CMi is a questionnaire measure of Career Motivation designed, developed and published exclusively by Stuart Robertson & Associates Ltd (otherwise referred to as SR&A in these terms), Empress Buildings, 380 Chester Road, Manchester M16 9EA, UK (Tel: +44 (0)161 877 3277; Fax: +44 (0)161 877 4500; email: mail@sr-associates.com).
The CMi website at www.careermotivation.co.uk comprises an automated system for administering, scoring, and generating interpretive reports for people who complete the CMi questionnaire
CMi Users (also known as CMi User Account Holders, or CMi Data Controllers) are those people who have been granted the right to use CMi via the website on an independent basis, and have registered their details with SR&A for this purpose. CMi Users are permitted to invite individuals (referred to as respondents in these terms) to complete CMi for relevant purposes (for instance in career counselling or transition situations). They are also permitted to generate CMi reports and to use these in the context of their professional work with individual respondents.
In addition to access via CMi Users, individual respondents can visit the CMi website and independently complete the questionnaire and receive a report in return for a payment of a fee on-line. Although the report is interpretable by the lay person, in such cases SR&A can arrange, on request, for individual feedback and discussion with a career counsellor. SR&A can supply the names of suitable professionals for this purpose. Respondents intending to follow this up should consider contacting a career professional to discuss options and pricing for this service. SR&A are not involved in this payment relationship – we do not request or receive introduction fees for referrals of this sort.
SR&A expect CMi Users to employ high ethical and professional standards when utilising the services available through the CMi website. This normally includes providing an appropriate introduction or pre-assessment briefing to respondents so that they know what to expect of the assessment process. It also includes the provision of relevant feedback to respondents, so as to validate the assessment through discussion, and to discuss/develop its implications and other purposes with the respondent. Enormous value can be gained by combining completion of the questionnaire with feedback and discussion with an experienced career counsellor, and we encourage respondents to consider the option described in the previous paragraph.
Users and respondents should recognise that CMi has been designed to very high scientific standards, but that like all questionnaire based assessment it is not infallible. In part it depends for its validity on the accuracy and frankness of respondents, and as a result the feedback process represents an important part of the ‘added value’ of completion both for the User and for the respondent.
CMi Users must conform to the legal and professional standards of behaviour described in our Privacy Policy, particularly in relation to ensuring that they operate in a way that is compliant with the EU-wide legislation regarding Data Protection (GDPR). Respondents may wish to review the policy and/or visit the website of the UK Information Commissioner (www.ico.org.uk) in order to understand the provisions of GDPR.
SR&A will investigate any evidence that Users or respondents are utilising the site in manner that is inconsistent with these terms and we will take appropriate action (e.g. by terminating use of the site and/or the User status of the person concerned) where necessary.
The information, displays, questionnaire items, scoring algorithms, and other elements of the CMi website (referred to in general as the content of the site) are exclusively owned by SR&A and are protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. Any attempt to subvert SR&A’s intellectual property rights in the content of the site will be investigated and if necessary challenged legally to defend our interests.
In the light of this we require that Users, respondents, and other website visitors do not:
SR&A reserve the right to conduct research on stored data so as to improve the reliability, validity, fairness, norms and general usefulness of the CMi assessment system for both respondents and CMi Users. Such research is conducted with fully anonymised data so as to guarantee the anonymity of respondents and to ensure that attention is focussed on group statistics rather than individual results.
Age, gender and other data are collected optionally from respondents for purposes of monitoring and research as described above. Information we collect regarding the age, gender, or other personal details of respondents via the CMi web site is not used or recorded in a form that is accessible to CMi users, i.e. those who are authorised to invite respondents to complete the questionnaire, generate reports, etc. Name details only are presented on the CMi report facing page so as to ensure correct identification of the respondent.
SR&A consultants are responsible for managing the CMi website and its User accounts, the creation of new accounts, usernames and passwords, the allocation of Units ordered by users and related invoicing, and in general for the efficient operation of the site to ensure user satisfaction. All information regarding individual accounts obtained by SR&A consultants in discharging this responsibility is treated in confidence under our Privacy Policy.
SR&A expects that client organisations may wish to appoint one or more administrators with a role of supporting CMi Users in the day-to-day management of their account activity. Their role might involve generating invitations, following up incomplete assessments with respondents, and producing reports for consultant use. They should not be allowed to engage in the independent assessment of people (for example by creating invitations not specifically requested by consultants) or in any aspect of report feedback or interpretation. Administrators appointed in this way should be trained in the ethical and professional aspects of the account administration by a responsible CMi User or by SR&A, and their conduct should be kept under review by a relevant CMi User in the client organisation.
SR&A reserve the right to disable and close accounts which have become disused for a period of at least 24 months since the previous last unit usage. In such cases any remaining units in the account will be cancelled against the administration costs incurred by SR&A in maintaining the availability of the account during the previous period. A closed account may only be re-opened by contacting SR&A with an appropriate request and unit order.
It is open to relevant professionals to apply to SR&A to become CMi Users, and a form is available for this purpose. For CMi Users, account activity is funded by ordering units or credits directly from SR&A or on-line. A unit enables the administration of CMi to one respondent and includes the production of 1 report. CMi users may be registered with pre-payment or credit based accounts. In the former case, orders for units etc. must be paid for in full before the units will be credited to the user account. In the latter case any units ordered through the account will be delivered directly and subject to payment by invoice on 30 day terms. Users of either account are liable for the cost of all units ordered together with the cost of any negative units that might have been generated on the account. This can arise in day to day use when respondents complete CMi by invitation while the user account has a zero credit. Any negative units will be cancelled against any fresh order, or invoiced directly according to SR&A's discretion.
Subject to their agreement to these terms, individual respondents may purchase an Access Code on-line from the CMi website. This enables completion of the questionnaire and receipt of an output report independently of any connection with a CMi User.
The current price of an Access Code is £18.00 GBP (UK Sterling).
In order to complete CMi, the individual respondent must have a valid credit card, debit card or PayPal account with which to pay for the service. They must also have an active email address through which they can receive the relevant Access Code once payment has been accepted. All payments made by our respondents are processed by PayPal, and none of the financial data (including PayPal account details, credit or debit card numbers, start dates, expiry dates, issue numbers, or security codes) presented by respondents in this process is either recorded or stored by SR&A. The handling of such data is subject to the privacy policy of PayPal.
Once an order for an Access Code has been confirmed via receipt of payment, no cancellation of the order will be accepted. However, if a respondent purchases an Access Code but cannot subsequently access the questionnaire for completion due to technical or other reasons that are the responsibility of SR&A (for instance if the website is temporarily unavailable) then he or she may apply to SR&A to obtain a refund of the charge involved. Application may be made, explaining the reasons for the refund request, to SR&A by email at mail@sr-associates.com or by telephone at +44 161 877 3277. An application for a refund under these circumstances must be received within 48 hours of the time at which access to the website and the completion of the questionnaire failed.
Should an individual respondent purchase an Access Code but subsequently be unable to use it for reasons other than those described above, they may apply to SR&A using the contact details described above for either:
SR&A reserves the right to use its discretion in these cases.
SR&A warrants to the original purchaser of the CMi website service that it will provide a means of administering and scoring the CMi questionnaire to respondents online, and that it will provide, where complete and accurate data have been obtained, a report output summarising the scores of the respondent assessed. This warranty is void if a service failure occurs because of accident, abuse, misapplication, inappropriate use of the service, or because of Internet failures outside the responsibility of SR&A.
Where a service failure has been demonstrated to be the responsibility of SR&A, the exclusive remedy shall be, at SR&A's option, either (a) replacement of the service via the provision of additional purchasing Units (or Access Codes in the case of individual respondents) or (b) a refund of the price paid for the Units (or Access Codes) lost in the service failure (if any).
Notwithstanding the above, in certain circumstances SR&A may additionally make a goodwill offer of the use of paper and pencil completion of CMi, Bureau scoring and report generation etc., to mitigate the effects of a service failure.
For this warranty and remedy to apply the service failure must be reported within the Warranty Period of 10 business days. Under no circumstances will SR&A be liable for any consequential or incidental damages whatsoever arising out of the use or inability to use the content or services of this site, including without limitation local computer failure, work stoppage or any other damages, even if SR&A has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
As a CMi User or Respondent, you assume full responsibility for your specific use of the site and you expressly acknowledge that SR&A disclaims any and all liability for your use of its content and services. SR&A's total liability following any service failure shall in no event exceed the actual price paid for the Units (or Access Codes) lost (if any).
This agreement is governed by the laws of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. If any provision of this agreement is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this agreement, which shall remain in full force and effect.
Please note that by requesting that a CMi User account be opened in your name, or by accessing the site as a respondent to complete the questionnaire and obtain a report, you are signalling agreement to the above terms of use for the CMi website.
18/05/2018