Modern Slavery Statement

Why any of this is published

The financial year ending 2026 is what this covers, and it describes the work done to keep forced labour and human trafficking away from the business and from everything that supplies it.

No law required us to publish this. Turnover of £36 million is the point where Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 bites, and Bohzo Ltd sits a long way below it. Better to say that plainly than to let a reader assume a legal duty exists where none does. Being small argues for a short statement, and not for having no statement at all.

1. The company

Bohzo Ltd, registered in England and Wales under Company No. 15031604, registered office The Workspace Basildon, 7 High Pavement, Basildon, England, SS14 1EA, trading as Hosting-Cheap.

What gets sold is web hosting, servers and domain registration, all of it online and run out of Britain. Every person here is employed directly or contracted directly, the only premises is an office, and no seasonal or agency staffing appears at any point in the year.

2. The chain behind one hosting account

Very little, and that is rather the point:

• a hosting platform provider in the UK running the physical machines;
• the registries and the registrars standing behind every domain extension we sell;
• the firms licensing us the panel, the billing system and the malware scanning we run;
• whoever processes card payments for us, and whoever carries mail going out;
• accountants and solicitors.

Every one of them is an established technology or professional firm in the UK, the EEA or the United States, carrying compliance duties of its own.

3. Talking plainly about the risk

Nearer to home, the exposure is low, and that would still be our answer if publishing it were out of fashion tomorrow: qualified people on UK contracts, doing office work, drawing a salary for it.

Here is the part that deserves plain speaking: the further down the chain you go, the less anyone can see. Constructing data centres, manufacturing servers and mining the minerals that go inside them all carry documented exploitation risk somewhere in the world, and each of those sits several relationships beyond anyone we have ever spoken to. No audit of them has been done by us, and pretending otherwise is not on the cards. What remains within reach is favouring suppliers who publish a credible position of their own, then weighing that up at the point of choosing, which is exactly what happens.

4. What we actually do

• every person working here holds written terms, is paid at or above the legal minimum, and has had right to work checked;
• no identity documents are surrendered for us to hold, and no fee is paid by anyone to win work or hold onto it;
• a new supplier gets checked for a modern slavery position wherever the Act catches them, and checked again against anything on the public record that contradicts it;
• proof of forced labour ends the relationship, and the matter goes to the relevant authority.

5. Training

At this size the thing is a conversation rather than a course. Anyone with a hand in hiring, or in picking suppliers, knows what forced labour looks like and knows where to take it. Dressing that up as a training programme would mean inventing one.

6. Raising something

Anybody can flag it in confidence, as a customer, a supplier, a contractor or a staff member, at info@hosting-cheap.com or through the complaints procedure. Speak up in good faith and no consequence falls on you for having spoken, regardless of whether the concern turns out to be founded.

If somebody is in immediate danger, ring 999. The Modern Slavery Helpline: 08000 121 700.

7. Review

Reviewed once a year, then republished with a new date on it whether or not a single other word has moved. A statement left quietly to go stale tells the reader nothing.

Approved on behalf of Bohzo Ltd on 19 August 2026.