GadaFundAm

ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

GadaFundam.com

Effective Date: 31 August 2026
Last Updated: 31 August 2026

1. Introduction

This Acceptable Use Policy (“Policy”) establishes the rules and standards governing the use of GadaFundam.com (“GadaFundam,” “Platform,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).

GadaFundam is a crowdfunding platform designed to connect creators seeking financial support for creative projects with individuals and organisations interested in supporting those projects.

This Policy applies to all users of GadaFundam, including creators, backers, visitors, campaign organisers, administrators, partners, and other persons accessing or using the Platform.

By accessing or using GadaFundam, you agree to comply with this Policy, our Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy, and any other applicable policies published on the Platform.

2. Purpose of This Policy

The purpose of this Policy is to:

  • Protect the GadaFundam community from fraud, abuse, exploitation, and harmful activity.

  • Maintain a safe, respectful, and trustworthy crowdfunding environment.

  • Establish appropriate standards for campaign content and user behaviour.

  • Protect the intellectual property, privacy, and rights of creators and backers.

  • Ensure that funds raised through the Platform are used for legitimate purposes.

  • Comply with applicable Nigerian laws and regulations.

3. Acceptable Use

Users may use GadaFundam only for lawful purposes and in accordance with this Policy.

Users may:

  • Create and promote legitimate crowdfunding campaigns.

  • Support legitimate campaigns.

  • Upload lawful text, images, videos, artwork, documents, and other campaign materials.

  • Communicate with other users regarding legitimate projects and transactions.

  • Share campaigns through lawful marketing and social media channels.

  • Provide genuine feedback, reviews, and project updates.

  • Use Platform features for their intended purposes.

All information submitted to GadaFundam must be accurate, current, and not misleading.

4. Prohibited Activities

Users must not use GadaFundam to engage in, facilitate, promote, or support any unlawful, fraudulent, abusive, deceptive, or harmful activity.

4.1 Fraud and Misrepresentation

Users must not:

  • Create fake or fraudulent campaigns.

  • Provide false information about themselves, their organisation, project, identity, experience, or financial circumstances.

  • Misrepresent how funds will be used.

  • Falsely claim ownership, authorship, endorsement, partnership, investment, funding, certification, or affiliation.

  • Use manipulated evidence or fabricated documents to obtain funding.

  • Impersonate another person, organisation, company, creator, or public figure.

  • Create multiple accounts to manipulate campaigns, funding, ratings, or Platform activity.

  • Misrepresent campaign progress or falsely claim that project milestones have been achieved.

GadaFundam may request evidence or documentation to verify campaign information.

4.2 Money Laundering and Financial Abuse

The Platform must not be used to:

  • Launder money.

  • Conceal the source or destination of funds.

  • Facilitate terrorist financing or other unlawful financial activity.

  • Receive or transfer funds on behalf of unidentified or unauthorised third parties.

  • Circumvent applicable financial, sanctions, anti-money-laundering, or counter-terrorist-financing requirements.

  • Manipulate transactions to disguise their actual purpose.

GadaFundam may suspend, restrict, or terminate accounts or transactions where suspicious activity is identified or where required by law.

4.3 Illegal Goods, Services, and Activities

Campaigns must not primarily seek funding for illegal goods, services, businesses, or activities.

This includes campaigns intended to facilitate:

  • Illegal drugs or controlled substances.

  • Weapons or unlawful weapon-related activities.

  • Human trafficking or exploitation.

  • Terrorist activities or extremist violence.

  • Fraudulent financial schemes.

  • Counterfeit goods.

  • Stolen property.

  • Unlawful gambling activities.

  • Other activities prohibited under applicable law.

GadaFundam reserves the right to determine whether a campaign presents an unacceptable legal or regulatory risk.

5. Restricted and Prohibited Campaign Content

GadaFundam is primarily intended to support legitimate creative and related projects.

Campaigns may be rejected, restricted, suspended, or removed where they involve content that is illegal, deceptive, exploitative, or materially harmful.

This may include campaigns involving:

  • Explicit sexual content or sexual exploitation.

  • Sexual content involving minors.

  • Child sexual abuse material.

  • Graphic or gratuitous violence.

  • Promotion of terrorism or violent extremist activity.

  • Hate-based content targeting protected groups.

  • Incitement to violence.

  • Harassment or targeted abuse.

  • Exploitation of vulnerable individuals.

  • Content that facilitates criminal activity.

  • Other content that violates applicable law or Platform policies.

Creative works may contain fictional violence, mature themes, or other artistic material where such content is lawful and appropriately presented. GadaFundam may nevertheless impose additional restrictions where necessary to protect users or comply with applicable requirements.

6. Intellectual Property

Users must only upload, publish, or promote content that they have the legal right to use.

You must not upload or distribute:

  • Copyrighted material without permission.

  • Stolen artwork, games, animations, comics, music, videos, models, software, or other creative works.

  • Trademarked materials in a manner that infringes another party's rights.

  • Confidential materials belonging to another person or organisation.

  • Content falsely presented as your own.

Creators are responsible for ensuring that their campaigns do not infringe the intellectual property rights of others.

GadaFundam may remove allegedly infringing content and may restrict accounts where there is credible evidence of infringement.

7. Campaign Integrity

Creators are responsible for ensuring that their campaigns accurately represent their projects.

Creators must:

  • Clearly describe what they are creating.

  • Provide truthful information about the project's current development stage.

  • Explain the intended use of funds.

  • Provide realistic project objectives and milestones where applicable.

  • Provide accurate information about rewards, deliverables, or benefits offered to backers.

  • Provide meaningful updates regarding significant changes to the project.

  • Notify backers where material circumstances affect the project's delivery.

Creators must not guarantee outcomes that they cannot reasonably control or promise financial returns unless such activity is expressly permitted and legally compliant.

8. Use of Funds

Funds raised through GadaFundam must be used for the legitimate purpose represented in the relevant campaign.

Creators must not knowingly:

  • Use campaign funds for an undisclosed purpose.

  • Divert funds for unrelated personal or business activities.

  • Transfer funds to unauthorised third parties.

  • Use funds for unlawful activities.

  • Misrepresent expenditure or project progress.

Where a campaign operates under milestone-based or tranche-based funding arrangements, the creator may be required to demonstrate progress before subsequent funds are released.

9. Backer Conduct

Backers must use the Platform responsibly.

Backers must not:

  • Make fraudulent payments.

  • Use stolen payment methods.

  • Attempt unauthorised chargebacks or payment reversals.

  • Manipulate campaigns through coordinated fraudulent activity.

  • Harass creators because of a campaign outcome.

  • Attempt to obtain confidential creator information.

  • Use campaigns to solicit or promote unrelated unlawful activities.

Backing a campaign does not automatically create an ownership interest in the creator's business, intellectual property, or project unless explicitly stated in a legally valid agreement.

10. Harassment and Abuse

GadaFundam does not permit harassment, intimidation, threats, stalking, bullying, or abusive behaviour.

Users must not:

  • Threaten another user.

  • Repeatedly harass or intimidate another person.

  • Publish another person's private information without lawful authority.

  • Engage in targeted abuse.

  • Encourage others to harass a user.

  • Use Platform communications to make threats or facilitate harm.

Legitimate criticism and good-faith disagreement are permitted, provided they do not become abusive or threatening.

11. Privacy and Personal Information

Users must respect the privacy of other users.

You must not:

  • Collect personal information from users without an appropriate lawful basis.

  • Sell or misuse personal information obtained through GadaFundam.

  • Publish private information belonging to another person.

  • Attempt to access another user's account.

  • Request passwords, authentication codes, payment credentials, or other sensitive account information from another user.

Users should only provide GadaFundam with personal information that is necessary and accurate.

12. Account Security

Users are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of their account credentials.

Users must not:

  • Share their passwords or authentication credentials with unauthorised persons.

  • Attempt to access another user's account.

  • Circumvent account security controls.

  • Use automated systems to guess passwords or authentication credentials.

  • Attempt to compromise the Platform's security.

  • Create accounts using another person's identity without authorisation.

Users should immediately notify GadaFundam if they believe their account has been compromised.

13. Platform Security and Technical Abuse

Users must not interfere with the operation or security of GadaFundam.

Prohibited activities include:

  • Hacking or attempting to hack the Platform.

  • Introducing malware, viruses, ransomware, spyware, or other malicious code.

  • Conducting denial-of-service attacks.

  • Attempting to bypass authentication or access controls.

  • Exploiting security vulnerabilities without authorisation.

  • Scraping or extracting Platform data through unauthorised automated means.

  • Reverse engineering Platform systems where prohibited by applicable law.

  • Attempting to disrupt Platform infrastructure.

  • Using bots to manipulate campaigns, votes, rankings, engagement, or other Platform metrics.

  • Circumventing technical restrictions imposed by GadaFundam.

Security researchers who discover a potential vulnerability should report it responsibly to GadaFundam rather than exploiting it.

14. Spam and Unsolicited Communications

Users must not use GadaFundam to send spam or unwanted promotional communications.

This includes:

  • Bulk unsolicited messages.

  • Automated promotional messages.

  • Phishing messages.

  • Fake customer-support messages.

  • Repeated unwanted campaign promotions.

  • Misleading links designed to obtain login or financial information.

Campaign promotion must be conducted transparently and responsibly.

15. Manipulation of Platform Activity

Users must not artificially manipulate Platform activity.

Prohibited conduct includes:

  • Creating fake backers.

  • Using bots to generate views or engagement.

  • Purchasing fake reviews or ratings.

  • Artificially inflating campaign statistics.

  • Coordinating fraudulent transactions to make a campaign appear more successful.

  • Using multiple accounts to manipulate Platform rankings or visibility.

  • Providing financial support to a campaign for the purpose of falsely representing organic demand.

GadaFundam may investigate unusual activity and take appropriate action.

16. Third-Party Links and Services

Users may include links to third-party websites or services where permitted.

However, users must not use such links to direct other users to:

  • Malware.

  • Phishing websites.

  • Fraudulent payment pages.

  • Illegal services.

  • Content prohibited under this Policy.

GadaFundam is not responsible for third-party websites or services and does not necessarily endorse them.

17. Reporting Violations

Users are encouraged to report suspected violations of this Policy.

Reports may include:

  • Fraudulent campaigns.

  • Misuse of funds.

  • Intellectual property infringement.

  • Impersonation.

  • Harassment or threats.

  • Suspicious financial activity.

  • Security vulnerabilities.

  • Prohibited content.

  • Other conduct that violates this Policy.

Reports should contain enough information for GadaFundam to investigate the concern.

GadaFundam may request additional information or evidence where necessary.

18. Enforcement

Where GadaFundam reasonably believes that a user or campaign has violated this Policy, we may take appropriate action, including:

  • Removing or restricting content.

  • Rejecting or suspending a campaign.

  • Delaying or restricting fund disbursement where permitted.

  • Restricting account functionality.

  • Suspending an account.

  • Terminating an account.

  • Cancelling or reversing transactions where permitted.

  • Preserving relevant information for investigation.

  • Reporting suspected unlawful activity to appropriate authorities where required or appropriate.

The action taken will depend on the nature, seriousness, frequency, and potential impact of the violation.

19. No Guarantee of Platform Monitoring

GadaFundam may review campaigns, accounts, transactions, communications, and other Platform activity for safety, fraud prevention, compliance, and operational purposes.

However, GadaFundam does not guarantee that every violation will be detected or prevented.

Users remain responsible for exercising appropriate judgment when interacting with other users and supporting campaigns.

20. Legal and Regulatory Compliance

Users must comply with all laws and regulations applicable to their use of GadaFundam.

For users in Nigeria, this may include applicable requirements relating to:

  • Fraud and financial crime.

  • Data protection and privacy.

  • Intellectual property.

  • Consumer protection.

  • Electronic transactions.

  • Tax obligations.

  • Financial services.

  • Anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing.

  • Cybercrime.

  • Content and criminal law.

Where applicable law imposes requirements beyond this Policy, users remain responsible for complying with those requirements.

21. Changes to This Policy

GadaFundam may update this Acceptable Use Policy from time to time.

When changes are made, the revised Policy will be published on the Platform together with an updated effective or last-updated date.

Continued use of GadaFundam after the updated Policy becomes effective constitutes acceptance of the revised Policy, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

22. Contact

If you have questions, concerns, or reports relating to this Acceptable Use Policy, please contact GadaFundam through the official contact channels provided on GadaFundam.com.

GadaFundam.com
Nigeria

23. Acknowledgement

By creating an account, launching a campaign, contributing to a campaign, or otherwise using GadaFundam, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to comply with this Acceptable Use Policy.

GadaFundam reserves the right to take appropriate action against activities that threaten the safety, integrity, legality, or trustworthiness of the Platform or its community.