Environmental Policy
Anti Slave Policy
Our Alignment & Humanitarian Rights
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Truth Serum Pty Ltd Corporate Governance: Ethical Advertising & Whistleblower Compliance Policy
Corporate Governance and Strategic Purpose
Transparent corporate communication, ethical marketing practices, and rigorous strategic debate are the foundational pillars of Truth Serum Pty Ltd. As a premier B2B digital marketing and advertising agency specializing in alternative revenue models and brand-community integration, we cultivate an organizational culture where transparent business dialogue is actively prioritized. We encourage employees, partners, and stakeholders to raise operational questions or compliance concerns through established, good-faith corporate channels to protect the integrity of our agency frameworks.
Risk Mitigation, Regulatory Standards, and Legal Compliance
In the execution of high-tier lead generation, experiential marketing activations, and data-driven digital strategies, compliance remains paramount. If you observe, witness, or experience any operational behavior that compromises legal frameworks—including potential infractions of South African business laws, consumer protection acts, advertising regulatory standards, or internal policy breaches—it must be reported immediately.
Highlighting conduct that creates data privacy vulnerabilities, risks to consumer safety, or threats to the brand equity of Truth Serum Pty Ltd and its clients is vital. Active reporting safeguards our corporate compliance, aligns with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), and ensures the ethical deployment of our proprietary marketing campaigns and business unit executions.
Corporate Accountability and Anti-Retaliation Protections
Truth Serum Pty Ltd enforces a strict zero-tolerance policy regarding corporate retaliation, victimization, harassment, or punitive actions against any individual who raises an ethical concern in good faith or assists in an internal corporate inquiry.
In strict compliance with South African corporate governance and whistleblower protection standards, secure, anonymous reporting channels are maintained. All compliance disclosures are handled with the highest level of confidentiality and corporate discretion, restricting data access exclusively to authorized personnel with a legitimate operational need to know.
Environmental Policy
Truth Serum is committed to taking a leading role within our industry in minimising the environmental impact from our business activities and partner dealings.
Truth Serum endeavour to:
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Continuously improve our environmental performance and integrate environmental management procedures and best practice into all our business operations.
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Continually monitor and actively reduce the environmental impacts of the company’s operations.
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Make more effective use of resources, particularly by minimising waste production and increasing the development of markets for the waste and recycling industry.
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Develop, implement and promote sustainable procurement options.
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Seek ways to minimise energy and water use within day to day operation.
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Reduce CO2 emission levels and polluting factors and draw critical links between improving waste management and CO2 reduction.
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Utilise telemetry / Internet telephony and VOIP to reduce travel and CO2 emissions.
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Adopt and manage waste management procedures, which promote waste minimisation, re-use, recovery and recycling.
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Where these options are unavailable we will ensure that our waste is correctly handled and disposed of in a way that has the least impact on the environment.
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Comply with the letter and spirit of all relevant environmental legislation and regulations.
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Take into consideration broader environmental impacts in scoping capital projects and partnerships.
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Highlight the importance of the organisation's environmental standards and promote environmental best practice within our organisation, to key stakeholders, partners, suppliers and customers.
Successful delivery of this policy will incorporate:
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Annual review our environmental policies and performance in line with company operations and objectives and allocate resources for their effective implementation and improvement.
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Set and monitor environmental performance objectives and targets.
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Reduction of our ecological footprint.
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Ensure that our policy is made available for public review if requested.
Anti Slavery Policy
Modern slavery is a crime and a violation of fundamental human rights. It takes various forms, such as slavery, servitude, forced and compulsory labour and human trafficking, all of which have in common the deprivation of a person’s liberty by another in order to exploit them for personal or commercial gain. Truth Serum have a zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery, and we are committed to acting ethically and with integrity in all our business dealings and relationships and to implementing and enforcing effective systems and controls to ensure modern slavery is not taking place anywhere in our own business or in any of our supply chains.
We are also committed to ensuring there is transparency in our own business and in our approach to tackling modern slavery throughout our supply chains, consistent with our disclosure obligations under the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
We expect the same high standards from all of our contractors, suppliers and other business partners, and as part of our contracting processes, in the coming year we will include specific prohibitions against the use of forced, compulsory or trafficked
labour, or anyone held in slavery or servitude, whether adults or children, and we expect that our suppliers will hold their own suppliers to the same high standards.
This policy applies to all persons working for us or on our behalf in any capacity, including employees at all levels, directors, officers, agency workers, seconded workers, volunteers, interns, agents, contractors, external consultants, third-party representatives and business partners.
This policy does not form part of any employee’s contract of employment and we may amend it at any time.
Responsibility for the policy
The Company has overall responsibility for ensuring this policy complies with our legal and ethical obligations, and that all those under our control comply with it.
The Company has primary and day-to-day responsibility for implementing this policy, monitoring its use and effectiveness, dealing with any queries about it, and auditing internal control systems and procedures to ensure they are effective in countering modern slavery.
Management at all levels are responsible for ensuring those reporting to them understand and comply with this policy and are given adequate and regular training on it and the issue of modern slavery in supply chains.
You are invited to comment on this policy and suggest ways in which it might be improved. Comments, suggestions and queries are encouraged and should be addressed to the Managing Director.
Compliance with the policy
You must ensure that you read, understand and comply with this policy.
The prevention, detection and reporting of modern slavery in any part of our business or supply chains is the responsibility of all those working for us or under our control. You are required to avoid any activity that might lead to, or suggest, a breach of this policy. You must notify your line manager OR a company Director as soon as possible if you believe or suspect that a conflict with this policy has occurred or may occur in the future.
You are encouraged to raise concerns about any issue or suspicion of modern slavery in any parts of our business or supply chains of any supplier tier at the earliest possible stage. If you believe or suspect a breach of this policy has occurred or that it may occur, you must notify your line manager or company Director OR report it in accordance with our Whistleblowing Policy as soon as possible.
You should note that where appropriate, and with the welfare and safety of local workers as a priority, we will give support and guidance to our suppliers to help them address coercive, abusive and exploitative work practices in their own business and supply chains.
If you are unsure about whether a particular act, the treatment of workers more generally, or their working conditions within any tier of our supply chains constitutes any of the various forms of modern slavery, raise it with your line manager or company Director.
We aim to encourage openness and will support anyone who raises genuine concerns in good faith under this policy, even if they turn out to be mistaken. We are committed to ensuring no one suffers any detrimental treatment as a result of reporting in good faith their suspicion that modern slavery of whatever form is or may be taking place in any part of our own business or in any of our supply chains.
Detrimental treatment includes dismissal, disciplinary action, threats or other unfavourable treatment connected with raising a concern.
If you believe that you have suffered any such treatment, you should inform your line manager immediately. If the matter is not remedied, and you are an employee, you should raise it formally using our Grievance Procedure, which can be found in the current employee handbook.
Communication & awareness of this policy
Training on this policy, and on the risk our business faces from modern slavery in its supply chains, forms part of the induction process for all individuals who work for us, and updates will be provided using established methods of communication between the business and you. Our zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery must be communicated to all suppliers, contractors and business partners at the outset of our business relationship with them and reinforced as appropriate thereafter.
Breaches of this policy
Any person who breaches this policy will face potential discrimination charges, which could result in dismissal for misconduct or gross misconduct. We may terminate our relationship with other individuals and organisations working on our behalf if they breach this policy.