Goodwill Ambassadors Terms of Service

By using this site, you agree

By accessing, browsing, reading, subscribing to, or using Goodwill Ambassador News, you agree to these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree, do not use the website. If you use the website on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to do so.

Publisher and publication identity

Goodwill Ambassador Association is the publisher organization. Goodwill Ambassador News is the publication website at https://www.goodwillambassador.org/. References to “we,” “us,” or “our” mean the Association, publication, editorial desk, or website operators, as context requires.

Plain-language privacy commitment

• We do not sell reader information.
• We do not share reader information with data brokers.
• We do not rent, trade, or transfer subscriber lists for commercial resale.
• We do not use reader contact information for unrelated third-party marketing.

Limited service-provider processing

The site operates on Google/Blogger infrastructure and may use Google services for analytics, subscription access, consent, security, and site functionality. Those services may place cookies or use browser storage according to Google’s own policies and the settings available to readers. See our Privacy Policy for the longer explanation.

Public-interest publishing and documentation

Goodwill Ambassador News publishes public-interest information, reference pages, explainers, news reports, directory materials, controlled vocabulary, standards pages, historical notes, and commentary related to goodwill ambassadorship, civic honors, official titles, public diplomacy, honorary consular subjects, and international public service.

Editorial independence

Goodwill Ambassador News is an editorial and documentation publication. We reserve lawful editorial judgment over what we investigate, publish, update, correct, label, archive, or decline to publish.

No professional relationship

Website use does not create an attorney-client, fiduciary, diplomatic, consular, employment, agency, or professional advisory relationship. Content is published for informational, educational, documentary, and editorial purposes unless a page expressly says otherwise.

Original content

Unless a page states otherwise, original text, editorial structure, page layout, compilations, original graphics, and documentation systems are protected by applicable law. You may read, link to, download, and print pages for personal, educational, research, or noncommercial reference use.

Names, marks, and public identity

The names Goodwill Ambassador Association and Goodwill Ambassador News, and related visual identity materials, may function as source identifiers. Do not use them in a way likely to confuse readers about endorsement, affiliation, authorization, or origin. This does not restrict nominative use, criticism, commentary, or reporting.

Public-domain and licensed materials

Some materials may be public domain, Creative Commons, government-produced, quoted, embedded, or used under license. We aim to attribute such materials and provide context so readers can verify source and rights status.

What you grant us when you send material

If you send tips, messages, corrections, documents, identity evidence, appointment records, photographs, or other materials, you grant us permission to review, store, verify, summarize, cite, archive, and use them for editorial, documentation, correction, credential-review, or publication purposes consistent with the reason you sent them.

Confidential or sensitive material

If confidentiality is required, say so clearly before sending sensitive material. Do not send highly sensitive personal, legal, medical, financial, immigration, diplomatic, or security information through ordinary channels unless you accept the risk of that transmission method.

Subscriptions and updates

If you subscribe to updates, newsletters, or reader services, you agree to receive communications connected with the publication. You may unsubscribe or adjust available preferences through the tools provided or by contacting us.

Subscribe with Google

The site may use Google publisher tools including Subscribe with Google or related reader-revenue and access services. These tools may use a Google Account, Google payment methods, cookies, or browser storage to keep a reader signed in, manage access, or process subscription choices.

Voluntary support

Contributions or donations, where offered, support publication, research, directory maintenance, standards work, technology, and public-information activities. Unless a page states otherwise, voluntary support is not a purchase of official title, office, government recognition, UN status, or diplomatic status.

Our intended cookie footprint

Our intended third-party cookie and script footprint is limited to Google/Blogger services needed for site operation, analytics, security, consent where required, embedded Google content, and subscription or reader-access features. We do not intentionally operate advertising-network cookies for independent resale of reader data.

Google Analytics and measurement

Google Analytics or similar Google measurement tools may help us understand readership, pages viewed, referrers, approximate locations, device/browser information, and performance issues. We use analytics to improve publication quality and site operation, not to sell personal information.

Third-party links and embeds

The site may link to official sources, public records, government pages, United Nations pages, Google Workspace documents, maps, videos, or embedded materials. When you interact with those services, their own terms and privacy policies may apply.

Readers in Europe

Readers in the EU, EEA, United Kingdom, Switzerland, and similar jurisdictions may have privacy, consent, access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, and portability rights under applicable law. The Privacy Policy is the primary place where those data-processing rights are explained for this website.

Readers in the United States

United States privacy rules vary by state. Where a state privacy law gives a reader rights to know, access, delete, correct, limit, or opt out of sale or sharing of personal information, we will respond consistently with applicable law and our public promise that we do not sell reader information.

Mandatory consumer law controls

If any part of these Terms conflicts with mandatory consumer, privacy, or data-protection law that applies to you, the mandatory law controls to the extent required.

General disclaimer

The site is provided for informational, educational, documentation, and editorial purposes. We strive for accuracy, but we do not warrant that every page will be error-free, uninterrupted, complete, current, or suitable for a particular purpose.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive, or exemplary damages arising from use of the site, reliance on content, inability to access the site, third-party links, embeds, service interruptions, or user submissions.

Contact pathways

For questions about these Terms, corrections, privacy, subscriptions, submissions, or editorial matters, use the Contact Goodwill Ambassador News page.