Code of Ethics

Objective: Ensure respect and dignity for all individuals with whom staff interact. Also guarantee a positive, creative, and discrimination-free work environment, based on diversity and individual respect.

Ace Alzheimer Center:

– Is committed to upholding the highest standards of respect for the dignity of all individuals who interact with its staff. In particular, its actions will be based on respect for patients’ decisions regarding knowledge of their diagnosis and treatment. In addition, it will ensure the appropriate use of day care centers and will promote voluntary participation in research projects.

-Considers therapeutic obstinacy and any practice that may increase individuals’ suffering, without a real and verifiable improvement in their health status, to be degrading.

-Respects the decisions of patients, as well as those of individuals who are legitimately and legally authorized to make decisions on their behalf, regarding the end-of-life process.

Ace Alzheimer Center also promotes:

– Establishes that its staff have the duty to monitor, adapt, and update all information communicated to patients, or to their family members or caregivers, whenever necessary. In addition, it must ensure that such information is clear and accurate, particularly with regard to the quality, effectiveness, efficiency, and safety of diagnostic methods or treatments.

-Promotes equal opportunities for all collaborators and candidates, both in recruitment processes and in access to training, compensation, social protection, and career development. Accordingly, it establishes that only skills, experience, and personal aptitudes will be taken into consideration.

-Forbids any form of discrimination based on gender, age, origin, religion, sexual orientation, health status, or disability.

-Prohibits any behavior that undermines the dignity of the individual and, in particular, any form of harassment, regardless of the form it takes.

Objective: The protection of personal data is a fundamental right that ensures respect for the privacy of collaborators and of individuals who interact with the Foundation.

Ace Alzheimer Center understands that:

– All employees, as well as third parties with whom the Foundation interacts (patients participating in clinical trials, physicians, representatives of the scientific community, suppliers, etc.), have the right to respect for their privacy. For this reason, the Foundation is committed to protecting their personal data and ensuring its responsible processing.

Personal data is any information that allows a natural person to be identified, directly or indirectly (name, date of birth, health document number, photograph, email address, digital identifier, etc.).

-The protection of personal data guarantees individuals an individual right to control the collection, processing, use, disclosure, and storage of their data.

-Such data must be safeguarded and used fairly, for a specific, explicit, and legitimate purpose. Likewise, they must be retained only for the period strictly necessary to fulfill the purposes of the relevant study or processing.

-Is committed to ensuring the security of the data processed.

Objective: Ensure safety and protect the health of employees, optimize the safety of facilities, and respect the environment.

The Ace Foundation:

– Will limit the environmental impact of its activities. The Foundation shall determine measures to reduce the consumption of natural resources (water, electricity, gas, paper, etc.).

– Shall take concrete measures regarding the treatment of solid and liquid waste, especially waste of biological origin, in strict compliance with applicable legislation.

– Will promote the application of safety and environmental protection rules among its suppliers and subcontractors.

Objective: Protect sensitive and confidential information.

The Ace Foundation considers that:

– Any information that is not public must be protected, even beyond the strict formal obligation of confidentiality, whether it relates to the Foundation itself, its employees, or third parties.

– It is necessary to ensure the protection of such sensitive information and to carefully examine, on a case-by-case basis, situations in which the appropriateness of disclosing it outside the Foundation is discussed.

– Examples of privileged information include information relating to financial results, investment projects, and significant clinical trial results, among others.

Objective: Ensure the responsible use of new communication networks.

Ace Alzheimer Center establishes that:

– Only collaborators duly authorized by Management are permitted to communicate, on behalf of the Foundation, about its activities and expectations.

– All collaborators must act respectfully toward the Foundation and third parties when using social media, even when doing so in a personal capacity.
– External collaborators or content providers must also respect these principles.

Objective: To be recognized as a civic entity serving the community.

The Ace Foundation establishes that:

– No collaborator or representative of the Foundation is authorized to commit, directly or indirectly, the Foundation to any activity supporting, of any nature whatsoever, a specific political party or electoral coalition, nor to leverage their relationship with the Foundation within the framework of political activities.

The use of the Foundation’s resources, as well as the making of donations or the establishment of financial contributions, to support—directly or indirectly, in any manner whatsoever—the activities of political groups, public officials, or candidates for public office, at any level of representation, is not authorized.

Objective: Ensure that suppliers comply with the Foundation’s ethical standards.

The Ace Foundation requests:

– That all its suppliers adhere to the highest ethical standards in the context of their activities.
In the field of human rights and working conditions, the Foundation expects its suppliers to comply with the principles of the International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions, particularly those relating to child labor, forced labor, working hours, remuneration conditions, freedom of association and expression, and equal opportunities.

-In the field of hygiene, safety, and the environment, the Foundation asks its suppliers to ensure decent hygiene and safety conditions for their employees.

-That its suppliers comply with international laws and regulations on combating corruption.

Objective: Ensure the effective respect of employees’ rights and duties.

The Ace Foundation considers that:

– If a collaborator, acting in good faith, believes that a law, regulation, or any of the principles set out in this Code of Ethics is being violated or is about to be violated, they may, in compliance with the applicable rules, report it to their immediate supervisor or, if they do not obtain—or believe they do not obtain—a satisfactory response, to the Presidency of the Board of Trustees.

-No sanction or discriminatory measure may be taken against such a collaborator, provided that they have acted in good faith and without any intent to cause harm, even if the facts giving rise to the alert prove to be inaccurate or do not result in any action due to withdrawal.