Consultant hereby acknowledges that during the performance of this contract, the Consultant may learn
or receive confidential Company information and therefore Consultant hereby confirms that all such
information relating to the client’s business will be kept confidential by the Consultant, except to the extent
that such information is required to be divulged to the consultant’s clerical or support staff or associates in
order to enable Consultant
to perform Consultant’s contract obligation.
a) Consultant agrees not to disclose or use, except as required in Consultant's duties, at any time,
any information disclosed to or acquired by Consultant during the term of this contract. Consultant
shall disclose promptly to Company all inventions, discoveries, formulas, processes, designs,
trade secrets, and other useful technical information and know-how made, discovered, or
developed by Consultant (either alone or in conjunction with any other person) during the term of
this contract. Consultant agrees that he shall not, without the written consent of Company,
disclose to third parties or use for his own financial benefit or for the financial or other benefit of
any competitor of Company, any information, data, and know-how, manuals, disks, or otherwise,
including all programs, decks, listings, tapes, summaries of any papers, documents, plans,
specifications, or drawings.
b) Consultant shall take all reasonable precautions to prevent any other person with whom
Consultant is or may become associated from acquiring confidential information at any time.
c) Consultant agrees that all confidential information shall be deemed to be and shall be treated as
the sole and exclusive property of Company.
d) Upon termination of this contract, Consultant shall deliver to Company all drawings, manuals,
letters, notes, notebooks, reports, and all other materials (including all copies of such materials),
relating to such confidential information which are in the possession or under the control of
Consultant. Consultant shall sign secrecy agreements provided by Company.
13. SERVICES FOR OTHERS
Inasmuch as Consultant will acquire or have access to information which is of a highly confidential and
secret nature, it is expected that Consultant will not perform any services for any other person or firm
without Company’s prior written approval.
14. SERVICES AFTER TERMINATION
Consultant agrees that, for a period of [NUMBER] years following the termination of this agreement,
Consultant will not perform any similar services for any person or firm engaged in the business of [TYPE],
the Counties of and State of [STATE/PROVINCE].
15. STATUS OF CONSULTANT
Consultant is an independent contractor and neither Consultant nor Consultant’s staff is or shall be
deemed to be employed by Client. Company is hereby contracting with Consultant for the services
described on Exhibit A and Consultant reserves the right to determine the method, manner and mean by
which the services will be performed. Consultant is not required to perform the services during a fixed
hourly or daily time and if the services are performed at the Company’s premises, then Consultant’s time
spent
at the premises is to be at the discretion of the Consultant; subject to the Company’s normal
business hours and security requirements. Consultant hereby confirms to Company that Company will not
be required to furnish or provide any training to Consultant to enable Consultant to perform services
required hereunder. The services shall be performed by Consultant or Consultant’s staff, and Company
shall not be required to hire, supervise or pay any assistants to help Consultant who performs the
services unde
r this agreement. Consultant shall not be required to devote Consultant’s full time nor the