Terms and Conditions of Use

1. Introduction

These Terms and Conditions of Use (“Terms”) legally govern your access to and utilization of the official Centre for Democracy and Development (CEDED) website (“Website”), operated by CEDED (“we,” “us,” or “our”).

By browsing, accessing, downloading resources, submitting information, or otherwise interacting with the digital platforms and services provided through this Website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be legally bound by these Terms, our integrated Privacy Policy, and all applicable statutory regulations.

Within these framework conditions, "Users" refers to all visitors, community members, institutional resource partners, researchers, donors, recruitment applicants, media representatives, and any other individuals or corporate entities interacting with CEDED’s digital infrastructure. If you do not agree to these Terms unconditionally, please immediately discontinue your use of this Website.

2. Updates and Modifications to These Terms

CEDED reserves the absolute institutional right to modify, amend, update, or revise these Terms at any time without prior individual notice.

Any structural updates will be published directly to this page with an adjusted revision date. Your continued use of the Website following the publication of changes constitutes your formal acceptance of the revised conditions. Users are encouraged to review this page regularly to remain fully informed of their current legal compliance obligations.

3. Permitted Use and Operational Availability

The CEDED Website is maintained exclusively for informational, educational, knowledge-sharing, and civic engagement purposes aligned with our core thematic focus areas in conflict transformation, governance, human rights defense, environmental protection, and community empowerment.

While CEDED exercises rigorous institutional diligence to ensure that the data, research, and insights published on this platform are accurate, comprehensive, and up to date, the user acknowledges the following baseline operational provisions:

Dynamic Updates: Website content, publications, program briefs, and strategic layouts may be edited, amended, or deleted at any time without prior notice.
Uptime Disclaimers: CEDED does not warrant or guarantee that the Website will remain entirely uninterrupted, safe, secure, or free from server-side technical anomalies or software errors. CEDED is completely exempt from liability regarding temporary service degradations caused by routine system maintenance, server upgrades, or external force majeure events beyond our control.
Advisory Disclaimer: The information, field advisories, and analysis provided on this Website are meant for general public literacy and do not constitute formal legal, financial, or institutional advice unless expressly stated through a separate, legally signed corporate agreement.

4. User Conduct and Prohibited Activities

By entering this Website, you assume complete legal responsibility for engaging with our digital platforms lawfully, ethically, and in a manner that respects CEDED's institutional safety.

Users are strictly prohibited from engaging in the following actions:

Deploying the Website or its hosted resources for fraudulent, illegal, misleading, or harmful campaigns.
Submitting false, fabricated, malicious, or unauthorized personal identification details through our contact, career, or partnership portals.
Uploading, transmitting, or introducing digital viruses, trojans, spyware, or any other malicious software designed to compromise data privacy.
Attempting to secure unauthorized access to the Website's administrative backend, database architectures, or associated secure donor processing streams.
Misrepresenting your professional identity, institutional affiliation, or legal relationship with CEDED.
Utilizing CEDED's interactive platforms or discussion spaces to threaten, harass, defame, or infringe upon the safety of other users, staff, or community beneficiaries.

5. User-Generated Content and Submissions

If you submit narrative copy, personal testimonies, field stories, research materials, graphics, images, or documents through our communication portals, you retain full intellectual ownership of your original materials. However, by submitting content, you guarantee that:

The data provided is completely accurate, lawful, and free from malicious intent.
The material does not violate third-party copyright, trademark, or privacy rights.
The content is entirely free from discriminatory, abusive, or defamatory text.

By submitting materials, you grant CEDED a perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, reproduce, display, archive, and share the material across our digital and print media networks for legitimate institutional purposes aligned with our civil society mission. CEDED retains the absolute right to review, moderate, edit, or delete user content at its sole operational discretion.

6. Personal Data Protection and Privacy

CEDED treats the collection, storage, and processing of personal data with the highest levels of confidentiality. All personal information gathered through contact forms, secure donation flows, career recruitment matrices, newsletter subscriptions, or event registration integrations is processed in strict compliance with international data protection standards and CEDED’s comprehensive Privacy Policy.

Personal data is collected exclusively for explicit, legitimate institutional objectives—such as stakeholder coordination, program tracking, talent acquisition, and service improvements. CEDED guarantees that it does not sell, rent, lease, or commercially trade user information to third parties. Users maintain the legal right to request access to, correction of, or permanent deletion of their stored personal data.

7. Intellectual Property Rights

All visual and textual components displayed on this Website—including official corporate logos, programmatic text, data-driven research papers, custom graphics, multimedia videos, design layouts, audio files, and the underlying website code structure—are the exclusive intellectual property of CEDED unless explicitly credited to an external source.

Permitted Reproductions: Users are granted a limited license to view, download, and print materials for personal, educational, academic research, and strictly non-commercial purposes, provided that CEDED is explicitly credited as the primary source.
Prohibited Exploitation: Users are strictly forbidden from selling, modifying, republishing, or commercially exploiting CEDED’s intellectual assets without obtaining prior written authorization from our Secretariat. CEDED branding and corporate seals must never be utilized in a manner that falsely implies official institutional endorsement or partnership. Unauthorized usage may invoke immediate legal recourse.

8. Third-Party Links and External Gateways

Our platform may display hyperlinks leading to external websites, payment portals, partner networks, or international social media channels. CEDED maintains no operational control over these third-party platforms and bears no administrative or legal responsibility for their external content, separate privacy disclosures, or data security systems. Accessing external hyperlinks is done entirely at your own risk.

The CEDED Website employs cookies and similar analytics technologies to track visitor traffic patterns, monitor system performance, and improve frontend user experience. Users possess the complete technical capacity to manage, limit, or entirely disable cookies within their individual browser settings; however, modifying these parameters may affect the functional delivery of certain interactive features on the site.

10. Termination of System Access

CEDED retains the unilateral institutional authority to restrict, suspend, or permanently terminate your access to the Website without prior notification if it is determined, in our sole judgment, that your actions violate these Terms, threaten the cybersecurity of our systems, compromise data integrity, or undermine the safety of CEDED, its resource partners, or the communities we protect.

11. Governing Law and Legal Jurisdiction

These Terms shall be governed, construed, and interpreted strictly in accordance with the statutory laws of the Republic of South Sudan.

Any dispute, legal claim, or operational grievance arising from the use of this Website shall first be addressed through direct, good-faith communication and collaborative arbitration between CEDED’s leadership and the aggrieved party. In instances where an amicable settlement cannot be achieved, the matter shall fall under the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts of law within South Sudan.

12. Contact and Secretariat Details

For all formal inquiries concerning these Terms of Use, intellectual property licensing requests, data privacy concerns, or legal notices, please communicate directly with our administrative framework:

Centre for Democracy and Development (CEDED)

Email: info@ceded.org

www.ceded.org

Head Office Operations: Rock City Residential Area, Midan Rock City, Juba, Central Equatoria State, South Sudan