1. Diversity and equal opportunities

At Criteo, people are strong believers in promoting diversity and equal opportunities. In May 2017, the hire of a global lead for Talent Management, with a remit including Diversity and Inclusion, signals Criteo's continued commitment to driving the importance of this key goal.

a. Discrimination and harassment

Criteo’s Code of ethics and business conduct is applied across all geographies and includes the principle of non-discrimination.

Consequently, Criteo applies its equal opportunity policy (also called non-discrimination policy) which strictly forbids all forms of discrimination, whether at the recruitment stage or afterwards, with regard to promotions, salary increases and benefits, and specifies that no employee may be discriminated against on the basis of gender, race, ethnicity, religious belief, disability, national origin, veteran status, marital status, or sexual orientation.

Its global workforce is therefore very diverse, with a strong mix of local talent and people from different cultures and backgrounds. As an example, there are 28 nationalities in Criteo’s offices in APAC.

Criteo also recognizes the importance of freedom of speech for employees. Consequently, no opposition or discrimination is directed at employee representatives.

The company's internal regulations also provide with measures to prevent moral and sexual harassments, in compliance with legal requirements. The principle of harassment ban is also included in the company's Code of ethics and business conduct.

In Japan, Korea, Australia, China and India, an anti-harassment written policy is in place in employee handbooks. In 2017, there was an “anti-harassment at workplace” session held to all employees and managers in Japan, Korea and India.

More globally, to address harassment and discrimination issues at the recruitment stage and afterwards, Criteo:

• Provides training and education to make sure everyone knows their rights and responsibilities — every new comer has to complete a e-learning module devoted to this topic.
• Ensures an effective and fair hiring process.
• Promotes appropriate standards of conduct at all times.

In France, a company-wide collective agreement on professional equality between women and men at Criteo was signed in 2014 for a three-year duration. This agreement is currently under renegotiation with the union delegates. The main topics are: the promotion of gender diversity in recruitment and employment, equality in the professional career and in the access to training and development, equal pay and measures to facilitate the conciliation and balance between private and professional life.

c. Measures implemented to promote the employment and integration of people with disabilities

All positions at Criteo are open to people with disabilities. The company is committed to making all necessary and reasonable adjustments to ensure that disabled members of staff are properly integrated. All Criteo offices are able to accommodate disabled employees, with only minor adjustments.

2. Territorial, economic and social impact of the company’s activity

Criteo’s activities involve offering advertising solutions to companies worldwide to drive greater sales, regardless of their location. As such, Criteo is naturally positioned as an international player totally integrated in the global marketplace. Its social impact is therefore important but remains difficult to assess.

Nonetheless, at Criteo, offices and data centers rely, to some extent, on local services and people at Criteo are proud to contribute to the local economies of a dozen countries.

3. Partnerships and sponsorships

Criteo pledges to see its involvement in society, in all its forms, as a principal driver of continued growth and competitiveness. Consequently, numerous partnerships and sponsorships initiatives already exist within Criteo and lots of events take place every year which involve Criteo employees.

A few years ago, Criteo launched “Go! Days” in the United States, an initiative that has now spread through all Criteo’s locations and entities. The idea is for employees to volunteer a full or half-day of their working life to share their time, money or skills with their local community. Sponsorship is supplied by Criteo (in the form of money and/or time) and employees are free to sign up and take part in the activity. Key internal stakeholders back the initiative locally and get involved.

This year, Criteo reiterated the principle of Go! Days initiative. Criteo has been able to renew partnerships set up in 2016 to participate in sustainable actions and to follow up with the associations with whom Criteo works on long-term projects.

Charity funding is driven and managed by the Human Resources team. In 2017, Criteo spent €70,000 to support 35 partnerships and sponsorships: donations to charities, money for entering sporting events, or provisions of food, drink, clothing, toys, etc.

In France, Criteo has partnered with several non-governmental organizations to encourage the company’s employees to contribute to social improvement or sustainability endeavors. Here are a few examples:

• Partnership with “Simplon.co”, a school network offering professional training to people who cannot easily enter the job market (including under-qualified youths, people from working-class or rural areas, senior citizens and persons with disabilities), with male-female parity in mind. Participants are trained to become website or mobile application developers, integrators or digital specialists. Thanks to this partnership, Criteo’s coding experts help train and coach students.
• Partnership with “Veni Verdi”, an association that creates urban gardens. Since 2016 Criteo employees have helped the association by providing gardening and recycling lessons to school students and teaching them about sustainability issues and waste management.
• Partnership with “Secours Populaire” and their “Pères Noël Verts” initiative, where volunteers, dressed as green Santas, participate in events to bring Christmas cheer to families in need, people living alone, and senior citizens. Thanks to this initiative, which began in 1976, the “Secours Populaire” is able to offer books, toys, festive meals, trips and access to sports or art events and exhibitions.
• Partnership with “Phenix”, a social enterprise that supports companies in their transition to the turning point of the circular economy, by responding with the most innovative solutions to reduce their waste reduction and undertake recovery issues. During the European Week of Waste Reduction, “Phenix” supported Criteo’s initiative to label the action carried out in its offices. They also contributed to the planning of the intervention of 55 Criteo employees within local associations during the Week of Sustainable Development where several actions were carried out, including marauds, preparing dishes from unsold fruits or vegetables, sorting clothes and preparing meals for homeless people. A total of 250 kg of food was saved from the bin and volunteers served more than 100 meals.
• New partnership with UNICEF as part of a financial sponsorship. Criteo was able to match the donations of Criteo employees collected during the famous Paris half-marathon and the Paris 20 km race. Criteo has was able to donate more than €13,000 to UNICEF in total (€9,000 as part as the company contribution and €4,000 coming from employees donations).

• Partnership with the “Techfugees” association. Criteo provided a financial support through a donation of funds raised during the sale of tickets to the “Not Another Big Data conference”, organized by Criteo in June 2017. This donation allowed “Techfugees” to fund a training program for refugee women wishing to acquire computer skills.
• Partnership with the “CGénial” foundation was renewed. As every year, Criteo donated €5,000 to support the actions of the foundation. Also, the company carried out several actions, including a skills sponsorship involving about 20 employees of the R&D team, on various topics such as diversity (“Aujourd'hui je Code” event (today I code) organized in November 2017 in order to sensitize young women to orientation towards scientific careers) as well as the promotion of science among young people (“CGénial” contest in partnership with the City of Sciences and Industry of Paris — the 2nd prize of the contest wins a day of code and the visit of Criteo).

Even though France is highly active on charities, other Criteo locations are equally active and place emphasis on involvement in the local communities and charities. Here are other global examples of actions taken in 2017:

• In Italy, the Milano office decided to give back to the community by sponsoring James through “CBM Onlus”, a non-profit organization aimed to assist, cure and give a better quality of life for people with disabilities who live in the poorest countries. James is a child from Uganda with feet deformity. With this sponsorship, people at the Milan office are contributing to James’ medical care and surgery and are also supporting his family.
• The London office welcomed the “Step by Step” charity and works with children with disabilities. The London team had the opportunity to work closely with the charity and donated “sensory soft play” for their new center, allowing children to play in a happy and safe environment.
• In the United States, the New York office partnered with the “SurfRider” foundation. Together they ventured out and cleaned over 1.25 square miles of beach area and shoreline and picked up 65 pounds of garbage from the beach, including 352 plastic bottle caps, over 700 pieces of plastic and Styrofoam, and more than 650 cigarette butts.
• With the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Irma affecting the lives of many people in Florida, the Miami office stepped up and came together giving back to those affected. Employees from the Miami office partnered up with the “Salvation Army” collecting donations to provide for the victims of Key West such as non-perishable food, bottled water, candles, clothing, diapers, etc.