Thread employees are allowed to accept gifts (who doesn’t like gifts!).
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However, we are not allowed to offer or accept any excessive or extravagant hospitality and gifts.
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For example, it’s mid-autumn festival and client gives you mooncake. This is awesome! Accept the gift with gratitude, and make it clear the gifts are for Thread team and not for the individual.
Oppositely, it’s mid-autumn festival and client gives you a latest phone model. This is excessive, politely turn down the gift.
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Business meals with business partners are acceptable provided that they can be considered catering that is customary in business and are conducted voluntarily, appropriately and in the context of usual business collaboration.
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Entertainment, especially extravagant and frequent entertainment offered to our staff or to our partners and business associates may be interpreted as a calculated act and therefore must be avoided.
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*Monetary gifts are strictly prohibited.
**Make sure you check the client gifting policies carefully, too! :D