Ethics

We agree to maintain a professional, friendly and positive manner in any and/or all correspondence and/or communication held with any applicant(s) and/or members.

We agree to evaluate all submitted award programs within four weeks after receiving the submission. If this deadline cannot be met, we agree to suspend submissions until we can work within this timeframe again.

We agree to not divulging any information about any applicant to people, groups of people or agencies not directly connected to this index, and then only for the purpose of evaluating submissions and notify new members about their admission into the index. All information received from applicants via e-mail submissions or submission forms will be deemed private.

We agree to encourage and promote the use of original material for our award index criteria and evaluation processes. We agree to assist any person requesting advice concerning ethical evaluation for and the giving away of awards.

We agree to maintain any owned individual web site(s), that include awards program(s), to a standard, that meet the criteria of the Diskus Index. In the case of any award(s) offered, that is/are outside the main subject of our web site(s), any and/or all such web site(s) will be maintained to a high standard of integrity in all its/their main areas.

We agree to maximum dimensions of membership badges given in respect of the award programs, that will display them. If the maximum dimensions cannot be complied to then a mere text link will be permitted for graphics larger than maximum size. (Maximum size dimensions offered from this index are: no more than 85 pixels in width, 125 pixels in height and 6 kb in weight.)

We agree that we will not grant admission to, or in any other manner support or promote, any website that supports, promotes or contains contents which is considered globally as illegal or discriminatory, no matter if that would be against human or wildlife.

We agree that we will not accept any favours of any kind in exchange for preferential treatment of submissions. We will maintain a high standard of honesty and integrity at all times.

We agree that we will take all measures necessary to maintain the honor and integrity of this award index.

Adapted by Dieter Schneider, founder Diskus Award Index.

The Code of Ethics (COE) is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike United States License with credit being given to the in Award Community News   accordance with the terms of the License.

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