1. Employee Privacy and Privacy of Employee Information
Eaton employees have a basic right to privacy regarding the physical aspects of the workplace, including Company property such as employee lockers, work cubicles, workstations, offices, desks, file cabinets and toolboxes.
Eaton is committed to maintaining the privacy rights of its employees.

2. Eaton employees also have a basic right to privacy regarding the electronic workplace, including:
Telephone
Fax machine
Security systems (including security badge - facility entry/exit information)
Computers and related files
s and Internet capabilities

3. Decisions to Search and Eaton Procedures
Eaton expressly reserves the right to inspect personal belongings on or upon entering company property and expressly reserves the right to search all Company property, including lockers, desks, offices, etc. assigned to individual employees.
All aspects of the search/inspection plan must be approved by and coordinated with the Corporate Law and Human Resources departments prior to being undertaken.

4. Warrants Executed by the Police or an Authorized Government Enforcement Agency
In every instance, where the police or other authorized government enforcement agency executes a warrant to search an employee, facility/office, or document on the Company property, Eaton locations must be sure a legally authorized search warrant has been executed.

5. Privacy of Employee Information
Eaton Corporation holds information about employees in various media including electronic, paper and other mediums. It is the policy of the Company that employee information and data that is transmitted, stored or processed shall be protected from unauthorized or unintended disclosure.
In addition, the Company will monitor relevant data privacy legislation to remain compliant in countries in which Eaton has operations

6. Compliance with the EU Directive and “Safe Harbor Principles”
Due to the global nature of Eaton’s businesses, the Company sometimes has a business need to transfer personal information from one legal entity to another legal entity and across national boundaries.

7. Eaton complies with the Safe Harbor framework and principles that include:
Notice to employees about the purposes for which data is collected
Obtaining employee consent if sensitive data is to be released to a third party not acting as an agent of Eaton or not used for that purpose
Ensuring that all personal information collected is protected and safeguarded
Collecting only relevant information and processing it in a way compatible with the purposes for which it was collected
Providing employee access to the data
Insisting that third-party agents comply with the directive
Enforcing compliance and resolution of complaints

8. Compliance with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), as Amended
In general, HIPAA protects the privacy of personal health information and requires notice of privacy practices to employees, retirees and family members in the U.S. participating in group health plans.
Eaton complies with the U.S. federal legislation: HIPAA, as amended, which includes rules that address privacy rights for individual medical information.