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Company Policies

Client Work

All services are provided in a professional and competent manner.  We are committed to meeting all legal and regulatory requirements, including protection of copyright, industrial or intellectual property and privacy. 

If audit services are provided, they are aligned with those set out in the Guidelines for Quality and/or Environmental Management Systems Auditing, AS/NZS ISO 19011, unless otherwise agreed. 

Information Security and Confidentiality

We will keep your information secure and protected. 

In the course of working with you, we may gain access to confidential or sensitive information. This might include information about your strategic or business plans, operations, finances, methods of work, documents or intellectual property, personnel, services or products, customers, suppliers, stakeholders or other related parties, or other subjects.

We take all reasonable and practicable steps to protect your information.  It will not be divulged under any circumstances, except where information is within the public domain, disclosure is required by law or is permitted by your written consent.

Confidentiality is fundamental to what we do and we remain very mindful of its requirements.  Company personnel have signed specific confidentiality agreements and take their obligations seriously.  We will sign further specific agreements with you if required.

How wW Store & Protect Your Information
Anything provided to us by you, whether as documents, data, files or other media, is securely stored and protected from loss, misuse or unauthorised access.  Methods of protection and storage for IT assets include controlling all computer access via passwords, firewall, and anti-virus and spyware protection included regular scheduled scans and updates.  Storage media such as hard disks, USB, or CDs are reformatted/destroyed to prevent data retrieval. 

At the end of an assignment, project information is archived, and kept for up to 3 years.  After this, any hardcopy is shredded on site, then fed to our environmentally friendly worm farm which completes the destruction process by producing compost.  Electronic files are deleted.  If other arrangements apply to a specific project (eg, you wish materials returned to you), this is normally agreed in writing beforehand. 

Independence and Impartiality

We are an independent and impartial consultancy.  All the advice we provide is based upon our professional knowledge, skill and experience, the information you give us and professional judgement.

We do not represent any products or suppliers.  We do not recommend any products suppliers of services to you including external certifiers. 

Upon request, we will happily help with our knowledge and experience of suppliers of services or products, for example, third-party certifiers.  But we do not receive any financial benefit from doing so; apart from fees you are directly invoiced for, we receive no undisclosed financial or other benefit.  No kickbacks, no commissions, no hidden benefits.  This is a deliberate policy; we guard our impartiality carefully.  

We will not knowingly work in a situation where a conflict of interest exists or may arise.  If such a situation does occur, we will immediately disclose details to all parties and negotiate a suitable and fair outcome. 

Privacy & Email

We are committed to meeting the requirements of the Australian Privacy Act 1988 and the National Privacy Principles issued by the Australian Privacy Commissioner.    

Our site does not provide facilities for the secure transmission of information across the Internet. While the risk of anyone intercepting and misusing information transmitted by email is usually low, you should know that a determined individual with the right skills may be able to do this.

Information logged
When you visit our site, the server logs information which is provided by your browser. This information is used to create summary statistics, to assess what information is used, so that we can improve our site and its information.

Information logged is:
- your browser type; date and time of your visit
- your top level domain name, eg: .gov, .com, .au, .uk
- the address of the referring site
- your server's IP address (usually one of your service provider's machines)
- the pages accessed; any documents downloaded.
No attempt is made to identify users or their browsing activities, unless disclosure is required by law or due to a mandatory requirement (legal, governmental agency or regulatory authority). Information is used only for statistical analysis or systems administration purposes.

Email addresses, forms & cookies
If you send an email or form from a web page, we will receive your email address. This will be only:

  • seen by authorised personnel; we will never give it to anyone else without your consent
  • used for the purpose it was given
  • added to a mailing list with your explicit consent.

We do not use cookies to collect personal information nor track your activities. 

Links to other sites
This site contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for their privacy practices, and don't know whether they use cookies or other tracking devices. You should check their privacy policies.

Environmental Policy

We are committed to caring for and respecting the environment.  We aim for carbon-neutral operations.  We use & support environmentally friendly practices such as recycling and use of recycled materials (eg, all shredded material is composted on site and ultimately feeds the worms). We aim to reduce paper usage and minimise waste wherever possible. Environmental issues are considered when purchasing.

In line with our commitment, electronic media is preferred for storage, and accounts receivable and payable.  Invoices are sent electronically and EFT payments preferred; paper invoices are sent only if specifically requested. 

We monitor the carbon emissions produced by our operations at intervals and seek to reduce them.  Carbon neutrality is achieved via methods including offsets of carbon credits, low-impact methods of travel & careful attention to goods/services purchased.

Safety Policy

We are committed to a safe working environment for our personnel. At work, we expect our people to be responsible for their own safety, know our policies and guidelines, and minimise risk of injury or illness to themselves or colleagues.  We meet all required legislative and statutory requirements.

Credit Policy

Credit is offered to customers at the sole discretion of the Director.  Creditworthiness is usually verified by initial pre-payment of 50% of the fee for the first project, and subsequently by monitoring credit history.

Late payment
We pay our bills promptly; we rely upon clients to pay our bills promptly. 

If payment is late without prior agreement:

  • A late payment fee will be imposed for each month or part of it that the account remains overdue
  • Work will be suspended immediately, regardless of the impact of suspension on your project, until the account is paid in full
  • We may decline to provide any further services.

The late payment fee is based on the cost to us of finance and recovering your debt.

 

Collection of overdue bills:

Our primary source of income is payment for work already performed.  The Director intensely dislikes spending time on chasing up payment of overdue fees.  Such a situation also makes for poor business relationships. 

If a bill is overdue:  

  • At 5 days past due, a reminder about the account is sent
  • At 7 days past due, a formal letter is sent
  • At 15 days past due, a collection notice is sent.

If despite this the bill remains outstanding for 21 days or more, it is put in the hands of a debt collector with instructions to pursue the debt in full.

Cancellations: If a job is cancelled early, work done on a daily/hourly charge to that time is billed for and payable.  For a fixed-price job, work will be billed proportionately to the work performed.

*Intelligent Quality Management is a registered business name of Mapwright Pty Ltd, ABN 19 083 698 873.

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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