Carrot aspires to meet the highest professional, legal, and ethical standards. Carrot supports the protection of international human rights and the elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labor worldwide. We are committed to ensuring there is no modern slavery or human trafficking within our supply chain or any part of our business.
1. Our Company
Carrot Fertility is a global fertility care platform focused on making fertility care accessible for all — regardless of age, race, income, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, faith, marital status, or geographic location. Carrot does this by partnering with employers and health plans globally to offer employees support during their family-forming journeys.
Through our deeply vetted clinic and agency network and our care navigation platform, Carrot supports individuals on their unique journeys through fertility preservation, IVF, pregnancy and postpartum, adoption, gestational surrogacy, menopause, and more.
2. Our Supply Chain
Carrot’s supply chain is comprised of services. We have nearly 10,000 providers that serve members globally, consisting of roughly 4,000 fertility clinics, 2,400 providers such as labs, cryobanks, menopause, reproductive urology/andrology, and 3,500 providers including agencies, attorneys, and gamete shipping companies. Carrot benefits can also be used with vendors that offer fertility products and services such as wearables and fertility testing kits.
Carrot’s suppliers typically operate in the fields of technology, data, office management, and professional advisory services. Carrot is committed to acting ethically and with integrity in all business relationships and expects its vendors to follow all applicable legal and regulatory requirements. When selecting vendors, Carrot engages in a review and management process and only enters into contractual relationships with vendors that commit to strong compliance terms (e.g., privacy, security, etc.).
3. Our Policies
Carrot is committed to conducting our business in a lawful and ethical manner and promotes a culture of diversity, equality, inclusion and respect. Our Code of Conduct sets out guiding principles of professional conduct and how Carrot employees should always act lawfully, ethically, and in the best interests of Carrot. All Carrot employees receive the Code of Conduct during the onboarding process at Carrot and participate in compliance training, reinforcing Carrot’s commitment to an equal, inclusive, and harassment-free environment. Employees are also encouraged to raise questions or report suspected violations of our Code.
Carrot has a number of internal policies to ensure the organization is conducting business in an ethical and transparent manner, including:
- Recruitment, hiring, and employment policies;
- Background check policy;
- Non-harassment policy;
- Whistleblowing policy;
- Anti-corruption and Anti-bribery policies; and
- Vendor management policy.
Carrot encourages an open environment for reporting where individuals both internal and external to Carrot may raise concerns about possible breaches of our Code of Conduct or suspected violations of policy, laws, and regulations. Individuals can report concerns anonymously through our ethena Speak Up Portal.
Carrot is also committed to ensuring no individual is retaliated against for reporting good faith concerns. Carrot will promptly investigate all reports of unethical, illegal, or inappropriate activity. To date, Carrot has not received any reports suggestive of modern slavery.
4. Actions Taken and Due Diligence Processes for Modern Slavery
Carrot believes the overall risk of modern slavery in its supply chain is low, however, it works to mitigate the risk of modern slavery in its supply chain by:
- Ongoing monitoring and review of the effectiveness of internal policies and processes;
- Employing skilled, highly educated professionals;
- Conducting rigorous background checks and other accountability measures on the individuals we employ;
- Engaging in due diligence (e.g., analysis of governance structures, conflicts, and human rights standards) before entering new markets;
- Protecting whistleblowers and those who raise concerns or grievances by employing a hotline that allows individuals to make reports anonymously;
- Establishing employment policies that protect employees from unfair treatment and promote a fair and inclusive workplace;
- Proving employees access to wellbeing resources to support physical and mental wellbeing; and
- Vetting vendors, subcontractors, consultants, and partners.
5. Training
Carrot aims to improve its response to identifying and addressing modern slavery risks through the use of its learning management system to educate its employees. Carrot will continue to look for opportunities to increase awareness within our organization and to ensure a high level of understanding of modern slavery risks within our supply chain.
6. Ongoing Efforts
Carrot intends to continue our efforts to ensure that slavery and human trafficking are not taking place within our supply chain by taking the following steps:
- Including modern slavery policy in Carrot’s Code of Conduct.
- Require employees to complete training on related compliance topics such as diversity & inclusion, and harassment, and non-retaliation.
- Establishing standards of conduct for third-party vendor relationships.
