At Tazama, we are driven by a mission to create a safer, more inclusive financial ecosystem, particularly for those in regions lacking in the resources to ensure safe and secure transactions and are victims of fraud.
Our work is based on four foundational values: Trust, Equity, Knowledge, and Collaboration. These values guide every aspect of our operations and reflect our commitment to protecting individuals, businesses, and economies from financial scams and fraud and enabling financial health and stability.
Values
Trust
Trust is the cornerstone of our initiative. We understand the importance of protecting financial transactions and personal data against fraud and scams. The goal is to protect the user. Our commitment to trust ensures that all stakeholders can rely on Tazama for the safety of their transactions, fostering a reliable financial environment.
Equity
Equity is at the heart of Tazama. We strive to make financial inclusion and protection accessible to everyone, especially those in underrepresented and vulnerable communities. By prioritizing equity, we level the playing field, ensuring everyone has equal access to safe financial services.
Knowledge
Our approach is rooted in deep knowledge of the complexities of financial fraud and the latest in financial crime detection and prevention. Tazama is committed to leveraging this expertise to protect our users effectively. We emphasize continuous learning and evolution to stay ahead of fraudsters, ensuring our community is always in compliance and protected by the most advanced techniques.
Collaboration
No single entity can combat financial fraud alone. Collaboration is key to our strategy, involving partnerships across financial institutions, regulatory bodies, technology partners, and the global community. Tazama values the power of working together to share resources, knowledge, and strategies for a comprehensive defense against financial crime.
By embodying these values, Tazama strives to create a world where financial transactions are safe, inclusive, and equitable for everyone.
As an organization committed to improving lives and making the world a better place, we adhere to a strict Code of Conduct.
Our Pledge
We, as members, contributors, and leaders, pledge to make participation in our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation. We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and healthy community.
Our Standards
Examples of behavior that contribute to a positive environment for our community include:
- Demonstrating empathy and kindness toward others
- Being respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences
- Giving and gracefully accepting constructive feedback
- Accepting responsibility and apologizing to those affected by our mistakes, and learning from the experience
- Focusing on what is best not just for us as individuals, but for the overall
community
Examples of unacceptable behavior include:
- The use of sexualized language or imagery, and sexual attention or advances of any kind
- Trolling, insulting, or derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
- Public or private harassment
- Publishing others’ private information, such as a physical or email address, without their explicit permission
- Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a
professional setting
Code of Conduct
Scope
This Code of Conduct applies within all community spaces, and also applies when an individual is officially representing the company and community in public spaces. Examples of representing our community include using an official e-mail address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed representative at an online or offline event.
Enforcement Responsibilities and Guidelines
Community leaders, business partners, and customers are responsible for clarifying and enforcing our standards of acceptable behavior and will take appropriate and fair corrective action in response to any behavior that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.
Our constituents have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, and will communicate reasons for moderation decisions when appropriate.
Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported to the community leaders responsible for enforcement at conduct@tazama.org. All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly.
All community leaders are obligated to respect the privacy and security of the reporter of any incident.
Community leaders will follow these community impact guidelines in determining the consequences for any action they deem in violation of this Code of Conduct:
1. Correction
- Community Impact: Use of inappropriate language or other behavior deemed unprofessional or unwelcome in the community.
Consequence: A private, written warning from community leaders, providing clarity around the nature of the violation and an explanation of why the behavior was inappropriate. A public apology may be requested.
2. Warning
- Community Impact: A violation through a single incident or series of actions.
- Consequence: A warning with consequences for continued behavior. No interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, for a specified period. This includes avoiding interactions in community spaces as well as external channels like social media. Failing to follow these guidelines may lead to a temporary or permanent ban.
3. Temporary Ban
- Community Impact: A serious violation of community standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior.
- Consequence: A temporary ban from any sort of interaction or public communication with the community for a specified period. No public or private interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, is allowed during this period. Violating these terms may lead to a permanent ban.
4. Permanent Ban
- Community Impact: Demonstrating a pattern of violation of community standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior, harassment of an individual, or aggression toward or disparagement of classes of individuals.
- Consequence: A permanent ban from any sort of public interaction within the community.
Attribution
This Code of Conduct is adapted from the Contributor Covenant, version 2.1, available at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/code_of_conduct.html. Community Impact Guidelines were inspired by Mozilla’s code of conduct enforcement
ladder.
For answers to common questions about this code of conduct, see the FAQ
at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/faq. Translations are available
at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/translations.