At ATechs we are committed to maintaining strict compliance standards. Our terms & conditions and agreement for both experts and clients covers a variety of compliance related matters. Most importantly we stress that experts do not violate contracts they may have with current employers, past employers, or other business relationships by disclosing information which is prohibited in those contracts. 

Terms & Conditions: This agreement commits experts to adhere to the applicable legal and contractual limitations on information disclosure and inappropriate use of protected information, including among others non-disclosure of non-public material information, protection of information subject to by confidentiality agreements and corporate codes of ethics, and prohibitions on many other forms of wrong-doing.

Expert Screening: Compliance screening establishes filters to deter the chosen experts from violating laws or contracts. The 5-tier screening process includes:

• Company filters
  
• Application reviews
  
• Screening questions for experts
  
• Conflict of interest and confidentiality agreement verification
  
• Client selection screening

Expert & Client Training: ATechs Project Managers perform and record live calls prior to all consultations. The purpose of these calls is to review consultation Do’s and Don’ts, verify the expert understands the terms and conditions, and re-check to make sure there are no conflicts of interest for a specific consultation. By learning these rules and regulations, experts are able to self-monitor and conduct consultations properly.

• Clients are informed they may not ask for upcoming quarterly numbers
  
• Experts are informed they are not allowed to give investment advice
  
• Both Experts and Clients are informed not to share confidential documents
  

Restrictions on Public Companies: Our clients are not allowed to speak with employees of companies with which they have an investment. Moreover, public companies may put themselves on an ATechs “Do Not Call” list and we shall refrain from contacting employees for expert engagements.

Detailed Compliance Reports: ATechs provides clients and compliance officers with detailed compliance reports to continually monitor all usage of the service.

Quality Assurance Follow-ups: After each consultation, Project Managers follow up with the client and expert to ensure quality service, adherence to the terms and conditions, as well as reviewing of the quality of information delivered. 

Incentive Policy: Before each consultation experts are notified of the option to opt out of the consultation should they feel their confidentiality obligations would be violated. In such a situation the expert is still compensated to encourage responsible compliant behavior.

Competitor: Experts cannot consult with a client who is a direct competitor of their company.

False information:Experts agree not to give false information and to continually update their bios with current information related to their expertise.

Accepting Consultations: Experts must determine if they can or cannot perform a consultation, and not participate unless completely certain.

Confidentiality: Experts are held to strict confidentiality policy not to discuss the consultations thereafter.

Corporate Registry: ATechs provides a registry that allows companies to supply policies that affect their employees’ ability to participate in consultations.

ATechs Compliance Support: Experts & Clients have full access to Project Managers for any Compliance related issues. Employers