Your personal information is stored by BCC and its affiliates and is accessible only to internal staff. BCC discloses your information to clients or non-clients solely for the purpose of business support and development. In addition, BCC reserves the right to disclose your information to third parties in order to confirm whether you have obtained the necessary consent or authorization to join the BCC network or to participate in a project. BCC does not sell your information to third-party marketers or similar entities.

You must independently determine whether you are a suitable candidate to join the BCC Expert Network. Before joining, you should carefully review your employment contract, employee handbook, code of conduct, confidentiality agreements, and any other similar terms to confirm that you meet the eligibility requirements. If you are still unsure, please contact the appropriate representative at your organization to confirm whether you are allowed to join the BCC Expert Network. A “representative” refers to someone at your organization who has sufficient authority to assess your suitability for independent consultant work, such as a senior HR manager.

If the client is a direct competitor of your current employer or a company with which you have a relationship, you must decline or terminate the consulting engagement and inform BCC immediately in order to avoid any potential conflict of interest. If you are uncertain whether you should accept the consulting work, you should decline participation in the consulting project.

You must decline or cease participation in any consulting project that may violate applicable laws and regulations, breach your obligations to third parties, or create a potential conflict of interest. If, during a consulting interview, the client asks questions related to confidential information, you have both the responsibility and the obligation not to answer such questions. To ensure caution when joining the BCC Expert Network, you may submit a payment request to BCC for any project that you discontinued for compliance reasons. If you believe that the consultation topic or questions raised by the client are sensitive, please notify BCC immediately.

You must carefully review the details of this business relationship. You may discuss general information about your employer’s business partners, but you may not disclose information that is protected under confidentiality agreements between your current or former employer and such business partners. You also may not disclose information that is inherently sensitive in nature. If you are not sure whether certain information must remain confidential, you must not disclose it.

In general, sensitive information includes material non-public information (“MNPI,” also referred to as “inside information”), trade secrets, proprietary data, intellectual property, personal data, state secrets, military secrets, and any other information subject to confidentiality obligations. Some of the above-mentioned categories of sensitive information may be disclosed under specific circumstances, but any information that remains non-public must still be kept confidential.

No. You must not contact a company’s personnel to obtain information about that company for project purposes. If you contact individuals outside the BCC Expert Network, you agree that: (1) you will disclose that you are acting on behalf of a client (without identifying the specific client); (2) you will not pay or otherwise compensate them in exchange for information; and (3) if obtaining information from them would cause them to breach any obligations owed to others (such as their current or former employer or a third party), you must not obtain such information for the client or pass it on to the client.

Yes. Once you join the BCC Expert Network and become a member, you enter into a contractual relationship with BCC. This also means that you expressly acknowledge and confirm your responsibilities and obligations to BCC as set out in the BCC Expert Network Terms of Use. For additional questions, please email: LegalCompliance@bcc.global.

No. By joining the BCC Expert Network and agreeing to the BCC Expert Network Terms of Use, you expressly agree not to disclose the existence or content of any project or potential project, or information such as the names of BCC clients. You may state that you have provided consulting services to BCC and describe the general subject matter of such consulting, but you must take particular care not to disclose any details of the consultations or the names of BCC clients.

No. To protect your rights and interests, all contact with BCC clients must be arranged through BCC. If a BCC client contacts you directly without BCC’s prior consent, and you provide consulting services to that client without BCC’s prior consent, BCC will not pay any interview fees for that consultation, even if it is a follow-up interview to a recent interview arranged by BCC for you.

No. You may still provide advice to other parties; however, you may not use information obtained through your relationship with BCC to seek other consulting or advisory opportunities.