Writer Contributor Terms

These terms apply to anyone who submits writing ("a piece" or "your work") to The Daily Dose Plus ("DD+", "we", "us") to be considered for publication. When you submit a piece, you are agreeing to these terms.

You confirm that you are at least 18 years old, or that you have permission from a parent or guardian to contribute.

You keep full ownership and copyright of anything you write for us. Submitting a piece does not give us ownership of it. It stays yours.

By submitting your work, you give DD+ permission to publish, edit (see Section 5), and share it across our platforms and channels. This includes:

• our website and mobile app,
• our newsletter and emails,
• our social media accounts (including short excerpts to promote the piece),
• audio versions of articles (we may use text-to-speech narration so people can listen to articles).

This permission has no time limit and is granted free of charge, but it does not transfer ownership — you still own the work (Section 2). We will always credit you as the author.

For the first 30 days after we publish your piece, please keep it exclusive to DD+ — don't publish the same piece on other websites or platforms during that window.

After 30 days, you are free to republish it anywhere you like. When you do, please credit DD+ as the original publisher — for example: "Originally published by The Daily Dose Plus."

We may edit your piece for clarity, length, grammar, and style. For any major changes to your meaning or argument, we'll try to run them by you before publishing.

Submitting a piece does not guarantee it will be published. We may decline, delay, or remove any submission at our discretion, including after publication.

When you submit a piece, you confirm that:

• It's yours and it's original. You wrote it. It is not copied or plagiarised from anyone else.
• It doesn't infringe anyone's rights. It doesn't breach someone else's copyright, and any images, quotes, or data you include are ones you have the right to use.
• It's truthful and fair. To the best of your knowledge, what you've written is accurate, and it is not defamatory (it doesn't make false statements that harm someone's reputation).
• You've disclosed any conflicts. If you have a personal or financial interest in what you're writing about, you've told us.

If a piece you submit turns out to breach these promises and causes a problem for DD+, you are responsible for that piece — not us.

Contributions to DD+ are currently unpaid. By submitting, you understand that you are not entitled to payment for your work unless we have agreed otherwise with you in writing, in advance.

If this changes in the future, any paid arrangement will be agreed separately and in writing.

We're building something for the Gambian community, and we ask contributors to write in good faith: be honest, fact-check your work, respect people, and follow any writer guidelines we share with you. We may decline to work with anyone who doesn't.

We may update these terms from time to time. If we make significant changes, we'll update the date at the top, and the terms in force when you submit a piece are the ones that apply to that submission.

Either of us can stop the contributor relationship at any time. If you ask us to remove a piece you wrote, we'll do our best to honour that, though we may keep records of what was published. Permission you've already given us to use a published piece (Section 3) continues for pieces already published, unless we agree otherwise.

These terms are governed by the laws of The Republic of The Gambia.