Common use of Confidentiality Clause in Contracts

Confidentiality. (1) The contracting parties undertake to treat all confidential information, knowledge and trade secrets of the other contracting party, obtained in the course of the execution of the contract, as strictly confidential for an unlimited period of time, in particular even after the termination of the contract. Confidential information is in particular any technical and non-technical information, documentation, data, business information, inventions, business secrets, business relationships and know-how, as well as any other information that is marked as confidential or recognizable as such.