Trust Center

Scope, organizational boundaries, and key definitions

These standards are intended to guide work performed under the Positive Space Media group and the operating-company and vertical names listed below. They apply as internal expectations to employees, contributors, contractors, and collaborators when acting for the relevant company, subject to role, engagement terms, and local requirements. Each operating company remains responsible for its own work and day-to-day judgments. A shared parent, common service, referral, hyperlink, investment, acquisition discussion, sponsorship, or project does not by itself make one company responsible for another party’s statements, products, debts, professional duties, or conduct.

Axis News Network

Public organizational description: News and editorial. Its subject verticals are Axis Climate, Axis Sports, Axis Health, Axis Space, Axis HBCU. This description is not proof of incorporation or ownership.

Axis Climate

Public organizational description: Axis News Network vertical. This description is not proof of incorporation or ownership.

Axis Sports

Public organizational description: Axis News Network vertical. This description is not proof of incorporation or ownership.

Axis Health

Public organizational description: Axis News Network vertical. This description is not proof of incorporation or ownership.

Axis Space

Public organizational description: Axis News Network vertical. This description is not proof of incorporation or ownership.

Axis HBCU

Public organizational description: Axis News Network vertical. This description is not proof of incorporation or ownership.

HUMAN Ideas Company

Public organizational description: Communications and creative. Its subject verticals are not separately listed. This description is not proof of incorporation or ownership.

Positive Space Productions

Public organizational description: Film and video production. Its subject verticals are not separately listed. This description is not proof of incorporation or ownership.

Editorial work

Journalism selected and produced for an audience under editorial judgment, including reporting, analysis, interviews, reviews, data work, photography, audio, and video.

Commercial or client work

Advertising, sponsorship, communications strategy, campaigns, branded material, commissioned production, licensing, and other work performed for compensation or another material benefit.

Material interest

A financial, familial, organizational, political, personal, or professional relationship that could reasonably be understood to affect judgment or how an audience evaluates the work.

Synthetic material

Text, imagery, audio, video, data, or other expression substantially created or altered by an automated or generative system rather than captured or authored in the manner an audience would ordinarily infer.

References to a standard, review, safeguard, or expectation describe how the organization intends work to be approached; they are not representations of audited performance, certification, universal implementation, legal status, or error-free operation. Particular assignments may require stronger safeguards. Where law, platform rules, professional obligations, or a signed agreement impose a different requirement, the applicable requirement controls.

Transparency, attribution, and understandable context

Transparency should help a reasonable person understand who made a communication, why it exists, what evidence supports it, and which interests may matter. Credits, bylines, dates, labels, methodology notes, ownership context, and disclosures should be placed where people are likely to encounter the relevant claim—not hidden behind vague language or presented only after a decision has been requested. Transparency does not require publication of confidential business information, private personal data, legally restricted material, security-sensitive detail, or information whose disclosure could expose a source or participant to avoidable harm.

• Distinguish fact reporting, analysis, opinion, advocacy, advertising, satire, reenactment, and synthetic material when the distinction would not otherwise be apparent.
• Identify meaningful corrections, updates, republication, archival context, and material limitations of datasets or demonstrations.
• Do not manufacture testimonials, audience reactions, consensus, urgency, scarcity, credentials, case studies, or performance results.
• Use plain descriptions of relationships and disclose material assumptions and uncertainty without implying endorsement or using false balance to obscure well-supported evidence.

Transparency is not satisfied by technically accurate but misleading fragments. Headlines, thumbnails, excerpts, charts, and captions should fairly represent the underlying work. Material qualifications should travel with reused claims. If a disclosure cannot be made clearly, the communication should be redesigned, delayed, or declined.

Journalism, sourcing, correction, and editorial independence

Editorial personnel are expected to make coverage decisions on news value, public relevance, evidence, fairness, and available resources—not on whether a subject advertises, sponsors, invests, partners, purchases services, competes with, praises, or criticizes a group company. Commercial colleagues may identify public information or suggest subjects, as may any member of the public, but should not receive an unpublished article for approval or condition a commercial benefit on favorable coverage. Legitimate legal, safety, accuracy, rights, and standards review may occur without transferring editorial judgment to the reviewer.

Specialist journalism can involve climate and energy, health and care, finance and markets, space and aerospace, technology and cybersecurity, politics and public institutions, sports and betting, schools and education, or related fields. Reporting should identify the nature and limits of evidence; distinguish correlation, projection, allegation, and established fact; and seek appropriately qualified sources. It should not present generalized reporting as individualized medical, legal, investment, tax, safety, voting, or other professional advice. Readers should consult an appropriately qualified professional for decisions that depend on their circumstances.

• Prefer primary records, direct observation, on-record expertise, and reproducible data; verify consequential user-generated material before relying on it.
• Attribute information at a level that permits evaluation, unless a justified source-protection decision requires otherwise.
• Seek meaningful response from a person or organization facing significant criticism or allegation, state the substance fairly, provide a practical opportunity to respond when circumstances allow, and do not imply that no response proves the allegation.
• Corroborate anonymous or confidential-source claims according to their seriousness, understand the source’s access and motives, and narrow any confidentiality commitment to what can responsibly be honored.
• Avoid payment for factual access or testimony where payment could distort reliability; disclose unavoidable material arrangements.
• Handle embargoes, off-record discussions, background terms, and exclusivity through explicit agreement rather than assumption.

A correction request should be assessed against the published record and available evidence. A factual error should be corrected with prominence reasonably proportionate to its significance; material changes should ordinarily carry a note describing the correction, while routine spelling or formatting repairs need not. Updates should not quietly erase the history of a material mistake. Fair disagreements over interpretation may warrant clarification, additional context, an editor’s note, or no change. Removal is exceptional and may be considered for legal, safety, privacy, rights, identification, or fundamental accuracy reasons rather than merely because accurate coverage later becomes inconvenient.

Source privacy requires judgment throughout reporting, publication, storage, and follow-up. Staff should avoid collecting unnecessary identifying detail, limit internal access according to need, and consider whether metadata, quotations, images, locations, or contextual clues defeat an agreed anonymity. No public statement here promises a particular encryption method or absolute confidentiality. Sources should not send highly sensitive records through ordinary email without first discussing a suitable transfer method and the risks with the responsible contact.

Advertising, communications, sponsorship, and client work

Advertising, sponsorship, affiliate relationships, product placement, paid endorsements, branded or native content, and client-funded campaigns should be identifiable in direct, ordinary language appropriate to the medium. A logo alone, a house term unfamiliar to the audience, or a disclosure separated from the relevant material may be insufficient as an internal standard. The identity of the responsible sponsor or client should be stated when material, subject to lawful confidentiality that does not make the resulting communication deceptive.

Communications and creative teams should not fabricate independent editorial coverage, grassroots support, consumer experience, research findings, or third-party approval. Claims supplied by a client remain subject to reasonable substantiation and context; a client instruction does not excuse a misleading claim. Testimonials and influencer work should reflect genuine experience and disclose material connections. Regulated or high-consequence subjects call for qualified review and careful audience targeting, but this standard does not represent that any particular campaign has received legal clearance.

• Define the client, audience, deliverables, approval authority, usage rights, disclosure plan, and records expected for the engagement.
• Separate editorial files, deliberations, and publication decisions from client-service access unless a documented editorial purpose requires access.
• Do not promise favorable news treatment, suppression of legitimate reporting, or editorial access as consideration for commercial work.
• Identify materially sponsored research, events, travel, access, gifts, samples, or production support.
• Decline tactics designed to impersonate a person, conceal the true speaker, exploit a vulnerable audience, or evade a platform’s material disclosure tools.

Technology, software, research, data, and artificial intelligence

Technology should be selected and used in service of a defined human purpose. Product and research teams are expected to consider reliability, privacy, accessibility, security, foreseeable misuse, affected communities, rights, and reversibility in proportion to the risk. A prototype, model output, ranking, forecast, visualization, or automated recommendation should not be represented as more complete or certain than its inputs and validation support. Published research should identify material methods, sponsors, limitations, and conflicts where feasible.

A person remains accountable for a consequential publication or decision assisted by artificial intelligence. Generative output is not a source and should not be cited as proof. Material factual claims should be checked against reliable underlying sources; code and calculations should receive review appropriate to their use. Teams should not place confidential, embargoed, personal, client-restricted, source-identifying, or rights-controlled material into a tool unless the use is authorized and the tool’s handling terms are suitable.

Human accountability

An identifiable person or responsible team owns the decision to use an automated system and the resulting work, including review, correction, escalation, and withdrawal.

Meaningful disclosure

Synthetic or materially altered content is labeled when its origin or alteration would affect how a reasonable audience interprets authenticity, evidence, authorship, or consent.

Prohibited fabrication

Automated systems should not be used to invent quotes, sources, documents, field observations, test results, credentials, or documentary events, or to falsely place a real person in words, conduct, or circumstances.

Risk-sensitive review

The depth of testing, approval, monitoring, and fallback planning should rise with potential harm, scale, irreversibility, sensitivity, and the vulnerability of affected people.

Production, entertainment, intellectual property, and likeness

Film, video, audio, live, music, and entertainment work should begin with a practical rights plan. Before release, the responsible team should identify the chain of title and intended territories, media, term, edits, promotion, archival use, and distribution channels; obtain releases and licenses appropriate to the intended use; and preserve records of material permissions. Clearance needs may include scripts, underlying works, music composition and master rights, performances, photographs, footage, artwork, trademarks, locations, archives, guild or collective obligations, and publicity or likeness interests.

Consent should be informed enough for the context and should not be inferred from mere presence where a reasonable person would expect permission. Extra care is expected for minors, sensitive personal stories, grief, health information, intimate material, and people in dependent or coercive circumstances. Documentary editing may condense events but should not materially falsify what occurred. Reenactments, composites, dubbed or translated speech, synthetic voices, and substantial digital alteration should be disclosed when audiences might otherwise mistake them for contemporaneous evidence.

• Do not assume that online availability means a work, performance, name, image, voice, or clip is free to use.
• Document contributor credit, compensation, exclusivity, edit, promotional, reuse, and approval terms rather than relying on informal expectations.
• Use music and talent only within the rights actually obtained; assess new formats, trailers, excerpts, and platform uses before reuse.
• Avoid implied endorsement, and route credible ownership, license-scope, privacy, or likeness objections for review.

A takedown or licensing request should identify the work, exact URL or asset, claimed rights, basis for authority, disputed use, requested action, and reliable contact information. The organization may seek supporting information and may preserve relevant records. Submission does not guarantee removal, payment, attribution, or a particular response time. Countervailing public-interest, contractual, editorial, and lawful-use considerations may require a fact-specific assessment.

Privacy, dignity, and sensitive information

Teams should collect, access, use, share, retain, and dispose of personal information for a defined and appropriate purpose, in a manner proportionate to sensitivity and need. Public availability does not eliminate privacy, dignity, accuracy, or safety considerations. Reporting in the public interest may justify practices different from ordinary commercial processing, but that judgment should consider necessity, alternatives, foreseeable harm, the person’s role, and the value of the information to the audience.

• Avoid publishing unnecessary addresses, contact details, identity documents, precise locations, account credentials, or details that facilitate harassment or physical harm.
• Verify identity and authority before acting on a request involving another person’s information.
• Treat children’s information, health details, financial details, precise location, private communications, and identity or safety risks as requiring heightened care.
• Do not solicit passwords, payment-card details, government identifiers, medical records, or other highly sensitive information through ordinary email.

The Privacy Policy provides the public notice for website and related processing within its stated scope. This Trust Center does not expand that notice, promise a particular retention period, or state that all requests have the same legal status. Privacy questions should identify the relevant product, interaction, account or communication, approximate date, and requested action while omitting unnecessary sensitive material.

Accessibility and inclusive participation

The organization aims to make digital experiences, journalism, campaigns, productions, events, and communications usable by people with varied disabilities and technologies. Accessibility is ongoing work, not a completed status. Teams should consider keyboard operation, focus, semantic structure, text alternatives, captions and transcripts, contrast, zoom and reflow, forms, screen readers, touch targets, and motion controls. Third-party tools may present limits outside immediate control, but teams should seek usable alternatives where reasonably possible.

Integrity, conflicts, gifts, and accountability

People acting for a group company should protect the organization’s judgment from undisclosed material interests. Potential conflicts should be raised before a person participates in a selection, coverage, procurement, investment, hiring, award, partnership, or client decision where feasible. Disclosure permits assessment; it does not automatically cure the conflict. Responses may include documentation, independent review, reassignment, recusal, additional disclosure, revised terms, or declining the matter.

• Do not solicit or accept cash, kickbacks, undisclosed commissions, or benefits intended to influence professional judgment.
• Avoid gifts, travel, entertainment, discounts, samples, or hospitality that are excessive for the context or create a reasonable appearance of obligation; disclose material support relevant to published work.
• Do not trade, invest, wager, or tip another person using material nonpublic information learned through work.
• Do not use confidential pitches, submissions, source material, client strategy, or procurement information for personal advantage or another assignment without authorization.
• Keep political or advocacy activity from being presented as an organizational position unless authorized, and disclose relevant participation when it materially bears on assigned work.

Governance should be documented at the level appropriate to a decision’s consequence. Records may include the decision owner, evidence considered, competing interests, approval, contractual authority, dissent, follow-up, and review date. This framework does not claim a particular board, officer, committee, hotline, or assurance structure. The separate Governance Framework describes expectations for decisions, change, procurement, workforce conduct, and concerns.

Audiences, minors, community safety, and equitable treatment

Audience growth does not justify avoidable humiliation, harassment, discrimination, manipulation, or exposure to foreseeable harm. Community spaces should use understandable participation rules and proportionate moderation. Enforcement should consider context and safety while avoiding favoritism based on viewpoint, customer status, fame, or proximity to the organization. Criticism, disagreement, and reporting on offensive ideas are not inherently abuse; credible threats, targeted harassment, doxxing, exploitation, and coordinated manipulation require different treatment.

Work involving minors should account for age, comprehension, parental or guardian authority where appropriate, the child’s own assent and welfare, power imbalance, future discoverability, and the possibility that identifying details create lasting harm. A guardian’s permission does not end the ethical inquiry. Commercial communications should not exploit children’s limited ability to recognize persuasion, and community features should not invite minors to disclose sensitive information publicly.

• Represent communities as people with agency and varied perspectives, not as props, stereotypes, or interchangeable examples.
• Use identity characteristics only when relevant and describe people in accurate, respectful, and context-sensitive language.
• Consider warnings, redaction, delayed publication, restricted imagery, or resource information for traumatic, graphic, self-harm, abuse, or exploitation material.
• Direct emergencies to appropriate emergency or local services; ordinary organizational inboxes are not emergency channels.

Ventures, acquisitions, partnerships, procurement, and third parties

A proposed investment, acquisition, joint project, distribution relationship, vendor engagement, grant, or strategic partnership should be assessed in proportion to its scale and risk. Relevant diligence may include authority, ownership and control, financial and operational capacity, reputation, conflicts, rights, data access, security, accessibility, labor practices, safety, sanctions or geographic constraints, environmental impact, insurance, subcontracting, and exit or continuity needs. The appropriate inquiry depends on facts; this list is an internal planning expectation, not a representation that every item applies or has been independently audited.

Public descriptions must accurately distinguish an operating company, editorial vertical, client, supplier, portfolio interest, co-producer, licensee, sponsor, and informal collaborator. Negotiation, investment, acquisition, or partnership discussion should not be described as completed before authorization and closing conditions are satisfied. Unless an agreement says otherwise, a third party speaks for itself, controls its own services, employs its own people, and remains responsible for its conduct.

• Use documented selection criteria reasonably connected to quality, cost, capability, integrity, accessibility, continuity, and impact.
• Disclose personal or financial interests in a bidder, target, intermediary, or partner and remove conflicted participants where appropriate.
• Define data, confidentiality, security, intellectual-property, publicity, subcontracting, audit or information, incident, termination, and transition expectations in suitable agreements.
• Do not use an intermediary for rejected conduct; respond proportionately to credible warning signs.

Workforce ethics and equitable treatment

Work should reflect dignity, honest expectations, appropriate authority, and equitable opportunity. Employment and contributor decisions should rest on legitimate role and business considerations, not favoritism, retaliation, harassment, or irrelevant personal characteristics. Scope, credit, compensation, ownership, safety, and material changes should be communicated clearly. No one should be directed to misstate facts, hide a commercial relationship, misuse confidential information, accept unsafe conditions, or ignore a credible concern. Good-faith reports should receive respectful, need-to-know assessment, but this standard does not promise anonymity, statutory whistleblower status, or a fixed investigation process. Hiring inquiries belong only in the designated careers experience, and nonemployees should not be represented as employees or agents.

Raising a concern, requesting review, and preserving safety

A useful concern identifies the company or publication, URL or asset, title, date, specific statement or conduct, why it is inaccurate or harmful, the requested outcome, and evidence the sender is authorized to share. For a right-of-reply issue, include the relevant allegation and the response sought for consideration. For rights matters, identify the protected work and basis of authority. For accessibility, identify the task, device, browser, assistive technology if relevant, and an acceptable alternative. Concise, specific reports can be routed more reliably than broad demands.

Corrections, legal objections, and right of reply

legal@positivespacemedia.com is the public route for a specific factual dispute, legal notice, or request to add a material response.

Privacy

privacy@positivespacemedia.com is the public route for questions or requests concerning personal information within the applicable policy’s scope.

Licensing, copyright, trademark, and likeness

licensing@positivespacemedia.com is the public route for permissions, license proposals, ownership concerns, and use of names, marks, footage, music, or other protected material.

Accessibility or general standards concern

info@positivespacemedia.com is the public route for a barrier report, request for a usable alternative, or concern that does not fit another category.

Do not send passwords, payment credentials, government identifiers, complete medical or financial records, source-identifying material, or other highly sensitive information through ordinary email. Send an initial description and ask whether another method is appropriate. Email is not an emergency service and may not be continuously monitored. Contacting an inbox does not create an attorney-client, confidential, fiduciary, employment, or professional-adviser relationship, and no response time or outcome is guaranteed.

Concerns should be routed to a person able to assess the subject with reasonable independence, preserve relevant material, seek facts from affected parties, and record the disposition at a level proportionate to the issue. Outcomes may include correction, clarification, label, accessibility alternative, restriction, removal, process change, contractual action, no action, or referral. Privacy, source safety, legal duties, and personnel confidentiality may limit the detail that can be returned to a complainant.

Records, change governance, review, and limits

Long-term stewardship requires useful records without indiscriminate collection. Approvals, source support, versions, licenses, releases, disclosures, research methods, corrections, and significant decisions should be retained according to operational, contractual, legal, historical, and safety needs. Records should reconstruct consequential decisions, use purpose-based access, and respect known preservation needs.

Material product, editorial, campaign, model, data, distribution, organizational, or policy changes should identify an owner, affected people, dependencies, risks, communications, fallback, and review. Urgent action may precede documentation to reduce harm, but rationale and follow-up should be recorded. Archives may retain their original context unless correction, safety, or a continuing representation warrants revision.

These standards are intended to support judgment rather than substitute for it. They may be revised as the organization, its work, risks, and public understanding evolve. The displayed update date is informational and is not a legal effective date. Publication does not establish certification, audited compliance, a warranty, enforceable beneficiary rights, or a promise that every error will be prevented. Applicable law and signed agreements remain controlling, and questions about legal rights should be directed to qualified independent counsel.