Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") form a binding agreement between you and Unfiltered Africa Network ("UAN," "UAN World," "we," "us," "our") governing your access to and use of the UAN World website at uanworld.com, our newsletters, our mobile and partner distribution surfaces, and any other product or service that links to these Terms (collectively, the "Service").

By accessing or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

If you use the Service on behalf of an organisation, you confirm that you have authority to bind that organisation to these Terms, and "you" refers to both you and that organisation.

The Service is intended for users aged 18 and over, or for users who are at least the age of digital consent in their jurisdiction with verifiable parental or guardian consent.

The UAN Kids lane is offered under additional, stricter rules described within that lane. Adults using account-based features on behalf of a child do so under our Kids privacy supplement.

You may not use the Service if you are barred from doing so under applicable law, including sanctions and export-control regimes that apply to you or to UAN.

Some features require an account. You agree to provide accurate information, to keep your credentials confidential, and to notify us promptly of any unauthorised access to your account. You are responsible for activity that occurs under your account, except to the extent that activity is the result of our failure to provide reasonable security.

You may delete your account at any time through your settings or by writing to privacy@uanworld.com. Deletion does not remove material we are required to retain for accountability, legal-hold, or anti-fraud purposes (see our Privacy Policy).

You agree not to use the Service to:

• Violate any law, regulation, or third-party right.
• Post defamatory, harassing, threatening, hateful, or unlawfully discriminatory content; incite violence; or publish content that sexually exploits or endangers a minor.
• Submit content you know to be false, misleading, fraudulent, or designed to deceive the editorial process.
• Impersonate any person, misrepresent your affiliation, or attempt to obscure provenance of submitted material.
• Upload malware, attempt unauthorised access, probe for vulnerabilities, bypass rate limits, or interfere with the Service's operation.
• Scrape, harvest, mirror, or use automated means to collect content or user data at scale without our written permission.
• Use the Service or any UAN content to train machine-learning or AI models without an express written licence from UAN.
• Resell, sublicense, or syndicate UAN content for commercial purposes outside the licence we grant in Section 07.

We may investigate suspected violations, remove content, suspend or terminate accounts, and refer matters to law enforcement where warranted. We reserve all available legal remedies.

Content you submit — comments, tips, contributor pieces, media, corrections requests, and other material — remains your property. You grant UAN the following licence, tailored to the editorial mission of an independent press organisation.

• Scope. A non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable licence to host, store, reproduce, adapt for format, translate, distribute, publish, and display the content on the Service and across UAN's distribution surfaces (web, newsletter, video, audio, social, Telegram, syndication partners).
• Duration. For the term necessary to operate, archive, and account for the Service. For published editorial content, the licence is perpetual for the purposes of operating, accessing, and retaining the published archive.
• Moral and attribution rights. Preserved. Where you choose to be credited and where we publish your work, we credit you in line with our Editorial Standards.
• What we will not do. Sell your content as a discrete product to third parties; license your content for AI training to third parties; use anonymous tip-line submissions outside our Source Protection Statement.
• Representations. You represent and warrant that you own or are licensed to grant this licence, that the content does not infringe any third-party rights, and that it complies with Section 04.
• Contributor agreements override. If you have a signed contributor or commissioning agreement with UAN, the terms of that agreement prevail over this Section for that work.

We do not screen all user-submitted content before publication. The fact that we publish comments or community contributions does not imply endorsement.

UAN is an AI-powered editorial platform. We use AI extensively in our pipeline; we are transparent about how, and we accept editorial responsibility for what we publish.

• Human accountability. Every published story is reviewed and approved by a human editor. AI does not publish autonomously.
• Disclosure. AI-generated imagery and AI-generated voice or audio are labelled. SME voices are clearly identified as AI personas under human-defined editorial direction.
• Your submission does not become training data. Content you submit through standard channels is not licensed to us for AI model training, and we contractually prohibit our AI vendors from training their general models on our editorial content or your submissions.
• Errors. AI-assisted content is held to the same accuracy standard as any other editorial output. AI-related errors are corrected under our Corrections Policy.

For more, see our Editorial Standards (Section 08).

All content published by UAN (text, imagery, audio, video, design, code, brand, and structured data), except for user-submitted content and content marked under an open licence, is owned by UAN or licensed to us. The UAN World marks, logos, and identifiers are our trademarks.

You may, for personal, non-commercial use:

• Read, view, listen to, and share our content with proper attribution and a link back.
• Quote brief excerpts where doing so is consistent with fair use / fair dealing under applicable law.
• Use our embed and share tools where we offer them.

You may not, without a separate licence from UAN:

• Republish UAN content in full on third-party sites, newsletters, or apps.
• Use UAN content for commercial syndication, training of AI models, derivative analytics products, or competitive newsfeeds.
• Remove or obscure attribution, watermarks, or rights notices.

Where we offer content under Creative Commons or another open licence, the terms of that licence prevail for that work. Syndication, research, and educational-use enquiries: press@uanworld.com.

Copyright takedown. If you believe content on UAN infringes your copyright, send a written notice to legal@uanworld.com including: identification of the copyrighted work, the URL of the allegedly infringing material, your contact information, a statement of good-faith belief that the use is not authorised, and a statement under penalty of perjury that the notice is accurate and you are the rights-holder or authorised to act on their behalf. We will assess in good faith and act consistently with applicable law. Repeat infringers will have access terminated.

The Service may contain links to third-party sites or services. These are not under our control. We are not responsible for the content, policies, or practices of any third party, and inclusion of a link does not imply endorsement.

Where we integrate third-party services (analytics, AI inference, email delivery, payment processing), your use of those services may also be subject to their own terms and privacy practices.

If you purchase a paid subscription or other paid product, additional commercial terms apply and will be presented at point of purchase. Unless otherwise stated:

• Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. You may cancel at any time effective at the end of the current billing cycle.
• Fees are non-refundable except where required by law or where we expressly say otherwise. Pro-rata refunds may be issued at our discretion for material service failures attributable to us.
• Taxes and FX charges are your responsibility unless we have collected them at point of sale.
• We may change pricing on prospective notice; current subscribers continue at their existing rate for the remainder of the billed cycle.

Payment processing is handled by reputable third-party processors. We do not store full card numbers. Disputes with the payment processor are governed by the processor's terms; UAN will reasonably cooperate to resolve any dispute traceable to our Service.

UAN publishes journalism. Journalism is not professional advice. Nothing on the Service constitutes legal, medical, financial, investment, tax, or other professional advice. Reliance on any content is at your own risk.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, completeness, non-infringement, and uninterrupted availability.

We do not warrant that the Service will meet your requirements, that errors will be corrected, that any defects will be fixed, or that the Service will be free from viruses, malicious code, or other harmful components.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited (for example, liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud).

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law:

• UAN will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages, including loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunities, arising from or in connection with the Service.
• UAN's total aggregate liability arising from or in connection with the Service in any 12-month period will not exceed the greater of (a) amounts you paid to UAN for the Service in that 12-month period, or (b) one hundred US dollars (USD 100).
• These limits apply whether the claim is in contract, tort (including negligence), statute, or otherwise, and whether or not UAN was advised of the possibility of such damages.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations of liability; the limits in this Section apply only to the extent permitted. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be excluded by applicable law.

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless UAN, its officers, directors, employees, contributors at every tier, and agents from and against any claim, demand, loss, liability, damage, fine, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from or related to:

• Your breach of these Terms or applicable law.
• Content you submit, publish, or transmit through the Service.
• Your infringement of any third-party right.
• Your misuse of the Service.

We may, at our option, assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter for which you are required to indemnify us. You will cooperate with our defence of any such claim.

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service at any time, with or without notice, for any reason or no reason, including for breach of these Terms or where we reasonably consider it necessary to protect the Service, our users, or third parties.

You may stop using the Service at any time. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including Section 05 with respect to already-published content, 07, 10–12, 14, and 15) will survive.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. Mandatory consumer-protection law in your country of residence continues to apply.

Informal resolution first. If you have a dispute, we ask you to contact legal@uanworld.com and try to resolve it in good faith for at least 30 days before commencing formal proceedings.

Forum. Subject to mandatory law, the courts of Lagos State, Nigeria have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from or in connection with these Terms or the Service, except that we may seek injunctive or equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect our intellectual property or confidential information.

No class actions. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, disputes will be brought only in an individual capacity, not as a class or collective action.

• Entire agreement. These Terms, our Privacy Policy, and any commercial terms you accept at point of purchase form the entire agreement between you and UAN regarding the Service and supersede prior agreements on the same subject.
• Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest remain in effect, and the unenforceable provision is replaced with an enforceable provision that most closely reflects the original intent.
• No waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of the right to enforce it later.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, or asset transfer.
• Force majeure. Neither party is liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond reasonable control, including natural disasters, war, terrorism, civil unrest, labour disputes, government action, or large-scale internet failures.
• No agency. Nothing in these Terms creates an employment, partnership, joint-venture, or agency relationship between you and UAN.
• Notices. Legal notices to UAN must be sent to legal@uanworld.com. Notices to you may be sent through the Service, by email, or to the address you provide.
• Language. The English version of these Terms prevails over translations.
• Changes. We may update these Terms. Material changes are posted with at least 30 days' prospective notice. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance.