ETHICS & CONFIDENTIALITY

Our reputation stands or falls on our ethics and the way we protect our clients confidentiality.

We treat every client request with absolute confidentiality in order to protect your interests.  You can also rest assured that each subject request is performed only once and is never reused or resold to any other client.

 does not perform industrial espionage nor do we offer private investigation services.

AIIP Code of Ethical Business Practice

 is a member of and adheres to the Association of Independent Information Professionals’ (AIIP) code of ethical business practice.

“An Independent Information Professional is an entrepreneur who had demonstrated continuing expertise in the art of finding and organising information. An Information Professional provides information services on a contractual basis to more than one client and serves as an objective intermediary between the client and the information world.

An Information Professional bears the following responsibilities:

• Uphold the profession’s reputation for honesty, competence and confidentiality.
• Give clients the most current and accurate information possible within the budget and time frames provided by the clients.
• Help clients understand the sources of information used and the degree of reliability which can be expected from those sources.
• Accept only those projects which are legal and are not detrimental to the profession.
• Respect client confidentiality.
• Recognise intellectual property rights. Respect licensing agreements and other contracts. Explain to clients what their obligations might be with regard to intellectual property rights and licensing agreements.
• Maintain a professional relationship with libraries and comply with all their rules of access.
• Assume responsibility for employee’s compliance with this code."

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