PARNER ADOBE BUSINESS BUSINE SS PARNER
CODE OF CONDUC
INTRODUCTION
Criical o Adobe’s ideniy and success is our oundaion o inegriy and hones and ehical conduc. Ta ehical oundaion is relian no only on our own employees bu also upon our orming relaionships wih business parners ha share our commimen o ehical business pracices. Te Adobe Business Parner Code o Conduc ariculaes our own commimen and our expecaions o our business parners. I also reflecs our suppor or he Code o Conduc esablished by he Elecronic Indusry Ciizenship Coaliion
(EICC) and he en Principles o he Unied Naions Global Compac. We sincerely value our business parners who have joined us in pursuing hese common goals o inegriy and ehical business pracices.
Shantanu Narayan CHIEF EXECUIVE OFFICER ADOBE SYSEMS INCORPORAED
Adobe Business Parner
CODE OF CONDUC Inegriy and Compliance wih Laws • ANTI-CORRUPTION Adobe is commited o conducing is business ree rom exor exorion, ion, bribery and all unlawul, unehical or raudulen aciviy. Adobe parners mus no offer, give, promise or auhorize any bribe, gif, loan, ee, reward or oher advanage o any governmen official or employee, any cusomer, any Adobe employee or any oher person o obain any business advanage or improperly influence any acion or decision. Adobe business partners must comply with all applicable international anti-corruption laws and regulations, including he U.S. Foreign Corrup Pracices Ac. • CONFLICTS CONFLICTS OF INTEREST Adobe business parners mus avoid any siuaion or relaionship ha may involve an inappropriae conflic or he appearance o a conflic wih he ineress o Adobe. Adobe business parners shall no offer or provide excessive gifs, hospialiy or enerainmen o any Adobe employee or amily member o Adobe employees. Adobe employees and heir amily members may no hold any significan economic ineres in any eniy ha does business wih Adobe and Adobe business parners are required o avoid such relaionships wih Adobe employees. • INSIDER TRADING Adobe business partners must thatbenefi non-public obtained in theheir course their relationship wih Adobe is no used or heensure personal o heinformation Adobe business parner, employees or oher persons. • INTELLECTUAL INTELLEC TUAL PROPERTY Adobe business parner parnerss mus use Adobe’s rade inormaion, copyrighs, copyrighs, and rademarks only in a manner ha is permited under heir conracs wih Adobe and may no misappropriae or inringe upon he rade inormaion, rademarks, or copyrighed works o ohers. Adobe business parners mus no misuse rade secres or proprieary or confidenial inormaion o ohers or heir own purposes or disclose such inormaion o unauhorized hird paries. Adobe business parners parn ers mus noiy Adobe o any unauhorized use o Adobe rade secres, brands, rademarks, logos or confidenial inormaion by a hird pary. • CONFIDENTIALITY Adobe business parner parnerss mus proec Adobe’s inormaion, no disclose disclose i o any any unauhorized hird pary, and use i only or he business o Adobe. • EXPORT CONTROLS Adobe business partners must strict strictly ly comply with all export and re-expor re-exportt restrictions applicable to Adobe sofware and refleced in relevan licenses and disribuion agreemens and as required by applicable laws and regulaions. • FAIR COMPETITION Adobe business parner parnerss shall no: » Propose or or ener ino any any agreemen agreemen wih any compeior o fix prices, margins, or erms erms and condiions or o divide up any markes or cusomers, or » Propose or ener ino any agreemen or undersanding resricing resric ing resale pricing o Adobe producs. • HONEST HONES T AND ACC ACCURATE URATE DEALINGS Adobe business parners shall no make make any alse represenaions in connecion wih any Adobe ransacion including, bu no limied o, oral misrepresenaions o ac, he promoion or uilizaion o false documentation such as non-genuine customer purchase orders, fraudulent or forged contracts, orged leters o desrucion and/or oher alse or inaccurae records.
Adobe Business Parner
CODE OF CONDUC Labor Sandards Adobe expecs our business parners o rea heir own employees airly in accordance wih local laws and regulaions regarding labor and employmen, and o pursue he ollowing principles: • INVOLUNTAR INVOLUNTARY Y LABOR Employmen wih Adobe business parners should be an expression o ree choice and here may be no orced, bonded or involunary labor. Adobe business parners should allow workers o disconinue employmen upon reasonable noice. • CHILD LABOR Adobe business parner parnerss should should no use child labor and Adobe business business parners should adop adop procedures procedures o veriy and mainain main ain documenaion ha no workers are younger han he local legal age or employmen. Adobe business parners mus ollow all applicable local laws, regulaions and sandards concerning working hours and condiions or all workers. Te erm “child” reers o any person employed under he age o 15 (or 14 where the law of the country permits), or under he age or compleing compulsory educaion, or under he minimum age or employmen in he counry, whichever is greaes. • LAWFUL EMPLOY EMPLOYMENT MENT Adobe business parners shall, prior o employing employing any worker worker,, validae validae and review all relevan documenaion o ensure ha such worker has he legal righ o work in ha jurisdicion. • NON DISCRIMI DISCRIMINA NATION TION OR HARASSMEN HARASSMENT T Adobe business parner parnerss shall no illegally discriminae on he basis o age, gender, gender, race, sexual orienaion, perceived disabiliy, naional, culural, religious or personal belies. • FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION Adobe business parners shall respec respec he legal righs o employees o join or o rerain rom joining worker organizaions, including rade unions. Adobe business parners have he righ o esablish avorable employmen condiions and o mainain effecive employee communicaion programs as a means of promoting positive employee relations that make employees view third-party representation as unnecessary. • SAFE CONDITIONS Adobe business parner parnerss shall provide a sae and hygienic working environmen environmen or workers workers and provide appropriae saey equipmen and raining. • WORKING HOURS Adobe business parner parnerss shall afford workers workers working hours ha comply comply wih naional laws and indusr indusryy sandards. • WAGES WAGES AND BENEFIT BENEFITS S Adobe business parners shall provide wages wages and benefi benefiss ha comply wih all applicable applicable local wage and and hour laws and regulaions including hose relaing o minimum wages, overime hours, piece raes and oher elemens o compensaion, and provide legally mandaed benefis.
Environmenal Sandards Adobe business parners shall comply wih all applicable laws and regulaions relaing o he impac o heir business on he environmen. Compliance wih environmenal law shall include any inernaional and applicable local laws affecing he source o maerials and processes used o manuacure producs. • WASTE MANAGEMENT Adobe business parners should ake seps o ensure ha wase is minimized and iems are are recycled whenever pracicable. • PACKAGING AND PAPER Adobe business parners should avoid undue and unnecessar unnecessaryy use o maerials and uilize recycled maerials whenever appropriae. • CONSERVATION Adobe business parners parner s should monior and modiy processes and acivi aciviies ies as necessar necessaryy o ensure conservaion o scarce resources, including waer, flora and auna and producive producive land in cerain cer ain siuaions. • ENERGY USE Adobe business parner parnerss should should adap adap producion and and delivery processes processes as well as heaing, venilaion, lighing,, I sysems and ransporaion o maximize efficien energy use and o minimize harmul emissions. lighing
Procedures • APPLICABILITY Te Adobe Business Parner Code o Conduc applies o all Adobe business parner parnerss including bu no limied o Adobe disribuors, resellers, soluion and consuling parners, suppliers, vendors, and service providers. • CERTIFICATION Where required, each Adobe business parner parner covered by by he Adobe Business Parner Parner Code o Conduc shall have an auhorized represenaive ceriy ceri y ha he or she has read and undersood he Code o Conduc and commis he Adobe business parner o hese sandards. • MONITORING AND COMPLIANCE Adobe may audi compliance wih his policy or appoin a hird pary o conduc an audi. audi . Any violaions will be repored o he Adobe business parner’s managemen or heir atenion and, i appropriae, correcive acion. I is he inenion o Adobe o disconinue is relaionship wih any Adobe business parner who does no comply wih his Code o Conduc or, upon discovery o noncompliance, does no commi commi o a specific plan o achieve compliance. Adobe business business parners and oher sakeholders may repor repor suspeced violaions o hese sandards o o he Adobe Business Ethics Hotline at +1 800 300 1026 or by sending an email o
[email protected].
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