Return of Confidential Information Upon termination or expiration of this Agreement, the Receiving Party shall return all copies of the Disclosing Party’s confidential information (with the exception of 1 archival copy for the purpose of compliance with these obligations) or remove same from all media and destroy same.
Confidential Information All Confidential Information of or relating to the disclosing party shall be held in confidence by the receiving party to the same extent and in at least the same manner as the receiving party protects its own confidential or proprietary information, using no less than commercially reasonable standards or higher or more stringent standards required by law, including those laws governing Sensitive Information, and those standard specified in this Agreement. The receiving party shall not disclose, publish, release, transfer or otherwise make available any Confidential Information of the disclosing party in any form to, or for the use or benefit of, any person or entity without the disclosing party’s consent. Subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, receiving party shall be permitted to disclose relevant aspects of the disclosing party’s Confidential Information to the receiving party’s officers, agents, subcontractors and personnel and to the officers, agents, subcontractors and personnel of the receiving party’s corporate affiliates or subsidiaries to the extent that such disclosure is reasonably necessary for the performance of the receiving party’s duties and obligations under this Agreement; provided, however, that the receiving party shall take all reasonable measures to ensure that Confidential Information of the disclosing party is not disclosed or duplicated in violation of the provisions of this Agreement by such officers, agents, subcontractors and personnel and that the receiving party shall be responsible for any unauthorized disclosure of the Confidential Information by the receiving party’s officers, agents, subcontractors or personnel; and further provided, that if the disclosure is by the Agency to another contractor or sub-contractor, such disclosure is subject to a suitable non-disclosure agreement imposing equally or more stringent requirements for data privacy and security. Except for Sensitive Information (which shall be protected in all circumstances), and except to the extent provided otherwise by any applicable law, the obligations of this subsection (b) shall not apply with respect to information that: is developed by the other party without violating the disclosing party’s proprietary rights; is or becomes publicly known; is disclosed by the owner of such information to a third party free of any obligation of confidentiality; is already known by the receiving party without an obligation of confidentiality other than pursuant to this Agreement or any confidentiality contract entered into before the Effective Date of the Agreement between the Agency and the Licensor; or is rightfully received by the receiving party free of any obligation of confidentiality.