have the rights to republish and you are happy to publish the content under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license. Content can be submitted by anyone and, as long as it meets the following guidelines, it will be approved.

ecojournalism.org encourages individual expression and plurality of voice.

However, content that is overly divisive or inappropriate undermines the purpose of the site to bring fair reporting to ecojournalism. Our editorial policy attempts to maintain a balance between the two.

The editors reserve the right to reject content that:

• contains imagery or information that seeks to cause offense to others on the grounds of their ethnicity, gender, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion or belief, or any other personal characteristic
• is libellous or misleading
• contains copyrighted material 
• is not of a high professional standard

After articles are submitted they are reviewed promptly by the editorial team. If your article is rejected you will be mailed with our rationale. We are happy to engage in debate and discuss with you changes that may allow your article to appear on the site.

Privacy Policy

This privacy policy lays down how we use and protect any personal information you provide us through the website ecojournalism.org.

If you have questions about accessing or correcting your personal data please contact us through the site. ecojournalism.org operates the ecojournalism.org website. It is ecojournalism.org’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, ecojournalism.org collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. ecojournalism.org’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how ecojournalism.org’s visitors use its website. From time to time, ecojournalism.org may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

ecojournalism.org also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on hosted online publications. ecojournalism.org only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the online publication where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to ecojournalism.org choose to interact with ecojournalism.org in ways that require ecojournalism.org to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that ecojournalism.org gathers depends on the nature of the interaction.

For example, we ask visitors who sign up to provide a username and email address. In each case, ecojournalism.org collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with ecojournalism.org.

ecojournalism.org does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Under the law on protection of personal information, you have a right to require details about your personal information collected by ecojournalism.org. We will deal with your request without delay within 7 working days since delivery of the request at the latest. Please send your request to the contact address at the site.

Aggregated Statistics

ecojournalism.org may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, ecojournalism.org may monitor the most popular online publications it hosts. ecojournalism.org may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, ecojournalism.org does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

ecojournalism.org discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on ecojournalism.org’s behalf or to provide services available at ecojournalism.org, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country.

In case we disclose your personal information to the third person placed outside the European economic area, we will not do so until we provide all necessary measures to ensure that your personal information will be protected on the same level, as requested by the Law on protection of personal information.

By using ecojournalism.org, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. ecojournalism.org will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone, other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above. ecojournalism.org discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena or court order, or when ecojournalism.org believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of ecojournalism.org, third parties or the public at large.

In case of disclosure of your personal information to any third party from the above mentioned list, ecojournalism.org binds itself to keep the Law on protection of personal information and to ensure that there are valid such contract provisions in relation to this third party, which will ensure that this third party will not use your information for any other purpose than stated by ecojournalism.org and in accordance with goals stated by the Privacy Policy and that this third party adopted proper security measures for protection of your personal information against unlawful use and against coincidental loss and destruction.

If you are a registered user of ecojournalism.org and have supplied your email address, ecojournalism.org may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with ecojournalism.org and our products. We primarily use our various websites and blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. ecojournalism.org takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. ecojournalism.org uses cookies to help ecojournalism.org identify and track visitors, their usage of ecojournalism.org, and their website access preferences. ecojournalism.org visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using ecojournalism.org, with the drawback that certain features of ecojournalism.org may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by ecojournalism.org and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, ecojournalism.org may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in ecojournalism.org’s sole discretion. ecojournalism.org encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

This policy was last updated on Tuesday March 20th 2012.

Change log:

20/03/12: First version.

Note: This privacy policy was originally created by the very nice people at Automattic.com (makers of the WordPress software and WordPress.com blog hosting service), who have decided to make this privacy policy available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license.