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Non-Public Information (NPI) Policies

Board Minutes and Discussions

This policy is designed to detect events occurring between or concerning board members of an organization.

Corporate Contracts

This policy detects the language that is typically used in corporate contracts.

Customer Lists

This policy detects multiple occurrences of various types of customer contact information.

Draft Documentation

This policy can be used to prevent draft documentation, and discussions surrounding it, being sent outside an organization.

Financial Information - Balance Sheet

This policy detects content found on financial balance sheets.

Financial Information - Income Statement

This policy detects content found on financial income statements.

Financial Information - Projections

This policy detects the disclosure of financial projections.

Information Security Label Control

This policy detects sensitive material classified in various ways such as "confidential", "top secret", and "not for distribution".

Inside Information: Front Running/Trading Ahead

This policy detects messages exhibiting evidence that a market participant is attempting to profit financially by placing transactions before (in front of) another market player, or customer, by leveraging the information a "tipper" possesses about what that market player/customer intends to do.

Inside Information: Non-Public Company Information Loss

Protect and control non-public company insider information, such as management discussions.

Inside Information: Non-Public Financial Information Loss

This policy detects unauthorized disclosure of non-public company financial and stock information.

Inside Information: Rumors and Secrets

This policy detects unsubstantiated information or rumors about any organization or client for legal purposes.

Inside Information: Trading Ahead of Research

Disseminating and acting on non-public, inside information is illegal. The content of a research report may influence the price of the security being discussed. Parties may profit from this non-public information by placing trades ahead of the issuance of the research report. This policy is intended to detect language indicative of two or more parties disseminating non-public information regarding advance knowledge of pending research.

Internal Investigations

This policy detects the existence, purpose, and/or results of company specific investigative matters.

Internal IT Support Documents

This policy identifies internal IT system and support documentation.

Licensing Agreements

This policy is designed to detect information containing software license agreements.

Mergers and Acquisitions

This policy identifies discussions and documents pertaining to pending or proposed merger and acquisition transactions in which the organization is or will be participating. Transactions such as IPOs, private placements, and other prospectus offerings are not expressly included in this policy.

Pricing List

This policy is designed to detect nonpublic pricing information.

Project Information

This policy identifies various types of project information such as project plans, timelines, project codes, task lists, and issue lists related to project planning and deployments.

Restricted List

This policy detects items and content on restricted lists in e-mails and files. Restricted/Watch/Grey Lists are associated with services, products, companies, customers, or other defined business elements that have restrictions.

Sales Information

This policy detects company sales information, sales collateral such as tools, models, contracts, fee structures, and deal information, and other elements supporting the sales organization.