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Introduction

Arbit is committed to high standards of business ethics and sustainability. Arbit’s Supplier Code of Conduct is based on the UN Global Compact’s ten principles and expresses the expectations that we hold for our suppliers.

We encourage our suppliers to establish their own codes of conduct based on similar standards and to flow down these standards to all persons and entities supplying goods or services to Arbit.

We also expect that our suppliers will, upon receiving reasonable notice, give Arbit access to relevant premises and documentation to verify compliance with the Supplier Code of Conduct.

If a supplier fails to meet our expectations as set out in the Supplier Code of Conduct, Arbit’s general approach is to encourage improvement. Critical deviations or repeated unwillingness to make improvement, however, may jeopardize the supplier’s relationship with Arbit.

1. Compliance with Laws

The supplier must operate in full compliance with all laws and regulations applicable to its business.

2. Labour Standards

Minimum age requirements

The supplier must not engage in, or benefit from, the use of child labour, in accordance with the ILO convention 138.

Non-discrimination

Arbit expects the supplier to make decisions on hiring, promotion, development, and compensation based on the employees’ abilities and skills related to the job. These decisions must never be based on irrelevant factors such as gender, age, ethnic or national origin, religion, disability, sexual orientation, union membership, or political affiliation.

Freedom of association and collective bargaining

Arbit expects the supplier to respect the right of employees to freely associate and bargain collectively.

Modern slavery

The supplier must not engage in modern slavery related activities, such as using force, threats, or deception to get a person to work; destroying or otherwise denying access to an employee’s identity or immigration documents; charging employees recruitment fees; and failing to provide an employment contract.

Wages and working hours

Arbit expects the supplier to compensate employees fairly and, as a minimum, to comply with legal minimum standards. Working hours shall comply with national laws.

Health and safety standards

Arbit expects the supplier to ensure that its employees are offered a safe and healthy working environment. Adequate health and safety policies and procedures shall be established and followed.

3. Environment

Management

Arbit expects the supplier to reduce negative environmental impact through a proactive and systematic approach and responsible management.

Climate

If energy consumption or transportation is a significant environmental aspect of the supplier’s operations, Arbit expects the supplier to measure greenhouse gases emissions and have targets and plans to reduce the emissions.

Resource efficiency

Arbit expects the supplier to use energy efficient and recyclable design and strive to minimise waste of all types. In areas vulnerable to a scarcity of freshwater, suppliers are expected to establish plans for how to reduce the use of freshwater in operations.

Hazardous substances

Arbit expects the supplier to identify and phase out hazardous substances in products and operations and ensure proper treatment of emissions generated from operations.

Sustainable technologies

Arbit expects the supplier to encourage the development and use of sustainable technologies, e.g., to choose sustainable effective technologies and components in their own production processes and strive to increase the use of technologies that reduce the environmental footprint.

4. Business Ethics

Anti-corruption

The supplier must refrain from all forms of corruption, extortion, and bribery, and specifically ensure that all payments or other benefits offered or made to public officials, private sector employees or any other party comply with applicable anti-corruption laws and regulations.

Business courtesies

Arbit expects the supplier to compete on the merits of its products and services. The exchange of business courtesies may not be used to gain an unfair competitive advantage. In any business relationship, the supplier must ensure that the offering or receipt of any gift or business courtesy is permitted by law and regulations, does not violate the rules or standards of the recipient’s organization, and is consistent with reasonable marketplace customs.

Conflict of interest

Arbit expects the supplier to avoid all conflicts of interest or situations giving the appearance of a potential conflict of interest in its dealings with Arbit. Arbit expects the supplier to report to Arbit any situations of actual or potential conflicts of interest between the personal interests of those involved in the dealings and the interests of Arbit.

5. Information Production

Arbit expects the supplier to properly handle sensitive information, including confidential, proprietary and personal information. Information should not be used for any other purpose than for which it was provided. The supplier must respect the intellectual property of Arbit and others.

6. Trade Compliance

Export control

The supplier must ensure that its business practices are in compliance with applicable laws and regulations governing the export, import and retransfer of products, components, software and technical data and assistance. The supplier shall provide truthful and correct restriction information and is expected to adhere to applicable embargoes and sanctions aimed at maintaining or restoring peace and security.

Conflict minerals

Arbit expects the supplier, where applicable, to exercise reasonable due diligence concerning its use of conflict minerals and the source of these minerals and to respond in a timely manner to Arbit’s request for information on these activities and findings.

The policy: This privacy policy notice is for this website; and served by Arbit and governs the privacy of those who use it. The purpose of this policy is to explain to you how we control, process, handle and protect your personal information while browsing or using this website, including your rights under current laws and regulations. If you do not agree to the following policy you may wish to cease viewing / using this website.

Policy key definitions:

• “I”, “our”, “us”, or “we” refer to the business, [Business name & other trading names].
• “you”, “the user” refer to the person(s) using this website.
• GDPR means General Data Protection Act.
• PECR means Privacy & Electronic Communications Regulation.
• ICO means Information Commissioner’s Office.
• Cookies mean small files stored on a users computer or device.

Processing of your personal data

Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) we control and / or process any personal information about you electronically using the following lawful bases.

• Lawful basis: Consent
  Data retention period: We will continue to process your information under this basis until you withdraw consent or it is determined your consent no longer exists.
  Sharing your information: We do not share your information with third parties.

If, as determined by us, the lawful basis upon which we process your personal information changes, we will notify you about the change and any new lawful basis to be used if required. We shall stop processing your personal information if the lawful basis used is no longer relevant.

Your individual rights

Under the GDPR your rights are as follows. You can read more about your rights in details here;

• the right to be informed;
• the right of access;
• the right to rectification;
• the right to erasure;
• the right to restrict processing;
• the right to data portability;
• the right to object; and
• the right not to be subject to automated decision-making including profiling.

We handle subject access requests in accordance with the GDPR.

Internet cookies

We use cookies on this website to provide you with a better user experience. We do this by placing a small text file on your device / computer hard drive to track how you use the website, to record or log whether you have seen particular messages that we display, to keep you logged into the website where applicable, to display relevant adverts or content, referred you to a third party website.

Some cookies are required to enjoy and use the full functionality of this website.

We use a cookie control system which allows you to accept the use of cookies, and control which cookies are saved to your device / computer. Some cookies will be saved for specific time periods, where others may last indefinitely. Your web browser should provide you with the controls to manage and delete cookies from your device, please see your web browser options.

Data security and protection

We ensure the security of any personal information we hold by using secure data storage technologies and precise procedures in how we store, access and manage that information. Our methods meet the GDPR compliance requirement.

Transparent Privacy Explanations

We have provided some further explanations about user privacy and the way we use this website to help promote a transparent and honest user privacy methodology.

Sponsored links, affiliate tracking & commissions

Our website may contain adverts, sponsored and affiliate links on some pages. These are typically served through our advertising partners; Google Adsense, eBay Partner Network, Amazon Affiliates, or are self served through our own means. We only use trusted advertising partners who each have high standards of user privacy and security. However we do not control the actual adverts seen / displayed by our advertising partners. Our ad partners may collect data and use cookies for ad personalisation and measurement. Where ad preferences are requested as ‘non-personalised’ cookies may still be used for frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting and to combat fraud and abuse.

Clicking on any adverts, sponsored or affiliate links may track your actions by using a cookie saved to your device. You can read more about cookies on this website above. Your actions are usually recorded as a referral from our website by this cookie. In most cases we earn a very small commission from the advertiser or advertising partner, at no cost to you, whether you make a purchase on their website or not.

We use advertising partners in these ways to help generate an income from the website, which allows us to continue our work and provide you with the best overall experience and valued information.

If you have any concerns about this we suggest you do not click on any adverts, sponsored or affiliate links found throughout the website.

Email marketing messages & subscription

Under the GDPR we use the consent lawful basis for anyone subscribing to our newsletter or marketing mailing list. We only collect certain data about you, as detailed in the “Processing of your personal date” above. Any email marketing messages we send are done so through an EMS, email marketing service provider. An EMS is a third party service provider of software / applications that allows marketers to send out email marketing campaigns to a list of users.

Email marketing messages that we send may contain tracking beacons / tracked clickable links or similar server technologies in order to track subscriber activity within email marketing messages. Where used, such marketing messages may record a range of data such as; times, dates, I.P addresses, opens, clicks, forwards, geographic and demographic data. Such data, within its limitations will show the activity each subscriber made for that email campaign.

Any email marketing messages we send are in accordance with the GDPR and the PECR. We provide you with an easy method to withdraw your consent (unsubscribe) or manage your preferences / the information we hold about you at any time. See any marketing messages for instructions on how to unsubscribe or manage your preferences.