Restricted Activities Clause Samples

The Restricted Activities clause defines specific actions or behaviors that parties to an agreement are prohibited from engaging in during the term of the contract. This may include limitations on competing with the other party, soliciting clients or employees, or using confidential information for unauthorized purposes. By clearly outlining these restrictions, the clause helps protect the interests of the parties, prevent conflicts of interest, and ensure that sensitive information and business relationships are safeguarded throughout the contractual relationship.
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Restricted Activities. While the Executive is employed by the Company and for a period of twenty-four (24) months after the termination or cessation of such employment for any reason, the Executive will not directly or indirectly: (a) Engage in any business or enterprise (whether as owner, partner, officer, director, employee, consultant, investor, lender or otherwise, except as the holder of not more than 1% of the outstanding stock of a publicly-held company) that is competitive with the Company’s business. A business or enterprise shall be deemed competitive if it shall operate a chain of membership warehouse clubs (by way of example, but not limitation, Sam’s Club or Costco), warehouse stores selling food and/or general merchandise that includes a warehouse store located within 10 miles of any “then existing” BJ’s Wholesale Club warehouse store, or any other business that competes with the Company. Competitive business or enterprise also includes any store or business operated or owned by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Costco Wholesale Corporation, or any of the respective affiliates thereof. The term “then existing” shall refer to any such warehouse store that is, at the time of termination of the Executive’s employment, operated by the Company or any of its subsidiaries or divisions or under lease for operation as aforesaid; or (b) Either alone or in association with others (i) solicit, or permit any organization directly or indirectly controlled by the Executive to solicit, any employee of the Company to leave the employ of the Company, or (ii) solicit for employment, hire or engage as an independent contractor, or permit any organization directly or indirectly controlled by the Executive to solicit for employment, hire or engage as an independent contractor, any person who was employed by the Company at the time of the termination or cessation of the Executive’s employment with the Company; provided that this clause (ii) shall not apply to the solicitation, hiring or engagement of any individual whose employment with the Company has been terminated for a period of six (6) months or longer at the time of such solicitation, hiring or employment.
Restricted Activities. (a) The Executive acknowledges that he is bound by certain obligations to the Parent and the other Group Members pursuant to Article 17 of the Service Agreement and that such obligations shall remain in full force and effect in accordance with their terms during his employment by the Company hereunder (the “Existing Obligations.”). (b) In addition to the Existing Obligations, the Executive agrees that the following restrictions on his activities during and after his employment hereunder are necessary to protect the good will, Confidential Information, trade secrets and other legitimate interests of the Group Members: (i) During the Term, the Executive will not undertake any outside activity, whether or not competitive with the business of any Group Member that could reasonably give rise to a conflict of interest or otherwise interfere with his duties and obligations to the Group Members. (ii) During the Term and for six (6) months after his employment terminates (the “Restricted Period”), the Executive shall not, directly or indirectly, whether as owner, partner, investor, consultant, agent, employee, co-venturer or otherwise, compete with any Group Member within any geographic area in which such Group Member does business or undertake any planning for any business competitive with any Group Member. Specifically, but without limiting the foregoing, the Executive agrees not to engage in any manner in any activity that is directly or indirectly competitive or potentially competitive with the business of any Group Member as conducted or under consideration at any time during the Executive’s employment and further agrees not to work or provide services, in any capacity, whether as an employee, independent contractor or otherwise, whether with or without compensation, to any Person who is engaged in any business that is competitive with the business of any Group Member for which the Executive has provided services, as conducted or in planning during his employment. Restricted activity includes without limitation accepting employment or a consulting position with any Person who is, or at any time within twelve (12) months prior to termination of the Executive’s employment has been, a customer of any Group Member. For the purposes of this Section 10, the business of any Group Member shall include all Products and the Executive’s undertaking shall encompass all items, products and services that may be used in substitution for Products. The foregoing, however, shal...
Restricted Activities. In addition to the above, we treat the following matters as “Restricted Activities”, that is, if you: a. use our Services (or we reasonably suspect that you have used or will use our Services) for any illegal purposes or in breach of any applicable law which impacts us or your use of our Services (including but not limited to fraud, the funding of terrorist organisation and/or money laundering). b. use our Services in connection with sexually-oriented materials or services, gambling activities, the purchase or sale of tobacco, tobacco related paraphernalia, firearms, prescription drugs, or other controlled substances. You are also prohibited from using our Services in an attempt to abuse, exploit or circumvent the usage restrictions imposed by us or another user; c. break any material term or condition of this Agreement (or any other agreement you have entered into with us) or you send money to a Recipient whose actions or omissions would be treated as breaking any agreement with us if they would have entered into with us (which in either case is not a trivial nor technical break); d. pose an unacceptable form of liability, credit and/or fraud risk to us and/or our users (as we may reasonably determine, based on evidence); e. provide false, incomplete, inaccurate, or misleading information which is not merely trivial (including, without limitation, any information as part of our Profile creation process and/or the information we request from you to execute a Transaction); f. fail to co-operate in any investigation or provide us with further information or confirmation about you or your use of our Services that we may reasonably request; g. provide yourself a cash advance from your credit card (or help others to do so) or otherwise attempt to obtain more funds than you are entitled (which is sometimes referred to as "double dip" or unjust enrichment) during the course of a dispute by receiving or attempting to receive funds from both us, another user of our Services, bank, or debit or credit card company for the same transaction; h. control a Profile that is linked to another Profile including those that have engaged in any of these Restricted Activities; i. access our Services from a country or region outside of Belgium which is not permitted by us or otherwise use an ‘anonymising proxy’ or any other tool which makes your use of the Internet untraceable; j. use any, robot, spider, scraper or automatic device or manual process to monitor or copy our website...
Restricted Activities. In connection with your use of our websites, your PayPal account, the PayPal services, or in the course of your interactions with PayPal, other PayPal customers, or third parties, you must not: • Breach this user agreement, the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, the Commercial Entity Agreements (if they apply to you), or any other agreement between you and us. • Violate any law, statute, ordinance, or regulation (for example, those governing financial services, consumer protections, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising). • Infringe PayPal's or any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy. • Sell counterfeit goods. • Act in a manner that is defamatory, trade libelous, threatening or harassing. • Provide false, inaccurate or misleading information. • Send or receive what we reasonably believe to be potentially fraudulent or unauthorized funds. • Refuse to cooperate in an investigation or provide confirmation of your identity or any information you provide to us. • Attempt to “double dip” during the course of a dispute by receiving or attempting to receive funds from both PayPal and the seller, bank or card issuer for the same transaction. • Control an account that is linked to another account that has engaged in any of these restricted activities. • Conduct your business or use the PayPal services in a manner that results in or may result in: o Complaints. o Requests by buyers (either filed with us or card issuers) to invalidate payments made to you. o Fees, fines, penalties or other liability or losses to PayPal, other PayPal customers, third parties or you. • Use your PayPal account or the PayPal services in a manner that PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover or any other electronic funds transfer network reasonably believes to be an abuse of the card system or a violation of card association or network rules. • Allow your PayPal account to have a balance reflecting an amount owing to us. • Provide yourself a cash advance from your credit card (or help others to do so). • Access the PayPal services from a country that is not included on our permitted countries list. • Take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our websites, software, systems (including any networks and servers used to provide any of the PayPal services) operated by us or on our behalf or the PayPal services. • Facilitate any viruse...
Restricted Activities. You agree that the following restrictions on your activities during and after your employment are necessary to protect the good will, Confidential Information, trade secrets and other legitimate interests of the Company and its subsidiaries: (i) While you are employed by the Company and during the twelve (12)-month period immediately following termination of your employment, regardless of the reason therefor (in the aggregate, the “Restricted Period”), you shall not, directly or indirectly, whether as owner, partner, investor, consultant, agent, employee, co-venturer or otherwise, Compete with the Company or any of its subsidiaries in any geographic area in which the Company does business or is actively planning to do business during your employment or, with respect to the portion of the Restricted Period that follows the termination of your employment, at the time your employment terminates (the “Restricted Area”) or undertake any substantial planning to Compete in the Restricted Area. For purposes of this Agreement, “Compete” means to engage as an employee, consultant or other service capacity, or to own equity in, any Competitor, and “Competitor” means any Person engaged in the business of development and marketing of sustained-release drug-delivery products for treating eye diseases, or any other business conducted by the Company or that the Company is actively planning to conduct at the time of your termination (collectively, the “Business”); provided, any such Person shall not be a Competitor to the extent that (i) such Person receives not more than 15% of its annual revenues from the Business (and, in the event the Person is pre-commercial, not more than 50% of its research and development expenditures can relate to the Business) and (ii) you do not provide advice or services directly or indirectly related to the Business. Specifically, but without limiting the foregoing, you agree not to work or provide services, in any capacity, anywhere in the Restricted Area, whether as an employee, independent contractor or otherwise, whether with or without compensation, to any Competitor. Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, your ownership of less than 2% of the stock of any publicly traded company shall be deemed not to violate this Section 4(d)(i).
Restricted Activities. The Executive agrees that the following restrictions on his activities during and after his employment are necessary to protect the goodwill, Confidential Information, trade secrets and other legitimate interests of the Company, Parent and their Affiliates: (i) While the Executive is employed by the Companies, the Executive will not, directly or indirectly, whether as owner, partner, investor, consultant, agent, employee, co-venturer or otherwise, engage in or compete with, or undertake any planning to engage in or compete with, any business conducted or in active planning to be conducted by the Company, Parent or any of their Affiliates in any geographic area where the Company, Parent or any of their Affiliates conducts or is actively planning to conduct business. (ii) While the Executive is employed by the Companies, the Executive will not, directly or indirectly, (a) solicit or encourage any customer, vendor, supplier or other business partner of the Company, Parent or any of their Affiliates to terminate or diminish his, her or its relationship with any of them or (b) seek to persuade any such customer, vendor, supplier or other business partner, or any prospective customer, vendor, supplier, or other business partner of the Company, Parent or any of their Affiliates, to conduct with anyone else any business or activity which such business partner or prospective business partner conducts or could conduct with the Company, Parent or any of their Affiliates; provided, however, that these restrictions shall apply only if the Executive has performed work for such Person during his employment with the Company, Parent or any of their Affiliates or been introduced to, or otherwise had contact with, such Person as a result of his employment or other associations with the Company, Parent or any of their Affiliates or has had access to Confidential Information which would assist in his solicitation of such Person. (iii) While the Executive is employed by the Companies, the Executive will not, directly or indirectly, hire or engage any employee of the Company, Parent or any of their Affiliates. (iv) While the Executive is employed by the Companies and during the twelve (12)-month period immediately following termination of his employment, regardless of the reason therefor (in the aggregate, the “Restricted Period”), the Executive will not, directly or indirectly, (a) solicit for hiring or engagement any employee of the Company, Parent or any of their Affiliates o...
Restricted Activities. The Executive agrees that some restrictions on his activities during and after his employment are necessary to protect the goodwill, Confidential Information and other legitimate interests of the Employer and its Affiliates:
Restricted Activities. A. Funds appropriated by COMMISSION for the purpose of this Contract may not be used for the lobbying of any policymaker, local, state or federal legislative organization. While education regarding a policy issue is an eligible activity, funding may not support lobbying for specific policies or legislation. B. Funds appropriated by COMMISSION for the purpose of this Contract may not be used to influence voters to support or oppose any candidate, specific legislation, or ballot measure.
Restricted Activities. Executive agrees that some restrictions on Executive’s activities during and after Executive’s employment are necessary to protect the goodwill, Confidential Information, and other legitimate interests of the Company and its Affiliates. Following the Effective Date, the Company will provide Executive with access to and knowledge of Confidential Information and trade secrets and will place Executive in a position of trust and confidence with the Company, and Executive will benefit from the Company’s goodwill. The restrictive covenants below are necessary to protect the Company’s legitimate business interests in its Confidential Information, trade secrets and goodwill. Executive further understands and acknowledges that the Company’s ability to reserve these for the exclusive knowledge and use of the Company is of great competitive importance and commercial value to the Company and that the Company would be irreparably harmed if Executive violates the restrictive covenants below. In recognition of the consideration provided to Executive as well as the imparting to Executive of Confidential Information, including trade secrets, and for other good and valuable consideration, Executive hereby agrees as follows: (a) While Executive is employed by the Company and for twenty-four (24) months after Executive’s employment terminates for any reason, whether before or after the Expiration Date (in the aggregate, the “Non-Competition Period”), Executive shall not, directly or indirectly, whether as owner, partner, investor (other than a passive investor of less than 5% in a publicly traded company), consultant, agent, employee, co-venturer, or otherwise, (i) compete with the business of the Company or any of its subsidiaries in any location where the Company or its subsidiaries conducts business (a “Competitive Business”) or (ii) undertake any planning for any Competitive Business. With respect to the portion of the Non-Competition Period that follows Executive’s termination of employment, the determination of whether a business is a Competitive Business shall be made based on the scope and location of the businesses conducted or planned to be conducted by the Company and its subsidiaries as of the date of such termination. (b) Executive agrees that, during Executive’s employment with the Company, Executive will not undertake any outside activity, whether or not competitive with the business of the Company or its Affiliates, that would reasonably give rise to a conflic...
Restricted Activities. The Executive agrees that certain restrictions on his activities during his employment are necessary to protect the goodwill, Confidential Information and other legitimate interests of the Company and its Affiliates: (a) While the Executive is employed by the Company, the Executive shall not, directly or indirectly, whether as owner, partner, investor, consultant, agent, employee, co-venturer or otherwise, compete with the Company or any of its Affiliates anywhere in the world or undertake any planning for competition with the Company or any of its Affiliates. Specifically, but without limiting the foregoing, the Executive agrees not to engage in any manner in any activity that is directly or indirectly competitive or potentially competitive with the business of the Company or any of its Affiliates as conducted or under consideration at any time during the Executive’s employment or to provide services in any capacity to a Person which is a competitor of the Company or any of its Affiliates. (b) The Executive agrees that, while he is employed by the Company, and excluding any activities undertaken on behalf of the Company or any of its Affiliates in the course of his duties, he will not hire or attempt to hire any employee of the Company or any of its Affiliates; assist in such hiring by any Person; encourage any such employee to terminate his or her relationship with the Company or any of its Affiliates; or solicit or encourage any customer of the Company or any of its Affiliates to terminate or diminish its relationship with them; or solicit or encourage any customer or potential customer of the Company or any of its Affiliates to conduct with any Person any business or activity which such customer or potential customer conducts or could conduct with the Company or any of its Affiliates. (c) The Executive agrees that during his employment by the Company he shall not publish any work that disparages the Company or any of its Affiliates, their management or their business or the Products.