Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility at PAR Technology

We strive to minimize the environmental impact of our operational footprint by adopting sustainable business practices. We are just starting to identify ecological and economic risks and opportunities of climate change to integrate them into our business initiatives and strategies at our Headquarters and across our operations.

Environmental Sustainability

We own our headquarters (HQ) office in New Hartford, New York. We are currently evaluating our HQ building to assess and incorporate eco-friendly business practices where possible. For example, we are actively engaged in a regular e-waste recycling and disposal program for technology cables, boards, and batteries, which ultimately helps to lessen our operational waste footprint. We are further decreasing our waste by adopting the use of reusable boxes that are designed to be shipped, returned, and then reused for shipping our hardware products. We estimate that we used 10,000 reusable boxes in FY2021, and we plan to expand our use of reusable containers.

We also outsource the majority of our data center needs to large-scale industry providers, decreasing our overall carbon footprint by leveraging the economies-of-scale and environmental efficiencies of our vendors’ cloud-based data center capabilities.

Community Impact and Philanthropy

The Corporation provides grants to 501(c)(3) public charities that provide relief to the poor and distressed. Public charities that decrease financial instability for workers in the hospitality and retail industries, reduce childhood hunger and food insecurity, and promote educational opportunities in the field of computer technology skills, innovation and diverse thinking for low income or otherwise disenfranchised populations are of particular importance to the Corporation.

The Corporation will engage in direct charitable activities that benefit communities in which the employees or customers of PAR Technology Corporation live and work. Specific examples of planned programs include: (1) sponsoring and hosting educational programs for community youth, such as Coding for Girls, which is intended to be a below-cost educational program offered to middle and high school girls promoting computer literacy and skills development, and (2) providing food and refreshments for a Red Cross blood drive that is held on the PAR Technology campus or hosting girl or boy scout tours and refreshments of computer facilities and equipment located on the PAR Technology
Corporation campus. The specific activities will be suggested by employees or customers of PAR Technology, selected and accepted by the Corporation's staff and/or board of directors, and the Corporation will facilitate and/or conduct the approved activity.

The Corporation provides qualified disaster relief payments to employees of PAR Technology Corporation, and their family members, by
partnering with a 501(c)(3) public charity.