Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") constitute the canonical terms governing access to https://godsway-sackey.org, professional consultancy inquiries, and use of software applications published directly by Godsway Sackey. By accessing this website or using any published application, you agree to these Terms alongside the canonical Privacy Policy.

1. Website Ownership and Scope

This website and its portfolio applications are owned and operated by Godsway Sackey, practising as an independent consultant and software developer based in the Republic of Ghana across digital health and health informatics, monitoring, evaluation and programme reporting, data analytics and business intelligence, research and digital data systems, software development, and implementation consultancy.

Godsway Sackey operates as an individual independent professional and is not a registered software corporation, law firm, licensed healthcare provider, bank, deposit-taking financial institution, pension trustee, or regulatory authority. These Terms apply to godsway-sackey.org (including /products/, /about/, and application information pages) and to the public Progressive Web Applications (PWAs) published under *.godsway-sackey.org subdomains.

2. Professional and Informational Content

All biographical details, consultancy overviews, software descriptions, and site principles on this website are provided for general professional, educational, and informational purposes only. You may cite, quote, or reference public website materials for academic, educational, or professional evaluation purposes provided accurate attribution and a link to https://godsway-sackey.org are included.

3. Independent Consultancy Engagements

Descriptions of consultancy capabilities on this website serve as an invitation to discuss potential engagements. Viewing this website or sending an email inquiry to info@godsway-sackey.org does not establish a consultant–client, advisory, fiduciary, partnership, or agency relationship, nor does it obligate Godsway Sackey to accept any engagement.

4. Proposals, Contracts, and Written Statements of Work

This website is not itself a consultancy contract, binding quotation, or service-level commitment. All formal consultancy, custom software engineering, deployment, training, analytics, or maintenance services require a separate, mutually executed written agreement or Statement of Work (SOW) specifying scope, deliverables, fees, timelines, confidentiality, data protection, intellectual property, and support responsibilities.

Where an executed written client contract or Statement of Work conflicts with these general website Terms, the executed client agreement takes precedence to the extent stated in that agreement.

5. Intellectual Property and Third-Party Ownership

Unless otherwise indicated, original text, visual layout, personal photography, custom software code, user interfaces, schemas, and documentation published on this website and across portfolio applications are the intellectual property of Godsway Sackey and are protected by applicable copyright and intellectual property laws.

Names of institutions, standards, or agencies referenced in biographical experience or domain workflows (such as Ghana Health Service, Management Systems International, Partners In Health, Ghana Revenue Authority, or National Pensions Regulatory Authority) remain the property of their respective owners. Reference to past roles or public statutory schedules does not imply institutional endorsement or official affiliation.

6. Free Public Applications and Permitted Use

Subject to these Terms, Godsway Sackey grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable permission to access and use the free public Progressive Web Applications (such as Church, Store, QualiCode, Extract, EMR, and Wealth) for lawful evaluation, community administration, personal planning, academic study, or internal operational utility consistent with each application's documented release stage. You retain ownership of the operational records and content that you lawfully enter into those applications.

7. Open-Source Licences, Where Applicable

Making an application available free of charge on the web does not mean that the application or its underlying source code is released under an open-source licence. Unless a specific repository, package, or distribution explicitly includes a recognised open-source licence file granting redistribution or modification rights, all source-code rights remain reserved.

Published applications incorporate third-party open-source frameworks and libraries (including Flutter and Dart ecosystem packages). Those components remain governed by their respective open-source licences, and nothing in these Terms replaces, restricts, or overrides any right or obligation granted under an applicable open-source licence.

8. Application Availability and Maintenance

Because public portfolio applications are published free of charge by an independent developer, they do not carry guaranteed uptime, formal service-level agreements (SLAs), dedicated technical support, managed cloud backups, or permanent hosting commitments unless separately contracted in writing. Certain applications or modules are published as working prototypes, preview builds, or foundational shells with explicitly disabled or gated workspaces while development progresses.

9. User Responsibilities and Data Backup

You are solely responsible for:

• Evaluating whether an application's current capabilities and persistence model are suitable for your intended operational use;
• Complying with all laws, ethical approvals, and sector regulations applicable to any personal, financial, research, religious, or health information you enter;
• Protecting physical devices, browser profiles, and local 6-digit unlock PINs against unauthorised access; and
• Maintaining independent, periodic backups or exports of important data wherever export functionality is provided.

Clearing browser site data or caches, resetting a device, browsing in private/incognito mode, or closing non-persistent session builds can permanently delete locally held information that has not been exported.

10. Restrictions on Misuse and Unauthorised Access

You agree not to:

• Use the website or any application for unlawful, fraudulent, abusive, or rights-infringing purposes;
• Attempt to probe, bypass authentication on, or gain unauthorised access to restricted administrative consoles, private APIs, servers, or other users' accounts;
• Interfere with hosting infrastructure, flood endpoints with automated requests, or submit falsified onboarding or licensing payloads;
• Decompile, repackage, or commercially resell proprietary applications without written permission (except to the extent expressly permitted by an applicable open-source licence or mandatory law); or
• Misrepresent any independent portfolio application as an officially certified government platform or regulated medical/financial product.

11. Confidentiality and Client Information

While direct professional inquiries sent to info@godsway-sackey.org are handled respectfully in accordance with the Privacy Policy, unsolicited email sent prior to signing a formal Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) or consultancy contract does not automatically impose bespoke contractual confidentiality obligations. Do not send confidential trade secrets, identifiable patient records, or regulated datasets via ordinary unencrypted email.

12. Digital Health and Clinical-Use Limitations

Not every published health application is clinically certified, accredited, or configured out-of-the-box for production patient medical records. Qualified healthcare professionals and authorised health facilities remain solely responsible for independent clinical judgment, patient care decisions, verification of automated calculations and DHIMS2 report aggregations, regulatory approvals, and compliance with institutional patient-privacy duties.

13. Research Tools and Data Responsibility

Qualitative research and document-extraction tools (such as QualiCode and Extract) are provided to assist workflow organisation, coding structure, and manual or local text capture. Principal investigators, researchers, and deploying organisations remain solely responsible for obtaining Institutional Review Board (IRB) or ethics-committee approvals, securing informed participant consent, de-identifying sensitive transcripts, verifying extracted text accuracy, and meeting archival obligations.

14. Financial and Business Information Limitations

Bookkeeping, point-of-sale, Susu, and pension/tax planning tools (such as Church cashbooks, Store sales and credit ledgers, and Wealth Susu compounding and GRA PAYE / Act 766 Tier 3 estimators) provide mathematical calculations and record-keeping aids for planning and administrative convenience only.

Godsway Sackey does not provide regulated financial, investment, banking, accounting, legal, or tax advice, does not hold or transmit user money, and does not guarantee investment yields or tax authority determinations. Users should verify tax bands, SSNIT/Tier 3 rules, and financial decisions against current official Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA) publications or qualified advisers, and transact funds only directly with licensed institutions or corporate trustees.

15. External Links and Integrations

The website and applications may link to or reference external websites, third-party identity services, corporate pension trustees, or telecommunications USSD shortcodes. External services are operated independently by third parties; Godsway Sackey does not control them and assumes no responsibility for their content, availability, fees, security, or privacy practices.

16. Software Updates, Modification, and Discontinuation

Godsway Sackey reserves the right to update, modify, gate, suspend, or discontinue any webpage, public application, schema, or feature at any time without liability in order to maintain security, accuracy, affordability, or legal compliance.

17. Disclaimers and Reasonable Limitations of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, this website, all informational content, and all free public applications are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties or representations of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, uninterrupted availability, or error-free accuracy.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Godsway Sackey shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, clinical or business records, revenue, profits, goodwill, or anticipated savings arising out of or related to your access to or use of (or inability to use) this website or any free public application, even if advised of the possibility of such loss. Liability under any paid consultancy engagement is governed by the terms of the applicable executed written contract.

18. Mandatory Consumer and Statutory Rights

Nothing in these Terms excludes, limits, or overrides any right, remedy, or liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited under applicable statute — including liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, death or personal injury caused by negligence where non-excludable by law, or mandatory statutory data-protection and consumer protections. If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, that provision shall be enforced to the maximum permissible extent and the remaining provisions shall remain in full effect.

19. Governing Law and Cross-Border Considerations

These Terms and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with them are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Ghana, without prejudice to any mandatory statutory consumer or data-protection provisions that apply by operation of law in a user's jurisdiction of residence and cannot lawfully be waived by agreement.

20. Disputes and Professional Contact

If you have any question, concern, or dispute regarding this website, a published application, or these Terms, please contact Godsway Sackey first at info@godsway-sackey.org so that the matter may be reviewed and resolved constructively in good faith. Subject to any dispute-resolution clause in a separate written client contract and any non-waivable statutory forum rights, unresolved legal disputes shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the competent courts of the Republic of Ghana.

21. Changes to These Terms

These Terms may be revised from time to time to reflect operational, technical, or legal developments. Revised Terms become effective upon publication at https://godsway-sackey.org/terms-of-service/ with an updated "Last Updated" date. Continued use of the website or public applications after publication constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.