Common use of Covenant Not to Divulge Confidential Information Clause in Contracts

Covenant Not to Divulge Confidential Information. The Company’s ability to compete depends upon the relationships it builds with customers, sources of referral, and the body of other confidential and proprietary information it maintains. Employee acknowledges that during and as a result of his/her employment hereunder, Employee will obtain, contribute to, and use valuable confidential information of a special and unique nature relating to the Company’s business matters. As used in this Agreement, the term “Confidential Information” means any knowledge, information or property relating to, or used or possessed by, the Company, and includes, without limitation, the following: trade secrets; patents, copyrights, software (including, without limitation, all programs, specifications, applications, routines, subroutines, techniques, algorithms, and ideas for formulae); products and/or services, concepts, inventions, know-how, data, drawings, designs and documents; names and/or lists of clients, customers, client and/or customer usage, prospective clients and/or customers, employees, agents, contractors, and suppliers; marketing information, business plans, business methodologies and processes, strategies; financial information and other business records; and all copies of any of the foregoing, including notes, extracts, memoranda prepared or suffered or directed to be prepared by Employee based on any Confidential Information. Employee agrees that all information possessed by him, or disclosed to him, or to which Employee obtains access during the course of Employee’s employment with the Company shall be presumed to be Confidential Information under the terms of this Agreement, and the burden of proving otherwise shall rest with Employee. As a material inducement to Blackbaud to pay compensation to Employee, Employee agrees that during and after Employee’s employment, the Employee shall not, without the Company’s consent:

Covenant Not to Divulge Confidential Information. The Company’s ability to compete depends upon the relationships it builds with customers, sources of referral, and the body of other confidential and proprietary information it maintains. Employee acknowledges that during and as a result of his/her his employment hereunder, Employee will obtain, contribute to, and use valuable confidential information of a special and unique nature relating to the Company’s business matters. As used in this Agreement, the term “Confidential Information” means any knowledge, information or property relating to, or used or possessed by, the Company, and includes, without limitation, the following: trade secrets; patents, copyrights, software (including, without limitation, all programs, specifications, applications, routines, subroutines, techniques, algorithms, and ideas for formulae); products and/or services, concepts, inventions, know-how, data, drawings, designs and documents; names and/or lists of clients, customers, client and/or customer usage, prospective clients and/or customers, employees, agents, contractors, and suppliers; marketing information, business plans, business methodologies and processes, strategies; financial information and other business records; and all copies of any of the foregoing, including notes, extracts, memoranda prepared or suffered or directed to be prepared by Employee based on any Confidential Information. Employee agrees that all information possessed by him, or disclosed to him, or to which Employee obtains access during the course of Employee’s employment with the Company shall be presumed to be Confidential Information under the terms of this Agreement, and the burden of proving otherwise shall rest with Employee. As a material inducement to Blackbaud to pay compensation to Employee, Employee agrees that during and after Employee’s employment, the Employee shall not, without the Company’s consent: