Access to Records – Files; Confidential Information Contractor shall maintain all books, documents, papers and records relating to the Agreement for at least seven years following completion of the project. Contractor shall maintain any other records pertinent to this Agreement in such a manner as to clearly document Contractor’s performance. City, state and federal government, and their duly authorized representatives shall have access to the books, documents, papers and records of the Contractor which are directly pertinent to the specific Agreement for the purpose of making audit, examination, excerpts and transcript. Contractor agrees that all files or other documents generated or in the possession of Contractor related to Contractor's delivery of service are the property of the City and shall be available to the City upon request. Contractor understands the nature of project/projects means that Contractor may be privy to information that is confidential, proprietary or sensitive in nature, which information shall not be disclosed to any third person or entity without the consent of the City of Bend or at the City's direction, either during the term of this Agreement or after its termination. Likewise, any analysis or commentary provided by Contractor of a confidential or sensitive nature shall not be released or disclosed to any person without the consent or direction of the City.
Confidential Nature of Personnel File All documents within an employee’s personnel file are considered to be confidential and shall remain within the sole jurisdiction and purview of the Employer and employee unless otherwise stipulated in this Agreement.
CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY INFORMATION The parties may provide technical information, documentation and expertise to each other that is either (1) marked as being confidential or, (2) if delivered in oral form is summarized in writing within 10 working days and identified as being confidential (“Confidential Information”). The receiving party shall for a period of five (5) years from the date of disclosure (i) hold the disclosing party’s Confidential Information in strict confidence, and (ii), except as previously authorized in writing by the disclosing party, not publish or disclose the disclosing party’s Confidential Information to anyone other than the receiving party’s employees on a need-to-know basis, and (iii) use the disclosing party’s Confidential Information solely for performance of this Contract. The foregoing requirement shall not apply to any portion of a party’s Confidential Information which (a) becomes publicly known through no wrongful act or omission on the part of the receiving party; (b) is already known to the receiving party at the time of the disclosure without similar nondisclosure obligations; (c) is rightfully received by the receiving party from a third party without similar nondisclosure obligations; (d) is approved for release by written authorization of the disclosing party; (e) is clearly demonstrated by the receiving party to have been independently developed by the receiving party without access to the disclosing party’s Confidential Information; or (f) is required to be disclosed by order of a court or governmental body or by applicable law, provided that the party intending to make such required disclosure shall promptly notify the other party of such intended disclosure in order to allow such party to seek a protective order or other remedy.
Disposition of Confidential Information Upon termination of Agreement or request of City, Contractor shall within forty-eight (48) hours return all Confidential Information which includes all original media. Once Contractor has received written confirmation from City that Confidential Information has been successfully transferred to City, Contractor shall within ten (10) business days purge all Confidential Information from its servers, any hosted environment Contractor has used in performance of this Agreement, work stations that were used to process the data or for production of the data, and any other work files stored by Contractor in whatever medium. Contractor shall provide City with written certification that such purge occurred within five (5) business days of the purge.
CONFIDENTIAL NATURE OF DOCUMENTS AND INFORMATION Information and data that is considered proprietary by either Party or that is delivered or disclosed by one Party (“Discloser”) to the other Party (“Recipient”) during the course of performance of the Contract, and that is designated as confidential (“Information”), shall be held in confidence by that Party and shall be handled as follows:
Definition of Confidential Information The term “Confidential Information” shall mean all information that either party discloses (a “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (a “Receiving Party”), whether in writing, electronically, or orally and in any form (tangible or intangible), that is confidential, proprietary, or relates to clients or shareholders (each either existing or potential). Confidential Information includes, but is not limited to:
Retention or destruction of Confidential Information If Network Rail or the Train Operator, as the case may be, has not received a request to return any Confidential Information to the other party under and within the time limits specified in Clause 14.3, it may destroy or retain such Confidential Information.
HANDLING OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION The Company agrees to undertake the following in relation to IHiS’ Confidential Information: to maintain the same in confidence and to use it only for the Purpose and for no other purpose; not to make any commercial use thereof; not to use the same for the benefit of itself or of any third party other than pursuant to a further agreement with IHiS; not to use the same for the purpose of guiding or conducting a search of any information, materials or sources, whether or not available to the public, for any purpose whatsoever, including without limitation, for the purpose of demonstrating that any information falls within one of the exceptions in Clause 1.1(b); not to copy, reproduce, reverse engineer or reduce to writing any part thereof except as may be reasonably necessary for the Purpose and that any copies, reproductions or reductions to writing so made shall be the property of IHiS; not to disclose the Confidential Information whether to its employees or to third parties except in confidence to such of its Representatives who have been informed of the confidential nature thereof and who need to know the same for the Purpose and that: such Representatives are contractually obliged (whether by their contracts of employment or service, or otherwise) not to disclose the same or to use the same otherwise than for the Purpose; and the Company shall enforce such obligations at its expense, and to such extent as may be required by IHiS, in the event of a breach thereof that relates to IHiS' Confidential Information; to ensure the compliance to this NDA (including sub-clauses (a) to (f) above) on the part of its Representatives to whom Confidential Information is disclosed; and to apply to the Confidential Information no lesser security measures and degree of care than those which the Company applies to its own confidential or proprietary information of similar nature, but in no event less than reasonable care, and which the Company warrants as being adequate protection of such information from unauthorised disclosure, copying or use. The Company, as the principal party, shall be responsible and held liable for any breach of this NDA by any of its Representatives. If the Company is uncertain as to whether any information is Confidential Information, the Company shall treat the information as if it was Confidential Information, unless otherwise agreed by IHiS in writing. The Company shall immediately notify IHiS of any unauthorised disclosure or use of the Confidential Information of which the Company becomes aware and will take all steps which IHiS may require in relation to such unauthorised disclosure or use, or to prevent further unauthorised disclosure or use. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall be entitled to make any disclosure of the Confidential Information as required by law, but shall give IHiS not less than TWO (2) business days' notice of such disclosure and shall consult with IHiS prior to such disclosure with a view to avoiding such disclosure, if legally possible.
E4 Confidential Information E4.1 Except to the extent set out in this clause or where disclosure is expressly permitted elsewhere in this Contract, each Party shall:
Proprietary Information The Software, any data base and any proprietary data, processes, information and documentation made available to the Fund (other than which are or become part of the public domain or are legally required to be made available to the public) (collectively, the “Information”), are the exclusive and confidential property of Custodian or its suppliers. The Fund shall keep the Information confidential by using the same care and discretion that the Fund uses with respect to its own confidential property and trade secrets, but not less than reasonable care. Upon termination of the Agreement or the Software license granted herein for any reason, the Fund shall return to Custodian any and all copies of the Information which are in its possession or under its control.
