Corporate Integrity
Overview
Welcome to the Policy on Corporate Integrity of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku Foundation. The Alvan Ikoku Foundation hold maintaining corporate integrity to be of high and critical importance, and strictly prohibits intentional breach, diminishment, disruption, impediment, interference, or other violation pertaining to the administration, management, operations, properties, rights, and technologies of The Alvan Ikoku Foundation as independently and solely determined and controlled by the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and Board of Directors.
Therefore, persons engaged in activity within, for, on behalf of, in reference to, and otherwise pertaining to The Alvan Ikoku Foundation are expected to take the time to read, understand and uphold the Policy on Corporate Integrity below.
Your Agreement
— With respect to the Agreement you enter into with The Alvan Ikoku Foundation via the Policy on Corporate Integrity, you understand and adhere to the following:
And furthermore, by accessing, communicating, engaging, monitoring, transmitting, or otherwise using or visiting, in any way, The Alvan Ikoku Foundation, any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of The Alvan Ikoku Foundation, any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of the divisions, series, subsidiaries, or affiliates, as well as any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of the Products or Services, you accept and agree to the terms, conditions, and requirements described above, and in these Codes and Policies, in their entirety without modification.
Your Consent to The Policy
— With respect to your ability to agree and consent to the Policy on Corporate Integrity, you represent and warrant the following:
And furthermore, by accessing, communicating, engaging, monitoring, transmitting, or otherwise using or visiting, in any way, The Alvan Ikoku Foundation, any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of The Alvan Ikoku Foundation, any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of the divisions, series, subsidiaries, or affiliates, as well as any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of the Products or Services, you accept and agree that your consent meets the conditions, principles, and requirements for consent, as delineated and described in a these Codes and Policies — for the specific purpose of consenting to this Policy, the Agreement and the Codes and Policies.
Your Abiding by The Policies
— You represent, warrant, and covenant that, given the above attestation about your consent to the Policy on Corporate Integrity, you have read, understood, consented to, and agreed to be legally bound by and abide by the Policy on Corporate Integrity and the Codes and Policies, as they are amended from time to time, and in their entirety without modification.
Your Understanding of Integrity
— You represent, warrant, and covenant that, given the above attestation about your consent and adherence to the Policy on Corporate Integrity, you have also read, understood, consented to, and agreed to be legally bound by and abide by understandings of corporate integrity, indemnification, limited liability, and property protections and rights as defined in all applicable law and regulation, by The Alvan Ikoku Foundation in the Codes and Polices, and as further delineated below, to be respected and not violated, in any way, by you.
Your Commitment to Understandings
— You also represent, warrant, and covenant that, given the aforementioned attestation, your commitment to this understanding of integrity shall entail the following:
And furthermore, by accessing, communicating, engaging, monitoring, transmitting, or otherwise using or visiting, in any way, The Ikoku Foundations, any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of The Ikoku Foundations, any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of the divisions, series, subsidiaries, or affiliates, as well as any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of the Products or Services, you accept and agree to the terms, conditions, and requirements described above, and in these Codes and Policies, in their entirety without modification.
Your Duty to The Policy
— With respect to your duty to the Policy on Corporate Integrity, you represent and warrant that you understand and shall adhere to such duty by way of the following:
And furthermore, by accessing, communicating, engaging, monitoring, transmitting, or otherwise using or visiting, in any way, The Ikoku Foundations, any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of The Ikoku Foundations, any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of the divisions, series, subsidiaries, or affiliates, as well as any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of the Products or Services, you accept and agree to the terms, conditions, and requirements described above, and in these Codes and Policies, in their entirety without modification.
Your Accordance with Ethics
— You represent, warrant, and covenant that, given the above attestation about your consent to this Policy, you ensure that your abiding by and adhering to its conditions, policies, principles, requirements, and rights shall further remain in accordance with the Founding and Governing Code of Ethics.
Your Accordance with Mission
— You represent, warrant, and covenant that, given the above attestation about your consent to this Policy, you ensure that your abiding by and adhering to its conditions, policies, principles, requirements, and rights shall further remain in accordance with the founding mission and purposes of The Alvan Ikoku Foundation, without incompatibility, as described and delineated in the Codes and Policies and the Founder’s Declaration of Trust.
Further Considerations
Your Knowledge and Agreement
The Alvan Ikoku Foundation strongly recommend you develop and maintain your knowledge of all the Codes and Policies, and so asks that you read, understand, and regularly visit this section and other communications regarding the Policy on Corporate Integrity, as well as the Codes and Policies. The Alvan Ikoku Foundation take your continued visiting and use of the Products and Services, including the Sites, as active indication of your knowledge, understanding, and legally binding acceptance of and agreement to this Policy as well as the Codes and Policies.
Your Duty to Corporate Integrity
And you further legally accept and agree that no application, interpretation, judgment, or other compliance, proceeding, or reading from, of, with, or otherwise relating to the Founding Ethics, the Codes and Policies, or any equivalent code, policy, or other document or material shall, in any way, entail any abrogation, diminishment, interference, or violation pertaining to any of the terms, conditions, principles, requirements, rights — including the attendant properties and protections — of corporate and organizational integrity.
Your Questions and Feedback
Please contact policies@ikokufoundations.org with any feedback, issues, or questions — to be addressed to and by the President, CEO and Chair, Alvan Azinna Ikoku.
Your Reporting of Violations
If you detect, notice, become aware of, or are informed of a possible breach or violation of this Policy or any of these Codes and Policies, please contact policies@ikokufoundations.org with any details you have — to be addressed to and by the President, CEO and Chair, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku.
The Definitions
As with all official documents, materials, policies, and statements of The Alvan Ikoku Foundation, definitions for terms used here can be found in the main Codes and Policies section. Please do continue with the Policy on Corporate Integrity via further reading below.
Details of the Policy
Provision
Along with the above key principles, the Policy on Corporate Integrity requires your adherence to a number of requirements, as delineated below.
A — Conditions
Conditions for Integrity
— that The Alvan Ikoku Foundation require and ensure that each and every natural and legal person engaging in activity with or relating to the corporation — including but not limited to each trustee, director, employee, partner, worker, contractor, volunteer, client, customer, user, visitor and equivalent agent or third party — is committed to and legally agrees to fostering and not diminishing, interfering with, or violating, in any way, any conditions, activities, operations, or planning for the following:
And furthermore, by accessing, communicating, engaging, monitoring, transmitting, or otherwise using or visiting, in any way, The Alvan Ikoku Foundation, any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of The Alvan Ikoku Foundation, any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of the divisions, series, subsidiaries, or affiliates, as well as any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of the Products or Services, you accept and agree to the terms, conditions, and requirements described above, and in these Codes and Policies, in their entirety without modification.
Sole Authorization and Approval
— that the above conditions furthermore entail a legally binding acceptance by said persons of the executive authority of the Founder and President, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, to approve and authorize offices and equivalent work areas, codes and policies, agreements, contracts and other legal instruments, and activities, assets and properties relating to the administration, compliance, control, development, governance, management, operations, oversight and other executive responsibilities of The Alvan Ikoku Foundation, including the divisions, series, subsidiaries, and affiliates, as well as the Products and Services; with the above including but not limited to employment and volunteerships, third-party servicing, franchising, fundraising, licensing, affiliations, partnerships, endorsements and sponsorships.
Sole Determination of Compliance, Remedy and Priority
— that the above conditions also entail a legally binding acceptance by said persons of the following:
And furthermore, by accessing, communicating, engaging, monitoring, transmitting, or otherwise using or visiting, in any way, The Ikoku Foundations, any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of The Ikoku Foundations, any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of the divisions, series, subsidiaries, or affiliates, as well as any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of the Products or Services, you accept and agree to the terms, conditions, and requirements described above, and in these Codes and Policies, in their entirety without modification.
No Further Conferral From Rights
— that the above conditions also entail a legally binding acceptance by said persons that the exercising, respect or support of any freedoms, liberties or rights shall not confer any right of access to, acquisition of or share of interests, shares, stocks, votes or other form of ownership or control in or of:
And furthermore, by accessing, communicating, engaging, monitoring, transmitting, or otherwise using or visiting, in any way, The Alvan Ikoku Foundation, any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of The Alvan Ikoku Foundation, any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of the divisions, series, subsidiaries, or affiliates, as well as any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of the Products or Services, you accept and agree to the terms, conditions, and requirements described above, and in these Codes and Policies, in their entirety without modification.
No Further Conferral From Policies
— that the above conditions further entail a legally binding acceptance by said persons that no part of the Codes and Policies and equivalent official documents and statements shall confer — or be construed or interpreted as conferring — any right of access to, acquisition of or share of interests, shares, stocks, votes or other form of ownership or control of or in:
And furthermore, by accessing, communicating, engaging, monitoring, transmitting, or otherwise using or visiting, in any way, The Alvan Ikoku Foundation, any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of The Alvan Ikoku Foundation, any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of the divisions, series, subsidiaries, or affiliates, as well as any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of the Products or Services, you accept and agree to the terms, conditions, and requirements described above, and in these Codes and Policies, in their entirety without modification.
B — Activities, Areas and Assets
Determination of Administration
— that The Alvan Ikoku Foundation require and ensure that the term “The Ikoku Foundations Administration” mean and include, but not be limited to, the following:
And furthermore, by accessing, communicating, engaging, monitoring, transmitting, or otherwise using or visiting, in any way, The Alvan Ikoku Foundation, any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of The Alvan Ikoku Foundation, any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of the divisions, series, subsidiaries, or affiliates, as well as any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of the Products or Services, you accept and agree to the terms, conditions, and requirements described above, and in these Codes and Policies, in their entirety without modification.
Sole Purchaser and Designator
— that the Founder and President, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, is the sole person with powers of authorization, designation and purchasing required to acquire, authorize, designate, determine and provide access to the following:
And furthermore, by accessing, communicating, engaging, monitoring, transmitting, or otherwise using or visiting, in any way, The Alvan Ikoku Foundation, any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of The Alvan Ikoku Foundation, any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of the divisions, series, subsidiaries, or affiliates, as well as any areas, offices, parts, sections, or assets or properties of the Products or Services, you accept and agree to the terms, conditions, and requirements described above, and in these Codes and Policies, in their entirety without modification.
Protection of Administration
— that The Ikoku Foundations Administration be considered organizationally confidential and private; be protected as such in order to enjoy rights to confidentiality, privacy, protection, safety, security and property; and so not be considered or operated as public or open to the public.
Separation from Personal Devices
— that there be no points of access — and especially no processing of data or information — between The Alvan Ikoku Foundation Administration and personal computers, devices, equipment, servers, storage and equivalent technologies.
Separation from Personal Spaces
— that there be no points of access — and especially no processing of data or information — between The Alvan Ikoku Foundation Administration and personal homes or equivalent spaces.
Sensitivity and Non-Extension
— that the above determination, distinction and protection render any processing of data and information within The Alvan Ikoku Foundation and their Administration — and any data and information thus accessed — subject to the Principles of Sensitivity under the Policy on Data and Information.
— that the above preclude permitting any natural or legal person to consent to or conduct official work of The Alvan Ikoku Foundation Administration on devices described, demarcated or otherwise understood as public and personal.
— that any official work of The Alvan Ikoku Foundation Administration must be conducted either at The Alvan Ikoku Foundation Administration or on The Alvan Ikoku Foundation Administration devices, and whenever such work is conducted in personal or public spaces such spaces shall not be considered or operated as extensions of The Alvan Ikoku Foundation or The Alvan Ikoku Foundation Administration.
— and that no personal or public computers, devices, equipment, servers, storage and equivalent technologies, personal or public homes, personal or public offices, and personal or public spaces be considered extensions of The Alvan Ikoku Foundation Administration.
C — Persons and Contracts
Work Contracts and Agreements
— that The Alvan Ikoku Foundation require and ensure that each and every employee, partner, worker, contractor, freelancer, volunteer and equivalent agent or third party have and sign a written contract, that such contract clearly convey the specific nature, role, duties and responsibilities as well as terms and conditions of employment or arrangement, relationship and work in a language understood by each signatory, and that the described arrangement, relationship and work commence only after said contract is signed and consented to by each said signatory.
Other Contracts and Agreements
— that The Alvan Ikoku Foundation require and ensure that each and every paid and unpaid person, agent or third party providing continuous or occasional services to The Alvan Ikoku Foundation — including but not limited to cases of care, consulting, education, research, technical services, training, writing, or other equivalent work or services arrangement — also have and sign a written contract and that such contract clearly convey the specific nature, role, duties and responsibilities as well as terms and conditions of the arrangement, relationship and services in a language understood by each signatory, and that the arrangement, relationship and services commence only after said contract is signed and consented to by each said signatory.
Sole Approval of All Contracts
— that The Alvan Ikoku Foundation require and ensure that any and all above contracts and equivalent legal instruments be authorized, reviewed and approved solely by express written instrument signed and sealed of Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, the sole Founder and President.
D — Notarized Agreements
Confidentiality and Privacy Agreement
— to further protect the corporate and organizational integrity of The Alvan Ikoku Foundation — as well as the properties, rights and enumerated protections of the corporations and their official persons — The Alvan Ikoku Foundation shall require and ensure that each and every person under the above-described contract or equivalent legal instrument also sign a written and notarized confidentiality and privacy agreement (the “Confidentiality and Privacy Agreement”) meeting all of the following specifications:
As with all contracts and equivalent legal instruments, The Alvan Ikoku Foundation shall require and ensure that each Confidentiality and Privacy Agreement be authorized and approved by express written instrument signed and sealed of Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, the sole Founder and President.
Corporate Integrity Agreement
— to further protect the corporate and organizational integrity of The Alvan Ikoku Foundation — as well as the properties, rights and enumerated protections of the corporations and their official persons — The Alvan Ikoku Foundation shall require and ensure that each and every person under the above-described contract or equivalent legal instrument also sign a written and notarized organization integrity agreement (the “Corporate Integrity Agreement”) meeting all of the following specifications:
As with all contracts and equivalent legal instruments, The Alvan Ikoku Foundation shall require and ensure that each Corporate Integrity Agreement be authorized and approved by express written instrument signed and sealed of Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, the sole Founder and President.
Sole Approval of All Agreements
— that The Alvan Ikoku Foundation require and ensure that any and all above notarized agreements and equivalent legal instruments be authorized, reviewed and approved solely by express written instrument signed and sealed of Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, the sole Founder and President.
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 write to policies@ikokufoundations.org.
Central and Associated Policies
Provision
As stated earlier, The Alvan Ikoku Foundation 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 Alvan Ikoku Foundation. By continuing, you indicate that you understand that these Codes and Policies include — but are not limited to — the Founding and Mission Statement, the Founding and Governing Code of Ethics, the Policy on Corporate Integrity, the Policy on Independence and Freedoms, the Policy on Privacy and Confidentiality, the Terms and Conditions of Use and Service, and the Acceptable Uses Policy along with all Associated Codes and Policies. Access to the aforementioned is provided below.
Founding Code of Ethics
Founding Code of Ethics (HTML)
Corporate Integrity
Corporate Integrity (HTML)
Independence and Freedoms
Independence and Freedoms (HTML)
Privacy and Confidentiality
Policy on Privacy and Confidentiality (HTML)
Terms and Conditions
Terms and Conditions of Use and Service (HTML)
The Acceptable Uses Policy
Acceptable Use Policy (HTML)
All Policies
All Policies (HTML)
Also at The Foundations
As stated earlier, The Alvan Ikoku Foundation are dedicated to fostering philanthropy and good works concerning Africa, its global diasporas and a range of shared societies — toward the betterment of lives across the globe. And so in accordance with the above, The Foundations provide the following:
Nonprofits Dedicated to Africa
Independent, private, non-profit organizations that serve the public interest in Africa and its global diasporas — by advancing education and research and by also supporting creative ideas, civic endeavors and emerging communities, organizations and societies.
Support for a Global and Just Future
A founding mission and ongoing emphases of support for good works that help the public understand Africa’s essential place in a global future, one that is to be more knowledgeable, environmentally sustainable, equitable and of benefit across communities in just societies.
A Vision of the Public Good
A vision of the public good that accounts for the past while ensuring a just and shared future. That draws inspiration from peoples who, despite a history of systemic difficulties, maintain an unyielding belief that the betterment of their human condition will foster the betterment of those living around them and will enhance the present and futures of the regularly disenfranchised, marginalized and underserved.