Regardless of group designation, any employee, officer or director of Beazer may be temporarily prohibited from buying or selling Beazer securities during special blackout periods. These special blackout periods are described in Section IV.
II.內幕交易禁止
通用規則。 No Beazer employee, officer or director may purchase or sell Beazer securities while he or she is in possession of material, non-public information relating to Beazer. This restriction does not apply to certain “允許的交易,” which are discussed in Section VI of this Policy.
Because of the concerns about pledging Beazer securities, members of Group Three are prohibited from pledging Beazer’s securities as collateral for a loan or hedging Beazer securities. This Policy does not prohibit members of Group Three from holding Beazer securities in brokerage accounts, so long as any Beazer securities held in such account are explicitly excluded from any margin or pledge arrangements and do not involve any hedging transaction. Sales of Beazer securities which are held in a margin account are not exempt from insider trading laws or this Policy. Accordingly, even though utilizing such accounts that exclude Beazer securities would not be subject to restrictions under this Policy, you should be extremely careful when utilizing a margin loan in a brokerage account that contains your Beazer securities.
Group One and Group Two
While persons that are not in Group Three are not prohibited from pledging Beazer stock, sales of Beazer securities that you have pledged as security for a loan or which are held in a margin account are not exempt from insider trading laws or this Policy. Accordingly, even though entering into such arrangements would not be considered a sale, and would not be subject to restrictions under this Policy, members of Group One and Group Two should be extremely careful when pledging Beazer securities, utilizing a margin loan in a brokerage account or otherwise using Beazer securities as collateral for a loan.
Any sale must be made in compliance with the restrictions under this Policy that apply to you, such as trading windows and pre-clearance requirements. As a result, if you pledge your Beazer securities or use Beazer securities to secure a margin loan, you may be forced to take actions (for instance, depositing additional money or selling other securities) in order to avoid your lender or broker
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selling your Beazer securities at a time that would result in a violation of insider trading laws or this Policy. Similar cautions apply to any other arrangements under which you have used Beazer securities as collateral.
Discussing or Recommending Beazer Securities. We recognize that employee enthusiasm for Beazer and its business prospects is a vital element of our success. You should, however, use extreme caution when discussing Beazer or our securities with anyone outside of Beazer. In the course of discussing Beazer or our securities, accidental disclosure of material, non-public information can occur and can be viewed as 「tipping」 or may violate other provisions of the federal securities laws, such as Regulation FD as described below. Likewise, recommendations of our securities can also result in embarrassing situations for you or the Company if you make a recommendation at a time when there is a pending announcement of material, non-public information by the Company, even if you are unaware of that information.
網絡帖文和社交媒體。 No employee, officer or director may disclose confidential information about Beazer on the Internet or through social media, including discussion forums, blogs and social media (such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit, Pinterest, YouTube and other social media networks). Disclosures of material, non-public information through this type of media may amount to a 「tip」 or leak of such information, in violation of this Policy, other Company policies regarding computer and social media usage and applicable law.
授權披露重要的非公開信息。 We authorize only certain employees, officers and directors to make public disclosures of material, non-public information or to confer with persons outside the Company regarding such information (for example, our auditors, outside counsel and other advisors). Unless you are authorized to do so by the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer or the General Counsel, you should not discuss material, non-public information with anyone not in the Company (except in accordance with the Company’s policies regarding the protection
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or authorized external disclosure of Company information). Even in discussions with other Beazer employees, you should consider the consequences of disclosing material, non-public information to them. For example, by doing so, you would preclude those persons from trading in Beazer’s securities until the information is publicly disclosed. Accordingly, you should restrict the communication of material, non-public information to those employees, officers, and directors having a need to know in order to serve Beazer’s interests.