Policies and Ethics Related to HDS Companies

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Policies and ethics related to HDS companies
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1POLICIES AND ETHICS RELATED TO HDS COMPANIES
Executive summary
This report discusses about the adoption of various policies and framework in the business
process of an IT company. The chosen company is the Hosted Desktop Solutions and the chosen
country is Australia. The report discusses about a copyright policy and a procedure policy. This
report has also included an ethics document which helps in providing ethical decision making.
Lastly, a privacy document has also been discussed in this report.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Discussion........................................................................................................................................3
1. Business case...........................................................................................................................3
2. Copyright policy......................................................................................................................4
3. Procedure document................................................................................................................6
4. Code of ethics document.........................................................................................................8
5. Privacy policy........................................................................................................................10
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................11
References......................................................................................................................................12

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Introduction
The main objectives of the business processes involved in Hosted Desktop Solutions
Company are to build websites for other companies. They also strive to provide hosted solutions
mainly by utilizing the cloud concept. The main involvement of the project considered by the
company is to improve the website of their own. The design of the website needs sufficient
technical processes so that it may come up to the requirements of the modern markets. This
report will develop a copyright policy and a procedure based document for the new project that is
being implemented. This report will also make a new code of ethics based document so that the
framework to be followed for making an ethical analysis is determined. Lastly, a privacy policy
is also in place which will help in addressing the concerns of any privacy based concepts
involved.
Discussion
1. Business case
The Hosted Desktop Solutions Company is mainly situated in the IT hub of North Ryde,
Sydney. The business aspects of the company is mainly utilized in providing IT based services
such as the installation of software, hardware, network configuration and management. They are
also involved with the development of company websites and their associated intranets and
extranets. The prospective clients of the company are mainly acquisitioned from designer based
companies and other similar individual companies who are not focused on the management of
internal infrastructures associated to an IT department.