ICA FREE ISO Business Opportunity – Terms and Conditions Ver. 1.0
You are reviewing information relating to the FREE Business Opportunity marketed by International Certification Agency Limited T/A‘ICA’ for self-employed ‘ICA Licensed Advisors’ hereinafter referred to as ‘ICA Licensees’.
Prospective ICA Licensees should also read the Terms and Conditions contained in the Freecert Customer Website in addition to our ‘Privacy Policy’ and ‘Cookie Policy’ which are also published on this site.
- No Purchase Required
By submitting your details to request the ‘ICA Licensee Pack’, you are not committed to make any purchases, pay any monies to ICA or enter into agreement with ICA.
- ICA Company details
International Certification Agency Limited (Registered in England Company Number: 07417011) hereinafter referred to as ‘ICA’ is an independent ‘Not-for-Profit Company Limited By Guarantee’ and as such has No Shareholders. The ‘Freecert ISO Certification Scheme’ is exclusively owned and operated internationally by ICA.
ICA Registered Address is:
International Certification Agency Limited
Blades Enterprise Centre
John Street
Sheffield, S7 2QU
- Our Target Market
The Freecert ISO Certification Scheme is only applicable to Businesses (i.e. not Consumers) who require ISO Management System Certifications.
- ICA Certification Services
As an independent Certification Body, ICA provides its Customers with Certification using its own ‘independent’ Audit and Certification Criteria.
4.1 ICA certifies all its Customers to its ‘Standard 5 Years Certification Term’ and provides Customers with ‘5 Years Term Registration Certificates’.
4.2 ICA provides its Freecert Customers with two Methods of Certification: ‘Toolkit Method’ and ‘Fast-Track Method’.
4.3 ICA does not charge its Customers any ‘Audit’ or ‘Certification Fees’.
4.4 Only companies that are committed and serious about gaining and retaining their ISO Certifications throughout their full Certification Term should register with the Freecert Scheme. To ensure this is the case, all ICA Customers pay a ‘Freecert Registration Fee’; however, this is ‘Fully Refunded’ at the expiry of their Certification Term.
4.5 Toolkit Method Customers are supplied by ICA with an ‘ISO Toolkit’ of Learning Resources Manual containing comprehensive learning resources including an example Management System. Customers use these learning resources to develop their own four Management Systems (one for each ISO Standard) which they then submit to ICA (the ‘Compliance Submissions’) in electronic format via the online Certification Management System (‘CMS’) for ‘Assessment and Certification’ within their stipulated ‘Submission Period’.
4.6 The Fast-Track Method is designed for Customers that require an ‘implemented certification solution’.
4.7 All Freecert Customers have access to the CMS which contains comprehensive learning resources appropriate to their method of certification. After completion of the ICA Certification Contract, Customers will receive from ICA Head Office their ‘CMS Password’ by email. All Customers pay an on-going ‘CMS Account Management Fee’.All ICA Licensees also pay an on-going ‘CMS Account Management Fee’.
- The Role of ICA Licensees
ICA Licensees are self-employed individuals only trained and licensed by ICA to undertake ‘Freecert ISO Scheme Registration Meetings’ with prospective Freecert ISO Certification Scheme Customers.
5.1 All ‘Customer Support’ taking place after the ‘Freecert ISO Scheme Registration Meeting’ undertaken by ICA Licensees is provided by ICA Head Office. ICA Licensees are not licensed or permitted to provide any Customer Support to Freecert Customers.
5.2 No prior ISO Certification experience is necessary as ICA Licensees are fully trained, licensed and supported by ICA Head Office to make successful Registration Presentations to prospective Freecert ISO Scheme Customers. However, prospective ICA Licensees should ideally have some sales experience or experience of presenting professional business services to decision makers and business owners.
5.3 ICA Licensees are responsible for making Freecert ISO Certification Scheme ‘Registration Presentations’ to prospective Freecert Customers from Business Leads supplied to them either by ICA Head Office or from their own generated Business Leads.
5.4 The Freecert ISO Certification Scheme Registration Presentation Meeting involves presenting the key benefits of ICA’s Freecert ISO Certification Scheme to prospective Customers using ICA’s ‘Freecert Customer Registration Information Packs’which are provided to ICA Licensees by ICA Head Office. At these Registration Meetings, ICA Licensees also provide Freecert Registered Customers with their Free ISO Book.
5.5 After Customers have registered for the Freecert ISO Certification Scheme, ICA Licensees send the signed ‘Freecert Customer Contracts’ to ICA Head Office after which ICA Head Office then continues to provide all on-going ‘ Customer Support’ to Freecert ISO Scheme Customers throughout their five years Certification Term.
- FREE Business Opportunity
The term ‘Free’ is used within the description of this Business Opportunity because the ICA Licensee Registration Fee paid by ICA Licensees is Fully Repaid back to them by ICA after 12 Months of satisfactory progress against set Customer Registration targets which are fully detailed within the ‘ICA Licensee Pack’. Therefore, this is effectively a FREE Business Opportunity as ICA absorbs the initial cost of recruiting, training and supporting ICA Licensees with on-going local marketing.
- ICA Licensee Commissions
ICA Licensees receive ‘Sales Commissions’from ICA for each business Customer they register onto the Freecert ISO Certification Scheme.
7.1 ICA Licensees receive Sales Commissions from ICA for businesses they register for the Freecert Toolkit and Fast-Track Certification Methods.
7.2 Projections for Freecert Scheme Business Registrations and ICA Sales Commissions are included in the Freecert ICA Licensee Pack andthe £100,000 p.a. earning potential for ICA Licensees is based on ICA Licensees working on a Full-Time basis and undertaking some of their own local marketing.Income results achieved by Licensees are explicitly not guaranteed by ICA and are wholly dependent on the success of Licensees in recruiting Freecert Scheme registered businesses in addition to how much time and effort individuals devote to their business.
7.3 ICA Licensees are able to work ‘Part-Time’ or ‘Full-Time’ and are not restricted to any geographical territories and therefore, able to recruit businesses for the Freecert Scheme throughout the UK using their existing business networks and contacts.
7.4 To keep their overheads down, ICA Licensees can work from home or if preferred to work from their office.
7.5 ICA Licensees are free to provide other business to business services along with ICA’s ISO Freecert Scheme. However, ICA will revoke ICA Licensees contracts if in the sole opinion of ICA, Licensees provide any business services (either by themselves or in conjunction with any other third parties) which ICA deems to be in direct or indirect competition with its own certification services.
7.6 As with any business opportunity or venture, ICA advises prospective ICA Licensees to carry out their own research and take any legal advice prior to entering into any contract with ICA.
- Business Leads from ICA Head Office
Business Leads are generated by ICA Head Office through its on-going marketing campaigns. Business Leads of ‘Prospects’ that have enquired about ICA’s Freecert ISO Scheme are passed to the nearest ICA Licensee by ICA Head Office via its online Certification Management System (‘CMS’).
- Business Leads generated by Licensees
ICA Licensees are also trained by ICA to quickly and easily develop their own local Business Leads and referrals for prospective businesses wishing to register for the Freecert ISO Scheme.
- ICA Marketing – FREE ISO Book
ICA marketing for its Freecert ISO Scheme is primarily driven by promoting its ‘FREE ISO Book’ (worth £35) to businesses interested in taking advantage of the Freecert ISO Scheme. Ongoing Monthly mailings are sent by ICA Head Office to prospective businesses. Business enquiries generated for the FREE ISO Book are then passed to ICA Licensees. For the monthly marketing campaigns, ICA Licensees are required to send to ICA Head Office each month contact details of the designated number of businesses to be mailed by ICA Head Office before the required deadline date.
- Licensee Training and On-going Support
Licensees receive full training on all aspects of ICA’s policies, processes, procedures and documentation including delivering successful Freecert Scheme Registration Presentations and marketing activities to generate ongoing business leads. ICA Licensees are provided with their CMS Login details by ICA Head Office after they have completed their Licensee Training Programme.
- No Long-term Commitment
There is no long-term commitment required as ICA grants ICA Licensees with a 12 Month Licensee Agreement which, subject to satisfactory progress, and at the request of ICA Licensees is renewed each year by ICA.
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