Human Rights, Modern Slavery & Grievance

Human Rights Policy

Nexara respects the human rights of everyone who works for us, works with us, or is affected by what we build — our team, contractors, advisors, clients, and the people employed by our suppliers. We support the principles set out in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Labour Organization's core labour standards, and we expect the same from anyone we contract with.

In practice, for a two-person founder company, this means:

• No forced, bonded, or child labour anywhere in how Nexara operates or contracts.
• Freedom of association and no retaliation against anyone who raises a concern in good faith.
• Fair treatment regardless of race, gender, religion, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic — for our own hires and for how we select contractors and vendors.
• A working environment free of harassment or discrimination, extended to every contractor and advisor engaged by Nexara, not only direct employees.

Alexia Weiller, Co-founder & CEO, owns this policy and is personally accountable for it. There is no separate compliance function yet — at this stage, that accountability sits with the founders directly, not delegated to a policy nobody reads.

Modern Slavery Statement

Nexara is below the turnover threshold (£36m) at which the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 requires a statutory statement. We are publishing this voluntarily because we sell into regulated financial institutions that reasonably expect a position on it regardless of our size.

Nexara has zero tolerance for slavery and human trafficking in any form, in our own operations and in our supply chain. Our supply chain is short and low-risk by nature: cloud infrastructure (Microsoft Azure), standard SaaS tooling, and a small number of individual contractors and advisors — no physical goods, no manufacturing, no subcontracted labour chains. Where we do engage a vendor, we look for the same standard we hold ourselves to; the concrete steps are set out under Supply Chain Due Diligence below.

This statement will be reviewed annually and republished with the review date updated, whether or not anything has changed — silence is not evidence of compliance, and we'd rather say "reviewed, no change" than let the date go stale.

Grievance Mechanism

Anyone — an employee, a contractor, a supplier's employee, or a client-side individual — who believes Nexara or someone acting on Nexara's behalf has caused or contributed to a human rights concern can raise it directly and in confidence.

We commit to:

• Acknowledge receipt within 5 business days.
• Investigate proportionately and keep the reporter informed of progress.
• No retaliation against anyone who raises a concern in good faith, including a contractor whose engagement could otherwise be ended at will.
• Escalate to external legal counsel where the matter warrants it.

Supply Chain Human Rights Due Diligence

Nexara's supply chain is small and almost entirely digital: cloud hosting, developer and productivity tooling, and a handful of individual contractors and advisors engaged directly. We do not yet run a formal third-party audit programme — at our size, that would be theatre, not diligence. What we actually do:

• Every new vendor or contractor is reviewed by a founder before engagement, including a basic check of who we're actually contracting with.
• We prefer vendors who publish their own human rights / modern slavery position, and note it when they don't.
• Contractor agreements require compliance with applicable labour law in their jurisdiction.
• As Nexara scales and the vendor list grows, this due diligence step will formalise — this statement will be updated when it does, not left to describe a process we no longer actually run.