The DSC Group of Companies will comply with those rules and with all laws. It is your responsibility to understand and to avoid violating these laws and rules. No employee will offer or give secret commissions, hidden gratuities, or confidential payments to third parties that might influence prospective customers or government officials. We expect that employees and members of their families will not accept gifts, payments, services, favours, special considerations, discounts, or entertainment from customers, prospects or suppliers beyond the common courtesies of accepted business practices. No DSC employee, or any member of his or her immediate family, is permitted to accept gifts or gratuities of money from a supplier, customer or anyone with whom they have a business relationship.
Modest hospitality is an accepted courtesy of a business relationship.
However, the recipient should not allow himself or herself to be put in a position whereby he or she might be deemed by others to have been influenced in making a business decision as a consequence of accepting such hospitality. The frequency and scale of hospitality accepted should not be significantly greater than the DSC Group would likely provide in return. Business entertaining should flow naturally out of business meetings and should adhere to acceptable standards of decorum and decency. Employees should avoid engaging in any outside activity that interferes with or impairs their ability to carry out their duties as an employee of the Company. Employees should also refrain from engaging either directly or indirectly in any business activity in competition with the business of the DSC Group of Companies.