Terms of Use

1. VISITOR'S AGREEMENT AND RULES OF CONDUCT FOR THE SACSIS WEBSITE
Use and participation on the SACSIS website is contingent upon your acceptance of the following terms and rules. By using our website, you accept these terms. In addition, your continued use of our websites after a change has been made to the policies of our website implies your assent to those changes.

2. LINKS TO OTHER SITES
We choose our links to other websites carefully. However, SACSIS is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of website operated by third parties that are linked to or from this website. These links are meant for the visitor's convenience only. Links to third party websites do not constitute sponsorship, endorsement, or approval by SACSIS of any content, policies or practices of such sites. Once you have left this website via such a link, you should check the applicable terms of use and privacy policy of the third party site.

3. RULES OF CONDUCT FOR THE DISCUSSION FORUM (COMMENT SERVICE)
Our commenting service is provided as a means to further the dialogue about the relationship between democracy and development. We seek to encourage intelligent, thoughtful and respectful conversation and debate through this service, and we reserve the right to moderate as we see fit.

The views and opinions expressed via the commenting service on this website, are not necessarily those of SACSIS or its content providers and SACSIS makes no representations or warranties regarding these opinions.

SACSIS will not tolerate:

+ comments that are off-topic or irrelevant to the story or discussion at hand
+ excessive profanity
+ racist, sexist or other discriminatory or hateful language
+ personal attacks on our writers or readers
+ comments disclosing personal information about SACSIS' writers or fellow commenters
+ entries "signed" by someone other than the actual author
+ any material which advertises or otherwise solicits funds or is a solicitation for goods or services.
+ Readers who fail to follow these guidelines may have their comments deleted and their commenting privileges disabled with or without warning.