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The organizational structure and procedures of Certy Certification demonstrate how the primary requirement of impartiality is fulfilled. Certy Certification ensures how it handles pressures and other factors that can compromise or reasonably be expected to compromise objectivity, which can arise from a wide range of activities, relationships, and other circumstances, as well as from various personal qualities and characteristics of Auditors that can be sources of bias, through policies, procedures, and training. Through this impartiality policy, Certy Certification aims to ensure continued impartiality, independence, and transparency during all management system Certification activities. We as an organization understand the importance of impartiality and the threats it poses to our business should our position be compromised and are always committed to safeguarding and protecting the integrity of this Policy. We will continue to identify, analyze, assess, monitor, and document potential conflicts of interest that may arise as a result of providing quality management certification services.

Certy Certification shall not,
Provide Certification where cases of unacceptable threats to impartiality cannot be eliminated.
Certify another Certification body for its management system compliance.
Provide any type of management system consultancy services which may present a conflict of interest.
Promote the activities of any consultancy body or organization.
Enter into a relationship or agreement with any management system consultancy body or organization.
Offer or provide services related to internal audit to its Certified clients and shall not Certify a management system on which it provided internal audits for a minimum of two years after the completion of the internal audits.
Provide Certification to clients who have received management system consultancy in last 2 years from a body that has relationship with Certy Certification.
Outsource audits to a management system consultancy organization or be linked to an organization that provides management system consultancy.
Market or offer activities that are linked with activities of an organization that provides management system consultancy.
State or imply Certification would be simpler, easier, faster, and less expensive if a specified consulting organization was used.
When a relationship poses an unacceptable threat to impartiality (such as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Certification body requesting Certification from its parent).
Certy Certification shall not,
Validate the compliance of another Certification body's management system.
Provide any management system consulting services that could lead to a conflict of interest.
Promote any consulting firm's or organization's activity.
Establish a business partnership or an arrangement with any management system consulting firm or organization.
Offer or give internal audit services to its Certified clients, and not Certify a management system on which it performed internal audits for at least two years after the audits were completed.
Provide Certification to clients who have received management system consultancy in the last 2 years from a body that has a relationship with Certy Certification.
Outsource audits to a management system consultant firm or partner with a firm that specializes in management system consulting.
Market or offer activities that are related to an organization's management system consulting activities.
State or imply Certification would be simpler, easier, faster, and less expensive if a specified consulting organization was used.
When a connection provides an unacceptable threat to impartiality (such as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Certification body requesting Certification from its parent).