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VIOLATIONS OF THIS POLICY. If the NAPO Executive Director, the NAPO Executive Committee, a chapter’s Executive Committee, or the BCPO® Board of Directors has reasonable cause to believe that an Interested Person has failed to make a disclosure required by this Policy, the Interested Person shall be informed of the basis for such belief and shall be afforded an opportunity to explain the alleged failure to disclose. If, after hearing the Interested Person’s response and making any further investigation warranted by the circumstances, the Executive Director, Executive Committee or Board of Directors determines that the Interested Person has failed to disclose an actual or potential conflict of interest, appropriate disciplinary and corrective action, up to and including removal from a NAPO, NAPO chapter, or BCPO® office or staff position and expulsion from NAPO, shall be taken. CODE OF CONDUCT Code of Conduct: Intro The following document expresses the code of conduct expected of all NAPO, NAPO chapter, and BCPO® volunteers, board members, and staff. Those acting on behalf of NAPO, its chapters, and BCPO® have a general duty to conduct themselves with honesty and trustworthiness, with efficiency and effectiveness, and to demonstrate accountability and compliance with state and federal laws, and Board policies and system procedures. Code of Conduct: Acknowledgment Form As a member of the NAPO, a NAPO chapter, or BCPO® Board of Directors, committee, or task force, I will: • Comply in all respects with the NAPO Conflict of Interest Policy, abstaining from voting upon or attempting to influence the Board with respect to issues as to which I am conflicted • Listen carefully to other NAPO Volunteers; • Carefully consider and respect the opinions of other Board, committee, or task force members; • Respect and support all majority decisions of the Board, committee, or task force members; • Recognize the authority vested in the Board, committee, or task force; • Participate actively in Board, committee, or task force meetings and actions and not discuss elsewhere what I am unwilling to discuss in Board, committee, or task force meetings; • Bring to the attention of the Board, committee, or task force any issues I believe will have a significant effect on our organization or those we serve; • Attempt to communicate the needs of those we serve to the Board, committee or taskforce; • Refer complaints directly to the proper level in the chain of command; • Recognize my job is to ensure that the organization is well-managed, not necessarily to manage the organization; • Work to learn how to do my job better. Additionally, if I’m a member of the NAPO, NAPO chapter, or the BCPO® Board of Directors, I will; • Represent all those whom this organization serves vs. geographic or special interest groups; • Consider myself a “trustee” of the organization and do my best to ensure it is well- maintained, financially secure, and always operating in accord with our stated objectives; As a member of the NAPO Board, committee, or task force, I shall not: • Use the organization or my position for my personal advantage or that of my friends, relatives, or associates, except that I may indicate my past and current NAPO, NAPO chapter, and/or BCPO® titles and activities in biographical material and respond to any requests for my services that may result from that material; • Discuss confidential proceedings of the Board, committee, or task force outside of the meeting to anyone not privy to the proceedings; • Promise how I will vote on any issue before hearing the discussion and becoming fully informed on that issue; • Interfere with the duties of staff or undermine the authority of our chief staff executive to perform his/her duties; and • Speak for or on behalf of the organization unless specifically authorized to do so. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (IP) Intellectual Property: Introduction Our NAPO, NAPO chapter, and BCPO® volunteers contribute greatly to the many member programs and projects NAPO, NAPO chapters, and BCPO® provide. The following assignment of copyright gives NAPO the rights to works produced while serving on the NAPO Board, and on any of its committees and task forces. Intellectual Property: Assignment of Copyright As a member of a Board, committee, or task Force of NAPO that assists NAPO in the development, modification and refinement of material for its various member projects and programs (collectively, the “Intellectual Property”), I hereby assign and agree to assign to NAPO, on my own all right, title, and interest in and to all of my contributions to the Intellectual Property, including but not limited to copyrighted information. CONFIDENTIALITY AND NON-DISCLOSURE Confidentiality and Nondisclosure: General Agreement NAPO, Inc., doing business as the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals (“NAPO”), is willing to provide you with confidential and proprietary NAPO information (“the Information”) relating to your specific Board, committee, or task force volunteer efforts. The sole purpose of your access to and use of the Information is to enable you to have full understanding of the issues relating to your volunteer activities. As a condition of furnishing such Information, NAPO requires that you agree, as set forth below, not to disclose the Information (print or verbal) to any other person or entity and to treat the Information confidentially. You agree that, unless disclosure of the Information is specifically authorized in writing by the NAPO Board, the Information will be kept in strict confidence by you and will not be disclosed to any other person or entity or used by you other than for the purpose described above. If requested by NAPO, you will promptly return the Information to NAPO, without retaining any copy thereof in any medium, and you agree that none of the Information disclosed hereunder shall be used in any manner or for any purposes not permitted hereunder. You acknowledge that the Information and all intellectual property associated with the Information are and shall remain the sole and exclusive property of NAPO. You acknowledge that upon any breach or threatened breach of this Agreement, NAPO will be entitled to specific performance of the provisions hereof and to injunctive relief to enforce its rights hereunder. You further agree that no failure or delay by NAPO in exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise thereof preclude any other or further exercise of any right, power or privilege hereunder. In the case of NAPO’s chapters, the above Confidentiality and Nondisclosure General Agreement applies to confidential and proprietary NAPO chapter information. Any reference to NAPO in the Confidentiality and Nondisclosure General Agreement is interpreted to be the NAPO chapter. Confidentiality and Nondisclosure: Board of Certification for Professional Organizers® Confidentiality Agreement In order to protect the integrity and credibility of the Board of Certification for Professional Organizers® certification examination program, those involved in any way with developing or administering the program must avoid situations involving an actual or perceived conflict of interest. Each member of the BCPO® Board of Directors, Examination Development and Resource Committees, Scheme/Program Development Committee, Professional Practices Committee, Ethics Complaint Committee, Marketing Committee, Nominating Committee and any Sub- Committees, Special Task Forces, or any other participant privy to the development or administration of the CPO® program, is prohibited from participating in any activity that results in loss of confidentiality of the BCPO® certification examination, documentation and/or administrative records. I hereby swear and affirm that I shall not disclose or provide to anyone, directly or indirectly, any information or documents to which I have been made privy during development, administration and/or maintenance of the Board of Certification for Professional Organizers® Certified Professional Organizer® program(s) and activities, as outlined in the attached Confidentiality Policies Document. I also swear and affirm that I shall not disclose or provide to anyone, directly or indirectly, any information or documents to which I have been made privy during the development, administration and/or preparation of the Board of Certification for Professional Organizers® Certified Professional Organizer® examination(s) rendered by Xxxxxxxxx Measurement Technologies, Inc. I further certify and affirm that, in no capacity that could interfere or conflict with my BCPO® responsibilities, do I work for, attend, or have any affiliation with an examination preparation school; nor have I had such associations for the last three years. This is not meant to include continued personal continuing education activities. It is understood that all documents, correspondence or confidential information received from the Board of Certification for Professional Organizers® (BCPO®), are and shall remain the exclusive property of BCPO® and that all such documents or information shall be returned promptly to BCPO® upon request. It is understood that all documents, correspondence or examination questions or confidential information received from Xxxxxxxxx Measurement Technologies, Inc., are and shall remain the exclusive property of Xxxxxxxxx Measurement Technologies, Inc., and that all such documents or information shall be returned promptly to Xxxxxxxxx Measurement Technologies, Inc. upon request. All Board and Committee members are prohibited from planning or teaching review content or courses for the BCPO® certification examination while serving on the Board or Committees, and for one year thereafter. In addition, members of the BCPO® Board of Directors or Scheme/Program Development Committee are prohibited from concurrently serving on the NAPO Board of Directors, unless they are serving in the capacity of NAPO Board Liaison to the BCPO® Board. Confidentiality and Non-disclosure: Board of Certification for Professional Organizers® Confidentiality Policies BCPO® documents and processes subject bound to this agreement include, but are not limited to: • Identity and/or contact information for any applicant or candidate for the BCPO® Examination for Certified Professional Organizers® • Score reports for any applicant or candidate for the BCPO® Examination for Certified Professional Organizers® • Identity and/or contact information for any applicant or candidate for the BCPO® Examination for Certified Professional Organizers® who has been identified for an audit. • Details or results of the Audit Committee’s documents, deliberations and determinations. • Identity and/or contact information for any CPO® who fails to recertify, either by choice, failure to pass the examination, failure to pay the required Annual Maintenance Fees (AMF) or failure of audit. • Individual CPO® records as housed in the BCPO® Database. • Identity and/or contact information for any CPO® involved in any phase of the BCPO® Ethics Complaint Procedure. • Any BCPO® Ethics Complaint Committee communications prior to final determination and recommendation to the BCPO® Board, if required. • All documentation related to Examination Development, including Training documents, Test Forms, Technical Test Reports, Cut Score Study Reports, Item Writing Workshop Reports and other statistical reports used in referencing or editing Test Items, are available only to the Chair of the Item Writing Committee and their BCPO® Board Liaison. All official BCPO® documents housed in the BCPO® Document Library, are identified with a series of permissions which determines the level of confidentiality. Any individual with permission to view documents may not share those documents with any other individual who does not have the same permissions. BCPO® Board documents, including minutes, budgets and reports, may only be accessed by current BCPO® Board members. NAPO WHISTLEBLOWER POLICY NAPO Whistleblower Policy: Policy Statement National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals– WHISTLEBLOWER POLICY Procedures for the Submission of Complaints or Concerns Regarding Financial Statement or other Disclosures, Accounting, Internal Accounting or Disclosure Controls, or Auditing Matters National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals (NAPO) has a responsibility for the stewardship of its resources. In addition to complying with the law, it is the policy of the Association to promote ethical practices and ethical treatment of its members and staff (if applicable). Instances of known or suspected misuse of NAPO resources or other improper activities should be reported and appropriately investigated. Members, directors and staff (if applicable) have a responsibility to each other and to the organization to maintain an environment in which (i) problems are reported and addressed immediately, and (ii) those who make such reports are protected from retaliation. NAPO endorses and utilizes internal controls and operating procedures intended to prevent and detect improper activities. The objective of the NAPO Whistleblower Policy is to establish policies and procedures for:

VIOLATIONS OF THIS POLICY. If the NAPO Executive Director, the NAPO Executive Committee, a chapter’s Executive Committee, or the BCPO® Board of Directors has reasonable cause to believe that an Interested Person has failed to make a disclosure required by this Policy, the Interested Person shall be informed of the basis for such belief and shall be afforded an opportunity to explain the alleged failure to disclose. If, after hearing the Interested Person’s response and making any further investigation warranted by the circumstances, the Executive Director, Executive Committee or Board of Directors determines that the Interested Person has failed to disclose an actual or potential conflict of interest, appropriate disciplinary and corrective action, up to and including removal from a NAPO, NAPO chapter, or BCPO® office or staff position and expulsion from NAPO, shall be taken. CODE OF CONDUCT Code of Conduct: Intro The following document expresses the code of conduct expected of all NAPO, NAPO chapter, and BCPO® volunteers, board members, and staff. Those acting on behalf of NAPO, its chapters, and BCPO® have a general duty to conduct themselves with honesty and trustworthiness, with efficiency and effectiveness, and to demonstrate accountability and compliance with state and federal laws, and Board policies and system procedures. Code of Conduct: Acknowledgment Form As a member of the NAPO, a NAPO chapter, or BCPO® Board of Directors, committee, or task force, I will: • Comply in all respects with the NAPO Conflict of Interest Policy, abstaining from voting upon or attempting to influence the Board with respect to issues as to which I am conflicted • Listen carefully to other NAPO Volunteers; • Carefully consider and respect the opinions of other Board, committee, or task force members; • Respect and support all majority decisions of the Board, committee, or task force members; • Abide by the NAPO Code of Ethics; • Recognize the authority vested in the Board, committee, or task force; • Participate actively in Board, committee, or task force meetings and actions and not discuss elsewhere what I am unwilling to discuss in Board, committee, or task force meetings; • Bring to the attention of the Board, committee, or task force any issues I believe will have a significant effect on our organization or those we serve; • Attempt to communicate the needs of those we serve to the Board, committee or taskforce; • Refer complaints directly to the proper level in the chain of command; • Recognize my job is to ensure that the organization is well-managed, not necessarily to manage the organization; • Work to learn how to do my job better. Additionally, if I’m a member of the NAPO, NAPO chapter, or the BCPO® Board of Directors, I will; • Represent all those whom this organization serves vs. geographic or special interest groups; • Consider myself a “trustee” of the organization and do my best to ensure it is well- maintained, financially secure, and always operating in accord with our stated objectives; As a member of the NAPO Board, committee, or task force, I shall not: • Use the organization or my position for my personal advantage or that of my friends, relatives, or associates, except that I may indicate my past and current NAPO, NAPO chapter, and/or BCPO® titles and activities in biographical material and respond to any requests for my services that may result from that material; • Discuss confidential proceedings of the Board, committee, or task force outside of the meeting to anyone not privy to the proceedings; • Promise how I will vote on any issue before hearing the discussion and becoming fully informed on that issue; • Interfere with the duties of staff or undermine the authority of our chief staff executive to perform his/her duties; and • Speak for or on behalf of the organization unless specifically authorized to do so. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (IP) Intellectual Property: Introduction Our NAPO, NAPO chapter, and BCPO® volunteers contribute greatly to the many member programs and projects NAPO, NAPO chapters, and BCPO® provide. The following assignment of copyright gives NAPO the rights to works produced while serving on the NAPO Board, and on any of its committees and task forces. Intellectual Property: Assignment of Copyright As a member of a Board, committee, or task Force of NAPO that assists NAPO in the development, modification and refinement of material for its various member projects and programs (collectively, the “Intellectual Property”), I hereby assign and agree to assign to NAPO, on my own all right, title, and interest in and to all of my contributions to the Intellectual Property, including but not limited to copyrighted information. CONFIDENTIALITY AND NON-DISCLOSURE Confidentiality and Nondisclosure: General Agreement NAPO, Inc., doing business as the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals (“NAPO”), is willing to provide you with confidential and proprietary NAPO information (“the Information”) relating to your specific Board, committee, or task force volunteer efforts. The sole purpose of your access to and use of the Information is to enable you to have full understanding of the issues relating to your volunteer activities. As a condition of furnishing such Information, NAPO requires that you agree, as set forth below, not to disclose the Information (print or verbal) to any other person or entity and to treat the Information confidentially. You agree that, unless disclosure of the Information is specifically authorized in writing by the NAPO Board, the Information will be kept in strict confidence by you and will not be disclosed to any other person or entity or used by you other than for the purpose described above. If requested by NAPO, you will promptly return the Information to NAPO, without retaining any copy thereof in any medium, and you agree that none of the Information disclosed hereunder shall be used in any manner or for any purposes not permitted hereunder. You acknowledge that the Information and all intellectual property associated with the Information are and shall remain the sole and exclusive property of NAPO. You acknowledge that upon any breach or threatened breach of this Agreement, NAPO will be entitled to specific performance of the provisions hereof and to injunctive relief to enforce its rights hereunder. You further agree that no failure or delay by NAPO in exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise thereof preclude any other or further exercise of any right, power or privilege hereunder. In the case of NAPO’s chapters, the above Confidentiality and Nondisclosure General Agreement applies to confidential and proprietary NAPO chapter information. Any reference to NAPO in the Confidentiality and Nondisclosure General Agreement is interpreted to be the NAPO chapter. Confidentiality and Nondisclosure: Board of Certification for Professional Organizers® Confidentiality Agreement In order to protect the integrity and credibility of the Board of Certification for Professional Organizers® certification examination program, those involved in any way with developing or administering the program must avoid situations involving an actual or perceived conflict of interest. Each member of the BCPO® Board of Directors, Examination Development and Resource Committees, Scheme/Program Development Committee, Professional Practices Committee, Ethics Complaint Committee, Marketing Committee, Nominating Committee and any Sub- Committees, Special Task Forces, or any other participant privy to the development or administration of the CPO® program, is prohibited from participating in any activity that results in loss of confidentiality of the BCPO® certification examination, documentation and/or administrative records. I hereby swear and affirm that I shall not disclose or provide to anyone, directly or indirectly, any information or documents to which I have been made privy during development, administration and/or maintenance of the Board of Certification for Professional Organizers® Certified Professional Organizer® program(s) and activities, as outlined in the attached Confidentiality Policies Document. I also swear and affirm that I shall not disclose or provide to anyone, directly or indirectly, any information or documents to which I have been made privy during the development, administration and/or preparation of the Board of Certification for Professional Organizers® Certified Professional Organizer® examination(s) rendered by Xxxxxxxxx Measurement Technologies, Inc. I further certify and affirm that, in no capacity that could interfere or conflict with my BCPO® responsibilities, do I work for, attend, or have any affiliation with an examination preparation school; nor have I had such associations for the last three years. This is not meant to include continued personal continuing education activities. It is understood that all documents, correspondence or confidential information received from the Board of Certification for Professional Organizers® (BCPO®), are and shall remain the exclusive property of BCPO® and that all such documents or information shall be returned promptly to BCPO® upon request. It is understood that all documents, correspondence or examination questions or confidential information received from Xxxxxxxxx Measurement Technologies, Inc., are and shall remain the exclusive property of Xxxxxxxxx Measurement Technologies, Inc., and that all such documents or information shall be returned promptly to Xxxxxxxxx Measurement Technologies, Inc. upon request. All Board and Committee members are prohibited from planning or teaching review content or courses for the BCPO® certification examination while serving on the Board or Committees, and for one year thereafter. In addition, members of the BCPO® Board of Directors or Scheme/Program Development Committee are prohibited from concurrently serving on the NAPO Board of Directors, unless they are serving in the capacity of NAPO Board Liaison to the BCPO® Board. Confidentiality and Non-disclosure: Board of Certification for Professional Organizers® Confidentiality Policies BCPO® documents and processes subject bound to this agreement include, but are not limited to: • Identity and/or contact information for any applicant or candidate for the BCPO® Examination for Certified Professional Organizers® • Score reports for any applicant or candidate for the BCPO® Examination for Certified Professional Organizers® • Identity and/or contact information for any applicant or candidate for the BCPO® Examination for Certified Professional Organizers® who has been identified for an audit. • Details or results of the Audit Committee’s documents, deliberations and determinations. • Identity and/or contact information for any CPO® who fails to recertify, either by choice, failure to pass the examination, failure to pay the required Annual Maintenance Fees (AMF) or failure of audit. • Individual CPO® records as housed in the BCPO® Database. • Identity and/or contact information for any CPO® involved in any phase of the BCPO® Ethics Complaint Procedure. • Any BCPO® Ethics Complaint Committee communications prior to final determination and recommendation to the BCPO® Board, if required. • All documentation related to Examination Development, including Training documents, Test Forms, Technical Test Reports, Cut Score Study Reports, Item Writing Workshop Reports and other statistical reports used in referencing or editing Test Items, are available only to the Chair of the Item Writing Committee and their BCPO® Board Liaison. All official BCPO® documents housed in the BCPO® Document Library, are identified with a series of permissions which determines the level of confidentiality. Any individual with permission to view documents may not share those documents with any other individual who does not have the same permissions. BCPO® Board documents, including minutes, budgets and reports, may only be accessed by current BCPO® Board members. NAPO WHISTLEBLOWER POLICY NAPO Whistleblower Policy: Policy Statement National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals– WHISTLEBLOWER POLICY Procedures for the Submission of Complaints or Concerns Regarding Financial Statement or other Disclosures, Accounting, Internal Accounting or Disclosure Controls, or Auditing Matters National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals (NAPO) has a responsibility for the stewardship of its resources. In addition to complying with the law, it is the policy of the Association to promote ethical practices and ethical treatment of its members and staff (if applicable). Instances of known or suspected misuse of NAPO resources or other improper activities should be reported and appropriately investigated. Members, directors and staff (if applicable) have a responsibility to each other and to the organization to maintain an environment in which (i) problems are reported and addressed immediately, and (ii) those who make such reports are protected from retaliation. NAPO endorses and utilizes internal controls and operating procedures intended to prevent and detect improper activities. The objective of the NAPO Whistleblower Policy is to establish policies and procedures for: