Anti-Bribery and Corruption Policy

Narrative is committed to implementing and enforcing effective systems to counter bribery and corruption. Therefore, it is Narrative’s policy to conduct all aspects of its business in an honest and ethical manner at all times. This policy applies to all individuals working for Narrative, including anyone providing services to Narrative, such as consultants or contractors.

Objective

The aim of this policy is to help Narrative observe and uphold our zero-tolerance position on bribery and corruption.

Coverage

This policy applies to all permanent and fixed-term staff employed by Narrative and any contractors, consultants or other persons acting under or on behalf of Narrative.

Principles

Narrative and its staff will not:

• Make contributions of any kind with the purpose of gaining any commercial advantage.
• Provide gifts or hospitality with the intention of persuading anyone to act improperly, or to influence a public official in the performance of their duties.
• Make, or accept, ‘kickbacks’ of any kind.

Narrative will:

• Keep appropriate internal records that will evidence the business reason for making any payments to third parties.
• Encourage employees to raise concerns about any issue or suspicion of malpractice at the earliest possible stage.
• See that anyone raising a concern about bribery will not suffer any detriment as a result, even if that person turns out to be mistaken.
• Allow alleged instances of corruption and bribery to be submitted confidentially.

Reporting

Employees are encouraged to submit any alleged instances of corruption directly to our CEO (nick@narrative.io). If confidentiality is required we recommend setting up a ProtonMail account and not passing any identifying information in the submission. All submissions will be handled with rigor.

Credits

This policy was adapted from the anti-bribery policy at Deeson.