Pursuing Innovation

We all must cooperate in following the rules of the road for managing Teradata’s proprietary information. Our future achievements as individuals and as a company are built upon the base of our accumulated assets, knowledge, and training. It is essential that we protect Teradata’s intellectual property rights. We also must understand and respect others’ intellectual property rights, and not violate those rights—intentionally or unintentionally.

Proprietary and Confidential Information

Information is a key Teradata asset. It includes our intellectual property and other protected information, such as:

Trade secrets, other confidential information, patents, trademarks, and copyrights;

Research and development, including inventions, patent applications, and engineering records;

Network management information;

Business, marketing, and service plans;

Customer and prospective customer identities;

Pricing and other quote, proposal, and contractual terms;

Merger and acquisition candidates;

Unpublished financial plans, data, reports, and projections;

Examination/test material for the Teradata Certified Professional Program (TCPP); and

Information subject to written nondisclosure/confidentiality agreements.

While sharing information is necessary in our interconnected workplace, we all need to protect information belonging to Teradata, keep it from being exposed to unauthorized people, and ensure it is used only for legitimate Teradata business purposes. We must likewise protect proprietary information belonging to companies with which we conduct business, such as our customers and business partners, against unauthorized disclosure and use.

Additionally, during the course of our work, some of us have access to personal information entrusted to Teradata by our fellow associates, customers, and business partners (for example, privacy law protected information). If your job gives you access to this type of information, you must take all reasonable precautions to ensure it is treated with care and respect and in compliance with all legal requirements. It should be used only for legitimate business purposes, and only