Common use of Confidential Information; Exceptions Clause in Contracts

Confidential Information; Exceptions. Except as provided herein, each Party shall maintain in confidence, and shall not use for any purpose or disclose to any Third Party, information disclosed by the other Party in writing and marked “Confidential” or in a similar manner to indicate its confidential nature or that is disclosed orally and confirmed in writing as confidential within thirty (30) Business Days following such disclosure (collectively, “Confidential Information”). Confidential Information shall not include any information that is: (a) already known to the receiving Party at the time of disclosure hereunder, or (b) now or hereafter becomes publicly known other than through acts or omissions of the receiving Party in breach of this Agreement, or (c) disclosed to the receiving Party by a Third Party under no obligation of confidentiality to the disclosing Party, or (d) independently developed by the receiving Party without use of reliance on the Confidential Information of the disclosing Party.