Principles(Continues)

Principle 2: Client and employer

Software engineers shall act in manner that is in the best interests of their client and employer, consistent with the public interest. In particular software engineers shall, as appropriate:
2.01 Provide service in their areas of competence, being honest.
2.02 Not knowingly use software that is obtained or retained either illegally or unethically.
2.03 Use the property of the client or employer only in ways properly authorized and with the clients or employer’s knowledge and consent.
2.04 Ensure that any document upon which they rely has been approved, when required, by someone authorized to approve it.
2.05 keep private any confidential information gained in their professional wok; where such that confidentiality is consistent with the public interest and consistent with the law.

2.06 Identify, document, collect evidence and report to the client or the employer promptly if, in their opinion, a projects is likely to fail, to prove too expensive, to violate intellectual property law or otherwise to be problematic.
2.07 Identify, document and report significant issues of social concern, of which they are aware, in software or related documents, to the employer or the client.
2.08 Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
2.09 Promote no interest adverse to the employer, unless higher ethical concern being compromised; in that case, inform the employer or another appropriate authority of the ethical concern.