Modern slavery statement

Our commitment

SAUCINCO SAS is committed to respecting human rights and to preventing modern slavery, forced labour, servitude, human trafficking, and child labour in its business and its supply relationships.

Saucinco is a small QA software testing and consultancy business in Colombia, with two founders. This statement is a voluntary commitment appropriate to that stage. Before entering a market where a statutory reporting obligation might apply, Saucinco will take country-specific advice.

Our business and supply chain

Saucinco provides software quality-assurance testing and consultancy. Its operations are founder-led and use professional technology and business-service providers — website hosting, productivity, and communications services.

Because the business is small and Colombia-focused, its direct supply chain is limited. As Saucinco grows, recruits employees, appoints contractors, works with delivery partners, or serves international clients, it will review and strengthen its human-rights and supplier due-diligence controls.

Principles we expect

Saucinco expects everyone who works with or for it to:

• work freely and without coercion;
• be treated with dignity and respect;
• receive clear terms, agreed compensation, and lawful treatment;
• keep control of their own identity documents and personal information, except where a lawful and necessary process requires otherwise;
• never be charged improper recruitment fees or costs that create a debt-based dependency;
• work free from threats, violence, harassment, discrimination, and retaliation; and
• follow applicable laws, contractual commitments, and Saucinco’s ethical standards.

What we will not do

Saucinco will not knowingly engage a person or supplier that uses forced labour, trafficking, child labour, or other exploitative practices.

Saucinco will also not claim to have completed audits, certifications, training, or supplier assessments unless those activities have actually taken place. At the time of this statement, none has.

Proportionate actions

At its current stage, Saucinco will:

1. communicate this commitment to founders, future workers, contractors, suppliers, and delivery partners;
2. consider human-rights and labour-practice risks when selecting and reviewing suppliers;
3. include human-rights and ethical expectations in future supplier or contractor agreements;
4. provide a confidential route for concerns through its Whistleblowing Policy;
5. investigate credible concerns fairly and take proportionate corrective action; and
6. review this statement as the business, workforce, supply chain, and client markets change.

Reporting concerns

Anyone may report a concern about forced labour, trafficking, child labour, exploitation, or another serious ethical issue. The confidential reporting channel is described in the Whistleblowing Policy, and reports are received at whistleblower@saucinco.com.

Anonymous reports are accepted. Saucinco handles reports confidentially as far as reasonably possible, protects people who raise genuine concerns from retaliation, and investigates or escalates appropriately.

If there is an immediate risk to someone’s safety, contact the relevant emergency service or public authority first.

Responsibility and review

The founders are responsible for implementing this commitment. If a concern involves the person who would normally receive or review it, the other founder — or an independent external adviser where appropriate — takes it instead.

This statement is reviewed at least annually, and sooner if Saucinco hires staff, expands its supply chain, enters a new country, begins working with higher-risk suppliers, or has a relevant incident.