JOULE ENERGY’s proprietary and confidential information is one of its most important assets. “Proprietary and confidential information” generally includes non-public information that, if revealed, may benefit competitors or harm JOULE ENERGY. Examples include technical information, designs or process data, pricing information, business or strategic plans, work processes and know-how, project practices, software and technology, research and development, customer and supplier lists, as well as third party information entrusted to JOULE ENERGY that JOULE ENERGY is obliged to protect, such as the proprietary and confidential information of clients and partners.

JOULE ENERGY may enter into partnerships with companies that may under other circumstances be competitors, suppliers or customers. In order to ensure proper communication in these partnerships, the necessary measures must be taken to protect private and confidential information from unintended or intentional sharing, or use outside the partnership.

It is prohibited to share in public places, or in places where others can hear, any proprietary or confidential information of employees, JOULE ENERGY, customers and partners, and information entrusted to JOULE ENERGY that JOULE ENERGY is obligated protect. Only authorized employees are allowed to share this information with employees and third parties on a need to know basis and only authorized persons may disclose information about JOULE ENERGY, its subsidiaries and projects to the public, media or other third parties. Employees’ responsibility to keep JOULE ENERGY’s information private and confidential continues even after their employment at JOULE ENERGY ends.

Customers, suppliers and business partners often entrust JOULE ENERGY with highly confidential information and data. When using this information and data, all employees are subject to comply with the relevant laws, JOULE ENERGY Information Management System procedures and practices, customer requirements and confidentiality agreements, if any. Even after leaving JOULE ENERGY, employees must take due care to respect and protect any knowledge relating to third parties that they may have.

Patents, trade secrets, copyrights and trademarks are legal terms that define when an invention, know-how, product, idea, written work or name are owned by an individual or company, and the use of such by others without express permission is prohibited.

JOULE ENERGY is committed to full compliance with the provisions of all applicable laws and license agreements relating to copyrighted material, including written material, photographs and software, and obtains either licenses or subscriptions of reference materials such as the necessary software, products and standards for the use within JOULE ENERGY. The unauthorized duplication or transmission of content such as articles, data, photos, music, videos or software is illegal and content posted on the Internet does not entitle anyone to its free use. The name or logo of another company should not be used without the permission of that company. Permission from multiple sources may be required for the use of such content.