WisePlant – A WiseGroup Company

Corporate Policies 1Know our Corporate Policies

Our mission is to grow WisePlant’s business to its full potential by increasing the visibility of its brands, expanding regional accessibility, and introducing products and services in a very demanding market.

The group is steadfast in its commitment to uphold and advance the values intrinsic to the brands it represents. These encompass talent, innovation, and authenticity.

WisePlant is a unified regional brand. A robust identity distinguishes it. This brand embodies unique core values, including culture and personal identity. Additionally, it champions memory, creativity, design, and quality.

Our aim is to cultivate and promote our unique products and services. These are designed to fuel the growth and distribution of technology and knowledge.

Our goal is to establish a global, multidisciplinary brand with multichannel activities. This will require building strong collaborations with partner companies, system integrators, and suppliers. Ultimately, we aspire to engage effectively with end users as well.

Privacy and Data Protection Policy

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At WiseGroup, we are profoundly dedicated to safeguarding personal data. This extends to the private and confidential information of both our customers and suppliers. As a result of this, we’ve introduced data protection policies. These safeguard the information shared by our subscribers, encompassing users, visitors, customers, and suppliers. Such information is typically communicated through various platforms like our websites, both Internet and Intranet, emails, or public and private meetings. → Privacy Policy

Information Security Policy

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We uphold Industrial Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure standards. Additionally, we comply with international laws. These commitments necessitate the restriction of access to information that could potentially be exploited for social engineering purposes. We also have stipulations that limit access to confidential documents. These are supplied via our websites to customers, strategic partners, integrators, or suppliers. This is due to a business, contractual or service relationship.  → Security of Information

Corporate Social Responsibility

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WisePlant is an organization dedicated to fostering social development. We willingly make a proactive contribution to societal advancement. Our efforts span across economic, social and environmental enhancements. Our corporate social responsibility goes beyond compliance with laws and regulations, assuming their respect and strict compliance. We prioritize the effects of our actions on communities, workers, and the environment when making decisions. Their interests are integrated into our procedures and outcomes. → Corporate Social Responsibility

Ethics in value creation with Safety and Quality

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The search for value with safety and quality is our main ethical commitment. We firmly believe in the integral role of company ethics. They are inherently tied to what is conceived, manufactured, and accomplished. Safety and quality are intrinsic values of everything we do. When we discuss security in broad terms, it encompasses various aspects. It not only includes the safety of people and assets but also extends to environmental and information security. Conversely, our interpretation of quality is deep-seated and includes a meticulous observation of the whole and its details. This applies to both our actions and the relationships we cultivate. → Code of Ethics

Quality Policy

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From WiseGroup we are extremely committed to the quality of all our services and commercial and technical executions. For this reason, we have implemented a Total Quality Management System that is comprehensive and transversal throughout the organization. The management system of WiseGroup is essential to the organization’s overall administration. Not only does it apply to quality management, but it also extends to the control of information security. Furthermore, it ensures the successful implementation of all company policies.

ZERO OVERHEAD: We’ve effectively integrated Integral Quality Management. As such, the Management System itself has become a functional work tool. It’s utilized organically in our operations. This is where we actualize the philosophy of ‘Activity-Based Quality Control’. Similarly, we also adopt the concept of ‘Quality by Design’. Avoiding at all times the creation of general expenses to the organization.

We support the following Organizations

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Corporate Policies 7San Judes Children’s Research Hospital leads the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The Lebanese American Syrian partner charities (ALSACs) exist solely to raise the funds and awareness needed to operate San Judes. In fact, approximately 75 percent of the funds needed to sustain and grow San Judes ALSAC are raised each year from generous donors who come together on a common goal: finding cures. Save the children. Every month, WisePlant Group LLC collaborates with St. Judes Children’s Research Hospital. For more information on St. Judes Children’s Research Hospital admitted to www.stjude.org

Habitat for Humanity

Corporate Policies 8Habitat for Humanity is a global non-profit housing organization working in local communities in all 50 U.S. states and approximately 70 countries. Habitat’s vision is of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Habitat works toward our vision by building strength, stability, and self-sufficiency in partnership with families in need of decent, affordable housing. Habitat homeowners help build their own homes together with volunteers and pay an affordable mortgage. WisePlant Group LLC promotes volunteer work to collaborate with Habitat for Humanity. For more information on Habitat for Humanity, go to www.habitat.org

Heifer International

Corporate Policies 9We can all help. Even being an SME, our help adds up. WisePlant is committed to supporting Heifer International, a non-profit foundation that works with communities to fight hunger, poverty, and care for the environment. We fully support its founder’s vision of “Teaching fishing” philosophy that led Heifer for over 70 years. Each three-month period, we allocate 0.5% of WisePlant’s cumulative turnover to the Heifer International Foundation. For more information about Heifer International, go to www.heifer.org

Discover-E

Corporate Policies 10Discover Engineering is a foundation that helps unify community and volunteer work on engineering and technology education. It is a non-profit foundation that teaches children to discover, learn, believe, value and love engineering. For more information about Discover Engineering go to www.discovere.org

Idealist

Corporate Policies 11Idealist is a non-profit organization that brings together the international community with job proposals, internships, volunteering, events, and organizations aimed at communicating and disseminating ideas to make the world a better place. We invite all visitors to get to know IDEALIST. For more information about Idealist, enter www.idealist.org

ARPEL

Corporate Policies 12We collaborate with the Regional Association of Oil, Gas, and Biofuels Companies in Latin America and the Caribbean (ARPEL) in the dissemination of global best practices and training in Industrial Cybersecurity. Learn more at https://arpel.org/

ISA – International Society of Automation

Corporate Policies 13We are partners of ISA (International Society of Automation). WisePlant executives have been accompanying the development of the ISA/IEC-62443 standards since 2006, before the first versions of the standards were published. We have collaborated with ISA during the design and development of the ISA99 professional training and certification program (IC32, IC33, IC34 and IC37). We are authorized by ISA to provide the complete program of professional training and certification in Spanish, Portuguese and English. Read more at https://www.isa.org/training-and-certification/isa-training/about-isa-training/training-partners

ISA Secure

Corporate Policies 14We are active members of ISA Secure and were the first company in Latin America to enter as collaborating assets of the organization. Read more at https://www.isasecure.org/en-US/News-Events/WisePlant-HQ-joins-ISA-Security-Compliance-Institu

ICS-CERT

Corporate Policies 15We collaborate with ICS-CERT in identifying and reporting vulnerabilities on industrial cyber assets. Since its inception in 2014 we have made important discoveries of vulnerabilities that were reported to the ICS-CERT. A large number of them were solved by their manufacturers. Read more at https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/