Attachment A: Ethical Standards

This Attachment applies to merchants, entrepreneurs, legal entities under private and public law, and special funds under public law (hereinafter collectively the “Professional Users”). The Professional Users must comply with these Ethical Standards under the Service Agreement.

The rights granted to the Professional User by the Service Agreement are expressly made subject to the Professional User’s compliance with the following conditions:

The User SHALL NOT, whether directly or indirectly, through agents or assigns:

1. Infringe upon any person's right to life or security of person, engage in extrajudicial killings, or commit murder, without lawful cause.
2. Hold any person in slavery, servitude, or forced labor.
3. Contribute to the institution of slavery, slave trading, forced labor, or unlawful child labor.
4. Torture or subject any person to cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment or punishment.
5. Discriminate on the basis of sex, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, caste, age, medical disability or impairment, and/or any other like circumstances.
6. Prevent any person from exercising his/her/their right to seek an effective remedy by a competent court or national tribunal for actions violating the fundamental rights granted to him/her/them by applicable constitutions, laws, or by this Service Agreement.
7. Subject any person to arbitrary arrest, detention, or exile.
8. Arbitrarily deprive any person of his/her/their property.
9. Forcibly remove indigenous peoples from their lands or territories or take any action with the aim or effect of dispossessing indigenous peoples from their lands, territories, or resources, including without limitation the intellectual property or traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples, without their free, prior, and informed consent.
10. Commit ecocide:
    1. For the purpose of this section, “ecocide” means unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts.
    2. Definitions:
       1. “Wanton” means with reckless disregard for damage which would be clearly excessive in relation to the social and economic benefits anticipated.
       2. “Severe” means damage which involves very serious adverse changes, disruption, or harm to any element of the environment, including grave impacts on human life or natural, cultural, or economic resources.
       3. “Widespread” means damage which extends beyond a limited geographic area, crosses state boundaries, or is suffered by an entire ecosystem or species or a large number of human beings.
       4. “Long-term” means damage which is irreversible or which cannot be redressed through natural recovery within a reasonable period of time.
       5. “Environment” means the earth, its biosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere, as well as outer space.
11. Be an individual or entity, or a representative, agent, affiliate, successor, attorney, or assign of an individual or entity, that engages in fossil fuel or mineral exploration, extraction, development, or sale.
12. Be a government agency or multinational corporation, or a representative, agent, affiliate, successor, attorney, or assign of a government or multinational corporation, which participates in mass surveillance programs.
13. Be an entity or a representative, agent, affiliate, successor, attorney, or assign of an entity which conducts military activities.
14. Interfere with workers' free exercise of the right to organize and associate.
15. Harm the environment in a manner inconsistent with local, state, national, or international law.

The User SHALL:

1. Provide equal pay for equal work where the performance of such work requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are performed under similar working conditions, except where such payment is made pursuant to:
   1. A seniority system;
   2. A merit system;
   3. A system which measures earnings by quantity or quality of production; or
   4. A differential based on any other factor other than sex, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, caste, age, medical disability or impairment, and/or any other like circumstances.
2. Allow for reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.