Company: MTCH
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000891103-25-000067
Chunk: 19

Company: Match Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 19
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• Collaborating with our development teams to engineer and integrate security throughout the product development lifecycle;

• Implementing scalable and continuous data protection practices; and

• Detecting, monitoring, investigating, and responding to potential security threats and incidents.

We also maintain cyber insurance coverage to mitigate potential costs that may arise from a cybersecurity incident.

Compensation Risk Assessment. We periodically conduct risk assessments of our compensation policies and practices for our employees, including those related to our executive compensation programs. The goal of these assessments is to determine whether the general structure of Match Group’s compensation policies and programs and the administration of

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these programs pose any material risks to the Company. At the request of the Compensation and Human Resources Committee of the Board, Compensia, Inc. (“Compensia”), the Compensation and Human Resources Committee’s independent compensation consultant, assessed the risk profile of Match Group’s executive compensation programs, and management assessed the risk profile of Match Group’s other compensation programs. Based on these reviews, management and the Compensation and Human Resources Committee have concluded that Match Group’s compensation policies and practices, taken as a whole, do not encourage excessive or unnecessary risk‑taking and are not reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on Match Group.

Securities Trading, Derivatives Trading and Hedging and Pledging Policies . Match Group’s Securities Trading Policy (the " Trading Policy") governs the purchase, sale and other dispositions of its securities by directors, officers, employees, and contractors and is reasonably designed to promote compliance with insider trading laws, rules and regulations and applicable listing standards. The Trading Policy also provides that no director, officer or employee of Match Group and its subsidiaries may engage in transactions in publicly traded options, such as puts, calls, prepaid variable forward contracts, equity swaps or other derivatives that are designed to hedge or speculate on any change in the market value of or relating to Match Group securities, or engage in short sales with respect to Match Group securities. This prohibition extends to any and all forms of hedging or monetization transactions, such as zero-cost collars and forward sale contracts (among others). The Trading Policy also provides that no director, officer or employee of Match Group and its businesses may initiate any transactions that involve pledging Match Group securities in any manner, including by purchasing Match Group securities on margin, holding Match Group securities in an account utilizing margin or otherwise pledging Match Group securities as collateral for a loan.

Director Independence. Under the Marketplace Rules of The Nasdaq Stock Market, LLC (