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If you choose to provide us with additional information through an email message, form, survey, or other written means, we will never provide your personally identifying information to a third party without your knowledge and consent. We may use this submitted information to contact you for more information, to request your consent to use your name in order to improve our services and Sites, to provide testimonials about our work or to ask if you will allow future communication from us. If you provide questions, information, feedback and/or other comments to us in an email or in other electronic form, we may disclose non-identifying information that you provide in the form of a testimonial, for technical troubleshooting, or other internal and external purposes to improve our services and report on usage of the Sites without your consent, but in all such cases, it would be anonymous and would not include any personally identifying information about you unless you have provided consent to use your name.

OurRoot® reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as it deems necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request.

In this website, wherever applicable, “We,” “Us,” “Our,” “OurRoot” or “Company” is used interchangeably.

This Terms of Service is an agreement ("Agreement") made between You and Us. This Agreement is subject to amendments from time to time and applies to all users of the Company's websites (the "Websites"). We will use "You,” “Your,” or “Yourself” interchangeably.

You may not use the Service if you are under the age of 18 or you are not able to form legally binding contracts, or if your membership has been suspended by Us. Please read this Agreement carefully before using Our Service. By using Our Services, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement for as long as You continue to use Our Services. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT, DO NOT USE THE SERVICE. THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE BY US AT ANY TIME, EFFECTIVE UPON NOTICE TO YOU, WHICH NOTICE SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE BEEN PROVIDED UPON OUR POSTING OF THE CURRENT VERSION OF THIS AGREEEMENT ON THE SERVICE.

In accessing OurRoot® Website, you agree that you will access the contents for your own personal use but not for any commercial use. You can download and/or print articles published in this website for your personal use. Any uses, in whole or in part, of any material published in this Website, must include the customary bibliographic citation, including author attribution, date and article title.

Articles in OurRoot® may not be reproduced, modified, used to prepare derivative works, republished, or published in another format without prior written permission from the Principal Editor.

Indemnity

The author agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless OurRoot®, it’s affiliates, licensors, suppliers, advertisers and sponsors, and their directors, officers, employees, consultants, agents and other representatives, from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, costs (including without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses) and other expenses that arise directly or indirectly out of or from: (a) your breach (including through use of your username, whether or not by you) of the Terms, including any violation of Community Standards; (b) any allegation that any Submission or other information you submit to us or transmit to the Websites or OurRoot® infringes or otherwise violates the copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property or other right of any third party; (c) your access to and use of the Websites; and/or (d) any claim that one of your postings or Submissions caused damage to a third party, including without limitation, libel, defamation, loss of or harm to reputation or any other damage whatsoever.

Disclaimer

The author agrees that OurRoot® assumes no responsibility for the deletion of or failure to store any manuscript and recommends that you do not post, display, or transmit any confidential or sensitive information. All authors shall remain solely and exclusively responsible for any liability arising from their own manuscript.

The Company expressly disclaims responsibility and liability for all third party provided materials, programs, events, products, and services contained on or accessed through the Website, and you agree that the Company shall not be responsible for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as a result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such third parties’ materials, products, and/or services on this Website.

OurRoot® makes no warranty of any kind, either express or implied, regarding the quality, accuracy, availability, or validity of the data or information in the articles published in this website or of any other site to which it may be linked. Opinions and contents of the manuscript are those of the authors solely and do not reflect the views of the Management or Board of Directors of OurRoot®.

Arbitration/Governing Law

The laws of the United States and the State of Maryland govern the Terms and Practices of OurRoot®. You agree that any legal action you bring arising out of your use of the Websites shall be settled exclusively by arbitration in Annapolis, Maryland, USA, under the American Arbitration Association governing rules and in accordance with the Maryland State law statutory time limitations for filing the same action in state or federal court in Annapolis, Maryland. Judgment upon an arbitrator's award may be entered and enforced by any court of competent jurisdiction. You also agree that any legal action we bring arising out of your use of the website may be brought through arbitration as described above, or in the state or federal courts located in Annapolis, Maryland, USA, and you hereby consent and submit to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of these courts.

Disclaimer

The author agrees that OurRoot® assumes no responsibility for the deletion of or failure to store any manuscript and recommends that you do not post, display, or transmit any confidential or sensitive information. All authors shall remain solely and exclusively responsible for any liability arising from their own manuscript.

The Company expressly disclaims responsibility and liability for all third party provided materials, programs, events, products, and services contained on or accessed through the Website, and you agree that the Company shall not be responsible for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as a result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such third parties’ materials, products, and/or services on this Website.

OurRoot® makes no warranty of any kind, either express or implied, regarding the quality, accuracy, availability, or validity of the data or information in the articles published in this website or of any other site to which it may be linked. Opinions and contents of the manuscript are those of the authors solely and do not reflect the views of the Management or Board of Directors of OurRoot®.

OurRoot® welcomes manuscripts from authors of not more than five thousand words, aimed at familiarizing and/or educating Africans, friends of Africa and the world about African people, politics, culture, development, tourism, resources, education, population, women, agriculture, the list goes on. Manuscript on any subject will be considered on its own merit.

We consider for publication original research that has not been previously published. Submission to OurRoot® implies your agreement and that the submitted manuscript is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Submission also implies thast authors agree to abide by OurRoot® publishing policies.

Upon receipt of the manuscript, members of OurRoot® Editorial Board would review the manuscript, and if considered worthy of publication, the author would be informed. Authors are required to authorize, in writing, the publication of their manuscripts. By authorizing OurRoot® to publish the manuscript, the author guarantees OurRoot® that the manuscript is the original work of the author, free from all forms of plagiarism and that there are no unauthorized, confidential or sensitive information.

By submitting a manuscript to OurRoot®, you automatically grant the OurRoot®, for a period of ten (10) years, renewable at the Company’s option, a royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive, assignable, transferable and sublicensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, transmit, perform, and display such content or information (in whole or in part) contained in the manuscript worldwide for any purpose and/or to incorporate into other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in such content or information

Authors hereby represent that they have all necessary capacity and rights to make the manuscript available to the Company, and they also acknowledge and agree that such manuscripts are non-confidential for all purposes and that the Company has no control over the extent to which any idea or information within a manuscript may be used by any party or person once such content is posted or displayed on the Websites. If after publishing the manuscript, OurRoot® discovers false, inaccurate, untrue, or incomplete information in the manuscript, the Company reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to immediately and without notice terminate, remove the manuscript from the Website, and if need be, make official representation to appropriate authorities to this effect.

Once the manuscript is published, it becomes the property of OurRoot® except any liability that may arise as a result of plagiarism or the use of any copyrighted images, photos, graphs, texts, etc., without the permission of the original author.

Conditions for the submission of articles

By submitting the manuscript for publication in OurRoot®, you agree to be held solely responsible for your own submissions and the consequences of publishing them. In connection with each of the submissions, you affirm, represent, and/or warrant that: 

• you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize us to use all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to any and all such submissions to enable inclusion and use of such submissions in the manner contemplated by us and these Terms and Conditions; and 
• you have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in such submissions to use the name or likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person to enable inclusion and use of such submissions in the manner contemplated by us and these Terms and Conditions.

In furtherance of the foregoing, you agree that you will not: 

• submit material that is copyrighted, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third party proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission from their rightful owner to post the material and to grant us all of the rights granted herein;  
• publish falsehoods or misrepresentations that could damage us or any third party;  
• submit material that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, violate any law, or is otherwise inappropriate; or 
• You understand that once your manuscript is accepted for publication, it become the property of OurRoot®. Accordingly, we reserve the right not to publish the manuscript, right to remove the submission from the website or may authorize the manuscript to be distributed, syndicated to or published on other OurRoot® platforms, without prior notice. 

Author's Guidelines

Manuscripts must be sent to the Principal Editor through the online submission system. No email submission will be accepted or acknowledged. To submit an article, click on “Submit your articles” on the homepage and follow the registration instructions.

Submissions are invited and must be original manuscripts that have not been published elsewhere and are not under consideration for publication by another journal. The manuscript must carry: (i) Name of the author(s); (ii) Title of the article; (iii) Abstracts, (iv) A brief bio data of the author, and bibliography/works cited. In case of review articles, it is the responsibility of the author to obtain permission from the copyright holder to reproduce figures or tables that have been published elsewhere.

Double-space all material (text, quotations, figure legends, tables, references, etc.). Use a 12-point font (preferably Times Roman).