Insider Trading
and Disclosure
Policy
[Legal Department]
Effective as of:
Page 4 of 18
Do not participate
in Internet “chat rooms” (i.e.,
“blogging”) in which
the Company is
discussed.
In accordance with
the Company’s existing policies with
regard to social
media, directors, officers
and employees
of the
Company and
its subsidiaries
may not
participate in
on-line dialogues
(or
similar activities) involving the Company, its business or its securities.
Do not use nonpublic
information to trade in
other companies’ securities.
A Covered Party may
not trade in the securities
of customers, vendors, suppliers, or other
business partners (collectively
referred
to
as
“business
partners”)
of
the
Company
when
the
Covered
Party
has
nonpublic
information concerning
the Company
or these
business partners that the
Covered Party obtained in
the course of its relationship with the Company and that would potentially give it an advantage in
trading.
Covered
Parties
should
treat
material
nonpublic
information
about
the
Company’s
business partners
with the
same care required
with respect
to information
related
directly
to
the
Company.
Do not
engage in
speculative
transactions
involving
the Company’s
securities.
The Company’s
(and
its
subsidiaries)
directors,
officers
and employees
may not
engage in
any transactions
that
suggest they are speculating in
the Company’s
securities (that
is, that
they are
trying to
profit in
short-term movements, either increases or decreases, in the stock price).
The Company directors,
officers and employees may not engage in
any short sale, “sale against the box”
or any equivalent
transaction involving
the Company’s securities
(or the securities
of any of
the Company’s business
partners in any of the situations described above). A short sale involves selling shares that a party
does not own at a specified price with the expectation that the price will go down
so that the party
can buy the shares at a lower price before the party has to deliver them.
A sale against the box is
a sale of securities which
are owned but are not delivered within
20 days or deposited in the mail
or other usual channels of transportation for delivery within five (5) days after the sale, unless the
seller proves
that notwithstanding
the exercise
of good
faith, he or
she was
unable to make
such
delivery or
deposit within such
time, or
that to do
so would cause
undue inconvenience or
expense.
A sale against the box
has the same effect as
a short sale. Please note
that those Covered Persons
who are also reporting persons
under Section 16 of the Securities
Exchange of 1934, as amended
(the
“Exchange Act”
), are prohibited
under Section 16(c)
thereof from engaging
in short sales
and
sales against the box.
Note that many
hedging transactions, such as
“cashless” collars, forward sales,
equity swaps and
other
similar or
related arrangements
may indirectly
involve a
short sale.
The Company
discourages
its directors,
officers, and employees
from engaging
in such
transactions and
requires that
any such
transaction be carefully
reviewed in advance by
the Compliance Officer.
The Compliance Officer
will
assess
the
proposed
transaction
and,
in
light
of
the
facts
and
circumstances,
make
a
determination
as
to
whether
the
proposed
transaction
may
be
completed
or
would
violate
this
Policy.
Covered Parties must ensure that their family members and persons controlling family trusts (and
similar controlled
entities) do not violate this Policy.
For purposes of this Policy, any
transactions
involving
the
Company’s
securities
in
which
members
of
a
Covered
Party’s
immediate
family
engage, or by family trusts, partnerships,
foundations, and similar entities over
which the Covered
Party or members of the Covered Party’s immediate family have control, or whose assets are held
for
the
benefit
of
the
Covered
Party
or
the
Covered
Party’s
immediate
family,
are the
same
as