Terms and Conditions

Valley of Memory Foundation is committed to preserving cultural heritage, promoting justice, documenting historical narratives, protecting indigenous knowledge, and supporting community development.

These Terms and Conditions govern your access to and use of our website, digital content, programmes, activities, donation facilities, volunteer opportunities, and other services made available through our platform.

By accessing or using this website, you agree to comply with these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree, please discontinue use of the website.

Valley of Memory Foundation works to preserve cultural memory, advance justice, promote cultural education, and encourage sustainable community development.

Our activities may include cultural documentation, indigenous language preservation, educational initiatives, storytelling, community outreach, research, advocacy, public engagement, and partnerships with individuals and institutions.

All activities are subject to applicable laws, available resources, relevant permissions, and the Foundation's operational policies.

You agree to use this website responsibly and lawfully. You must not:

• Use the website for unlawful, fraudulent, abusive, or misleading purposes.
• Attempt to gain unauthorised access to the website, its systems, or its data.
• Introduce malicious software, harmful code, or other security threats.
• Misrepresent your identity or falsely claim to represent the Foundation.
• Copy, distribute, reproduce, or commercially exploit protected content without permission.
• Submit false, defamatory, discriminatory, or harmful material through our communication channels.
• Interfere with the website's security, functionality, or availability.

We reserve the right to restrict access where reasonably necessary to protect our users, operations, content, and systems.

The Foundation may accept voluntary donations and contributions to support its charitable, cultural, educational, and community development activities.

By making a donation, you confirm that:

• You are authorised to use the payment method selected.
• The information you provide is accurate.
• You understand the stated purpose of the donation, where a specific purpose is indicated.
• You are making the contribution voluntarily and without expecting a financial return.

Donations will be applied to the stated purpose where reasonably practicable. If a designated project is cancelled, completed, or becomes impracticable, the Foundation will handle the contribution responsibly and in accordance with applicable law, any donor restrictions, and any specific terms agreed with the donor.

The Foundation may deduct legitimate payment processing costs or administrative expenses only where lawful and appropriately disclosed.

Unless otherwise stated or required by law, donations are not purchases of goods or services and are not automatically refundable. Please refer to our Refund Policy.

The Foundation may publish information about programmes, workshops, educational activities, cultural events, volunteer opportunities, and community initiatives.

Participation may require registration, consent, eligibility verification, parental or guardian consent for minors, or other reasonable requirements.

Submitting an application or registration does not guarantee acceptance or participation.

The Foundation reserves the right to reschedule, modify, suspend, or cancel an activity where necessary due to safety concerns, operational limitations, regulatory requirements, funding constraints, or circumstances beyond its reasonable control. Where appropriate, registered participants will be notified.

Participants must follow applicable safety requirements, event guidelines, safeguarding procedures, and reasonable instructions from authorised representatives.

Unless otherwise indicated, the website's original text, photographs, graphics, logos, reports, educational materials, publications, and other content are owned by or used with permission by the Foundation or the relevant rights holders.

You may access and share publicly available content for personal, educational, research, or non-commercial awareness purposes, provided you give appropriate attribution and do not misrepresent the source.

You must obtain prior written permission before commercially reproducing, adapting, publishing, distributing, or exploiting protected materials, except where applicable law permits otherwise.

The Foundation recognises that indigenous cultural knowledge, oral histories, traditional expressions, and community-held heritage may be subject to the rights, protocols, consent, and interests of the relevant communities. Access to material on this website does not grant unrestricted permission to exploit such knowledge commercially or culturally.

If you believe any material infringes your rights or was published without appropriate authorisation, please contact us with details of the material and your concern.

When you submit information, feedback, photographs, stories, research materials, or other content to the Foundation, you confirm that you have the necessary rights and permissions to provide it.

You retain ownership of content you own. By submitting content for a specific programme, publication, exhibition, or project, you grant the Foundation only the permissions reasonably necessary to review and process that submission for the stated purpose, unless a separate written agreement provides otherwise.

Publication, public display, recording, or distribution of personal stories, identifiable photographs, interviews, or sensitive cultural materials may require additional consent.

The Foundation may decline or remove inappropriate submissions where reasonably necessary.

Our website may contain links to external websites, payment providers, social media platforms, partner organisations, or other third-party services.

These services operate under their own terms and privacy policies. The Foundation does not control all third-party services and is not responsible for their independent content, availability, security, or privacy practices.

The inclusion of a link does not necessarily constitute an endorsement.

We endeavour to provide accurate, current, and useful information. However, content may occasionally contain errors, become outdated, or be temporarily unavailable.

We may update, modify, suspend, or discontinue parts of the website without prior notice where reasonably necessary.

Information provided for general educational, cultural, historical, or advocacy purposes is not a substitute for professional legal, financial, medical, or other specialist advice.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Foundation shall not be liable for indirect or consequential losses arising from the use of the website, reliance on general information, or temporary service interruptions.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for fraud, wilful misconduct, negligence, statutory consumer rights, or any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

The Foundation handles personal information in accordance with its Privacy Policy and applicable data protection laws, including the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 where applicable.

Please review our Privacy Policy to understand how information is collected, used, stored, shared, and protected.

We may update these Terms and Conditions to reflect changes in our activities, website features, payment arrangements, or legal obligations.

The revised version will be published on this website with an updated effective or revision date. Continued use of the website after an update does not override any rights that applicable law requires us to preserve.

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by the applicable laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

We encourage users to contact the Foundation first to resolve concerns through good-faith discussion. Where a dispute cannot be resolved informally, it may be referred to a court or other competent dispute resolution body with appropriate jurisdiction.

For questions concerning these Terms and Conditions, please contact:

Our commitment: preserving our past. Advancing justice. Building our future.