Effective: 8/20/2025

Standards of Ethics

Our Standard of Ethics Recurring Marketing is based and wholly meets the commitments outlined in the American Marketing Association’s Statement of Ethics. Recurring Marketing commits itself to promoting the highest standard of professional ethical norms and values for its directors, employees and clients.

What Guides Our Work

Our approach is built on two key ideas: norms and values.

• Norms: are established standards of conduct that are expected and maintained by society, professional organizations and businesses.
• Values: represent the collective conception of what communities find desirable, important and morally proper. Values also serve as the criteria for evaluating our own personal actions and the actions of others.

Our Responsibility as Marketers

We recognize that marketing goes beyond transactions. As marketers, we not only serve our clients but also their customers, peers, and society as a whole. This responsibility means embracing ethical norms and values that protect stakeholders, foster trust, and create positive impact.

Ethical Norms

At Recurring Marketing, we strive to:

• Do no harm. Avoid harmful actions or omissions by adhering to laws, regulations, and high ethical standards.
• Foster trust in the marketing system. Act in good faith and fair dealing to strengthen the integrity of the marketing system.
• Embrace ethical values. Build relationships and consumer confidence through honesty, responsibility, fairness, respect, transparency, and citizenship.

Ethical Values In Action

Honesty – to be forthright in dealings with customers and stakeholders. To this end, we will:

• Strive to be truthful in all situations and at all times.
• Offer products of value that do what we claim in our communications.
• Stand behind our products if they fail to deliver their claimed benefits.
• Honor our explicit and implicit commitments and promises.

Responsibility – to accept the consequences of our marketing decisions and strategies. To this end, we will:

• Strive to serve the needs of customers.
• Avoid using coercion with all stakeholders.
• Acknowledge the social obligations to stakeholders that come with increased marketing and economic power.
• Recognize our special commitments to vulnerable market segments such as children, seniors, the economically impoverished, market illiterates and others who may be substantially disadvantaged.
• Consider environmental stewardship in our decision-making.

Fairness – to balance justly the needs of the buyer with the interests of the seller. To this end, we will:

• Represent products in a clear way in selling, advertising and other forms of communication; this includes the avoidance of false, misleading and deceptive promotion.
• Reject manipulations and sales tactics that harm customer trust.
• Refuse to engage in price fixing, predatory pricing, price gouging or “bait-and-switch” tactics.
• Avoid knowing participation in conflicts of interest.
• Seek to protect the private information of customers, employees and partners.

Respect – to acknowledge the basic human dignity of all stakeholders. To this end, we will:

• Value individual differences and avoid stereotyping customers or depicting demographic groups (e.g., gender, race, sexual orientation) in a negative or dehumanizing way.
• Listen to the needs of customers and make all reasonable efforts to monitor and improve their satisfaction on an ongoing basis.
• Make every effort to understand and respectfully treat buyers, suppliers, intermediaries and distributors from all cultures.
• Acknowledge the contributions of others, such as consultants, employees and coworkers, to marketing endeavors.
• Treat everyone, including our competitors, as we would wish to be treated.

Transparency – to create a spirit of openness in marketing operations. To this end, we will:

• Strive to communicate clearly with all constituencies.
• Accept constructive criticism from customers and other stakeholders.
• Explain and take appropriate action regarding significant product or service risks, component substitutions or other foreseeable eventualities that could affect customers or their perception of the purchase decision.
• Disclose list prices and terms of financing as well as available price deals and adjustments.

Citizenship – to fulfill the economic, legal, philanthropic and societal responsibilities that serve stakeholders. To this end, we will:

• Strive to protect the ecological environment of the earth and all of its inhabitants.
• Strive to protect the environment in the execution of marketing campaigns.
• Give back to the community through volunteerism and charitable donations.
• Contribute to the overall betterment of marketing and its reputation.
• Urge supply chain members to ensure that trade is fair for all participants, including producers in developing countries.