Common use of CONFIDENTIALITY OF DOCUMENTS Clause in Contracts

CONFIDENTIALITY OF DOCUMENTS. All meetings and hearings shall be in private unless the Parties to the arbitration agree otherwise. The Party providing any document or other information in the arbitration that would not otherwise be available to the other Party may in good faith designate it as confidential, provided that the Parties shall first submit to the arbitrator(s) an agreed upon written statement of procedures for handling and protecting material designated as confidential, which the arbitrator(s) may accept or modify as they may deem appropriate. If the Parties cannot agree upon confidentiality procedures, the arbitrator(s) shall decide them as appropriate.