Confidential Information
We expect team members to protect our Company’s confidential and proprietary business information. In your job, you may have access to confidential information about our business processes, other team members, or business partners including customers and suppliers. Only disclose such information if permitted to do so under applicable law, regulations, and company policies or procedures.
Confidential information comes in multiple forms and can be written, oral, or electronic. Consult the Data Classification Policy to make sure you understand the different types of data so you can protect it appropriately.
The restriction on disclosing confidential information does not prevent team members or members of the Board of Directors from reporting concerns of any suspected misconduct to management or prevent team members from reporting retaliation. It also does not prevent team members from reporting concerns to government agencies or responding truthfully to their lawful questions or requests.
Remember if confidential information about Tyson or a business partner is material and non-public, you may not use this information when deciding to buy or sell securities of these companies. See Insider Trading section for additional informationPUBLIC DATA: Data that is open to all team members and third parties. Examples include publicly issued press releases, publicly posted job announcements, and SEC filings.
INTERNAL DATA: Data that is proprietary in nature and used in day-to-day company operations. Examples include most Tyson policies and procedures, purchase orders, production schedules, and outage start/end times. Most content is considered internal data.
CONFIDENTIAL DATA: Data that must be guarded due to proprietary, ethical, or privacy considerations and protected from unauthorized access, modification, transmission, storage, or other use. Examples include contracts, non-restricted team member information, engineering designs, facility safety and floor plans, and business partner information such as proprietary non-public information on pricing, sales volumes, and product specifications.
RESTRICTED CONFIDENTIAL DATA: Data that is protected by statutes, regulations (e.g., SOX, HIPAA, PCI, Privacy – CCPA and GDPR, etc.), contract language, or designated by managers. Examples of Restricted Confidential Data include trade secrets and intellectual property, business strategies, customer and supplier lists, technology platforms in use or under review, feed formulations, any data identified as attorney-client privilege, and any data identified by government regulation for confidential treatment or sealed by court order.
