Code of Ethics | Northtide

NorthTide has a fundamental commitment to the highest professional and ethical standards. While NorthTide’s Company culture, policies, and procedures demands adherence to all laws, rules, and regulations, NorthTide holds itself to a higher standard which includes conducting its business in a manner that is beyond reproach and avoids any appearance of impropriety. The basic Values underlying NorthTide’s Code of Ethics are honesty, integrity, fairness, and self-regulation. All NorthTide employees, officers, agents, and directors are expected to adhere to these Values.

NorthTide’s Code of Ethics mandates that all employees, officers, agents, and directors adhere to high standards of business and personal ethics in the discharge of their duties and responsibilities. This means conducting business with honesty, integrity, and fair dealing in every aspect of dealing with other NorthTide employees, the public, customers, government officials, subcontractors, suppliers, competitors, shareholders, and stakeholders. When conducting Company business, NorthTide employees, officers, agents, and directors:

Shall not take unfair advantage of others through misrepresentations, concealment, deception, manipulation, or any other unfair dealing practices;
Shall obey all federal, state, local, or administrative laws and regulations to both the spirit and letter of the law;
Shall be diligent to ensure that all statements, claims, and contractual reporting to customers is honest and accurate, including, but not limited to, time sheets, invoicing, Company size status, and Company qualifications;
Shall strive to protect NorthTide’s confidential and proprietary non-public information, as well as the confidential and non-public information of NorthTide’s partners, and only use such information as necessary to conduct NorthTide’s business;\
Shall obey all Company policies and procedures, including, but not limited to NorthTide’s policy forbidding discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, disability, or sexual orientation, whether or not any federal or state law is applicable;
Shall treat others with dignity and respect in discharging their Company duties and responsibilities.
Shall delivery high quality services and products to NorthTide’s customers at the most effective cost;
Shall avoid personal conflicts of interest, the appearance of impropriety, or any conduct that could tarnish NorthTide’s good name and reputation;
Shall seek guidance from senior management before engaging in any practice or conduct when in doubt about the propriety or legality of a particular course of action;
Shall report all known or suspected violations of this Code of Ethics to appropriate senior management through any of the mechanisms provided by the Company; and
Shall not retaliate in any manner against any individual who reports, questions, or raises concerns over any business or employment practice that such individual believes may be a violation of this Code of Ethics, whether or not any violation is found to exist.

All NorthTide employees, officers, agents, and directors shall be guided by NorthTide’s Code of Ethics and not be misguided by any sense of loyalty to the Company, profitability, or personal gain. All violations of the Code of Ethics shall constitute grounds for disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment.