18-08-2021

To Our Business Stakeholders,

I am pleased to confirm that Ariel Technology Limited reaffirms its support of the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact in the areas of Human Rights, Labour, Environment and Anti-Corruption.

In this annual Communication on Progress, we describe our actions to continually improve the integration of the Global Compact and its principles into our business strategy, culture and daily operations.

We also commit to sharing this information with you as our stakeholders using our primary channels of communication.

Sincerely yours,

JOHN MUNYIRI
MANAGING DIRECTOR
ARIEL TECHNOLOGY.

Human Rights Policy:
We recognize the important responsibility we have to respect human rights and we aim to invest the power of technology to promote respect for human rights for the good of the world through universally recognised initiatives including the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and the International Labor Organization’s Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work.We actively participate in the United Nations Global Compact initiatives.

Our Human Rights Policy applies to all our employees and business partners. It also applies as far as we can control in our subcontractors partners and contracted suppliers.

If any employee believes that someone is violating the Human Rights Policy or the law, they are asked to report it immediately to their manager or human Resource. We also promote human rights awareness and respect along our supply chain, including the adoption of legal contractual clauses.

The Board is responsible for ensuring concurrence to these commitments and our senior management has responsibility for overseeing their implementation and ensuring that any breaches of our Human Rights Policy are investigated.

We employ specific policies such as Employee codes of conduct, ethical sourcing standards, environment, health and safety guidelines all of which form our human rights policy.

We listen to the views of our stakeholders. For customers, shareholders, employees and suppliers we have formal ways of doing this through review meetings and surveys, callbacks to encourage open feedback.

Direct Business Partners:
We incorporate appropriate principles into our contracts with suppliers, business partners and distributors.
We monitor adherence by key suppliers to environmental, health and safety standards, labor, - local wage and hour laws.

We provide decent working conditions, that protect the safety and health of workers in support of The Global Compact’s labour principles and International Labour Organization (ILO). Our policy is described in the employee handbook which clearly states the right for collective bargaining, compensation, working age and their responsibilities and this helps us to assess labor related risks through frequesnt engagement with employees. We have a dedicated resource that monitors and mandates environmental and safety risks and we continuosly refine our employee handbook as needed and incorporate the UNGC and ILO standards and priciples.

Ariel Technology upholds elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labour. We have an open door policy to address grievances and we hold our yearly training on rights and policies. We measure areas of performance and generate corrective actions as needed. For staff issues we adhere to the law, our policies, and benchmark with Tech industries to ensure we are comliant and ahead in a competitive job market. Our health and safety policy is adhered to by employees and assed by regulators who issue us annual certification.

We provide employees with equal opportunities of employment regardless of ethnic background without discrimination in HR policy. We uphold 50% representation of management by both genders Male & Female in management of the company. We maintain and report to authorities our demographics by gender, ethnicity, and other measures. We review regularly to hold accountable any violations policies and the guiding principles of ILO and UNGC.

ArielTech is committed to reducing its impact on the environment. Being mostly office based, the nature of our operations makes the company's direct environmental impact relatively small. The environmental impact of technology is instead mostly indirect, via clients, businesses and suppliers. We are vocal in that we help our stakeholders to go paperless to reduce the environmental impact. We also have a separate Environmental Policy which is shared with stakeholders.

Being mostly office based, the nature of our operations makes the company's direct environmental impact relatively small. The environmental impact of technology is instead mostly indirect, via clients, businesses and suppliers. We are vocal in that we help our stakeholders to go paperless to reduce the environmental impact. We also have a separate Environmental Policy which is shared with stakeholders.

• We have established a corporate and individual company policy on the use of environmentally sound technologies.
• Making information available to stakeholders that illustrates the environmental performance and benefits of using such technologies.
• Co-operating with industry partners to ensure that ‘best available technology’ is available to other organization.

We have established a committee internally to address environmental issues and incidents that may arise out of our operation. This committee operationalized an environmental policy which we share with our stakeholders on need basis. There will be a quarterly review of results by senior management in the progress.

Ariel Technology has a zero-tolerance policy for corruption, bribery and extortion. We have maintained an excellent check and balance system over transactions with internal and external audit procedure which reports at the CEO level. We ensure that all our staff read and confirm by signed Anti Corruption Policy as well as the Partner & Employees Code of conduct which conform to UN Convention Against Corruption and UNGC anti-corruption principles.

.Ariel Technology is committed to work against corruption in all its forms, including extortion and bribery. Our goals for the company are to continue to provide education for all level of employees about corruption, as well as what to do if one should encounter it. We continually emphasise on the stipulations of our policies and international standards concerning Anti-corruption. At any one time we ensure the anti-corruption initiatives are driven by a board member.

We have established a direct communication to the senior management to report corruption cases with an open door policy for staff.
On need basis we explore the capability of other stakeholders standards on whistleblowing mechanisms to establish preparedness for anticorruption initiatives.
We also audit regularly on all transactions to ensure transparency in our dealings with customers and stakeholders.