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This whistleblowing policy is common to all companies within Kulturarenor. Kulturarenor strives to have an open business climate, high business ethics and for the well-being of our employees. Our employees, customers and suppliers are our most important sources of insight into any shortcomings that need to be addressed. Since Kulturarenor is a value-driven company, we want everyone who suspects irregularities that are contrary to Kulturarenor's values, business ethics or applicable legislation to have the opportunity to speak out without fear of reprisals. You can choose to provide your information anonymously. To protect whistleblowers, Kulturarenor has a whistleblower policy with an associated reporting function.

Whistleblowing means reporting potentially illegal and/or unethical activity, also known as misconduct, to the attention of management.

Through this function, suspicions of serious irregularities can be reported. Serious irregularities include, among others:

- Financial crimes such as bribery, theft, fraud and forgery, accounting crimes and other violations of accounting and tax laws

- A conflict of interest between an employee and a company that is part of Kulturarenor

- Other serious irregularities affecting the vital interests of Kulturarenor or the life and health of individuals, such as serious environmental crimes, major deficiencies in workplace safety and serious forms of discrimination and harassment.

The reporting procedure can be used by all employees (regardless of employment status) within Kulturarenor. Suppliers, former employees and others can also use the function.

Other types of cases, such as disputes, errors, complaints, minor offenses, dissatisfaction with pay and the like, do not constitute whistleblowing cases and should not be reported through this system. These cases must first be reported to the immediate manager or other member of the management team.

To ensure your anonymity, a reporting tool is provided by an external and independent actor. The reporting channel is encrypted and password-protected. You never have to reveal your identity if you do not want to. You can choose to report in the following ways: Reporting tool: Physical meeting: Please call in or notify via the reporting tool that you wish to meet in person.

- You do not need to have proof of your suspicion but no allegation may be made maliciously or in the knowledge that the allegation is false

- It is important that you describe all the facts of the case, including the circumstances you consider less important

- Please develop your report carefully and attach anything that may be relevant.

To ensure independence and confidentiality, all notifications are received by an external party who forwards the case to the Human Resources Department ("Case Manager"). If a case concerns the Case Manager, the notification is instead sent to the Designated Management Representative. If external expertise is needed, investigations may also be conducted by an external party with extensive experience in whistleblowing cases and related investigations. No information about you as a whistleblower will be disclosed without your consent. You can choose whether you want to remain completely anonymous to the independent investigators or whether you want to identify yourself.

Within one week of your report via the reporting tool, you can log in again with your personal login and password to see any follow-up questions/comments from Kulturarenor. You can follow up your case via the reporting tool if you have written down the case number and the code you will receive when you close your report. Please log in regularly as investigators may need to ask further questions and in some cases want to act quickly. Within three months at the latest, the Cultural Arenas will report back on the status of the case.

Cultural arenas pay great attention to the protection of personal privacy. The rights of individuals involved in cases in the whistleblowing process are protected under applicable data protection laws. Personal data included in case management and investigation documentation will be deleted after the investigation is completed, except in cases where applicable legislation requires the retention of personal data. See also Kulturarenor's policy on personal data & privacy.

Cultural Arenas will investigate all reported cases. It is important that any individual raising the alarm genuinely suspects that serious wrongdoing is taking place. Cultural Arenas takes deliberately false or malicious allegations seriously and may take disciplinary action against anyone who maliciously accuses another.

Cultural venues are responsible for this policy. The policy is revised annually.