Terms of use

By using this site or its mobile application you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the platform. Where you take a membership, these terms and our privacy policy form the whole agreement between us.

We may change these terms. Where a change is material we will say so on the site and, if you hold a membership, by email, before it takes effect. Continuing to use the platform after that is acceptance.

Ardent Lens is an independent editorial platform published by Ardent Africa Technologies Ltd, registered in Ghana with its office in Accra. References to "we" and "us" mean that company.

You must give accurate registration details and keep your password secure. You are responsible for what happens under your account until you tell us it has been compromised, at which point we will help you secure it.

One account is for one person. Sharing credentials so that several people read on one membership is a breach of these terms, and it is the one we actually act on, because it is the difference between a publication readers fund and one they do not.

Memberships are sold in Ghana cedis and processed by Paystack. A monthly plan is charged to a card automatically each month until you cancel. An annual plan is a single payment, which may be made by card or by mobile money, and does not renew itself: we send a reminder before it ends so that nothing is taken from you without your action.

You may cancel at any time. Cancelling stops future charges and leaves your access in place until the end of the period you have already paid for. We do not pro-rate a part-used month.

Prices may change. An existing member is told before a change affects them and may cancel instead.

Everything published here, including text, images, data and the design of the site, belongs to us or is used with permission. You may read it, quote it with attribution, link to it, and share links freely. You may keep a personal copy.

You may not republish a piece in full, sell it, use it to train a machine learning model, or run automated extraction across the site, without our written agreement. Where you would like to republish something, ask. We consider requests case by case and we usually say yes to non-commercial ones.

You keep ownership of your comments. By posting one you give us a non-exclusive licence to display it on the platform and to quote it in related editorial contexts, which we exercise sparingly and with attribution.

Comments are moderated before they appear. We remove what is unlawful, abusive, defamatory, promotional or deliberately misleading. We do not remove a comment for disagreeing with the piece, and we will tell you why if we remove yours.

We work hard on accuracy and we correct errors visibly, as our process page describes. What we publish is journalism and analysis, and it is not legal, financial, medical or investment advice. Decisions you take on the basis of it are yours.

We aim to keep the platform available and we do not guarantee that it will be uninterrupted or error free. Links to other sites are provided for reference and we are not responsible for what those sites contain.

Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited under Ghanaian law.

Subject to that, our total liability to you in connection with the platform is limited to the amount you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss of profit, revenue or data.

You may close your account at any time. We may suspend or close an account that breaches these terms, and where we do we will say which term was breached. If we close a paid account other than for a breach, we refund the unused part of the period.

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Ghana, and the courts of Ghana have jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them.

If part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.

Questions about these terms go through the contact page and are answered by a person.