Company: QLYS
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-013472
Chunk: 5

Company: QUALYS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 5
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 week, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on June 10, 2025. You will need the control number included on your Notice or your proxy card (if you received a printed copy of the proxy materials). |

Beneficial Owners. If you are a beneficial owner, you should have received a Notice or voting instructions from the broker or other nominee holding your shares. You should follow the instructions in the Notice or voting instructions provided by your broker or nominee in order to instruct your broker or other nominee on how to vote your shares. The availability of telephone and Internet voting will depend on the voting process of the broker or nominee.

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Can I change my vote? Stockholders of Record. If you are a stockholder of record, you can change your vote or revoke your proxy any time before the Annual Meeting by:

| • | participating in the Annual Meeting live via the Internet and voting again. |

Beneficial Owners. If you are a beneficial owner, you must contact the broker or other nominee holding your shares and follow their instructions for changing your vote or revoking your proxy. What is the effect of giving a proxy? Proxies are solicited by and on behalf of our board of directors. The persons named in the proxy have been designated as proxies by our board of directors. When proxies are properly dated, executed and returned, the shares represented by such proxies will be voted at the Annual Meeting in accordance with the instruction of the stockholder. If no specific instructions are given, however, the shares will be voted in accordance with the recommendations of our board of directors as described above. If any matters not described in the proxy statement are properly presented at the Annual Meeting, the proxy holders will use their own judgment to determine how to vote your shares. If the Annual Meeting is adjourned, the proxy holders can vote your shares on the new meeting date as well, unless you have properly revoked your proxy instructions, as described above. What is a quorum? A quorum is the minimum number of shares required to be present at a meeting of stockholders for action to be taken at the meeting. Under our bylaws, the presence, live or represented by proxy (including any abstentions and “broker non-votes”), of a majority of all issued and outstanding shares of common stock entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting will constitute a quorum at the meeting. What are “broker non-votes”? When a broker, bank or other nominee votes a client’s shares on some but not all of