Mission:
At CodeOp, our ethos revolves around one principle: prioritising our students and readers at the forefront of everything we do. From the moment you visit our site to the moment you decide to let us help you build a future career, you’ll experience a level of excellence and support that surpasses expectations. We welcome you to our community, and are always on stand-by to answer any questions, and offer advice when you need it.
Content Standards & Policies
Our content policies are important in ensuring a positive experience for our users. This is a concerted effort by the editorial team to ensure all our contributors respect these guidelines. We may make minor exceptions to these policies based on artistic, educational, historical, documentary, or scientific considerations or where there are other substantial benefits to the public.
Original Content & Transparency
We strive to make it easy for our users to enjoy our independent and original content, and do our best to ensure it is a source of fresh, original, and purposeful material.
Visitors to our site want to trust and understand who publishes it. Information about those who have written articles is always available to build our reputation and give our audience the comfort that the information they are consuming is of the highest ethical and editorial standards.
Sponsorship, including, but not limited to, ownership or affiliate interest, payment, or material support, is very clearly disclosed to readers. The subject of sponsored content only focuses on the sponsor with clear disclosure.
Personal and Confidential Information
We do not allow sharing a private person’s confidential and personally identifiable information (e.g., financial information, email address, or age).
Copyrighted Content
We do not publish content that infringes anyone’s intellectual property rights and has a quick addressable mechanism in place to take action in the rare case any such query is brought to our notice. We take such instances very seriously and have a zero-tolerance policy for such lapses.
Sexually Explicit Content
We do not publish content that features explicit sexual imagery intended to cause sexual arousal. However, due to the category of our products, the imagery shown on the website could possibly fall into the “Not Safe For Work” category.
Graphic Violent Content
We do not publish content that incites or glorifies violence, or allow extremely graphic or violent materials.
Hateful Content
We do not publish content that promotes violence or harassment against an individual or group based on ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
Medical Topics
We do not publish content aimed at providing medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment for commercial purposes, nor do we allow content from any site that contradicts or runs contrary to a scientific or medical consensus and evidence-based best practices.
Dangerous and Illegal Activities
We do not publish content that promotes or facilitates dangerous or illegal activities, including self-harm, such as self-mutilation, eating disorders, or drug abuse. We also do not allow content used to threaten or organise violence or support violent organisations.
Harassment and Cyberbullying
We do not publish content that sends messages intended to harass, bully, or physically or sexually threaten others.
Deceptive Practices
We do not publish any information or content that enables personal accounts to impersonate any person or organisation; or misrepresent or conceal their ownership, or primary purpose. We do not publish any information or content that engages in inauthentic or coordinated behaviour that misleads users. This includes, but isn’t limited to, information or content that misrepresents or conceals their country of origin or directs content at users in another country under false premises. This also includes information or content for accounts working together in ways that conceal or misrepresent information about their relationships or editorial independence.
Spam and Malware
We refrain from publishing any information or content with excessive repetitive, duplicate, or unoriginal content, misspellings, grammatical errors, or gimmicky character use. We do not publish links to malware, viruses, or other harmful software. We do not publish or share any sites engaging in link schemes intended to manipulate a site’s ranking in news results, generate unnatural traffic, or deceive our audience about its newsworthiness.
To ensure all of the above, we have an editorial team checking articles before they get published. For any queries, you can contact the editorial team at [email protected].
Editorial Liability
The editors of CodeOp maintain editorial independence in day-to-day editorial decisions. The editors also maintain editorial independence for any of the views, comments, and opinions of others published on CodeOp.
Participation by relevant and interested government departments and agencies, regulatory and standards bodies, state-owned enterprises, institutes, industry associations, universities, consultants, readers, industry leaders, and experts in the form of technical articles and other editorial submissions shall be proactively encouraged.
Where a submission is controversial, CodeOp shall make reasonable efforts to ensure that relevant, diverse views are solicited and fairly presented and that the right of reply is provided. Publication of articles, views, comments, opinions, and analysis shall not depend on the editor’s particular point of view or worldview of the editor.
Discretion is vested in the editor to shorten an article for space and other reasons; if appropriate, this is normally done in conjunction with the author.
In addition, the discretion is vested in the editor in deciding whether or not to publish an article, editorial submission, or letter. Such a decision shall not be based on any particular point of view or worldview of the editor. However, a decision not to publish an editorial submission may be because the editor considers it inappropriate to the target audience, dishonest, deliberately and maliciously misleading, or having an improper hidden agenda.