Common use of Employees and Representatives Clause in Contracts

Employees and Representatives. Failing to respect and comply with the business entertainment (including travel and living) policies established by GE and governing GE employees and representatives. A GE supplier is expected to understand the business entertainment policies of the applicable GE component or operation before offering or providing any GE employee or representative any business entertainment. Business entertainment should never be offered to a GE employee and representative by a supplier under circumstances that create the appearance of an impropriety. • Collusive Conduct and GE Procurements. Sharing or exchanging any price, cost or other competitive information or the undertaking of any other collusive conduct with any other third party supplier or bidder to GE with respect to any proposed, pending or current GE procurement. • Intellectual & Other Property Rights. Failing to respect the intellectual and other property rights of others, especially GE. In that regard, a GE supplier shall: • Only use GE information and property (including tools, drawings and specifications) for the purpose for which they are provided to the supplier and for no other purposes. • Take appropriate steps to safeguard and maintain the confidentiality of GE proprietary information, including maintaining it in confidence and in secure work areas and not disclosing it to third parties (including other customers, subcontractors, etc.) without the prior written permission of GE. • Only transmit GE information over the Internet on an encrypted basis. • Observe and respect all GE patents, trademarks and copyrights and comply with such restrictions or prohibitions on their use as GE may from time to time establish.