Modern Slavery Act Statement

Why we publish this when we are not required to

This is a voluntary statement. Section 54 of the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 applies to organisations with a global turnover of £36 million or more. Magemcy is below that threshold and is not legally required to publish. The California Transparency in Supply Chains Act and the Australian Modern Slavery Act have similar thresholds we do not meet either.

We publish anyway for two reasons. UK statutory guidance encourages smaller organisations to do so. And Magemcy is procurement software: our customers use it to choose suppliers, and a growing number of them are asked for exactly this kind of statement by their own customers. It would be odd to build tooling for responsible sourcing and decline to say anything about our own.

We would rather publish something modest and true than nothing at all.

Our business

Magemcy operates Magemcy, a cloud-based procurement, e-tendering and vendor-management platform for small and medium businesses. We are based in Florida, United States. We are a software company: we manufacture nothing, we operate no factories or warehouses, and we do not employ manual or seasonal labour.

Our supply chain

Short, and almost entirely digital. Our material suppliers are:

• Cloud infrastructure and platform providers (listed on subprocessors).
• Software-as-a-service tools used to run the business.
• Professional services, legal, accounting and similar.
• Occasional contract software and design work.

We do not source physical goods for resale, do not use recruitment agencies for low-wage or migrant labour, and have no operations in sectors or geographies conventionally assessed as high risk for forced labour.

Risk assessment

We assess the risk of modern slavery within our own operations and direct supply chain as low. Our workforce is small, professional and directly engaged, and our suppliers are large, publicly accountable technology companies with their own published statements and supplier codes.

The residual risk sits further down the chain, principally in the manufacture of computing hardware and in the construction and operation of data centres, which sit several tiers away and where our influence is limited to supplier choice. We name that rather than claiming a clean chain we cannot see the end of.

Policies

• We do not tolerate forced labour, bonded labour, child labour or human trafficking in any part of our business or supply chain.
• Everyone who works with us does so voluntarily, is free to leave, and is paid at or above the applicable legal minimum.
• Nobody is required to surrender identity documents or pay a fee to obtain work with us.
• Anyone can raise a concern without fear of retaliation, using the contact route below.
• Our Acceptable Use Policy prohibits using Magemcy for unlawful purposes, which includes trafficking or exploitation.

Due diligence

Given our size and profile, our due diligence is proportionate rather than elaborate, and we prefer to describe it accurately rather than dress it up:

• We prefer suppliers who publish their own modern slavery statement or supplier code of conduct.
• We review our supplier list at least annually and reassess risk when we add a material one.
• We will not knowingly work with an organisation found to be involved in modern slavery, and would terminate the relationship on discovering it.

We do not currently run a formal supplier audit programme or require contractual modern slavery warranties from every vendor. At our scale that would be a claim rather than a practice.

A note on what we build

Some of what we contribute is the product itself. Magemcy gives buyers a permanent supplier record with documents and prequalification attached, an auditable tender trail, and a rating history, the infrastructure responsible sourcing needs in order to be checkable rather than merely asserted. We do not claim that using Magemcy makes a supply chain ethical. We do think that a buyer who can see their supply chain is in a better position than one working from a spreadsheet and memory.

Training

Everyone involved in supplier selection is made aware of modern slavery risk and of this statement. We do not run a formal training programme; with a team of our size, awareness is direct rather than delivered through a course.

Measuring effectiveness

We track whether our material suppliers publish their own statements, whether any concern has been raised, and whether any supplier has been credibly linked to modern slavery. For the period covered by this statement, no concerns have been raised and no such link has been identified.

We recognise that an absence of reports is not the same as an absence of risk, and we review this annually.

Approval

This statement is reviewed and updated annually. Concerns can be raised in confidence with our legal contact or through the contact form.

This statement requires board approval and a director’s signature before it is treated as a formal s.54 statement. Those details are recorded in our legal configuration and will appear here once entered.