Common use of CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION; TRADE SECRETS Clause in Contracts

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION; TRADE SECRETS. Due to your position of responsibility with SITEL, you may be exposed to confidential matters, including without limitation, matters relating to cost data, programs, processes, business strategy and plans, customer information, pricing, SITEL policies and procedures and other financial data. SITEL regards all such information as confidential and in many cases as trade secrets. We require that all such information be treated as confidential by you during your employment and not be discussed or disclosed to anyone who is not in a similar position of trust and confidence with SITEL and that any permissible communications be no broader or more extensive than is legitimately required to discharge your SITEL work responsibilities. If your SITEL employment ends, you must continue in perpetuity or for the longest duration allowed by law to treat such information as strictly confidential and as trade secrets and not discuss or disclose any such information to any outside party under any circumstances whatsoever, except as required by law. You agree to notify SITEL’s legal department of any such requirement for disclosure so that SITEL may seek an appropriate order or other remedy protecting the information from disclosure and you will cooperate with SITEL to obtain such protective order or other remedy. Furthermore, if your SITEL employment ends, you must return to SITEL all equipment, property, documents, records, etc., in your possession or control, including but not limited to the materials referenced in this provision without retaining any copies, prior to or upon your departure.