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Confidentiality

Employees may, by virtue of their employment with the College, obtain access to sensitive, confidential, restricted and proprietary information about the College that is not generally known or made available to the public and that the College has made reasonable efforts to keep confidential, including, but not limited to, financial information, trade secrets, customer or vendor records and files, referral or mailing lists, credit card numbers, and similar information whether stored electronically or in paper format.

Such confidential information shall be used solely by Employees in the performance of their job duties for the College and shall not be used in any other manner whatsoever during their employment. Employees shall not, without the prior written consent of the College, use, disclose, divulge, or publish to others any such confidential information acquired in the course of their employment. Such confidential information is the exclusive property of the College and under no circumstances whatsoever shall Employees have any rights to use, disclose, or publish to others such confidential information subsequent to the termination of their employment.

Unauthorized use or disclosure of confidential information may result in discipline, up to and including immediate discharge, prosecution, or other available action.

Upon termination of employment, Employees must immediately deliver to the College any and all confidential information, whether stored electronically or in paper format, including, but not limited to, all copies of such documents prepared or produced in connection with their employment with the College that pertain to the College's business or the Employee's services for the College, whether made or compiled by the Employee or furnished to the Employee in connection with such services to the College. In addition, at termination, Employees must return to the College all of the College's non-confidential property, documents, or electronic information.

This policy does not limit the common law and statutory rights of the College or alter any contractual rights of the College.


Policy No.  112  Issued  3/1/2009    

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