METHODOLOGICAL NOTE

CRITEO’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) follows dispositions of article R. 225-102-1 of French Commercial Code.

Reporting period

All information collected and highlighted in the CSR chapter cover the period from January 1 to December 31, 2016. Data collection takes place annually.

Reporting scope

In term of scope, the aim of the CSR reporting scope is to match with the financial reporting scope.

Due to an important number of offices among legal entities and the likely issues to recover exhaustive and reliable information (such as electricity consumption, water consumption, waste quantity, etc.) in the small offices, Criteo has made the decision to involve the most important offices during the collection of quantitative data.

Hence, to ensure reliable quantitative data in its first exercise of CSR reporting and boost continuous improvement, the Criteo’s CSR reporting scope for fiscal year 2016 considers the major worldwide legal entities that financially own data center infrastructure.

Vigilance point: All legal entities that joined Criteo’s financial scope in year N, should be included in the CSR reporting scope in year N+1. Hence, for instance, the company HookLogic, acquired in the fourth quarter of 2016, will not be included in the 2016 reporting because it has been acquired during the year 2016.

Thus, for fiscal year 2016, the reporting scope on quantitative information covers the following legal entities and offices (including 87.9% of the overall Criteo’s workforce):

Relevance of CSR indicators

Criteo’s choice of a panel of CSR KPIs has been made from:

  • An internal benchmark on CSR best practice among IT sector leaders;
  • Labour, environmental and social impacts and risks of Criteo’s activity;
  • Indicators specified in article R. 225-102-1 of the French Commercial Code;
  • Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G4 guidelines;
  • Specific indicators to Criteo’s Human Resources policy.

Consolidation & Internal controls

Data collected during CSR reporting process is controlled by the validation managers. For each KPI, this person is in charge of data control and performs consistency tests listed within Criteo reporting procedures.

To avoid discrepancies during the KPI reporting process, each validation manager will have to perform the following controls:

  • Data consistency - Verification of data consistency with last year data. Significant annual variations must be justified and documented.
  • Lack of data - Verification of the presence for the overall data. Lack of data must be justified by the person in charge of the respective KPI.

Moreover, regarding the annual validation of Criteo headcount, the Human Resource department performs a looping control as follow:

Headcount [Year Y] = Headcount [Year Y-1] + Recruitments [Year Y] - Leaves [Year Y]

External controls

Concerned to produce a fair and reliable information, Criteo has mandated since 2016 an Independent Third-Party body to verify and validate the reliability of Criteo CSR information. A thorough control process is important. Data, together with methods of calculation and consolidation, must be externally verifiable.

CSR indicators – Calculation & Estimation methods

  • Compensation: Highlighted in gross, including basic wage and variable pay. The currency exchange rates used are as follow:

    2015 2016
    1 EUR = 1.1046 USD 1 EUR = 1.1032 USD
    1 GBP = 1.5254 USD 1 GBP = 1.3451 USD
    1 JPY = 0.0083 USD 1 JPY = 0.0092 USD
    1 CNY = 0.1590 USD 1 CNY = 0.1502 USD
    1 SGD = 0.7254 USD 1 SGD = 0.7234 USD
  • Training: To gather the number of face-to-face training hours, the following methodology is used. For each training request recorded and consecutively accepted, budgeted and organized, the information is recorded by the HR Business Partners in a template that includes the topic, the trainee and the number of hours. These templates are consolidated by the Global Learning&Management Development Director, and the consolidation is checked for consistency. Some trainings have been excluded for the sake of this report (trainings on corporate tools such as CRM, health and safety, compliance, first aid) in order to keep the focus on developmental activities and ensures conservatism of the figures.
  • Business trips: Data from business travel agency EGENCIA include all Air Travel Scope except Korea, Japan, Brazil, Russia and UAE. Train trips are not included. Hence, the business trips considered in the CO2 emission calculation represent 89.7% of the travel spend.
  • Water consumption of offices: In case of missing value, the following ratios have been used to get an estimate of the daily quantity of water consumed per person and per m2:
    • For an office of less than 30 employees: the quantity of water consumed is equivalent to 0.004m3/m2/day.
    • For an office of more than 30 employees: the quantity of water consumed is equivalent to 0.076 m3/day/person.
    • For an important facility (cafeteria, air conditioner, reception, many visitors, etc.): the quantity of water consumed is equivalent to 0.125m3/day/person.
  • Electricity consumption of offices: In case of missing value, the lettable area (in m2) must be obtained and the following estimation method should be used:
    • In case of an electrical heating system:
      • Old building (before 1975): 160 kWh/m2 per year
      • New building (before 1975): 110 kWh/m2 per year
    • If the office is equipped with a central cooling system:
      • 130 kWh/m2 per year
      • If not, apply 67.5 kWh/m2 per year
    • Thus, the total estimation is the sum of 1) + 2) hypothesises.
    If the last monthly/quarterly electricity bills were not received on time to comply with the CSR reporting deadline, missing months have been calculated in proportion to available monthly/quarterly bill information.
  • Amount of renewable energy consumed for offices and data centers: the national Renewable Energy rate used are:
    • France = 0.165
    • Germany = 0.322
    • Spain = 0.374
    • United Kingdom = 0.355
    • United States of America = 0.138
    • Japan = 0.179
    • Singapore = 0 (negligible)
    • China = 0.247
    • Hong Kong: 0
    • Netherlands: 12.2
  • CO2 emissions from electricity consumption of offices: Emission coefficients per country from ADEME 2016 database have been used for the calculation.
  • CO2 emissions from electricity consumption of data centers: Emission coefficients per country from ADEME 2016 database have been used for the calculation. Except for Hong Kong we use a rate of 0.580 *10-3 from CLP database (local electricity supplier).
  • Quantity of office waste produced: In case of missing value, office waste volumes have been estimated according to:
    • Either volume of waste bin and frequency of communal waste collection, some hypothesis of density allowing a conversion in tons are used. Those coefficients are stated within the ADEME methodology.
    • Or the estimation of 120 kg of office waste per employee per year (source CNIID).
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