Purpose

MUI designed the MUI confidentiality policy to explain how MUI expects its employees to treat confidential information. Employees will unavoidably receive and handle personal and private information about clients, partners, and MUI. MUI wants to make sure that this information is well-protected.

MUI must protect this information for two reasons. It may:

• Be legally binding (e.g. sensitive customer data.)
• Constitute the backbone of MUI business, giving us a competitive advantage (e.g. customer emails.)

Scope

This policy affects all employees, including board members, investors, contractors, and volunteers, who may have access to confidential information.

Policy elements

Confidential and proprietary information is secret, valuable, expensive, and/or easily replicated. Common examples of confidential information are:

• Unpublished financial information
• Data of Customers/Partners/Vendors
• Patents, formulas, or new technologies
• Customer lists (existing and prospective)
• Data entrusted to MUI by external parties
• Pricing/marketing and other undisclosed strategies
• Documents and processes explicitly marked as confidential
• Unpublished goals, forecasts, and initiatives marked as confidential

Employees may have various levels of authorized access to confidential information.

What employees should do:

• Lock or secure confidential information at all times