Standards, Policies and Laws
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Company Assets
All associates have a responsibility to properly
use and protect the assets
of the company. Assets can be both tangible
(such as buildings, furniture,
computer systems and equipment, inventory, tools
and funds) and intangible
(such as records, trade secrets, work time,
marketing and pricing strategies).
Also covered is confidential associate, vendor
and customer information.
All electronic information transmitted or
contained in the company’s
information systems is the property of the
company and should be used
only for job-related purposes. Software should
be used only in accordance
with its licensing terms, and all pass codes are
the property of the company.
Personal Use
Associates may occasionally use company
assets to perform
routine personal tasks during non-work time such
as placing personal telephone
calls, faxing, sending personal e-mails and
briefly accessing legitimate
commercial Web sites. Access to e-mail and the
Internet may be monitored
in accordance with applicable law and there may
be no assurance of privacy.
Visiting Web sites that contain racist,
pornographic, gambling or other inappropriate materials is
prohibited. In keeping
with local practice, associates are not
permitted (without their supervisor’s permission) personal use
of company
vehicles,
tools or equipment, company-paid mail, company
supplies, or to place long distance phone calls.
 Company Confidential Information
Some of the most valuable company assets are its
confidential and proprietary information.
Employees must take care to protect any such
information with which they are entrusted. Some
information, such as through advertising
or press releases, is purposely shared with
others. All other information should be protected
in adherence with the company’s Information
Sensitivity Policy and Data Classification Guidelines, by careful interpersonal
communications, and (when appropriate) through
formal legal agreements. Employees should be
careful with whom and how they share sensitive
information, regardless of the medium. Employees
and agents who leave the company have a
responsibility to safeguard the confidentiality
of such information.
Inside Information
As an employee of Tech Data you may have
access to information regarding the company or
other companies that is not known by the general
public and which could be material to securities trading. Anyone
who has any nonpublic material information may
not use or communicate it ("tipping") for personal
gain. An
employee may not use undisclosed information
about a supplier, customer or competitor to trade in their
respective
stock. Information is considered
"material" if it would influence a reasonable investor
to buy, sell or hold stock. Use
of such information is not only against this
policy, but it is also illegal.
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