1.4 Protecting the company’s ownership and confidential information

It is important for the company that its assets be protected. The assets include physical property (the company’s property), intellectual property (registered trademarks, patents, etc.), and financial assets. We are all responsible for protecting the company’s assets and for using them with care and efficiency.

The work equipment / tools, official documents and any other material resource and/or intellectual property belonging to the company shall be used responsibly to protect them and keep them in good working order.

The equipment and work tools will be used exclusively by the company’s employees. However, they will not use the equipment and work tools in situations where they are temporarily unable to use them; ex.: advanced state of fatigue in the use of the service vehicle or in other detailed situations within the Internal Car Park Procedure.

Documents and / or any materials that are the subject of the company’s intellectual property will not be provided to third parties, especially if this would affect the interests of the company.

Employees must constantly monitor and report without delay any counterfeit product found on the market that may cause image or financial damage to the company. They must also report any possible infringement of the company’s property rights, and in particular intellectual / industrial property rights (eg web domains with the company’s brand name, social media pages that copy or use the company name, or its brand name, content / text copied from Prisum web pages, etc.).

The information on the employee’s computer hard drives is duplicated / stored on the server used by the company; as a result, any type of information (e.g. professional or personal correspondence) is considered to be information belonging exclusively to the company. Thus, the company’s equipment can be monitored, inspected and the stored information can be deleted at any time.

Therefore, the company’s intellectual property (know-how, ideas, trade secrets, patents, trademarks, domain names, design and copyrights) are considered to be valuable. This value may be lost or compromised if such non-material goods are misused or incorrectly disclosed.

Please note that the intellectual property that you have developed or contributed to during your time as an employee of the company remains owned by the company after you are no longer employed.

The Company encourages its employees to communicate to customers, partners, patients / consumers, etc. about the company’s brands, productsbut not to disclose or reveal confidential information.

The company’s information is also considered a valuable asset. The employees may have access to various such confidential information. This could include financial, commercial, price, sales, profits, strategies and plans, contractual information, customer and vendor lists, information about new products, or any other information that is not public, about or within the company.

Confidential information must be protected, treated with care and not communicated to unauthorised third parties or the public.

The obligation to protect the confidential information continues even after the activity within the company has terminated.

The obligation to protect confidential information remains even after you have left the company. This also means that the company’s new employees cannot share confidential information about their previous employers and should not be required to do so.

If it is necessary to distribute confidential information to a third party, make sure that there is a confidentiality agreement signed in advance by the parties involved.