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Splunk Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Position Statement

Purpose and Objectives

Our aim in publishing this ESG Position Statement (this “Statement”) is to describe our current practices, approaches, positions and commitments related to environmental, social and governance (ESG) aspects of our business. As Splunk’s ESG programs, practices, performance and commitments evolve and grow, we may modify this Statement at any time by posting a revised version.

The examples described in this Statement address the most frequently requested subject areas from our customers, investors and other key stakeholders, and are not exhaustive:

  • Data privacy, security and compliance
  • Diversity, equity and inclusion
  • Environmental sustainability
  • Ethical business conduct
  • Human rights
  • Workforce (includes pandemic planning and response)
  • Responsible sourcing, procurement and supplier management

Where applicable, each section includes links to additional disclosures and related information.

Related information:

  • Splunk ESG Resources site includes ESG-related disclosures, positions and policies, annual impact reporting and ESG data sets for our stakeholders.

Data Privacy, Security and Compliance

Splunk’s global privacy, security and compliance programs are designed to meet our customers’ needs internationally and comply with global standards. The following Guiding Principles related to data privacy, security and compliance inform our approach.  Our Splunk Protects site provides extensive details of our approach.

 

Data privacy

As a big data company, Splunk understands the importance of data privacy. Our programs, products and services are structured to provide effective data privacy protections for Splunk, its customers, partners and employees.

 

Security

Security by Design is top-of-mind throughout our development process. Our products and services are designed to meet your data security needs, including access controls, monitoring and encryption.

 

Compliance

Splunk complies with industry and international security standards. This includes participating in rigorous third-party audits that verify security controls for our cloud services.

 

Related information:

  • Splunk Protects page provides extensive coverage of Splunk’s approach to cloud, corporate and product security; data privacy, security certifications, policies and customer resources, including access to the Customer Trust portal for existing Splunk customers.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)

Splunk is committed to maintaining a healthy, safe, supportive, fun and collaborative work environment. Splunk supports diversity in its workforce and believes it is essential for our success, innovation and competitive advantage. Each of us is expected to foster a respectful, non-retaliatory workplace environment that is free of harassment, intimidation, bias and unlawful discrimination of any kind.

Our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) is grounded in our values and in our deeply held belief that leading DEIB is more than just the right thing to do for our people, it’s the smart thing to do for our business. When employees can bring their best, most authentic selves to work, they can do their best work, thrive and contribute to a better, stronger Splunk for everyone.

 

Attracting, retaining and developing diverse talent

We are deeply committed to growing the diversity of our workforce around the world, especially in leadership, and providing a workplace where people can be themselves so that they can do their best work and thrive. To enable and sustain these outcomes at scale, we are deeply integrating DEIB across all of our talent processes — from sourcing and selection to career development and growth — to ensure that every Splunker feels valued and supported to achieve their career goals at Splunk.

 

Splunker representation data

We annually disclose key metrics related to workforce composition and representation in our annual Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Annual Report, available at the Belonging at Splunk site.

 

Equal opportunity employment

Employment at Splunk is based solely upon individual merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence and the legitimate needs of the company. Splunk strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination based on legally protected characteristics.

 

Investigation of discrimination claims and non-retaliation

Splunk prohibits discrimination and harassment in any form – verbal, physical, virtual, visual or otherwise. If employees believe they have been harassed by anyone at Splunk, or by a Splunk partner, vendor or other service provider, they are instructed to immediately report the incident to their manager or Human Resources. Managers who learn of any such incident must immediately report it to Human Resources or to the Legal Department. Splunk will promptly investigate and take appropriate action. Splunk also maintains an anonymous third-party managed Ethics and Compliance Hotline that offers an option for  anonymous complaints.

Splunk does not tolerate retaliation. We seek to provide a safe, healthy, and productive workplace. Splunk prohibits retaliation against any employee who in good faith reports or participates in an investigation of a possible violation of our Code or other Splunk policy.

 

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Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change

Splunk is committed to avoiding, minimizing, mitigating and/or when appropriate, offsetting our impacts on the environment. These commitments guide our approach and serve as the foundation for future environmental initiatives, programs and disclosures related to environmental sustainability.

 

We believe in climate science

As a fact-based, data-driven technology company, we accept the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) assessment of climate change science and acknowledge that human activities contribute to climate change and business has an important role in addressing this global challenge. As such, we support the Paris Agreement outcomes and the long-term goal to limit average temperature rise to well below 1.5 degrees C.

 

We aim for accurate, transparent and comparable energy and climate disclosures and targets

Splunk is committed to following globally accepted climate-related accounting and disclosure standards, frameworks and methodologies, including The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), CDP (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project), and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. Further, Splunk is committed to rigorous data governance, internal controls and external assurance for its climate-related disclosures. We value credible, third-party assessed climate goals and targets to support global comparability and verification of global progress and accounting towards addressing the climate crisis. As such, we support the work and objectives of the Science Based Targets initiative.

 

Operational eco-efficiency: water, materials and waste

While our immediate focus is on footprinting and disclosing our energy and greenhouse gas emissions, we aim to identify and measure our water, materials composition and use, and waste streams generated by our operations over time. These efforts are critical to laying the foundation for a fuller understanding of Splunk’s environmental footprint and identifying approaches to reducing the environmental impacts of our operations.

 

Ozone

We support the protection of human health and the environment against adverse effects resulting or likely to result from human activities which modify or are likely to modify the ozone layer as outlined in the Vienna Convention for the protection of the Ozone Layer and its Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the Ozone Layer.

 

Waste

Wastes associated with our global operations generally comprise municipal waste from our leased service offices (paper, cardboard, plastics, used office supplies, and kitchen waste) and electronic waste (monitors, laptops, peripherals). Splunk recycles office waste to the greatest extent possible, and treats and disposes / recycles electronic waste according to local regulations and environmentally sound management practices. Further, Splunk does not produce chemical, biological, medical or hazardous waste; volatile and/or persistent organic pollutants; hazardous chemicals or pesticides.

Although Splunk does not produce hazardous waste, we support the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal (Basel Convention) and its principle aims to: reduce hazardous waste generation; promote environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes, wherever the place of disposal; restrict transboundary movements of hazardous wastes except where it is perceived to be in accordance with the principles of environmentally sound management; and promote a regulatory system applying to cases where transboundary movements are permissible.

 

Support for International Conventions regarding Hazardous Chemicals, Pesticides, Persistent Organic Pollutants, Ozone

As a business-to-business software as a service company, Splunk does not produce, transport or dispose of hazardous chemicals, pesticides and persistent organic pollutants.

Splunk’s environmental position firmly supports these conventions to protect human health and the environment from potential harm:

Ethical Business Conduct

Splunk emphasizes the importance of ethics and a commitment to legal compliance in all aspects of our  business. We expect all Splunkers to act ethically and honestly. This includes all of our employees, directors, officers, agents, partners, representatives, contractors and consultants. To maintain our culture, we must always seek to do the right thing — comply with the law, act honorably and transparently, and treat all with dignity and respect. Splunk strives to embed ethics and compliance with legal requirements and our Code of Conduct into the everyday activities of Splunk's worldwide operations and to foster an organizational culture of integrity. Splunk’s Code of Business Conduct and Ethics details all aspects and expectations for ethical business conduct.

 

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Human Rights

Splunk respects the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights and strives to maintain the highest ethical standards of conduct and corporate responsibility – to act with integrity and respect for the rights of each human being.

 

Human rights

Splunk is committed to upholding the fundamental human rights of our fellow employees, and we expect our vendors, partners and others who provide services on behalf of Splunk to adhere to the same high standards.

 

Anti-slavery

Splunk rejects all forms of child, forced, or slave labor and prohibits unlawful discrimination and requires all suppliers to certify that they do not engage in forced or compulsory labor, exploitation, child labor, or human trafficking.

Splunk is committed to the purpose and principles of the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 (the “Act”).

 

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Responsible Sourcing, Procurement and Supplier Management

We are committed to meaningfully contribute to sustainable and equitable solutions, including those related to the sourcing, procurement and ongoing supplier management of services and products that are critical to our business. To ensure that our overarching corporate governance goals are reflected in the way we work with our suppliers and conduct sourcing and procurement of goods and services, Splunk’s responsible procurement initiatives are focused on making sure, wherever possible, we work with suppliers who share similar values and governance practices as us.

Splunk values the economic growth of a diverse business community and seeks to provide impartial opportunities regardless of the basis of characteristics or status. Typically, businesses certified as 51% or more owned, operated and managed by a woman, minority, veteran, person with disability or member of the LGBTQ community qualify as a diverse supplier.

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Workforce

At Splunk, exceptional business execution is only possible because of exceptional Splunkers, and a strong focus on the culture and work environment that we all help create. We believe that people do their best work when they're competitively compensated, are safe and healthy, and have a work-life balance that supports their personal and professional aims.

 

Wages, working hours and benefits

Splunk provides competitive compensation based on the employee’s performance, skills and  experience. All employees eligible for overtime, as defined by local law, are paid overtime.  Splunk provides comprehensive benefits to employees as applicable by country, such as health insurance, retirement saving options, generous parental leave and family planning benefits.

 

Work Councils

Splunk allows our employees to form work councils according to the applicable laws and regulations and protects them from any acts of interference with their establishments, administration, or functioning.

 

Workforce health and safety

Splunk is committed to protecting worker health and safety, with most employees as office workers. Splunk provides ergonomic assessments for office work space and provides reasonable reimbursements for expenditures related to home office ergonomic set up. Splunk has programs in place to prevent Repetitive Stress Injury (RSI) for office workers.

Splunk maintains all legally required fire prevention and emergency response procedures. We regularly conduct fire evacuation drills at our office buildings. Volunteer fire wardens are assigned for each office floor with supplemental training to assist in fire evacuation and emergency response.

 

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