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Terms of Supply

Stuart Robertson & Associates Ltd

Terms of Supply of Quintax

Issue: 10th January 2021

 

Quintax is a personality questionnaire published exclusively by Stuart Robertson & Associates Ltd (SR&A hereafter) and supplied to those designated as ‘Quintax Authorised Users’. Quintax Authorised Users are people who have been registered as such by SR&A, who have:

  • successfully completed an appropriate training programme defined by SR&A and delivered either by SR&A or one of its Licensed Quintax Trainers; or
  • been registered with SR&A on the basis of prior qualifications or conversion training.

We expect Quintax Authorised Users to abide by the following ethical and professional principles in their use of Quintax.  If you are in receipt of Quintax materials and/or on-line units, and you are unwilling to abide by the following terms, then please return the Quintax materials to SR&A, and your order will be cancelled (including any on-line units) without penalty.

  1. Whether they are current members of the British Psychological Society’s Register of Qualifications in Test Use (RQTU) or not, Quintax Authorised Users are expected to follow the professional advice and guidance in the use of Quintax implied by the Test User: Ability and Test User: Personality standards for occupational testing of the British Psychological Society (BPS), and by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) in their Code on Psychological Testing.
  2. Any decision to use Quintax in an occupational setting must be made by a Quintax Authorised User. Similarly, in any given setting the interpretation, feedback, and application of Quintax is the responsibility of Quintax Authorised Users. Administration of Quintax may be delegated to a person trained to the BPS Assistant Test User standard, but this must be done under the control and direction of an Quintax Authorised User who must take overall responsibility for the assessment.   Assistant Test Users are not skilled in feedback, and any verbal or other feedback required should be decided and provided by a Quintax Authorised User.
  3. Quintax should only be used where it is specifically appropriate in assessment terms, and only with the informed consent of test takers.
  4. In many selection and other applications, the evidence provided by Quintax about applicants should be integrated and considered alongside other evidence from other sources before any employment decisions are taken or recommended.
  5. When Quintax is used, verbal feedback on the results should be given to the respondent or questionnaire taker. It may only be omitted when there are very strong grounds for so doing, and certainly not when the basis of informed consent has involved an undertaking to provide feedback.  Where verbal feedback is inappropriate or cannot be given, written feedback should be provided as an alternative.  It is not acceptable to provided unadorned narrative reports to respondents or others engaged in interpreting the outcome of a Quintax assessment, without supporting information.  SR&A have supporting materials that can be provided to help with the interpretation of reports, for example ‘Understanding Quintax Reports’, and Quintax Authorised Users should employ these wherever necessary.  Similar considerations should be applied where a third party is involved in the assessment – e.g. a company commissioning the assessment as a part of a selection process, in which the quality of feedback to all parties, together with any agreed arrangements for maintaining the confidentiality of the results, need to be guarded.
  6. Quintax Authorised Users must respect the intellectual property rights of SR&A over Quintax and – if relevant – our other products such as CMi, Discovery, and SRA360. Specifically, they must not copy or otherwise reproduce (in paper or via machine recording) any of the materials making up the Quintax product range, and they must not attempt to emulate, reverse engineer, subvert, or copy via any means any of the Quintax websites or other software designed to support the product.  Further, Authorised Users must not contract with others to perform any of the acts described above, or in any way to subvert the intellectual property rights of the authors or of Stuart Robertson & Associates Ltd acting on their behalf.  Failure to comply with this aspect may result in removal from our list of Authorised Users, the suspension of any Quintax website privileges, and, in extreme cases appropriate legal action being initiated by SR&A.
  7. Quintax Authorised Users must follow the Privacy Policy of SR&A in so far as it affects their conduct as assessors, and they must also follow the terms of use of our Quintax and other assessment websites. These may be consulted on this website (Privacy Policy) and on the assessment websites themselves (specific assessment terms governing use of Quintax, CMi, etc.).  Users must comply fully with the GDPR/Data Protection legislation currently in force in the UK and referred to in our Privacy Policy.
  8. Authorised Users are expected to give appropriate recognition to the Quintax registered trademark. This is achieved by presenting Quintax in writing as Quintax® when it is first mentioned in any report or other piece generated by the User, and as Quintax thereafter.  In addition, where possible a footnote or endnote to the first mention should be included as follows: “Quintax is a registered trademark of Stuart Robertson & Associates Ltd”.
  9. Unless by specific and legally valid contract agreed by SR&A, Quintax Authorised Users are not permitted to resell Quintax materials or on-line units to others, or to act as a reseller of rights and privileges in the use of either a) Quintax assessment materials or b) the Quintax Online assessment service. If an investigation determines that such an attempt has been made, the person concerned may be removed from our list of Quintax Authorised Users, their Quintax website privileges may be suspended and, in extreme cases, appropriate legal action may be initiated by SR&A.
  10. Authorised Users are not permitted to offer training or coaching in the use of Quintax to others. Training and accreditation as an Authorised User may only be offered by SR&A, who maintain and update expert knowledge and skills in the use of Quintax on a continuing basis, and/or by those with whom we contract to become Quintax Licensed Trainers* acting on behalf of SR&A.

 

‘Quintax’ is a registered trademark of Stuart Robertson & Associates Ltd.

 

*Quintax Authorised Users, with an appropriate background in both psychological testing and training, who would like to consider becoming a Quintax Licensed Trainer should contact Stuart Robertson at the address or email shown below.

 

Any queries regarding these Terms of Supply should be addressed to:

Stuart Robertson & Associates Ltd

Empress Buildings

380 Chester Road

Manchester

M16 9EA

Tel: 0161 877 3277

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