The products offered by our company provide aesthetic, artistic and content-based input and incentive for a constantly changing society. They also create opportunities for artistic freedom that is protected by constitutional law.

In this context, we uphold a value-based code of conduct that is designed to promote and reinforce liberal and respectful interaction between people within our company. We share fundamental social and democratic values. These include protecting human dignity, maintaining personal integrity and mutual respect, recognising social diversity and ensuring gender equality and equal opportunities.

As a company, we have a duty to actively protect our employees and professional partners from all forms of discrimination, sexual assault, abuse of power, bullying, anti-Semitic and degrading behaviour. We do not tolerate discrimination against anyone based on national or ethnic origin, gender, religion or ideology, political views, disability, age, marital status, sexual identity or orientation or social background. We oppose all forms of anti-Semitism, right-wing extremism and other forms of hostility towards specific groups, as well as hatred and hate speech, as these represent some of the greatest threats to our democracy. Combating these behaviours is a responsibility shared by all society, and one that we are committed to,

In order to put these values into practice in everyday life,

1. we have laid down rules of conduct for how to interact with one another internally, and these are constantly updated
2. the values are reflected in the design of our products
3. we reserve the right to publish our position based on these values, in particular if they are subjected to gross violation.

Hamburg, January 2025