Common use of Return or Destruction Clause in Contracts

Return or Destruction. Upon the request of the Company, the Consultant will immediately return or cause to be returned to Company all originals and copies in any form of Company Property (including Confidential Information or Work Product) in the possession or control of the Consultant or the Principal and will destroy or cause to be destroyed all originals, copies or other reproductions or extracts of such Company Property not so returned. For the purposes of this paragraph, Company Property stored in electronic form on non-removable media (i) will be deemed to be returned when a copy thereof is delivered in reasonable electronic form to the Company, and (ii) destroyed when the Consultant performs a commercially reasonable “delete” function with respect to such data, provided that the Consultant thereafter does not directly or indirectly permit or perform any recovery or restoration of such Company Property, whether through undeletion, archives, forensics or otherwise (except as it relates to source code or other information indicated as requiring further acts of deletion by Company, in which case such information must be deleted using reasonably secure deletion techniques as directed by the Company).