CITATION POLICY

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him - Robert Benchley. Our clients and third parties frequently make requests to quote extracts from our client work, research and web-site in general. The following sets out the guidelines for using BAL Consulting®P/L™ "BAL" material: » Clients/Non-clients » When do you need approval? » How to get approval CLIENTS/NON-CLIENTS BAL’s material may be cited provided that the guidelines set below are followed. The general principles for citing BAL are: all citations must be accurate, quoted verbatim, and/or duplicated without being manipulated, adapted, paraphrased or summarised and they must not be used out of context quotes or extracts must be about general industry issues, markets and/or trends. quotes or extracts must not endorse a vendor’s service or product, or criticise another vendor’s product or service. the BAL Intellectual Property IP rights statement must be affixed to all graphics (diagrams, graphs and/or tables). BAL’s IP rights statement is: © Copyright 1978-2018 BAL Consulting®P/L™. All rights reserved. BAL’s research is proprietary to BAL and subject to copyright and other intellectual property protections commercial use of the citation is prohibited. WHEN DO YOU NEED APPROVAL?   Clients may reproduce a diagram, graph or table of a client study for use in marketing collateral, provided that all citations adhere to the general rules outlined above should seek approval from Request for Citation where a verbal quotation or written material is intended for use in any form of marketing collateral or publicly available information, or where reproduction and/or distribution of the research is required.   Non-clients should seek approval to cite any of BAL’s material for any use. HOW TO GET APPROVAL Please present all requests to Request for Citation: all requests to use quotations, graphs, diagrams and/or tables should be submitted in their final media vehicle, eg. press release, marketing materials, presentation, etc all of the elements in the above guidelines should be included for approval (copyright statement, source, attribution, etc) we will work with you to provide approval within two business days on receipt of your request. Please contact Intellectual Property @BAL. © Copyright 1978-2024 BAL Consulting® P/L™.  All rights reserved.