From time to time, you may work with, or have access to, information that is confidential. All FictionSoft employees are expected to maintain the confidentiality of proprietary information. Employees with access to such confidential information are responsible for its security and are required to sign confidentiality agreements upon employment. The company’s business plans, sales and marketing activities, pricing information, financial information, and customer lists are examples of proprietary information. Upon termination, employees are expected to return to the company any documents or items containing business information about the company.
Depending upon the nature of your job, you may have access to personal information about employees of the company. This may include, but is not limited to, financial and medical information. You may have access to confidential information of a business nature involving employees of the company. This may include, but is not limited to, anticipated employment decisions. You are expected to maintain the confidentiality of all such information and any documents or records containing such information. Any medical information is to be maintained in a separate confidential file, segregated from safety, personnel, and other administrative files.
Personnel files and medical information will not be produced or disclosed to third parties without a subpoena or other appropriate court order or legal requirement.
Please note that, should your employment be terminated, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, you are still under an obligation to maintain the confidentiality of information obtained through the course of your employment and are required to return to your manager all company documents, including but not limited to documents that contain information that is confidential or not otherwise made available to the public.
Employees are prohibited from using any information from the employee’s former employer in the course of their employment at FictionSoft, which was considered confidential by or trade secrets of such employer.
Even within FictionSoft, confidential information should be discussed only on a “need-to-know” basis. Employees should refrain from responding to questions relating to FictionSoft from newspapers, magazines, radio, television talk shows, or any type of journalists, unless first clearing your response through an officer of FictionSoft.
Everyone in FictionSoft shares the responsibility of preserving the confidentiality of information. Therefore, as a condition of employment, you are required to sign and submit a Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement (PI&I) when you are hired. Should you leave FictionSoft, you are not permitted to take any material which concerns or relates to the affairs of FictionSoft or its business contracts. Reports, files, correspondence, memoranda, visual aids, manuals, and other material are the property of FictionSoft.
The failure to comply with this policy by an employee may result in immediate termination and legal action to prevent the disclosure or use of the confidential information. Access to confidential information is restricted and any employee attempting to access such information for which he or she is not authorized, may be subject to disciplinary action up to and including immediate termination.