HoMAI Code of Practice
16 04 2007HoMAI members undertake to:
1. Help promote & protect the common interests, observe high standards of integrity & business ethics in their dealings with customers, other HoMAI members, associates & suppliers so that the membership of HoMAI itself is regarded as standing for integrity, quality and customer satisfaction.
2. Refrain from knowingly misrepresenting or exaggerating the features and the functioning of their products or their capabilities or succumb to short-term gains, which might result into sub-standard quality and eventually endanger their own credibility and the very concept of using the hologram itself.
3. Exercise due care to ensure that orders for production & supply of holograms are accepted from the authorized person of the genuine & original brand owners only.
4. Respect the intellectual property rights of the owner(s) of the design(s), drawing(s), art-work, master plates, sub-master plates of any given hologram and make the same clear to the respective customer/s & contractor/s.
5. Register their all existing & future authenticating/ security/ copyright holograms & image designs in the independently maintained Hologram Roster (HR).
6. Furnish their production/ sales or other business information of general nature, as and when requested, for preparing consolidated data without disclosing any individual/-concerned member’s identity.
7. Always obtain a ‘no dues’ letter from the previous employer/ principal while appointing technical staff, consultant, agent, or representative.
8. Bring to the notice of the HoMAI Administrative Office & Secretariat any instance and/or information of any breach of this Code by any HoMAI member/s or by anyone operating in or associated with the holography industry who may be acting in such a manner which may bring the holography industry into disrepute and tarnish the image of HoMAI.
If unable resolve, the Governing Body may advertise such violations of the Code of Practice, levy fine as decided from time to time, or initiate suspension/ expulsion (in consultation with the General Body) of the concerned person(s)/ company/(ies) from membership.
Hologram industry calls for men of integrity & creative ability. It employs the rapidly changing complex technology, ongoing up gradation of equipment/ machinery and a substantial percentage of turnovers on R & D to stay ahead of the counterfeiters.























