Business Principles Office, is responsible of divulge the principles, ensure their implementation and compliance, respond the inquiries and complaints and promote policies and regulations that safeguard their applicability.
In Colombia, this office is formed by the Human Resources, Audit, Intervention and Inspection, Strategy, General Secretary and Institutional Relations Directorates; this areas are directly responsible to process each of queries and complaints received through the channel.
Principles to manage the channel:
- Confidentiality: data and statements will be examined with strict confidentiality.
- Completeness: information received about potential failure of the Principles will be investigate to determinate the declared situation veracity.
- Respect:at all the times will be taken into consideration the rights of those involved in potential violations. So, before making judgements about declared situations, affected people and/or employees will have the right to transfer the reasons and explanations that they consider necessary.
- Background: any decision should be adopted in a reasoned, proportionate and appropriate way under the circumstances and environment of the facts.
If you have any questions or complaint about Principles, you can send it to: here
• We prove our integrity and trustworthiness by meeting all the commitments we
take on.
• We protect the confidentiality of any information we’re given. Whether it’s about
our people, our company, our customers, our shareholders or our suppliers.
• We let our customers, our people, shareholders, suppliers and partners know
how we use and store their personal information. We also tell them how they can
access it if they need to change it.
• We do what we can to keep that information secure. If the security is ever
compromised, we’ll act quickly and responsibly.
• We comply with all legislation, regulations and regulatory obligations, nationally
and internationally, while also considering our own internal policies and
regulations.
• We provide truthful, comprehensive, appropriate and clear information in the
reports that we submit to the pertinent Securities Market Supervisory
Authorities, as well as in the Company’s other public communications.
• We compete fairly in our markets. We believe that consumers and society in
general benefit from free, open markets.
•We prohibit all forms of bribery. We do not permit promising, offering or giving
any benefit or advantage of any nature to persons, to influence any kind of
decisions (including official, administrative or judicial decisions) or obtain
improper advantages for the Company. It is also prohibited to accept any benefit
or advantage that might result in a failure of the duties and obligations of a
Telefonica employee.
• We do not offer or accept gifts, hospitality or other types of incentives which may
reward or influence a business decision.
• We avoid or declare any conflict of interest which may lead to divided personal
loyalties.
• We act honestly. We don’t abuse our position or contacts to benefit ourselves or
third parties. At an institutional level, we’re politically neutral. We don’t take a
position, directly or indirectly, for or against any political parties.
• We do not make donations of any type, either in cash or in kind, to political
parties, organisations, factions, movements, bodies, of either a public or private
nature, whose activity is clearly linked with political activity.
• We respect the principles of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as
well as the declarations of the International Labour Organization.
• We promote equal opportunities and we treat all individuals fairly and
impartially, without discriminating with regard to race, colour, nationality,
ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, civil status, age, disability or family
responsibilities.