Acceptable Use Policy

1. Purpose & Product Scope

This Acceptable Use Policy (“Policy”) sets out the mandatory operating rules governing access to and use of the CSRise software infrastructure (“Platform”) by Corporate Social Investors, Verified Implementing Partners (NGOs and project developers), and Institutional Regulators (collectively, “Users”).

CSRise is an Enterprise Corporate Impact Operating System that provides digital governance infrastructure for corporate social investments. The Platform operates a closed-loop governance cycle: Mandate → Allocate → Execute → Evidence → Verify → Decide → Reallocate. CSRise is strictly an institutional governance and capital-accountability platform; it is not a retail crowdfunding platform or consumer giving service.

This Policy exists to preserve the operational integrity of the Platform, protect capital held under milestone escrow controls, ensure evidence veracity, and maintain institutional auditability across all social investment programs.

2. Institutional Eligibility & Verification

All participating entities on CSRise must satisfy rigorous onboarding and verification standards:

• Corporate Social Investors: Must be duly incorporated corporate entities, foundations, or institutional funders acting through officially designated corporate representatives with verifiable authority to allocate impact capital.
• Implementing Partners (NGOs & Developers): Must be registered non-governmental organizations, incorporated trustees, or verified social enterprises with Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) documentation, Tax Identification Numbers (TIN), SCUML registration (where applicable), and verified corporate banking facilities.
• Identity & Trustee Verification: Partner trustees and primary project directors must complete institutional KYC verification, identity document validation, and reference checks before proposing initiatives or receiving milestone disbursements.

CSRise reserves the right to decline onboarding, revoke verified status, or require additional compliance filings whenever documentation is incomplete, outdated, or inconsistent with regulatory directives.

3. Permitted Enterprise Use

The Platform may be used solely for institutional corporate social investment governance, including:

• Establishing corporate impact mandates, thematic investment pillars, and portfolio budget allocations.
• Structuring social-impact initiatives into phased deliverables, verifiable milestones, and transparent cost frameworks.
• Allocating corporate capital into secure, milestone-governed escrow release arrangements.
• Submitting tamper-proof, geotagged, and verifiable milestone execution evidence (receipts, delivery sign-offs, photographs, engineering reports).
• Conducting independent, multi-stage evidence reviews and managing corporate decision registers (Continue, Hold, Reallocate, or Terminate).
• Generating audit-grade statutory ESG disclosures and impact reports for boards, regulators, and tax authorities.

4. Prohibited Conduct

Users shall not under any circumstances:

• Publish or facilitate fraudulent, fabricated, or deceptive social-investment projects or budget estimates.
• Submit falsified, re-used, manipulated, or AI-generated evidence records (including fabricated receipts, altered invoices, or recycled milestone photos).
• Engage in or facilitate money laundering, terrorist financing, tax evasion, or any financial crime under Nigerian law or international anti-corruption standards.
• Divert disbursed funds from the milestone deliverables formally approved by the corporate investor.
• Attempt to circumvent platform escrow release controls, multi-signature approval rules, or automated velocity triggers.
• Publish hate speech, defamatory material, or activities violating environmental, labor, or child-welfare standards.
• Attempt unauthorized access to Platform systems, client databases, audit logs, or cryptographic records.

5. Milestone, Escrow & Evidence Obligations

Implementing Partners and corporate project administrators agree to:

• Strict Purpose Dedication: Deploy allocated capital exclusively to the approved milestone deliverables specified in the project charter.
• Evidence Veracity: Submit genuine, audit-grade verification evidence before requesting tranche release from escrow.
• Regulatory & Field Cooperation: Cooperate fully with CSRise compliance inspectors, third-party field verifiers, and institutional auditors.
• Material Change Disclosure: Immediately log and formally request approval for any material variation in project timeline, budget variance, or field conditions before executing deviations.
• Disbursement Pre-Conditions: Acknowledge that capital disbursements are release-governed: funds are released only upon successful completion of required review stages (Submitted → Reviewed → Approved → Verified).

6. Monitoring, Anti-Fraud & Governance Enforcement

CSRise maintains continuous automated and manual governance controls to safeguard capital under administration, including:

• Automated media fingerprinting and cross-initiative image verification to prevent receipt and photo re-use.
• Automated risk scoring on withdrawal and escrow release authorizations.
• Administrative authority to place immediate holds on escrow funds whenever irregularities or compliance violations are flagged.
• Institutional suspension and permanent blacklisting protocols across the partner directory for entities engaging in verified malpractice.
• Mandatory cooperation and reporting to regulatory and law-enforcement agencies (including EFCC, SCUML, NFIU) where financial misconduct is detected.

7. Escrow Holds, Reallocations & Disputes

Capital allocated to projects is held under institutional governance controls:

• Where an initiative encounters unresolvable execution failure, verified partner breach, or failed milestone delivery, unreleased capital in escrow remains governed by corporate investor authority and may be formally reallocated to alternative portfolio projects through the Executive Decision Register.
• Formal dispute mechanisms allow corporate investors and implementing partners to lodge compliance challenges. Disputes trigger an immediate freeze on affected escrow tranches pending resolution by authorized administrative adjudicators.

8. Reporting Governance Violations

Stakeholders who identify suspected fraud, duplicate evidence, or breaches of this Policy should immediately notify the CSRise Governance Office at governance@csrise.africa or through the in-platform dispute escalation workflow. All reports are investigated with full audit protection.

9. Changes to This Policy

CSRise may update this Policy to reflect enhancements in governance architecture, security protocols, or statutory regulatory standards. Active corporate enterprise clients and verified partners will be notified of material changes.

10. Contact & Governance Office

For questions regarding this Policy or enterprise governance standards, contact:

CSRise Governance & Legal Compliance Office
CSRise Technology Ltd
Email: governance@csrise.africa / support@csrise.africa