OUR VALUES, TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Read about how we aim to foster a positive experience for our community.

Welcome

Welcome to Business Fights Poverty, a vibrant and diverse community where individuals like you come together to connect, participate, inspire, and have your voices heard. We pride ourselves on fostering an open, welcoming, and inclusive environment that encourages rapid collaborations, meaningful interactions, and the sharing of valuable insights.

As part of our commitment to creating a positive experience for all our users, we have established a set of values, terms, and conditions to guide our interactions and activities. These guidelines help ensure that our community remains respectful, safe, and focused on driving action and unlocking insights that can make a real difference in the world.

By engaging with the Business Fights Poverty community, you’re joining a network of like-minded individuals passionate about collaboration, learning, and social impact. We encourage you to explore, contribute, and participate in our various initiatives while always adhering to our values and terms. Together, let’s continue to grow, learn, and make a positive impact.

Thank you for being a part of the Business Fights Poverty community!

Values

Inclusivity & Diversity: We create a safe and inclusive space for everyone, regardless of gender, race, religion, disability, or sexual identity and orientation. We welcome new members from diverse backgrounds and promote the positive impact of business on people and the planet.
Respectfulness & Positivity: Our community fosters positive and constructive discussions and debates. We expect all members to treat each other with respect and courtesy and to refrain from engaging in defamatory, abusive, threatening, or harassing behaviour.
Trustworthiness & Honesty: We value trust and honesty, requiring members to respect copyright, avoid sharing false or misleading information, and not engage in illegal activities as per the United Kingdom law.
Open Communication: We encourage members to invite their friends and colleagues to join our network while adhering to our values. Openness and transparency in communication help strengthen our community and drive meaningful discussions.
Integrity & Responsibility: Members must act responsibly when sharing files or content, ensuring they own or control the intellectual property rights or have obtained the necessary consent. They should also verify that shared files or links do not contain viruses or any other harmful programs that may damage another’s computer.

Specific Terms

Contribution: Users are encouraged to contribute through activities such as publishing articles, posting comments, participating in events, and sharing expertise. Users acknowledge that they are not entitled to any payment or reward for contributing in these ways.
Waiver of Rights: You waive all rights to any claims or demands for payment or royalties in connection with the use of any materials and the right to inspect, review, or approve any materials or their use and medium of publication.
Supporter Acknowledgment: Our activities may receive financial support from sponsors, whose names and/or logos will be displayed on the Website.
Rapid Collaborations Management: Business Fights Poverty, its subcontractors, and/or partners will identify and manage rapid collaborations.
Video, Photography, and Filming: By attending our events, you grant us permission to record and publish media featuring your likeness. To opt-out, display a yellow sticker or card during the event. View our video, photography and filming policy below.

General Terms

Website Operator: The Website (www.businessfightspoverty.org) is operated by Business Fights Poverty, a Certified B Corp incorporated in England and Wales with company number 05693777.
Access and Security: Website access may be temporarily suspended without notice. Users are responsible for maintaining their identification codes or passwords’ confidentiality and must promptly notify Business Fights Poverty of unauthorized access.
Intellectual Property Rights :Business Fights Poverty, and its content suppliers retain all intellectual property rights on the Website. Users confirm they have the necessary permissions to share content and grant a license for its use.
Visitor Material and Conduct: Users must not post offensive, harmful, or illegal material on the Website, and misuse is prohibited.
Disclaimer: Business Fights Poverty is not liable for any loss or damage from using or inability to use the Website. Users agree to indemnify Business Fights Poverty and its affiliates from any liabilities related to their use.
Third-Party Websites: Business Fights Poverty is not responsible for the content or policies of any third-party websites linked from the Website.
Privacy Policy Commitment: We are committed to protecting your privacy in compliance with Data Protection Legislation. By visiting the Website, you consent to the practices described in our privacy policy below.
Information Collection, Usage, and Consent Withdrawal: We collect and process your information and use cookies to improve your experience. You may withdraw consent and request data removal by following the “Unsubscribe” link or contacting us via the online form.
Data Security and Cookie Policy: We make every effort to secure your information in accordance with Data Protection Legislation. Our Website uses cookies, and by using our Website, you agree to their usage as described in our cookie policy below.
Copyright: You can adapt and share our content so long as you attribute the original work to Business Fights Poverty. Click here for further details on the creative commons license granted.
Jurisdiction and Governing Law: These Terms are governed by English law, and users agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Generative AI

At Business Fights Poverty we are committed to building insights at the intersection of business and societal issues, and to deepening understanding through collaboration and collective learning. We use generative AI as a tool to help us better distil and disseminate the collective insights of our community. Our approach is human-centred, AI-enabled and impact-focused. We appreciate that AI can help provide access to key insights as an input into our critical thinking, problem solving and relationship building as a community. We are also mindful of the limitations and risks of AI.

We are guided in the use of AI by the following principles:

Human-Centred Collaboration: Utilise AI as a complement to human expertise, using a co-piloting approach that leverages the unique qualities and skills of our team members and community alongside AI-powered solutions.
Inclusivity and Diversity: Ensure AI applications promote inclusivity and represent diverse perspectives, actively working to eliminate structural biases and provide a balanced representation of views in our outputs.
Rigour and Quality: Prioritise research rigour and content quality over speed and quantity, using AI to enhance our work rather than seeking shortcuts or compromising on excellence.
Trust and Credibility: Maintain honesty and transparency in our use of AI. Recognising the limits of AI, we lead with experts and researchers to ensure the credibility of the content we generate.
Conscious and Mindful Usage: Employ AI consciously, recognising that it may not always be the optimal solution depending on the task, and remaining committed to continuous review and improvement.
Accessible and Engaging Content: Use AI to expand the accessibility of our work, generating content in new languages, formats, and mediums to reach a wider audience.
Community-Driven Innovation: Leverage the wealth of original content generated by our community, recognising and acknowledging contributors (where appropriate), and integrating their valuable insights into AI-powered processes to enhance the overall quality of our outputs so that we drive innovation, deliver solutions and drive action by business.

Video, Photography and Filming policy

At Business Fights Poverty events, we may video, live stream, and/or photograph parts or the entire event, publishing the content on our website, social media, and other communications. By attending, you grant us an irrevocable license and permission to use your name, photo, likeness, voice, testimonial, and biographical material in any medium without time or geographical restrictions for purposes such as public relations, education, advertising, marketing, training, and research.

You waive all rights to any claims or demands for payment or royalties in connection with the use of these materials, regardless of their purpose, use, or publication, and whether a fee is charged or collected. You also waive the right to inspect, review, or approve any photograph, recording, or other material, and the right to approve the use and medium of publication determined by Business Fights Poverty.

You understand that Business Fights Poverty owns all rights to any photography, recording, or testimonial, including any copyright and/or trademark related to such use. If you don’t want your images published, display a yellow sticker on your lapel or a yellow card visible to the camera during the event.

Privacy Policy

We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected and we will continue to comply with the provisions of the Data Protection Act (“DPA”) until 25 May 2018, after which we will comply with the General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (“GDPR”) unless and until the GDPR is no longer directly applicable in the UK, together with any national implementing laws, regulations and secondary legislation as amended or updated from time to time in the UK, and any successor legislation to the GDPR and the DPA (together “Data Protection Legislation”). We are the data controller of the data you pass to us pursuant to this policy.

This privacy policy together with our Terms and cookie policy set out how we collect personal information from you and how the personal information you provide will be processed by us.

By visiting the Website you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this privacy policy. If you do not consent, please do not submit any personal data to us.

Cookie Policy

Our Website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Website. It also allows us to improve our Website.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are required for the operation of our Website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Website.
Analytical/performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our Website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Website and the content displayed on it more relevant to your interests.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below:

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This Website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the Website, but will not store, save or collect personal information.You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including “strictly necessary” cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our Website.Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire two weeks from the time they are set.

Agreement

If the User is dissatisfied with any material on this Website or disagrees with the values or terms and conditions as set out above, the User’s sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using this Website.

If you are under 13 years of age do not further access this Website without the permission and supervision of your parents or legal guardians.

By accessing the Website or by participating in any of our activities, you acknowledge that you have read and understood our terms and conditions and agree that they form a binding legal agreement between you and Business Fights Poverty, and you agree to be bound by this agreement. If you disagree, please refrain from using the Website.