Modern slavery and human trafficking.

We buy laptops from a reseller and compute from a cloud. Neither of those is where the risk lives. It lives four tiers below both, and pretending otherwise is the failure mode of statements like this one.

• ▸Zero tolerance. We will not knowingly engage with any supplier, partner, or intermediary involved in slavery, forced labour, child labour, or human trafficking, and we will end a relationship where we find it and remediation is refused.
• ▸No worker-paid fees. No person may ever be charged a fee, deposit, or debt in order to be recruited by us or to work for us, at any stage, by us or by anyone acting for us. Debt bondage begins with a recruitment fee.
• ▸Direct employment. We employ our people directly on written contracts, in their own name, with pay made to an account in their own name. No unpaid internships, no unpaid work trials, and paid time for any assessment that runs long.
• ▸A published pay floor. Everyone in the group, including the earliest-career roles, is paid on the same published floor. Underpayment is the ground that exploitation grows in, and a floor makes it visible.
• ▸Documents stay with their owner. We never retain a person's passport, residence card, or identity documents. Right-to-work checks are done by sight and the documents are returned immediately.
• ▸Freedom to leave. Contractual notice periods are reasonable, no one is tied by debt or by a document we hold, and anyone may resign.
• ▸Speaking up without penalty. Anyone in the group, or anyone in our supply chain, may raise a concern about labour conditions directly with management. We will not retaliate, and we will protect the identity of the person who raised it as far as we are able.

• ▸We check new suppliers of hardware and facilities services for a published modern slavery or human-rights position, and prefer suppliers who have one and who publish audit findings rather than assurances.
• ▸We buy electronics from established vendors and resellers with published responsible-sourcing programmes, and we keep equipment in service for as long as it is useful. Buying less, and later, is the single largest lever a company of our size actually has.
• ▸Material supplier contracts include a right to terminate for a breach of our zero-tolerance policy, and a requirement to pass equivalent obligations down the chain.
• ▸Where facilities services are contracted by a landlord or building operator rather than by us, we ask for their policy and treat a refusal to provide one as a factor in the tenancy decision.
• ▸We investigate any credible concern raised with us, whether it concerns our own operations or a supplier's, and we record what we found and what we did about it.

• ▸Concerns raised, and what happened to each one. In the period covered by this statement: none raised.
• ▸Instances of slavery, forced labour, or trafficking identified in our operations or supply chain. In the period covered by this statement: none identified.
• ▸Proportion of material suppliers with a published human-rights or modern slavery position, reviewed at onboarding and annually.
• ▸Confirmation, each year, that no person was charged a fee to be recruited by us and that no identity document was retained by us.

LAST UPDATED 9 AUGUST 2026