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Sample Provision

You will not, at any time, directly or indirectly, use or disclose any of companies confidential information except as authorized and within the scope of your employment with company.

Sample Provision

You agree that you will not disclose to company or use, or induce company to use, any proprietary information, trade secret or confidential business information of any other person or entity, including any previous employer of yours. You also represent that you have returned all property, proprietary information, trade secret in confidential business information belonging to any prior employer.

Sample Provision

The parties mutually recognize that, in the course of your employment with company, you will have access to and will acquire knowledge of confidential and proprietary company information. This information includes, without limitation: marketing and strategies; customer names, needs, and other information; client potential; and other types of information which would place company at a competitive disadvantage if known by or revealed to competitors or customers. The parties mutually recognize that, in the course of your employment with company, in addition to company information, you will receive special assistance in marketing and special training which is not generally available elsewhere and which could harm company is known by her revealed to its competitors or customers. Accordingly, you agree:

a. You will never disclose to any person or entity any of company's confidential information or its confidential marketing and training programs.

b. You will not enter into any employment or other agreement to perform services as an account executive or sales manager or perform any other services set forth in paragraph 10 for any company located within 50 miles of the company's office in which you work for a period of 120 days after the termination of your employment with company.

c. You will not have any contact with and will not solicit clients or customers of company for a period of six months after the termination of your employment was station.

Sample Provision

The executive shall not, without the prior written consent of the company, divulge, disclose or make accessible to any other person, firm, partnership, corporation or any other entity any confidential information except (a) in the course of carrying out his duties under this agreement or (b) when required to do so by a court of law, by any governmental agency having supervisory authority over the business of the company or by any administrative body or legislative body (including a committee thereof) with jurisdiction to order him to divulge, disclose or make accessible such information.

Sample Provision

Executive agrees that during the employment term or in any time thereafter, (i) executive shall not use for any purpose other than the duly authorized business of company, or disclosed to any third party, any information relating to company, or any of its affiliated companies, which is proprietary to company or any of its affiliated companies ("Confidential Information"), including any trade secret or any written (including in any electronic form) or oral communication incorporating Confidential Information in any way (except as may be required by law or in the performance of executive's duties under this agreement consistent with company's policies); and (ii) executive will comply with any and all confidential obligations of company to a third party, whether arising under a written agreement or otherwise. Information shall not be deemed Confidential Information which (x) is or becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of a disclosure by executive or at executive's direction or by any other person who directly or indirectly receive such information from executive, or (y) is or becomes available to executive on a nonconfidential basis from a source which is entitled to disclose it to the executive.