Business Ethics Policy Statement

Ediston expects and demands all its employees and its Directors carry out their business and perform their duties to the highest ethical standards and in compliance with all relevant legal principles. This standard of behaviour and performance is maintained in the company’s dealings with employees, clients, suppliers, and all other stakeholders. We are committed to ensuring that we conduct our business responsibly, legally, professionally and with integrity.

General Principles

The company and its employees will at all times demonstrate the highest levels of integrity, truthfulness, and honesty in order to uphold both personal and corporate reputations and to inspire confidence and trust in their respective actions. The company will conduct its business in a competent, fair, impartial, and efficient manner.

Health and Safety

The company is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for all of its employees both on and off its sites.

Employees

All employees are treated with dignity and respect with equal employment opportunities given to all irrespective of their race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, maternity, marital status, family status, disability, age, or national origin. Employees are offered a safe and healthy workplace and the company will not tolerate any form of harassment.

Clients

The company will take all reasonable care to avoid misleading statements, concealment, and overstatement in all of its advertising and public statements. It will seek to build long term partnerships with its clients by being honest and straightforward in its dealings at all times. It will respect the confidentiality of any information that it might obtain in relation to its clients.

Suppliers

Suppliers will be chosen on the basis of factors such as price, quality, delivery, service, and integrity. The company’s choice of suppliers will be made objectively. Honesty, openness and trust will be paramount in the company’s dealings with its suppliers.

Competitors

The company will build its reputation on the basis of its business conduct and performance. It will compete vigorously and lawfully. It will not seek to damage the reputation of its competitors or compete unfairly either directly or by implication.

Government, Regulators, and Legislators

The company will seek to comply with all relevant legislation. It will strive to follow the best practice in corporate governance and will meet its tax obligations. It will not make any financial contributions or offer support to any political party.

Giving and Receiving Gifts and Entertainment

Employees will neither seek nor accept for themselves or others any gifts, favours, or entertainment without a legitimate purpose from any person or business organisation that does or seeks to do business with, or is a competitor of, Ediston Properties Limited. Gifts, favours, and entertainment may be given to others at the expense of the company as long as these are consistent with customary business practice and are not excessive in value.

Bribes and Corrupt Practice

The company does not allow the direct or indirect offer, payment, solicitation, or acceptance of bribes in any form. The company has a separate Anti Bribery Policy in place which examines in detail the procedures all employees must follow to avoid involvement in any situation which might lead to the offer of bribes. The policy makes it clear that any employee found to be involved in any kind of corrupt practice is likely to be immediately dismissed.