Confidentiality, Non-Disclosure and Non-Circumvention Agreement template

Confidentiality, Non-Disclosure and Non-Circumvention

Agreement

This is an Agreement made this ___ day of ________, 20 _____

between_________________________

with offices at: _______________________

_______________________________________________________________________
_________

and ______________________

with offices at: ____________________________

(State)._________________

"Disclosing Party" and "Receiving Party" shall include each party’s subsidiaries and
parents and

their respective directors, officers, and employees ("affiliates"), and the rights and
obligations of

the parties hereto therefore also shall inure to such affiliates and may be enforced directly
by or against such affiliates.

As an express condition to each party disclosing Confidential Information to the other

party and in consideration of the mutual promises and covenants herein, the parties agree
as follows:

1. Non-Disclosure.

The party receiving Confidential Information (the "Receiving Party") shall hold all
Confidential Information (as defined in Section 2) in strict confidence and shall not
disclose any Confidential Information to any third party, without the prior written
approval of the Disclosing Party. The Receiving Party shall disclose Confidential
Information only to employees who need to know such information to evaluate the
possible business transaction with the party disclosing such Confidential Information (the
"Disclosing Party"), and who have signed agreements that obligate them to treat
Confidential Information as required under this Agreement. The Receiving Party shall not
use any Confidential Information for any purpose except to evaluate a possible business
transaction between the parties. The Receiving Party shall take all reasonable measures to
protect the confidentiality and avoid the unauthorized use, disclosure, publication, or
dissemination of Confidential Information; provided, however, that such measures shall
be no less stringent than measures taken to protect its own confidential and proprietary
information. Each party agrees that it will not interfere with any business of the other
party through the use of any Confidential Information acquired hereunder nor use any
Confidential Information for its own account. The Receiving Party acknowledges that the
Disclosing Party is neither responsible nor liable for any business decisions made by the
Receiving Party in reliance upon any Confidential Information disclosed pursuant
hereto.

2. Confidential Information.

"Confidential Information" in this Agreement means all information and any idea in
whatever form, tangible or intangible, whether disclosed to or learned by the Receiving
Party, pertaining in any manner to the business of the Disclosing Party or to the
Disclosing Party’s affiliates, subsidiaries, consultants or business associates, whether in
written, oral, encoded, graphic, magnetic, electronic or in any other tangible or intangible
form, and whether or not labeled as confidential by the Disclosing Party or otherwise
provided by the Disclosing Party. "Confidential Information" includes, without
limitation, the following:

(a) schematics, techniques, employee suggestions, development tools and processes,

computer printouts, computer programs, design drawings and manuals, and
improvements;

(b) information about costs, profits, markets and sales;

(c) plans for future development and new product concepts; and
(d) all documents, books, papers, drawings, models, sketches, and other data of any kind
and description, including electronic data recorded or retrieved by any means, that have
been or will be given to the Receiving Party by the Disclosing Party, as well as written or
verbal instructions or comments.

3. No Obligation of Confidentiality. The obligation of confidentiality shall not apply

with respect to any particular portion of information if:

• it is in the public domain at the time of the Disclosing Party’s communication

thereof to the Receiving Party; or
• it entered the public domain through no fault of the Receiving Party subsequent to
the time of the Disclosing Party’s communication thereof to the Receiving Party;
or
• it was in the Receiving Party’s possession, free of any obligation of confidence, at
the time of the Disclosing Party’s communication thereof to the Receiving Party;
or
 • it was rightfully communicated to the Receiving Party free of any obligation of
confidence subsequent to the time of the Disclosing Party’s communication
thereof to the Receiving Party; or
• such information was developed by employees or agents of the Receiving Party,
independently of and without reference to the information and the Receiving
Party has evidence of such independent development.

Within ten (10) days following either a request from the Disclosing Party or the
completion of business dealings between the parties hereto, the Receiving Party will
deliver to the Disclosing Party all tangible copies of the Confidential Information,
including but not limited to magnetic or electronic media containing the Confidential

Information, note(s) and paper(s) in whatever form containing the Confidential

Information or parts thereof, and any copies of the Confidential Information in whatever
form. The Disclosing Party, at its sole option, may request in writing that the Receiving
Party destroy all copies of the Confidential Information. If the Disclosing Party requests
that such Confidential Information be destroyed, the Receiving Party will destroy the
Confidential Information and, within ten (10) days of the notice from the Disclosing
Party to destroy the Confidential Information, will certify in writing to the Disclosing
Party that the Confidential Information has been completely destroyed.

4. Use of Information by Recipient.

The Receiving Party agrees to use the Confidential Information only for the purposes of
evaluating the possibility of a future collaboration between the parties and in connection
with such future collaboration, if any. The Receiving Party agrees to restrict disclosure of
the Confidential Information solely to its employees and agents who have a need to know
such Confidential Information and to advise such persons of their obligations of
confidentiality and non-disclosure hereunder. Further, the Receiving Party shall not
disclose the Confidential Information to third parties, including independent contractors
or consultants, without the prior express written consent of the Disclosing Party, and shall
advise such third parties of their obligations of confidentiality and non-disclosure
hereunder. The Receiving Party agrees to use reasonable means, not less than those used
to protect its own proprietary information, to safeguard the Confidential Information.

5. Non-circumvention.

For twelve (12) months after the effective date of this Agreement, the Receiving Party
and its officers and directors, separately and individually, will not make any effort to
circumvent the terms of this Agreement in an attempt to gain the benefits or
considerations granted to it under the Agreement by taking any actions to indirectly gain
the benefits of the Confidential Information, including but not limited to contracting
directly with any client of the other party which Disclosing Party has identified as having
access to the Confidential Information, or (b) hiring or contracting with any present or
future employee or independent contractor of Disclosing Party.
6. Remedies.

The Receiving Party agrees that the unauthorized disclosure or use of Confidential
Information will cause irreparable harm and significant injury, which may be difficult to
ascertain. The Receiving Party recognizes that its violation of this Agreement could cause
the Disclosing Party irreparable harm and significant injury, the amount of which may be
extremely difficult to estimate, thus, making any remedy at law or in damages
inadequate. Therefore, the Receiving Party agrees that the Disclosing Party shall have the
right to apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for an order restraining any breach or
threatened breach of this Agreement and for any other relief the Disclosing Party deems
appropriate. This right shall be in addition to any other remedy available to the
Disclosing Party in law or equity.

7. Ownership of the Information.

Each of the parties hereto retains title to its respective Confidential Information and all
copies thereof. The Receiving Party hereby acknowledges that the Confidential
Information is proprietary to the Disclosing Party. Further, each party represents that it
has no agreement with any other party that would preclude its compliance with this
Agreement.

8. Survival.
Each party’s duty of confidentiality under this Agreement regarding the
Confidential Information shall survive the termination of this Agreement.

9. General.
This Agreement shall be binding upon and for the benefit of the parties and their
respective successors and assigns. Failure to enforce any provision of this Agreement
shall not constitute a waiver of any term hereof. This Agreement supersedes and replaces
any existing agreement entered into by the parties relating generally to the same subject
matter, and may be modified only in writing signed by the parties. This Agreement
contains the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter
hereof, and shall be governed by the laws of the State of __________________ without
giving effects to the conflicts of law principles hereof.

This Agreement may be executed in separate counterparts, each of which shall be an

original, but
all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

ACCEPTED AND AGREED:_________________________

(Company Name)______________

(Print Name and Title)___________________________

Print Name and Title_________________________

(Signature)___________________________

(Signature) __________________________