Duty of Loyalty Executive acknowledges and agrees that Executive owes a fiduciary duty of loyalty to act at all times in the best interests of Company. In keeping with such duty, Executive shall make full disclosure to Company of all business opportunities pertaining to Company’s business and shall not appropriate for Executive’s own benefit business opportunities concerning Company’s business.
Duty of Confidentiality Licensee will protect the TCK as Oracle Confidential Information protected under this Section 6.0. A party receiving Confidential Information may not: (i) disclose Confidential Information to any third party, except that such party may exchange comments or questions concerning its use or the results of using the TCK, including relevant excerpts of the TCK, provided such TCK excerpts are inherently part of such results, but not the non-relevant portions of the TCK itself, or (ii) use Confidential Information except for the purpose of developing and testing Products. The receiving party will protect the confidentiality of Confidential Information to the same degree of care, but no less than reasonable care, as such party uses to protect its own Confidential Information. Obligations regarding Confidential Information will expire three (3) years from the date of receipt of the Confidential Information, except for source code, which will be protected by Licensee in perpetuity.
Covenant Not to Disclose Confidential Information The Employee ------------------------------------------------- acknowledges that during the course of his employment with the Company he has or will have access to and knowledge of certain information and data which the Company or any subsidiary, parent or affiliate of the Company considers confidential and that the release of such information or data to unauthorized persons would be extremely detrimental to the Company. As a consequence, the Employee hereby agrees and acknowledges that he owes a duty to the Company not to disclose, and agrees that, during or after the term of his employment, without the prior written consent of the Company, he will not communicate, publish or disclose, to any person anywhere or use any Confidential Information (as hereinafter defined) for any purpose other than carrying out his duties as contemplated by this Agreement. The Employee will use his best efforts at all times to hold in confidence and to safeguard any Confidential Information from falling into the hands of any unauthorized person and, in particular, will not permit any Confidential Information to be read, duplicated or copied. The Employee will return to the Company all Confidential Information in the Employee's possession or under the Employee's control when the duties of the Employee no longer require the Employee's possession thereof, or whenever the Company shall so request, and in any event will promptly return all such Confidential Information if the Employee's relationship with the Company is terminated for any or no reason and will not retain any copies thereof. For purposes hereof the term "Confidential Information" shall mean any information or data used by or belonging or relating to the Company or any subsidiary, parent or affiliate of the Company that is not known generally to the industry in which the Company or any subsidiary, parent or affiliate of the Company is or may be engaged, including without limitation, any and all trade secrets, proprietary data and information relating to the Company's or any subsidiary, parent or affiliate of the Company's past, present or future business and products, price lists, customer lists, processes, procedures or standards, know- how, manuals, business strategies, records, drawings, specifications, designs, financial information, whether or not reduced to writing, or information or data which the Company or any subsidiary, parent or affiliate of the Company advises the Employee should be treated as confidential information.
Non Disclosure Covenant Employee Inventions 7.1. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS BY THE EXECUTIVE Executive acknowledges that (2) during the Employment Period and as a part of his employment, Executive will be afforded access to Confidential Information; (b) public disclosure of such Confidential Information could have an adverse effect on Employer and its business; (c) the Employer has required that Executive make the covenants in this Section 7; and (d) the provisions of this Section 7 are reasonable and necessary to prevent the improper use or disclosure of Confidential Information.
Proprietary Information Obligations During the Term of employment under this Agreement, Executive will have access to and become acquainted with the Company’s and its Affiliates’ confidential and proprietary information, including, but not limited to, information or plans regarding the Company’s and its Affiliates’ customer relationships, personnel, or sales, marketing, and financial operations and methods; intellectual property; trade secrets; formulas; devices; secret inventions; processes; and other compilations of information, records, and specifications (collectively “Proprietary Information”). Executive shall not disclose any of the Company’s or its Affiliates’ Proprietary Information directly or indirectly, or use it in any way, either during the Term of this Agreement or at any time thereafter, except as required in the course of his employment for the Company or as authorized in writing by the Company. All files, records, documents, computer-recorded information, drawings, specifications, equipment and similar items relating to the business of the Company or its Affiliates, whether prepared by Executive or otherwise coming into his possession, shall remain the exclusive property of the Company or its Affiliates, as the case may be, and shall not be removed from the premises of the Company under any circumstances whatsoever without the prior written consent of the Company, except when (and only for the period) necessary to carry out Executive’s duties hereunder, and if removed shall be immediately returned to the Company upon any termination of his employment; provided, however, that Executive may retain copies of documents reasonably related to his interest as a stockholder and any documents that were personally owned, which copies and the information contained therein Executive agrees not to use for any business purpose. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Proprietary Information shall not include (a) information which is or becomes generally public knowledge except through disclosure by the Executive in violation of this Agreement, and (b) information that may be required to be disclosed by applicable law.
CONFIDENTIALITY; PROPRIETARY RIGHTS 3.1 Each party (the “Receiving Party”) understands that the other party (the “Disclosing Party”) has disclosed or may disclose business, technical or financial information relating to the Disclosing Party’s business (hereinafter referred to as “Proprietary Information” of the Disclosing Party). Proprietary Information of Company includes non-public information regarding features, functionality and performance of the Service. Proprietary Information of Customer includes non-public data provided by Customer to Company to enable the provision of the Services (“Customer Data”). The Receiving Party agrees: (i) to take reasonable precautions to protect such Proprietary Information, and (ii) not to use (except in performance of the Services or as otherwise permitted herein) or divulge to any third person any such Proprietary Information. The Disclosing Party agrees that the foregoing shall not apply with respect to any information after five (5) years following the disclosure thereof or any information that the Receiving Party can document (a) is or becomes generally available to the public, or (b) was in its possession or known by it prior to receipt from the Disclosing Party, or (c) was rightfully disclosed to it without restriction by a third party, or (d) was independently developed without use of any Proprietary Information of the Disclosing Party or (e) is required to be disclosed by law.
Duty of Confidence Subject to the other provisions of this Article 10:
Covenant Not to Disclose The Company and Employee recognize that, during the course of Employee's employment with the Company, the Company has disclosed and will continue to disclose to Employee Proprietary Information concerning the Company and the Affiliates, their products, their franchisees, their services and other matters concerning their Businesses, all of which constitute valuable assets of the Company and the Affiliates. The Company and Employee further acknowledge that the Company has, and will, invest considerable amounts of time, effort and corporate resources in developing such valuable assets and that disclosure by Employee of such assets to the public shall cause irreparable harm, damage and loss to the Company and the Affiliates. Accordingly, Employee acknowledges and agrees:
Protection of Confidential Information; Non-Competition 5.1 In view of the fact that the Executive's work for the Company will bring the Executive into close contact with many confidential affairs of the Company not readily available to the public, and plans for future developments, the Executive agrees:
Confidential Information Breach This shall mean, generally, an instance where an unauthorized person or entity accesses Confidential Information in any manner, including but not limited to the following occurrences: (1) any Confidential Information that is not encrypted or protected is misplaced, lost, stolen or in any way compromised; (2)one or more third parties have had access to or taken control or possession of any Confidential Information that is not encrypted or protected without prior written authorization from the State; (3) the unauthorized acquisition of encrypted or protected Confidential Information together with the confidential process or key that is capable of compromising the integrity of the Confidential Information; or (4) if there is a substantial risk of identity theft or fraud to the Client Agency, the Contractor, DAS or State.
