Corporate Assets Policy
It is the policy of the Company that directors, officers, and employees are expected to protect the assets of the
Company and use them efficiently to advance the interests of the Company. Those assets include tangible assets and
intangible assets, such as confidential information of the Company or personal information held by the Company.
No director, officer, or employee should use or disclose at any time during or subsequent to employment or other
service to the Company, without proper authority or mandate, personal or confidential information obtained from
any source in the course of the Company’s business. Examples of confidential information include nonpublic
information about the Company’s plans, earnings, financial forecasts, business forecasts, discoveries, competitive
bids, technologies, and personnel.
Directorships Policy
It is the policy of the Company to restrict the holding by officers and employees of directorships in nonaffiliated,
for-profit organizations and to prohibit the acceptance by any officer or employee of such directorships that would
involve a conflict of interest with, or interfere with, the discharge of the officer's or employee's duties to the
Company. Any officer or employee may hold directorships in nonaffiliated, nonprofit organizations, unless such
directorships would involve a conflict of interest with, or interfere with, the discharge of the officer's or employee's
duties to the Company or obligate the Company to provide support to the nonaffiliated, nonprofit organizations.
Officers and employees may serve as directors of affiliated companies and such service may be part of their normal
work assignments.
All directorships in public companies held by directors of the Corporation are subject to review and approval by the
Board of Directors of the Corporation. In all other cases, directorships in nonaffiliated, for-profit organizations are
subject to review and approval by the management of the Corporation as directed by the Chairman.
Procedures and Open Door Communication
The Company encourages employees to ask questions, voice concerns, and make appropriate suggestions regarding
the business practices of the Company. Employees are expected to report promptly to management suspected
violations of law, the Company’s policies, and the Company’s internal controls, so that management can take
appropriate corrective action. The Company promptly investigates reports of suspected violations of law, policies,
and internal control procedures.
Management is ultimately responsible for the investigation of and appropriate response to reports of suspected
violations of law, policies, and internal control procedures. Internal Audit has primary responsibility for
investigating violations of the Company’s internal controls, with assistance from others, depending on the subject
matter of the inquiry. The persons who investigate suspected violations are expected to exercise independent and
objective judgment.
Normally, an employee should discuss such matters with the employee's immediate supervisor. Each supervisor is
expected to be available to subordinates for that purpose. If an employee is dissatisfied following review with the
employee's immediate supervisor, that employee is encouraged to request further reviews, in the presence of the
supervisor or otherwise. Reviews should continue to the level of management appropriate to resolve the issue.
Depending on the subject matter of the question, concern, or suggestion, each employee has access to alternative
channels of communication, for example, the Finance Department; Internal Audit; the Human Resources
Department; the Law Department; the Safety, Health and Environment Department; the Security Department; and
the Treasurer's Department.
Suspected violations of law or the Company’s policies involving a director or executive officer, as well as any
concern regarding questionable accounting or auditing matters, should be referred directly to the General Auditor of
the Company. The Nominating and Governance Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company will initially
review all issues involving directors or executive officers and will then refer all such issues to the Board of Directors
of the Company.
Employees may also address communications to individual nonemployee directors or to the nonemployee directors
as a group by writing them at ExxonMobil, 22777 Springwoods Village Parkway, Spring, Texas 77389, U.S.A., or
such other addresses as the Company may designate and publish from time to time.