Conduct

 
Unparalleled Membership Satisfaction:
We value our members, understand their business, and pledge our commitment to contribute to their success and satisfaction

Focus:
We put the industry's needs and interests at the center of everything we do.

Agility:
We embrace change and seize new opportunities.

Creativity:
We thrive on innovation and originality that encourages risk-taking and divergent voices.

Teamwork:
We value accomplishments, and seek opportunities to join with colleagues to advance the success of those we represent.

Respect:
We value our employees and commit to an environment where we treat each other with respect, recognize excellence and challenge each individual to grow personally and professionally.

Diversity:
We value the unique combination of qualities and contributions that each individual brings to our organization.

Trust:
We value the trust of our membership and work diligently to enhance their investment.

Responsibility:
We value the communities, in which our members, employees and their families live. We take pride in serving the public interest to improve our communities.

Integrity:
We value, above all, our integrity in everything we do, for the trust of our readers, viewers, listeners, members and subscribers.

Equality:
All employees and members are entitled to an equal opportunity. Be it free from discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin age, sex, disability, sexual preference or harassment, including spoken remarks, physical contact, or visual displays of offensive or inappropriate material. No Member, employee or partner is required to tolerate or submit to sexual advances as a condition of either employment or representation by this association.

As a Member of the NCIAA or related to the pursuit of the activities and programming supported by the NCIAA, I do hereby pledge to the NCIAA which I represent, that I:
 
• Will Continually endeavor to raise and enhance the quality of our profession.
• Will Maintain a dignity of manner in our craft and in the appearance of our places of business, and in all other forms of public contact.
• Will Show courtesy and good will towards other members, maintain a spirit of friendly cooperation and assistance towards our fellow craftsmen, and extend a helping hand wherever possible.
• Will Observe the highest standards of honesty in all business transactions, and avoid unfair business practices.
• Will not knowingly impersonate any person or entity, celebrity, the NCIAA, or falsely represent yourself or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity, including false titles, confusing technical data, descriptions, misleading or inaccurate terms or claims on any transactions.
• Will not Violate the legal rights of others (including their right to privacy), or violate the laws of any jurisdiction, or invade privacy by attempting to collect, store, or publish private or personally identifiable information, including, but not limited to, password, account information, email, credit card number, address, or other contact information without their consent.
• Will not use the site to obtain personally identifiable information, or to solicit, sell, promote, distribute or disseminate inappropriately, unauthorized or unsolicited advertising or promotional offers including, but not limited to, spam, contests, sweepstakes, junk mail, chain letters, pyramid schemes and trolling posts.
• Will not copy or reuse other members' content, such as their photos or videos, without their permission. Will not Upload or otherwise transmit data that you do not have the legal right to upload or transmit, that violates any patent, trademark, trade secret, or copyright, or that contains a virus or deliberately corrupted data. You acknowledge that you have full rights to transmit the data that you upload or post, and you accept full responsibility for its legality, reliability and appropriateness.
• Will not Upload or transmit any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, obscene, libelous, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable, inappropriate, or offensive to our community.
• Will not Engage in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits anyone’s use or enjoyment of the web site or the platform, or which, as determined by your association administrators, may harm the NCIAA, its members, its users, or expose them to liability. You agree to use this web site only for lawful purposes related to your membership.
• Will Recognize and subscribe to the authority of the NCIAA in all matters of interpretation of the Code of Ethics.

 Dealing with Ethics Violations
 
All efforts should be made to deal with ethics violations on a local level before bringing them to the national level. The following should serve as basic guidelines.
 
1. Any individual with whom another member has a dispute should be advised of the ethics violation in writing, over the local chapter President's signature (when available), and given a reasonable period in which to resolve the situation.
 
2. Should the issue not be resolved in a reasonable time frame, a letter should be sent by the local chapter President, to the NCIAA Executive Vice President, indicating the violation and what actions the local chapter has taken to resolve the dispute.
 
3. Following the Executive Vice President's review, and depending upon the nature of the violation, this issue may be referred to the NCIAA's Board of Directors, or possibly the Executive Board of Directors for further action.