Sustainability & CSR Policy

1. Policy Overview

Enlighta Inc. (“Enlighta”) is a global Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider headquartered in San Ramon, CA. Enlighta Inc. specializes in providing hosted supplier governance and service management software solutions to clients.

The purpose of this policy is to establish a reference framework to develop and strengthen socially responsible behavior, regardless of the way — conventional and/or digital — the business is carried out and the country it operates in, locally adapting any actions that are necessary for compliance with it.

Social responsibility allows Enlighta’s business interests to be reconciled with the legitimate interests of the different stakeholders that may be affected, and also assumes the impact of the company’s activities on the community in general and the environment.

2. Scope

In this policy, the third party means any individual or organization Enlighta personnel come into contact with during the course of your work for us and includes actual and potential clients, customers, suppliers, distributors, business contacts, agents, advisers, and government and public bodies, including their advisors, representatives and officials, politicians and political parties. 

This policy applies to all individuals working at all levels and grades, including senior managers, officers, directors, employees (whether permanent, fixed-term, or temporary), consultants, contractors, trainees, seconded staff, homeworkers, casual workers and agency staff, volunteers, interns, agents, sponsors, or any other person associated with us, or any of our subsidiaries or their employees, wherever located (collectively referred to as employees in this policy).

3. Objectives

Enlighta has implemented this corporate social responsibility policy as a way of:

• Achieving Enlighta’s corporate interest and its strategic goals.
• Managing the company based on the Enlighta values of solvency, integrity, the vocation for service, innovation for leadership, and committed team, which must be present in any business project that is carried out.
• Establishing relationships of stability and equality with stakeholders related to the company
• Managing the risks and business opportunities arising from the development of the environment in which Enlighta does business, assuming the impact it generates on society and the environment, maximizing the positives and minimizing the negatives.
• Transmitting the Enlighta’s social value in each territory, which reconciles the value of its operational activities with the value of the not-for-profit activities it carries out.

4. Roles and Responsibilities

• Executives – Ensure that the corporate social responsibility policy is established, periodically reviewed, and communicated to employees and contractors.
• Management at all levels is responsible for ensuring those reporting to them are made aware of and understand this policy and are given adequate and regular training on it.

5. Policy

5.1 Compliance with Laws and Regulations

Enlighta is committed to being compliant with current national and international laws and regulations in all countries that the company operates in.

Enlighta will:

• Respect the law
• Honor its internal policies
• Ensure that all its business operations are legitimate
• Keep every partnership and collaboration open and transparent

5.2 Corporate Governance Practices

Enlighta maintains corporate governance practices based on ethics, business transparency, and diversity: respecting the rules of the free market and free competition and rejecting any illegal or fraudulent practice contrary to the rules of good governance, to Enlighta corporate policies and rules, and to the guidelines of the Code of Ethics and Conduct, in order to accrue business benefits.

Enlighta has internal mechanisms for preventing, monitoring, reporting, and penalizing any practice described in the paragraph above that occurs within the company. 

5.3 Stakeholder Communication

Enlighta maintains communication and dialog with all stakeholders, based on transparency, truth, and commitment, as fundamental pillars for building stable relationships that generate trust.

Enlighta needs the involvement of its stakeholders to achieve its business and social goals and, therefore, it has established specific channels for communication and dialog that also facilitate the company in learning about their needs and expectations.

Enlighta undertakes to continuously review and adapt these channels, applying new technologies so that they are appropriate and efficient.

Furthermore, Enlighta has available processes for identifying those matters considered material or relevant to the development of its business activity and for its stakeholders. This material process is structured as a complement to the aforementioned dialog channels.

5.4 Transparency

Enlighta is committed to transparency, as a way of conveying and generating trust and credibility among our stakeholders.

This involves disseminating relevant and truthful information regarding the company’s performance and activities, complying with any legal requirements that may exist regarding public information.

5.5 Human Rights

Enlighta is committed to the respect, defense, and protection of Human Rights and undertakes to;

• Avoid practices that are discriminatory or damage people’s dignity:
  • Striving for a decent, safe, and healthy working environment, adopting rules and procedures in the area of occupational health and prevention of occupational risks, avoiding any kind of discriminatory attitude, intimidation, or violence, in any of their manifestations due to sex, race, creed, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual disposition, nationality, citizenship, marital status, or socioeconomic status.
  • Rejecting child labor and forced or compulsory labor.
• To respect its employees’ freedom of union, association, and group negotiation and respect the role and responsibilities that apply to the representation of workers in accordance with current legislation.
• To provide decent employment:
  • Enlighta pays its employees in a decent manner, adjusted to their skills, responsibilities, and duties. This payment is aligned with applicable legislation and with conditions in the market where it operates, which allows them to meet their basic needs and those of their families. 
  • Enlighta guarantees the right of its employees to a workday that respects their right to rest and that facilitates flexible work practices, acknowledging employees’ need to balance their work-life with other interests and responsibilities. 
  • Enlighta, likewise, guarantees people’s right to personal data privacy.
• To implement due diligence procedures to identify possible situations of greater risk in relation to human rights, and to develop mechanisms for preventing and mitigating these risks in its activities.

5.6 Fiscal responsibility

Enlighta is aware that the payment of taxes has a direct impact on the financial and social development of the countries it operates in, meets its tax obligations in accordance with the fiscal legislation that exists in those countries, paying the corresponding taxes in accordance with the profit generated in each territory. 

5.7 Conservation of Environment

Enlighta conducts its activity with a firm commitment to contribute to sustainability from an environmental perspective materialized through the integration of the environment into the business, the promotion of environmental responsibility, preservation of biodiversity, prevention of pollution, efficient management of resources, and adaptation and mitigation of climate change.

5.8 Social Responsibility

Enlighta is committed to the promotion of social responsibility, with active participation in national and international reference forums and organizations that promote behavior and commitment aligned with the content of this CSR Policy.

Note: This policy may be amended at any time.