Welcome to DMPedia Our Code of Ethics & Guidelines outlines the integrity, respect, and ethical conduct standards that all members must uphold in their research and academic work.
- Legal Compliance: Members must ensure all professional activities are legal and adhere to relevant legislation. This includes implementing appropriate practices, procedures, and systems and maintaining a readily accessible privacy policy for participants.
- Honesty and Objectivity: Members must conduct their professional activities honestly and objectively, adhering to accepted scientific research principles, methods, and techniques.
- Professional Responsibility: All activities should be carried out with a sense of professional responsibility and in line with the principles of fair competition recognized in the business world.
- Reputation and Public Confidence: Members must avoid any actions that could discredit the profession, DMPedia , or its members or diminish public confidence in the field of research.
- Truthfulness: Members must not make false or misleading statements regarding their skills, experience, activities, or the organization’s.
- Respect for Colleagues: Members must not unjustifiably criticize other members.
- Participant Trust: Members must not abuse participants’ trust or exploit their lack of experience or knowledge.
- Participant Safety: Members must take all reasonable precautions to ensure that participants are not harmed or adversely affected due to their involvement in a project.
- Integrity and Confidentiality: Members must uphold the integrity of the research process and ensure the confidential treatment of participant information. Research activities must be separated from marketing activities, such as sales promotions and direct marketing.
- Ethical Research Practices: Members must never engage in activities under the guise of research that aim to manipulate, mislead, or coerce individuals. This applies to all stages of the research process, including proposal development, data collection, analysis, and reporting.