officers or the Committee, on the one hand, and the Grantee, the Company, the Participating Companies or any other person or entity, on the other.
27.
CAPTIONS
. The use of captions in the Plan is for convenience. The captions are not intended to provide substantive rights.
28.
GOVERNING LAW
. THE PLAN SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICT OF LAWS.
29.
REGIONAL VARIATION
. The Committee reserves the right to authorize the establishment of, and to grant Grants pursuant
to, annexes,
sub-plans
or other supplementary documentation as the Committee deems appropriate in light of local law, rules and customs.
30.
NO CLAIM TO AWARDS
. No Eligible Person or service provider to the Company or its Subsidiaries, or other Person, shall have
any claim or right to be granted a Grant under the Plan or, having been selected for the grant of a Grant, to be selected for a grant of any other Grant. There is no obligation for uniformity of treatment of Grantees or holders or beneficiaries of
Grants. The terms and conditions of Grants and the Committees determinations and interpretations with respect thereto need not be the same with respect to each Grantee and may be made selectively among Grantees, whether or not such Grantees
are similarly situated.
31.
WAIVER
. By accepting a Grant under the Plan, a Grantee shall thereby be deemed to have waived
any claim to continued exercise or vesting of a Grant or to damages or severance entitlement related to
non-continuation
of the Grant beyond the period provided under the Plan or any Award Agreement, except to
the extent of any provision to the contrary in any written employment contract or other agreement between the service recipient and/or any shareholder of Participating Companies and the Grantee, whether any such agreement is executed before, on or
after the date of grant.
32.
RECOUPMENT
. The Grantee, by accepting a Grant, hereby acknowledges and agrees that the Grantee
will be subject to any policy adopted by the Company that provides for the repayment or forfeiture of any Grants), including, without limitation, as a result of a required accounting restatement due to material noncompliance with a financial
reporting requirement.
33.
DATA PRIVACY
.
(a) For Grantees in jurisdictions where consent is required to the collection, use and transfer of personal data, and to
the extent permitted by law, as a condition of receipt of any Grant, each Grantee explicitly and unambiguously consents to such collection, use and transfer, in electronic or other form, as described in this Section 33 by and among, as
applicable, the Company and any of its affiliates for the exclusive purpose of implementing, administering and managing the Grantees participation in the Plan. This paragraph (a) applies to such other Grantees. The Company and any of its
affiliates may hold certain personal information about a Grantee, including, but not limited to, the Grantees name, home address and telephone number, date of birth, social security or insurance number or other identification number, salary,
nationality, job title(s), any shares of stock held in the Company or any of its affiliates, details of all Grants, in each case, for the purpose of implementing, managing and administering the Plan and Grants (the
Data
). To the
extent permitted by law, the Company and any of its affiliates may transfer the Data among themselves as necessary for the purpose of implementation, administration and management of a Grantees participation in the Plan, and the Company and
any of its affiliates may each further transfer the Data to any third parties assisting the Company and any of its affiliates in the implementation, administration and management of the Plan. These recipients may be located in the Grantees
country, or elsewhere, and the Grantees country may have different data privacy laws and protections than the recipients country. To the extent permitted by law, through acceptance of a Grant, each Grantee authorizes such recipients to
receive, possess, use, retain and transfer the Data, in electronic or other form, for the purposes of implementing, administering and managing the Grantees participation in the Plan,
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