IC-Council Website Certification/Accreditation Program
IC-Council Web Site Certification seal demonstrates to your website visitors that you are running a trustworthy business; this is extremely important to validate your online business in a competitive world.
Why Website Certification?
- Program provides accreditation, trust and legitimacy to websites and online businesses.
- Identifies online businesses as authentic, trustworthy and reliable.
- Establishes the genuineness of online companies to their customers and partners.
- Validate website from other sites that have not pledged to the high values and ethics of the IC-Council website certification program.
- Distinguish online business form many scam or fraud websites.
- Shows website visitors that the site is applying fair practices in dealing with customers.
- Indicates professionalism in dealing with website customers and enhance your companies competitiveness.
- Websites are added to the IC-Council Online Database.
- Customers can find where the business is located geographically using Google map.
The IC-Council™ Code of Eathics:
- Contact
Website should post detailed contact information on the site and it should be easily accessible form all website pages. - Customer Service
Website should provide a high level of customer service and ensure customer satisfaction. - Complaints
Complaints should be handled in a professional manner and must be resolved within a reasonable time frame. - Integrity
Website should refrain from deceiving or misleading customers in an unfair or fraudulent manner. - Privacy
Privacy policies should be explicitly posted on the website and the website should strictly embrace them. - Legal
Website should be working within a legal frame work according to the area where the business is located. - Protection
Website should protect customers against unreasonable risk or threat. - Rights
Website should respect and does not infringe or violate anyone’s intellectual property rights.
The Certification Process...
- Business and / or site owner agree to the ethics above
- Application and provide supporting documents
- Pay the processing fee
- Site is reviewed and if approved shall be added to IC-Council directory
- An HTML code is emailed to the website administrator to be placed on the Home page of the website; this code shall show the IC-Council certification seal and shall link to the website verification page on our servers [example]
- This page assures customers that the site is IC-Council Certified
- Customers can add comments, complaints and rate your business through our site