AJK PRACTICES PROTECTION OF AJK’S TRADE SECRETS AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION In the course of your employment with AJK, you may be exposed to and/or provided with trade secrets (“Trade Secrets”) and other confidential and proprietary information (“Confidential Information”) of AJK relating to the operation of AJK’s business and its customers (collectively referred to as “Trade Secrets/Confidential Information”). “Trade Secrets” mean information, including a formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique or process, that: (1) derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to the public or to other persons or entities who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use; and (2) is the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy. AJK’s Trade Secrets are: (1) not generally known to the public or to AJK’s competitors; (2) were developed or compiled at significant expense by AJK over an extended period of time; and (3) are the subject of AJK’s reasonable efforts to maintain their secrecy. “Confidential Information” means information belonging to AJK, whether reduced to writing or in a form from which such information can be obtained, translated, or derived into reasonably usable form, that has been provided to employees during their employment with AJK and/or employees have gained access to while employed by AJK and/or were developed by employees in the course of their employment with AJK, that is proprietary and confidential in nature. As part of the consideration employees provide to AJK in exchange for your employment and continued employment with AJK, you agree and acknowledge that all Trade Secrets/Confidential Information developed, created or maintained by you remains at all times the sole property of AJK, and that if the AJK’s Trade Secrets/Confidential Information were disclosed to a competing business or otherwise used in an unauthorized manner, such disclosure or use would cause immediate and irreparable harm to AJK and would give a competing business an unfair business advantage against AJK. Employees are strictly prohibited, at all times during their employment with AJK, except with prior written approval of AJK’s Board of Directors, from forwarding from their AJK email account to personal email account(s) any emails or documents containing any Trade Secrets/Confidential Information, as well as from copying, transferring or uploading to employee’s personal cloud- based or online storage accounts (such as a personal Dropbox or Google Drive account) any documents containing any Trade Secrets/Confidential Information. Employees are also strictly prohibited, at all times during their employment with AJK, except with the express or implicit authorization of AJK, and then only for the sole benefit of AJK during the term of employment, from removing from the premises of AJK any physical item or document, or any written, electronic or recorded copy of any physical item or document, containing or embodying any Trade Secrets/Confidential Information, including without limitations the same in electronic or digital form. Employees must not leave any of AJK’s Trade Secrets/Confidential Information unattended in any area, whether on or off AJK’s premises, where leaving such information Revised January 2024 Page 18 of 55