Goldenrubikon - Code of Professional Ethics

Code of Professional Ethics, Copyright and Privacy statement.

Code of Professional Ethics

We operate to the code of professional ethics set out by the American Board of Neuro Linguistic Programming (ABNLP) for all of its members. The following is a summary of the code which is most likely to be of interest to our clients.

1. The Member shall conduct sessions at all times in a professional manner within a professional setting.

2. All matters between the Member and Client shall be confidential. No third party shall have access to information given to the Member by the Client. Except where: a) the Client has granted permission in writing to divulge private information; b) life is at risk by withholding private information; or c) by force of law.

3. The Member shall at all times conduct him/herself in a manner appropriate to a coach / client relationship.

4. The Member shall keep up-to-date with material and innovation in their field of Interest.

5. Prior to entering into any professional relationship, the Member shall disclose to the Client the nature and purpose of the coaching, the anticipated duration and potential cost of the coaching. No service will be provided until an informed consent is secured from the client.

6. If during the course of a session, information is disclosed that would suggest that a referral or consultation with other professionals would be appropriate, the session shall be terminated and the referral or consultation shall be made if requested by the Client.

7. A Member shall terminate his/her relationship with a Client when the Client can no longer benefit from continued service and shall not provide service if the Member does not in good faith believe that the Client will benefit from the services provided.

Copyright & Privacy Statement

Copyright

You are permitted to view the contents of this site on screen. You are also permitted to print one copy of reasonable extracts from the site for your personal use or private study and to save one copy of such reasonable extracts to your local computer storage for your personal use or private study. All other copying or distribution of any of the contents of this site is strictly forbidden. If you are viewing this site in the course of your or your employer's business you must observe the restrictions set out above.

Other than as necessary for the purposes of viewing the site, it is strictly forbidden to copy any material on this site for commercial use in the course of a business or to store any or all of the contents of this site on a proxy server, cache or other similar form of storage.

Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. Please take the time to review this policy regarding our handling of your information. Our privacy policy may change from time to time, so please return regularly to review it. If you have any questions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us. We appreciate your comments and suggestions.

You may voluntarily provide us with information about yourself at various places on the The Golden Rubikon site. In addition, The Golden Rubikon, our webmaster or one of our other service providers may use "cookies" or other means to passively collect information about your use of the site. A "cookie" is a piece of data stored on your computer's hard drive, which contains information about your online activities. The information we collect through cookies may be combined with other personally identifiable information available from our records and other sources.

The information we collect may be used to improve the content of our site, to make our future marketing efforts more efficient, to notify you about news, special offers, services and events, or for other purposes. We will not disclose your details to any other party unless required to do so by law.

If you do not wish to receive our mailings or e-mail notices, or if you do not wish your name to be given to others, please contact us. However, we will disclose information to law enforcement or other government officials if we believe it necessary or appropriate to do so. We also reserve the right to include all our user information with our other business assets if we ever transfer the business.

We welcome your comments regarding our site. However, any comments, ideas, suggestions, or other information you transmit to the site are not confidential or proprietary. The Golden Rubikon will be free to use any comment, idea, suggestion or other information you make available to us through the site on an unrestricted basis. The Golden Rubikon takes care to protect the security of your information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure. Please be aware, however, that transmissions to the website may be intercepted and read by others and The Golden Rubikon cannot be responsible for any such interception.