Company: QLYS
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-013472
Chunk: 35

Company: QUALYS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 35
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, training, and development, as well as employee inclusion.

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ESG Governance Structure Governance and Responsible Business Practices We are committed to maintaining a strong corporate governance program that complies with regulations, reflects best practices, and continues to evolve as new expectations and opportunities emerge. Notable highlights include:

| • | Our board of directors acts in the best interest of our company and our stockholders, and meets or exceeds evolving regulatory, stockholder, business, and other requirements. Our board established our Corporate Governance Guidelines that together with board committee charters and our certificate of incorporation and bylaws, constitute the primary structure for governance of our company. |

| • | Our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics applies to all directors, officers, employees of Qualys and our subsidiaries. Agents and contractors of Qualys are also expected to read, understand and abide by this code. |

| • | In terms of responsible sourcing, we are committed to ensuring that no modern slavery or human trafficking is associated with our supply chains or with any part of our business. As part of our efforts, we participate in the following activities: (1) review procurement documentation to ensure it includes a requirement, as necessary, for our suppliers to confirm that they are not involved in modern slavery or human trafficking; (2) work to ensure that new suppliers declare that they are not involved in modern slavery or human trafficking; and (3) review our policies and training efforts to account for the requirements of the Modern Slavery Act of 2015. |

| • | The Company annually conducts a reasonable country of origin inquiry and additional due diligence designed to conform with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas, including the related supplements on gold, tin, tantalum and tungsten (the “Framework”), in order to determine whether any “Conflict Minerals” contained in the Company’s products originated from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia or Angola (collectively, the “Covered Countries”), in an effort to ensure that Conflict Minerals are not included in the Company’s products. We also work to prohibit our suppliers from profiting from the sale of “Conflict Minerals” that funds conflict in the “Covered Countries”, and we require that our suppliers source these minerals from socially responsible suppliers. |

Please see our Modern Slavery Act Statement, latest Form SD, Form 10-K