Modern Slavery Statement

Who we are

TehriHills Consulting Services LLC is a Delaware limited liability company formed on 20 April 2022 (EIN 32-0686517). Our registered office is at 16192 Coastal Highway, Lewes, Delaware. Our principal office is at 2435 E Gill Road, Port Clinton, Ohio.

We do IT-based market research using online tools.

How we operate

Our team is small. Employees in the United States sell and manage projects. Employees of our Indian parent program surveys, manage fieldwork, process data, and write reports. Everyone is a salaried professional under a written contract subject to the labour law of where they work. We don’t use labour-hire firms for our staff.

Where we spend money

Our supply chain looks different from a typical professional services firm. The single biggest line of operating spend is paying online panel providers for survey responses. That’s more than half of what we spend each year.

After that, in rough order: inter-company services from our Indian parent, travel and hotels, IT hardware and software, professional services (legal, accounting), and business licences and platform memberships.

Where the risks sit

Two places, mainly.

Survey panels.

When we buy survey responses, we pay a panel provider who in turn pays (directly or through sub-panels and “routers”) large numbers of individual respondents in many countries. Visibility down that chain is partial. The real risks are: aggregators who collect responses on behalf of vulnerable people; intermediaries who use someone else’s identity; effective per-hour rates that fall below minimum wage when piece-rate payments are aggregated against time spent; and respondents in countries flagged as elevated risk by the Global Slavery Index or the U.S. State Department Trafficking in Persons Report. We rely on the major panel providers’ published compliance programmes as our first line of assurance, and we ask new panel and sample suppliers about their sub-panel and router arrangements before engaging them.

India.

Our parent operates in India, the jurisdiction the Global Slavery Index identifies as having the highest absolute number of people in modern slavery globally. Our parent operates as a professional services firm under Indian labour law, including the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act 1976. The risk in our parent’s direct workforce is low. The risk that needs ongoing attention is the broader operating environment in which it sits.

Other parts of the supply chain (IT hardware extraction and manufacture upstream, travel and hotels) carry the residual risks that any global business carries. We don’t source from those upstream tiers directly. The exposure is real anyway.

What we do about it

We onboard suppliers above $50,000 with a short questionnaire covering workforce, labour-hire use, sub-tier supply chain, and grievance channels. Panel and sample providers get asked specifically about their sub-panel and router arrangements and about respondent compensation.

We have a Code of Conduct and a Supplier Code of Conduct. Both prohibit modern slavery in any form. Suppliers accept the Supplier Code as a condition of engagement.

Our standard supplier contract includes a modern slavery clause: a warranty of compliance with applicable law, a notification obligation if anything surfaces, a right of audit, flow-down to sub-suppliers, and termination rights for unremediated breach.

Everyone on our team completes modern slavery awareness training during onboarding and once a year after that. People in Procurement, Legal, and Risk get additional role-based training on supplier due diligence and remediation.

If we identify actual or suspected modern slavery anywhere in our operations or supply chain, we move on a graduated path. First, stabilise the affected workers. Second, engage the supplier or business unit on a corrective plan with binding milestones. Third, verify the remediation independently. Fourth, terminate the relationship if remediation is refused or fails. We don’t require workers to waive any legal right as a condition of remediation, and we don’t impose confidentiality terms that would stop them speaking to law enforcement or regulators.

How we measure whether this works

We track: how many direct suppliers have signed the Supplier Code; how many high-risk suppliers we’ve audited in the rolling 24 months; how many grievances we’ve received and how they resolved; training completion rates; and any supplier terminations or remediation plans triggered by modern slavery concerns.

Consultation

The publishing entity (TehriHills US) consulted TehriHills India during the preparation of this statement. Risk and effectiveness data for the Indian operations were confirmed with the Indian parent.

What we’re doing next

In the year ahead, we intend to:

• Complete the supplier risk-rating exercise for all material panel and sample providers and obtain an executed Supplier Code of Conduct from each];
• Roll out the general modern slavery awareness training module to all employees of the Company and TehriHills India]; and
• We’ll keep watching the global regulations that could apply to us. If we become a reporting entity under any regime, we’ll move from voluntary to mandatory disclosure and tighten this statement accordingly.