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Editorial Code of Ethics

StockInterview.com practices correct ethical and legal conduct in providing the highest professional standards during the news-gathering and distribution process. We believe in our independence when providing insightful, diverse, accurate and honest news, editorial and information to our readers.

StockInterview.com maintains safeguards to prevent any action or any association which could reflect adversely upon the financial news provided on this website.

StockInterview.com insists upon accuracy, objectivity and fairness when providing news articles upon this website. Every effort is made during the reporting of original news to independently corroborate information through multiple sources.

StockInterview.com’s primary purpose is to report upon the macroeconomic focus and may, from time to time, report upon specific companies or feature such companies within the larger economic story. StockInterview.com is not, and does not purport to be, a stock advisory service.

StockInterview.com focuses upon the educational nature of the financial, health or other sectors upon which it provides news articles, and may report upon specific companies or feature such companies while providing the educational aspect of a news story.

StockInterview.com may rely upon experts within a sector, who are also related to a specific company featured in a broader economic news story. Every effort will be made to maintain an independent and objective distance from the company in order to avoid any promotional nature for that company.

StockInterview.com maintains a high degree of integrity during its news gathering efforts. Such activities may include tape-recorded interviews with sources, independent transcription of such taped interviews, pre-interview independent research, discussions with arms-length sources about the core of the story or interview, independent research subsequent to taped interviews to yield additional insights, background checks on sources and/or other practices found in traditional journalism.

StockInterview.com clearly distinguishes between the independent editorial information provided on this website and the website advertising sponsors which host this website. StockInterview.com honors and abides by the traditional wall between editorial and advertising and demands the same of its employees and writers.

StockInterview.com forbids any writers publishing on the website from:

 
  • Being a paid consultant for any company featured in a news article;
  • Holding any stock (equity) position in any company featured in a news article;
  • Trading in any related securities, including related derivatives or commodities, of those companies or competitive companies featured in the news articles;
  • Providing Investor Relations (IR) services to any company featured in a news article;
  • Receiving any stock, stock options or warrants from any company featured in a news article;
  • Being an agent or employee of any company featured in a news article.

StockInterview.com forbids personal ‘Conflicts of Interest’ between any writer and a company featured in the news articles. Those would include being an officer, consultant or any representative of any company featured in a news article. A conflict situation exists when a person’s private interest interferes in any way with the interests of, or jeopardizes the editorial integrity and independence of, StockInterview.com. Such a conflict situation would arise when a writer takes actions or has interests which interfere with the creation or distribution of a news article.

StockInterview.com will maintain an impartial and arms’ length relationship with anyone seeking to influence the news or the content of any news article, especially about any company featured in any news articles.

StockInterview.com does not promise editorial coverage to any advertiser.

StockInterview.com forbids any writer from discussing financial or advertising arrangements with any company representative, whether this may be a current website advertising sponsor or a prospective advertising sponsor.

StockInterview.com will not provide editorial coverage in the content of any news articles as a means to obtain advertising revenues.

StockInterview.com will not provide buy or sell recommendations about any company featured on this website. This also includes price direction and suitability.

StockInterview.com promises to provide fair and balanced reporting about any subject featured on this website.

StockInterview.com has been independently praised for maintaining a ‘non-promotional’ nature about any companies featured in the news stories appearing on this website and promises each reader that this practice will continue.

StockInterview.com writers may independently syndicate articles previously appearing on the StockInterview.com website on the condition that copyright is maintained and that a notation is provided crediting StockInterview.com accompanied by a webpage link directing readers back to the StockInterview.com website.

StockInterview.com writers are paid a one-time flat fee for each article published on the website. Neither bonuses nor incentives are offered or will be paid. No StockInterview.com writer is allowed to receive additional payments through third-party sources in the form of cash, stock or stock derivatives as a supplement to the StockInterview.com article payment.

All articles internally created, paid-for and published on StockInterview.com are copyrighted by StockInterview.com and become the intellectual property of StockInterview.com.

The Editor of StockInterview.com is the final arbiter of what content may or may not appear on the StockInterview.com website, and every assurance will be made to ensure this is high quality independent and accurate reporting. Every effort will be taken to remove any and all company-specific promotional aspects from any news article before appearing on the StockInterview.com website.

StockInterview.com will terminate the relationship with any writer and/or employee who violates the StockInterview.com conflict of interest policy and/or who uses the website content as a means to personally benefit through editorial abuse.