COMPANY POLICY

Confidentiality Statement

THIS STATEMENT is made by GlobalCert Food Safety, LLC and its employees referred to as "we".

We may have access to confidential and sensitive operational, financial and personnel records and information related to the business activities of our customers. We will not discuss, distribute and/or release any information related to our customers to anyone except when explicitly directed by our customer.

Handling of Confidential Information

• 1. We shall ensure that disclosure of such Confidential Information is restricted to those of its employees, directors or professional advisers having the need to know for same purpose;
• 2. Copies or reproductions shall not be made except to the extent reasonably necessary for the purpose and all copies made shall be the property of the disclosing party;
• 3. All Confidential Information and copies thereof which is in a physical form shall be returned to the disclosing party (and all other information and data and other records in a machine readable form shall be deleted or destroyed) within thirty days of receipt of a written request from the disclosing party;
• 4. We shall not divulge any Confidential Information, in whole or in part, to any third party unless so directed.
• 5. We will make no commercial use of the same or any part thereof either directly or indirectly nor use the Confidential Information to obtain any commercial advantage or otherwise to exploit the same without the prior written consent of our customer.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, GlobalCert Food Safety, LLC shall be entitled to make any disclosure to the minimum extent required by law of the disclosing party's Confidential Information provided that it gives the disclosing party not less than two business' days notice of such disclosure accompanied by a legal opinion confirming that such disclosure is necessary.

GlobalCert Food Safety, LLC warrants its right to disclose its Confidential Information to the receiving party and to authorize the receiving party to use the same for the Purpose.