Common use of Destruction or Deletion Clause in Contracts

Destruction or Deletion. Within five (5) days of a termination or expiration of this Agreement, each Party will destroy all Confidential Information (and all copies and extracts thereof) of the other in its control or possession. Customer will certify to the Company that all copies of Confidential Information of the Company have been returned to the Company or destroyed, and the Company will certify to Customer that all copies of any Confidential Information of Customer have been returned to Customer or destroyed. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the receiving party may retain copies of Confidential Information stored on backup disks or in backup storage facilities automatically produced in the ordinary course of business which are not, in the ordinary course of business, accessible from employee workstations. Any such Confidential Information so retained will be held subject to the confidentiality and use limitations of this Agreement and will not be accessed by any person except information technology systems administrators (if technically required) nor used for any purpose except necessary data storage systems maintenance.