Board members, executives and employees who hold confidential information of the Company must refrain from using that information to acquire or dispose of, or to attempt to acquire or dispose of, on their own behalf or on behalf of third parties, directly or indirectly, the movable or immovable assets to which that information relates.
We must also refrain from disclosing confidential information to third parties and from encouraging other persons, on the basis of confidential information, to acquire or dispose of, themselves or through another, the Company's movable or immovable assets to which the information relates. For the purposes of this Code, Confidential Information means information that has not been made public, is of a specific nature and relates to one or more issuers of movable or immovable assets or to one or more movable or immovable assets, and which, if made public, could significantly affect the price of those assets. Such information includes know-how, customer lists, studies, designs, quotations, special prices and so on.
Access to this data is controlled and we are responsible for safeguarding and handling it properly. For this reason both we and any partners with access to such data sign a confidentiality declaration. Under the declaration, sanctions apply if confidential information is leaked through our fault. To protect the confidentiality of this data we must not: Download files of unknown origin onto company computers; Visit unprotected sites;
Disclose confidential information, even by telephone, let alone on social media, or use it for our own benefit; Store or transport confidential information using insecure means such as external hard drives, USB sticks, shared folders or even physically in our bag; Share our passwords; Disclose this data after we leave the company; Share such data with partners, even where our cooperation requires it, when we have doubts about how securely it will be kept; Destroy confidential data insecurely when necessary, e.g. by throwing it in the bin, rather than only by using a shredder.
Breaching these rules is not only a breach of the rules of the ErgoAlarm Defense Code of Conduct, but also of the relevant legislation, which entails administrative and criminal sanctions.