
Code of Conduct
Intended Officers and Employees
These guidelines are intended for all officers and employees including full-time and part-time staff, temporary employees, transferred / contracted staff and any other staff employed by Telepark and working for Telepark in any of the following: Headquarters, regional headquarters, offices, sales offices and all retail outlets.
1. Preservation of a High Standard of Corporate Ethics and Respect for Human Rights
- Employees should be conscious of their role in the global community and uphold a high standard of corporate and employee ethics and as a member of society act with common decency and responsibility.
- Employees should respect human rights and should not discriminate against anyone based on race, beliefs, gender, social standing, religion, nationality, age and physical or mental disability.
2. Work Environment
- In order for Employees to perform their duties for the Company to the best of their ability with individuality and diversity, Employees should respect one another, openly exchange opinions and create an open and comfortable environment where to work.
- Employees should not disrupt the sound discipline, environment and good order of the workplace through conduct which is contrary to public order and good moral standards including sexual and power harassment.
3. Compliance with the Law/Prohibition of Illegal Conduct
- Employees should be aware of applicable laws and regulations and enforce legal compliance.
- Employees should not engage in illegal conduct or conspire to do the same. For example, in view of Antitrust Law;
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Employees should not collude with competitors to fix prices, sales volumes, sales territory or the division of the market. |
| 2) | Employees should not collude with competitors in any tender such as determining a successful bidder or contract price. |
| 3) | Employees should not engage in unfair trade practices, such as boycotts, resale price maintenance or tie-in agreements. |
| 4) | In business dealings with sub-contractors of the Company, employees should not make unjustified demands to reduce purchase prices, reject the receipt of goods, return goods or delay the payment. |
| 5) | Employees should promote fair, transparent and free competition, and carry out appropriate business transactions. |
- Employees should ensure to comply with Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Criminal Law, Personal Information Protection Law, Unfair Competition Prevention Law, Corporate Tax Law, Customs Law, Environmental Law, the Product Liability Act, Intellectual Property Rights Law, Securities Exchange Law, business related rules and regulations, applicable labour laws, and any other relevant laws and regulations.
4. Conflicts of Interests and Personal Responsibility
- Employees should not engage in activities for personal gain or the gain of a third party at the expense of gains of the Company.
- Employees should not use the Company's property, assets or information systems for any purpose other than that of the Company's business.
- Employees should not, without the prior consent of the Company, be engaged in any other occupation outside the Company.
- Employees should not, without the prior consent of the Company, acquire any stock of clients or organizations, in which the Company has invested that are not listed on a securities exchange.
5. Gifts and Favors
- Employees should not render public officials or persons in a similar position any economic favor such as money, gifts or other favor in return for performance of their duties.
- Employees should not pay any agent, advisor or consultant any commission which they have reason to believe will be used for influencing public officials or persons in a similar position in an unlawful manner.
- Employees should not render employees or officers of clients of the Company any economic favor such as money, gifts or other favor, the value of which is greater than a generally accepted commercial level, nor should they receive such economic favor from officers of clients of the Company.
6. Handling of Corporate and Client Information
- Employees should strictly manage confidential information of the Company and client information and should not divulge such information to a third party, nor should they use the same for any purpose other than that of the business of the Company.
- Employees should enforce the protection of personal information and should not divulge or use the same for any reason other than its intended purpose.
- Employees should handle confidential information divulged by a third party in the same manner they would handle confidential information of the Company.
- Employees should not infringe upon the intellectual property rights of a third party, including the unauthorized copying of computer software.
- Employees should appropriately disclose Company information in a timely manner and in accordance with the laws and regulations protecting the interests of investors including the rules of relevant stock exchanges.
- Whereby Employees come into possession of important information on the Company or its business partners which may materially influence the judgment of investors in the Company or in said business partners, they should not sell or purchase any stock of the Company or stock of such business partners unless / until such information becomes public to avoid insider trading.
- Employees should not engage in acts of unfair competition including the illegal acquisition or use of trade secrets of a third party.
7. Company Funds and Financial Reporting
- Employees should properly manage the assets and funds of the Company and use them only for appropriate business purposes. Employees shall not establish or maintain undisclosed or unrecorded assets or funds.
- Employees should make timely and appropriate accounting reports, ensuring the accuracy of the reports, and should not make any false or misleading entries in the Company's books or records.
8. Political Donations
- Employees should observe applicable laws and regulations such as the Political Funds Control Law in the event that they make political donations and other contributions to various entities.
9. Social Contribution
- Employees should make all reasonable effort to work in harmony with the local and global community, establish amicable relationships with stakeholders of the Company, and where possible, make a positive contribution to establish sustainable local and global communities.
10. Environmental Preservation
- Employees should observe all relevant laws and regulations concerning environmental preservation and actively partake in activities to communicate information concerning the same.
11. Action Against Antisocial Groups
- Upon the receipt of unreasonable demands by an antisocial group including extortionists and crime syndicates, employees should firmly refuse such demands and should not resort to an easy monetary settlement.
- Employees should never deal with any antisocial group or any entity that is connected with such antisocial group.
12. Reports and Sanctions
- Whereby an Employee or Officer has reason to believe or finds evidence of violation of these guidelines, he or she should report such violation or discuss it with the Compliance Committee Secretariat (Compliance Promotion Office) or the internal/external point of contact set forth in (Reporting/Cuonseling Channels) below.
- Employees and officers should cooperate in any investigation of such alleged violation. If, as a result of the investigation, it becomes clear that there was a violation of these guidelines, sanctions may be imposed on the violator or his or her superiors in accordance with the regulations of the Company.
- Managerial staff of the Company should pay due care that any Company employee or officer filing a report of such violation or cooperating in a subsequent investigation is not placed at any disadvantage as a result of the same.
| * | Whereby a resident employee is placed within the Company by a subcontractor, a request should be made to said sub-contractor that such resident employees observe the provisions of these guidelines. |










