Code of Ethics

I, D. Schneider, Owner of the Diskus Index held at the Diskus web site, do hereby declare on behalf of myself, the team and any other evaluator(s), who may be contracted at any time by the Diskus Index to evaluate award programs to be sponsored by the Diskus Index, that we agree to advance and promote the Web site Evaluator Code of Ethics in order to ensure fairness to all applicants and to maintain the honor and integrity of applicants and evaluators.

We agree all critiques given will be constructive in nature because a positive comment is more productive.

We will refrain from criticism unless specifically requested by an applicant and/or member, and in such cases, will remain positive where possible in an effort to promote goodwill and advance the level of quality among internet sites.

We agree to allow eligibility to all applicants who meet the criteria of this index. We agree to be unitary in our eligibility requirements (criteria) and will fairly evaluate all sites/pages meeting the criteria which are submitted by any applicant. We further agree to clearly post these criteria.

We agree not to discriminate on grounds of race, gender, nation of origin, religion, profession, age, mental or physical handicap, or any other reason which is not globally viewed as an illegal trait or manner of conduct.

We agree to promote index criteria and to comply with the same. Time frames for changes will be posted two weeks before the final publishing of same with notices posted on our site, so all potential applicants can view and understand these changes.

We agree to evaluate web sites under the criteria which were in effect at the time of any and/or all application(s). If changes are made to criteria after an application is received, the submitted award program(s) will be evaluated using the criteria that were in effect when the applicant(s) initially submitted the award program(s).

We agree to immediately inform any criteria compliant applicant in writing, if the submitted site cannot be evaluated due to a conflict of interest, that would occur upon evaluating his/her award program. Such may occur upon being requested to evaluate the award program of a good friend. We will offer such an applicant a choice of evaluators you can pick from our membership listing.

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