Safety and Security

Overview

Publiks is committed to creating and maintaining safe and secure environments and spaces for all individuals engaging with Publiks, the corporation, division and group.

Therefore, persons engaged in any activity involving, referring to, relating to, or otherwise pertaining to Publiks is expected to uphold the following:

Safety and Security Defined

— that Publiks ensure the evocation of and reference to safety mean and include only evidence-based and proven causes or means of harm to mental and physical health and evidence-based and proven means of prevention or reduction of said harms.

— that Publiks ensure the evocation of and reference to security mean and include only evidence-based and proven causes or means of of theft, trespassing and other unauthorized use and visit of real and intellectual property and evidence-based and proven means of prevention or reduction of said occurrences.

Safety as Practice

— that Publiks provide and maintain safe environments and spaces for its activities and operations, and develop and integrate practices toward that end.

Security as Practice

— that Publiks provide and maintain secure environments and spaces for its activities and operations, and develop and integrate practices toward that end.

Safety and Security Risks (Incompatible)

— that Publiks hold the following, monitoring, stalking, targeting, tracking or surveillance of, or intimate or intrusive violation of the confidentiality and privacy of, any natural person without the express written consent of that person to constitute — without exception — a high degree of risk and high degree of harm to the safety and security of that person incompatible with the founding, mission and operation of Publiks.

— and that Publiks require and ensure that any activity, operation, program or other action involving any of the above be immediately ceased, reported to the Founder and Owner, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and reviewed for causes, remedy and further prevention.

Safety and Security Laws

— that Publiks obtain, keep current and comply with required safety and security permits and applicable law and regulation.

Accordance with Ethics

— that Publiks ensure following any and all of the above principles further remains in accordance with the Codes and Policies and especially the Founding and Governing Code of Ethics.

Accordance with Mission

— that Publiks ensure following any and all of the above principles further remains in accordance with the founding mission and purposes of Publiks and The Ikoku Group, without incompatibility, as described and delineated in the Codes and Policies and the Founder’s Agreement.

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Associated Policies

Provision

As stated earlier, The Publiks 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 Publiks, including its series, subsidiaries, and affiliates, and the Products and Services. By continuing, you indicate that you understand that the Codes and Policies include — but are not limited to — the Founding and Mission Statement, the Founding and Governing Code of Ethics, 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 and Mission

Statement on Founding and Mission of Publiks (HTML)

Founding Code of Ethics

Founding Code of Ethics (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)

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Community, September 2019 (Pierre Basin)
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Conversation, December 2017 (Shwetangi Gupta)
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Cast, January 2018 (Avi)

To Further Consider

Your Knowledge and Agreement

Publiks strongly recommend you develop and maintain your knowledge of all the Codes and Policies, and so ask that you read, understand, and regularly visit this section and other communications regarding the Policy on Safety and Security, as well as the Codes and Policies. Publiks take your continued visiting and use of the Products and Services, 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 Organizational Integrity

With respect to your attendant duty to organizational integrity — and your legally binding agreement to not diminish, interfere, or violate, in any way, its principles, protections, requirements, or rights — you represent and warrant that you understand and shall adhere to the following:

Your Duty to Policy
To protect the organizational integrity of Publiks and The Ikoku Group — as well as the properties, rights, and protections of the company division, corporation, and its official persons — Publiks 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.
Your Acceptance of Policy
Publiks reminds you that the Policy on Company and Division Integrity forms part of Publiks User Agreement and Code of Conduct. Thus, Publiks takes your continued engagement in any activity involving, referring, relating, or otherwise pertaining to Publiks as active indication of your legally binding acceptance of this Policy as well as the Codes and Policies.
Your Acceptance of Sole Ownership
Furthermore, you represent, warrant, and covenant that, given the above, your continuation in using or visiting, in any way, Publiks, any activities, affairs, areas, assets, offices, parts, properties, sections, or equivalent of Publiks, any activities, affairs, areas, assets, offices, parts, properties, sections, or equivalent of the divisions, series, subsidiaries, or affiliates, as well as any activities, affairs, areas, assets, offices, parts, properties, sections, or equivalent of the Products or Services, is an active indication of your legally binding acceptance of the sole administration, control, management, and ownership of Publiks by the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, as further described in the Policy on Company and Division 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 company and organizational integrity.

Your Questions and Feedback

Please contact policies@publiks.org with any feedback, issues, or questions — to be addressed to and by the President, CEO and Chair, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo 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 the Codes and Policies, please contact policies@publiks.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 Publiks, definitions for terms used here can be found in the main Codes and Policies section. Please do continue with the Policy on Privacy and Confidentiality via further reading below.

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Polity, January 2021 (Frank Castro)

Also at the Division

Publiks and its parent company, The Ikoku Group, are dedicated to developing, providing and safekeeping ideas and solutions — with the mission to foster care and creativity, culture and communities, ethics and innovation in lives and societies. And so in accordance with the above, Publiks and The Ikoku Group provide the following:

I.

A Company of and about Ethics

A company and division whose ethics and policies are carefully crafted, then adhered to by a range of individuals and entities working in varied relation to Publiks and The Ikoku Group to establish, develop and operate a private company dedicated to fostering care and creativity, ethics and innovation.

II.

Built with Integrity and Respect in Mind

A company and division who take as their basis the most robust conceptions of humanity, integrity and respect as well as independence and fundamental freedoms, liberties and rights — up to and beyond what the law protects and provides for — as they carry out and embody their founding and core mission and purposes.

III.

Areas of Focus Chosen for Mission and Work

And a company and division whose areas of focus have been expressly chosen to ensure attention to issues of enduring concern to the Founder — and so committed to providing products, services, sites and spaces that remain safe, secure and respectful places to do work, to teach and learn, to form, inform and, where needed, transform local and global communities.

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