Common use of Communications with Third Parties Clause in Contracts

Communications with Third Parties. To help shield directors from general questions from media representatives and others, it is the Company’s policy that directors should respond by indicating that, as a general matter, the Company’s spokesmen are the Chairman or the Chief Executive Officer or their designees and that comments on behalf of the Company would come from such a person. Directors should at all times maintain the confidentiality of sensitive or proprietary Company information.