Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Clause Samples

Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure. The parties hereto agree to be bound by the confidentiality and non-disclosure provisions of Section 7 of the Restated Shareholders Agreement, which shall be incorporated by reference and shall take effect from the date hereof.

Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure. The Executive hereby agrees at all times during the term of the Employment and after his termination, to hold in the strictest confidence, and not to use, except for the benefit of the Company, or to disclose to any person, corporation or other entity without prior written consent of the Company, any Confidential Information. The Executive understands that “Confidential Information” means any proprietary or confidential information of the Company, its affiliates, or their respective clients, customers or partners, including, without limitation, technical data, trade secrets, research and development information, product plans, services, customer lists and customers, supplier lists and suppliers, software developments, inventions, processes, formulas, technology, designs, hardware configuration information, personnel information, marketing, finances, information about the suppliers, joint ventures, franchisees, distributors and other persons with whom the Company does business, information regarding the skills and compensation of other employees of the Company or other business information disclosed to the Executive by or obtained by the Executive from the Company, its affiliates, or their respective clients, customers or partners, either directly or indirectly, in writing, orally or otherwise, if specifically indicated to be confidential or reasonably expected to be confidential. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Confidential Information shall not include information that is generally available and known to the public through no fault of the Executive.

Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure. (a) The terms and conditions of the Transaction Documents (collectively, the “Financing Terms”), including their existence, shall be considered strictly confidential information and shall not be disclosed by any of the Parties to any other Person except in accordance with the provisions set forth below. (b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, each of the Group Companies and the Purchaser, as appropriate, may disclose any of the Financing Terms to their respective Affiliates, directors, employees, investment bankers, lenders, accountants and attorneys on an as-need-to-know basis, in each case only where such Persons are under appropriate nondisclosure obligations. (c) Each Party to this Agreement hereby acknowledges, affirms and agrees that it shall not and shall procure its Affiliates not to make any announcement or other publicity in connection with the Financing Terms without the consents of other Parties as to its content, form and manner of publication; provided that the Company may make announcement or other publicity in connection with the Financing Terms if such action is necessary for its performance of obligations under the Transaction Documents, in which case the Company shall promptly notify the other Parties hereof and the Parties shall use reasonable efforts to cause a mutually agreeable release or announcement to be issued. (d) In the event that any Party is requested or becomes legally compelled (including, pursuant to securities Laws) to disclose the existence or content of any of the Financing Terms hereof in contravention of the provisions of this Section 10.10, such Party (the “Disclosing Party”) shall promptly provide the other Parties with written notice of that fact so that such other Parties may seek a protective order, confidential treatment or other appropriate remedy. In such event, the Disclosing Party shall furnish only that portion of the information that is legally required and shall exercise reasonable efforts to obtain reliable assurance that confidential treatment will be given to such information to the extent reasonably requested by the other Parties. (e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 10.10, the confidentiality obligations of the Parties shall not apply to: (i) information which a restricted Party learns from a third party having the right to make the disclosure, provided the restricted Party complies with any restrictions imposed by the third party; (ii) information which is in the restricted Party’s pos...

Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure. The Parties shall keep confidential all non-public information and/or documents concerning the transaction recorded herein, unless compelled to disclose such information and/or documents by judicial or administrative process.

Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure. (a) Prior to the Closing Date or after any termination of this Agreement, each Purchaser shall hold, and shall cause its Affiliates and the respective officers, directors, employees, accountants, counsel, consultants, advisors and agents of such Purchaser and its Affiliates (collectively, the “Purchaser Representatives”) to hold, in confidence, unless compelled to disclose by judicial or administrative process or by other requirements of any applicable Laws (including, without limitation, pursuant to securities laws or regulations and applicable securities exchange rules) or requested by any Governmental Authority having competent jurisdiction, all documents and information concerning the Company or any Subsidiary furnished to such Purchaser or its Purchaser Representatives in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents, including the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the other Transaction Documents and all exhibits and schedules attached to such agreements, including their existence, and the identity of each party thereto, except to the extent that such information can be shown to have been (i) previously known on a non-confidential basis by such Purchaser, (ii) in the public domain through no fault of such Purchaser or (iii) later lawfully acquired by such Purchaser from sources other than the Company; provided that a Purchaser may disclose such information to its Purchaser Representatives who need to know such information for the purpose of evaluating, negotiating or consummating the transactions contemplated by this Agreement so long as such Purchaser Representatives are informed by such Purchaser of the confidential nature of such information and are directed by such Purchaser to treat such information confidentially. Each Purchaser shall be responsible for any failure to treat such information confidentially by its Purchaser Representatives. If this Agreement is terminated in respect of any Purchaser, such Purchaser will, and will cause its Purchaser Representatives to, destroy or deliver to the Company, upon request, all documents and other materials, and all copies thereof, obtained by such Purchaser or its Purchaser Representatives or on their behalf from the Company or any Subsidiary in connection with this Agreement that are subject to such confidence. (b) The provisions of this Section 5.3 shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, the provisions of any separate nondisclos...

Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure. Each Party shall keep this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby confidential, and shall not disclose to any third party without the prior written consent of the other Parties, provided, that each Party may make disclosure to its shareholders, members, directors, officers, affiliates, advisors and other representatives, on a need to know basis, or otherwise as required by applicable law. [REMAINDER OF THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK]

Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure. (1) The Executive acknowledges and agrees that: (A) the Executive holds a position of trust and confidence with the Company and that his/her employment by the Company will require that the Executive have access to and knowledge of valuable and sensitive information, material, and devices relating to the Company and/or its business, activities, products, services, customers and vendors, including, but not limited to, the following, regardless of the form in which the same is accessed, maintained or stored: the identity of the Company’s actual and prospective customers and, as applicable, their representatives; prior, current or future research or development activities of the Company; the products and services provided or offered by the Company to customers or potential customers and the manner in which such services are performed or to be performed; the product and/or service needs of actual or prospective customers; pricing and cost information; information concerning the development, engineering, design, specifications, acquisition or disposition of products and/or services of the Company; user base personal data, programs, software and source codes, licensing information, personnel information, advertising client information, vendor information, marketing plans and techniques, forecasts, and other trade secrets (“Confidential Information”); and (B) the direct and indirect disclosure of any such Confidential Information would place the Company at a competitive disadvantage and would do damage, monetary or otherwise, to the Company’s business. (2) During the Term and at all times thereafter, the Executive shall not, directly or indirectly, whether individually, as a director, stockholder, owner, partner, employee, consultant, principal or agent of any business, or in any other capacity, publish or make known, disclose, furnish, reproduce, make available, or utilize any of the Confidential Information without the prior express written approval of the Company, other than in the proper performance of the duties contemplated herein, unless and until such Confidential Information is or shall become general public knowledge through no fault of the Executive. (3) In the event that the Executive is required by law to disclose any Confidential Information, the Executive agrees to give the Company prompt advance written notice thereof and to provide the Company with reasonable assistance in obtaining an order to protect the Confidential Information from public disc...

Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure. In consideration of the rights granted to the Executive hereunder, the Executive hereby agrees that during the term of this Agreement and for a period of three (3) years thereafter to hold in confidence all information concerning the Company or its business, including, but not limited to contract terms, financial information, operating data, or business plans or models, whether for existing, new or developing businesses, and any other proprietary information (hereinafter, collectively referred to as the “Proprietary Information”), whether communicated orally or in documentary or other tangible form. The parties to this Agreement recognize that the Company has invested considerable amounts of time and money in attaining and developing all of the information described above, and any unauthorized disclosure or release of such Proprietary Information in any form would irreparably harm the Company.

Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure. 9.1 The terms and conditions of this Agreement, including its existence and the Parties, and the information concerning the Parties or their respective Affiliates (collectively, the “Confidential Information”) shall be considered confidential information of such Party. Each Party shall not disclose any Confidential Information of any other Party to any other third party except that (a) each Party, as appropriate, may disclose any of the Confidential Information to its shareholders, general partners, existing and prospective limited partners, banks, financing sources, fund managers, directors, employees, accountants and attorneys, in each case on a need-to-know basis who are subject to confidentiality restrictions substantially similar to the confidentiality restrictions herein; and (b) if any Party is requested by any Governmental Authority or becomes legally compelled (including without limitation, pursuant to securities Laws, the listing rules and the regulations) to disclose the existence or content of any of the Confidential Information in contravention of the provisions of this Section 9, such Party shall promptly provide each other Party with written notice of that fact so that such other Party may seek a protective order, confidential treatment or other appropriate remedy and in any event shall furnish only that portion of the information that is legally required and shall exercise reasonable efforts to obtain reliable assurance that confidential treatment will be accorded such information. 9.2 No announcement regarding the Proposed Transfer contemplated hereby or any Confidential Information of any other Party hereto shall be made by a Party in a press release, conference, advertisement, announcement, professional or trade publication, mass marketing materials or otherwise to the general public without the prior written consent from each other Party.