DeepL Modern Slavery & Human Rights Statement 2025

It’s DeepL’s policy to conduct all our business in an honest and ethical manner. We’re fully committed to the prevention of all forms of slavery, forced labour or servitude, child labour and human trafficking, both in our business and in our supply chains. The purpose of this statement is to set out our approach and commitment to this key topic.

This statement is published on behalf of DeepL UK Limited with respect to the financial year 2025, in line with section 54(1) of the UK’s Modern Slavery Act 2015. 

Who’s Responsible For The Statement? 

Jaroslaw Kutylowski, our CEO, has overall responsibility for ensuring this statement complies with our legal and ethical obligations, and that everyone in our organisation complies with it.

Our Leadership Team has responsibility for implementing this statement within our supply chains.

Within DeepL, the People Team has internal responsibility for ensuring that employees are aware of this statement and its impact, and feel empowered to raise potential concerns in relation to its application, without fear of retaliation. 

The Nature Of DeepL’s Business

DeepL is on a mission to break down language barriers for businesses everywhere. Over 200,000 businesses and governments and millions of individuals across 228 global markets trust DeepL's Language AI platform for human-like translation in both written and spoken formats, as well as natural, improved writing. Our headquarters are in Germany, and we have local entities in the UK, the US, the Netherlands, Japan and Poland.

DeepL offers a range of products, including its core translation service accessible via web, desktop and mobile apps, and an API for developers to integrate our technology into their own applications. DeepL also offers DeepL Write, an AI writing assistant, and DeepL Voice, with real-time voice translation.

DeepL’s business model includes both free and paid subscription tiers. The free version offers core translation features, while our paid "DeepL Pro" and “DeepL for Enterprise” subscriptions cater to users needing higher volumes, enhanced features, and greater data security. Our target market is global and spans individuals needing quick and accurate translations, to large enterprises seeking to streamline global communication and multilingual content creation.

DeepL’s General Approach To Preventing Slavery And Human Trafficking In Our Business 

To prevent slavery, child labour and human trafficking within our business, on an ongoing basis DeepL:

• makes appropriate checks on all employees, recruitment agencies and other relevant third parties, to know who’s working for us, or on behalf of us,
• provides every employee and worker with a written contract of employment / contractor agreement,
• pays every employee in accordance with local laws and best practice,
• complies with all legal obligations to ensure the health and safety of all our team members, including in relation to working hours, rest breaks, and holidays, and
• avoids entering into business with any organisation, in any country, which is known or suspected to support or be involved in slavery, servitude, child labour, and/or forced or compulsory labour. 

DeepL’s General Approach To Preventing Slavery, Child Labour And Human Trafficking In Our Supply Chains 

Due to the nature of our business, we assess DeepL to have a low risk of modern slavery in our supply chains. Our supply chains are limited and we procure goods and services from a restricted range of reputable suppliers which are headquartered in countries with adequate human rights requirements.

From 2025 going forward, we’re using commercially reasonable endeavours to ensure that new and renewed contracts with relevant suppliers anywhere in the world contain appropriate clauses whereby they undertake that they don’t use or benefit from slavery, human trafficking or child labour within their organisations. We’re committed to keeping this under review. 

FY25 Updates And Changes

To date, DeepL is aware of no known or suspected cases of modern slavery having occurred across its business or supply chains at any time since its inception. DeepL therefore considers its current approach to be adequate, though recognises that there is further scope for improvement in making its processes and controls even more robust. For this reason, DeepL will be taking the following steps in 2025 to continue to combat modern slavery in our business and supply chain:

• This is the first year that DeepL has published a modern slavery statement under section 54(1) of the UK’s Modern Slavery Act 2015. This is a key first step in enshrining DeepL’s commitment to building in all necessary processes and controls relating to avoiding modern slavery in its business and supply chain.
• As explained above, from this year going forward, we are using all commercially reasonable endeavours to ensure that new and renewed contracts with our suppliers anywhere in the world contain appropriate clauses to confirm their compliance with the key principles of this statement and with the law.
• DeepL will ensure that appropriate training will be made available to its employees on the topic of modern slavery and human trafficking.

Statement Approval

This statement has been approved by the board of directors of DeepL UK Ltd. It’s been signed  for and on behalf of DeepL UK Ltd.

Frankie Williams, Chief Legal Officer