HR Policies & Procedures

Confidential Nature of Company Affairs

Every employer is concerned about controlling outsiders’ access to sensitive business information, such as trade secrets, customer lists, and financial data. However, maintaining control over this confidential information has become more challenging since advances in communications technology, such as the Internet and electronic mail (“e-mail”), make sharing and accessing business information easier and quicker than ever before.

This policy discusses how internal business information is to be kept confidential by the employee and the enforcement of this policy.

· Information Assets
· Control of Information
· Centralized Responsibility
· Identifying Confidential Information
· Outsider Requests for Information
· Confidentiality Requirements
· Enforcement of Confidentiality
· Agreements in Restraint of Trade
· Material Inside Information

A note regarding copyright:
Our policies are intended to help organizations create their own personnel policies or handbooks for distribution internally. Accordingly, you may use the Model Policies verbatim or modify them to suit the culture of your organization. Since the policy is copyrighted, we are making a special exception for this particular use. However, the policies may not be used to create or update policies for any organization other than the one buying the policy. In other words, you can’t create policies or handbooks to offer to other organizations, either for profit or free of charge. This would be considered a direct violation of our copyright.

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Louisville, KY 40207

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