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Last updated on June 28, 2024
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According to the Modern Slavery Act 2015, commercial organizations that carry out all or part of their business in the United Kingdom are required to publish a transparency statement informing consumers about the efforts to eradicate slavery and human trafficking.
Printful is committed to ensuring ethical and fair labor practices across its operations and seeks and expects the same from its suppliers.
The structure of our organization, business, and supply chain
Printful is an on-demand order fulfillment and dropshipping company with teams working in North America and Europe, as well as partners in North America, Europe, Japan, Australia, China, and Brazil. We also contract a wide variety of suppliers located in the US, the EU, and other countries and regions to provide us with the materials for our production.
Printful is a member of Sedex, which allows us to map our supply chain to multiple tiers (such as workforce profiles, countries of operations, and the suppliers for each component of our products and services) and gather key ethical data from our suppliers already in the platform. We continuously onboard new suppliers to the Sedex platform to help us monitor supplier compliance with labor standards, business ethics, environment, and health and safety regulations.
Printful policies in relation to slavery and human trafficking
In 2023, Printful created and launched its own Vendor Compliance Manual, which sets forth various business ethics, product safety, and social responsibility-related requirements and mandates suppliers to comply with all applicable laws prohibiting slavery and human trafficking. In addition, the Vendor Compliance Manual also commits our suppliers to Printful’s Code of Conduct, setting forth our standards and expectations for key areas of corporate responsibility, including a requirement for our suppliers not to support forced labor and not to collaborate with organizations that use illegal employment practices.
Our Vendor Compliance Manual provides a whistleblowing hotline across our supply chain, which acts as a channel for workers to highlight concerns about their employment or working conditions.
Due diligence processes
We continue to develop our due diligence process and corresponding action plans to address the identified risks.
Risk assessment and management
Sedex pre-screening reports and risk assessment tools allow us to identify and compare risks across the world (by country and sector, and to find out whether products from certain countries have a high risk of forced labor) and to combine trusted data on country and sector risks with information from our suppliers’ profiles.
Our Code of Conduct permits us to ask our suppliers to complete a Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ), which helps us gather information on operational activities associated with modern slavery risks, such as using labor providers and payment of recruitment fees.
Through our Vendor Compliance Manual, our suppliers are asked to conduct third-party audits of the factories they use for manufacturing on an annual basis and submit the audit reports to us. Printful has also started to actively seek such audit reports from the suppliers we work with. According to our Vendor Compliance Manual, we also reserve the right to conduct periodic on-site visits to check working and living conditions, either directly or through third parties, as well as audit their records and practices of wage, hour, and payroll information.
We have performed SMETA audits at several of our manufacturing sites and, where possible, seek audit reports from our suppliers. Auditing our manufacturing sites and reviewing supplier audits helps us to verify that there are no material non-compliances.
Key performance indicators to measure the effectiveness of steps being taken
We have not yet set any Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness of actions taken to address modern slavery.
Training on modern slavery and trafficking
Sedex e-Learning allows Printful and our suppliers to complete training on labor standards and the prevention of forced labor.
This Modern Slavery Act Statement on behalf of Printful, Inc. and its subsidiaries for the financial year ending on December 31, 2023, was approved by the Board of Directors of Printful, Inc. on June 26, 2024, and is signed by:
CEO
June 26, 2024