Today, compliance is more complex than ever before. There are ever-increasing legal challenges in a global environment. That’s why we are constantly adapting our processes and systems to the legal framework. To emphasize the significance of compliance for us, we have firmly anchored it into our corporate policy: “We comply with applicable laws and internal guidelines.” Compliance is thus an active component of our corporate culture. We operate a compliance management system that makes it possible for you as a customer, business partner, or employee of the company to act based on standardized and binding structures. It is important to identify potential misconduct at an early stage to ensure that we can live up to our corporate policy. One of the ways we are able to do this is by having any information about possible compliance violations reported to us.
A compliance violation exists if applicable law or internal policies are violated in Germany or abroad by our employees or vis-a-vis our employees in the performance of their duties. Such violations include corruption, competition and antitrust offenses, data privacy violations, as well as accounting, financial and tax offenses. We rely on our employees and on our customers and business partners to detect compliance violations and to be able to prevent them. Should you notice any sign of a compliance violation, you can make a report through various channels. Regardless of the method you choose to raise your concern, we assure you that every report will be handled in strict confidentiality – even anonymously if you so wish.