OUR COMPANY

Communication With The Public

We are committed to maintaining honest, professional and lawful internal and public communications. This commitment includes compliance with laws, which requires transparency and disclosure in our business dealings and records, meetings and other official actions.

As an organization, we also need a consistent voice when making disclosures or providing information to the public. For this reason, it is important that only authorized persons speak on behalf of OUC. Communications with media should be referred to executive management.

FULL, FAIR AND TIMELY DISCUSSIONS:

OUC is committed to meeting its obligations of full, fair and timely disclosure in all reports and documents that describe our business and financial results and public records requests. See Accurate Recordkeeping to learn more about how to comply.

BE RELIABLY ETHICAL:

• Follow our policies when creating and retaining records that will be made available to the public or the media.

• Follow our policies to timely and properly respond to any requests for public records.

STAY ALERT FOR:

• Giving public speeches or interviews, writing articles for professional journals or other public communications that relate to OUC without appropriate management approval.

• The temptation to use your title or affiliation outside of your work for OUC without it being clear that the use is for identification only.

• Invitations to speak “off the record” to journalists or analysts who ask you for information about OUC or its customers or business partners.

A reporter approached me while I was working and wanted to ask me questions about another OUC employee. I told them the OUC Media Policy is to have any media requests handled by our Media Relations department.

That was the right thing to do. Media Relations will fact check and verify any information given to the media to ensure that OUC is consistently providing timely and accurate data to media outlets.

If you approached by the media, please refer them to 407.434.2250 or mediarelations@ouc.com