Confidentiality Clause Example from Business Contracts

Confidentiality. As an employee of the Company, you will have access to certain confidential information of the Company and you may, during the course of your employment, develop certain information or inventions that will be the property of the Company. To protect the interests of the Company, you will need to sign, complete, return and abide by the Company's 2 standard "Employee Invention Assignment and Confidentiality Agreement" in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A (the "Invention Assignment and Confident...iality Agreement") as a condition of your employment. We wish to impress upon you that we do not want you to, and we hereby direct you not to, bring with you any confidential or proprietary material of any former employer or to violate any other obligations you may have to any former employer. During the period that you render services to the Company, you agree not to (i) engage in any employment, business or activity that is in any way competitive with the business or proposed business of the Company, or (ii) assist any other person or organization in competing with the Company or in preparing to engage in competition with the business or proposed business of the Company, or (iii) engage in any other activity that takes advantage of any Company opportunity for your own self interest. You represent that your signing of this letter agreement and the Invention Assignment and Confidentiality Agreement and your commencement of employment with the Company will not violate any agreement currently in place between yourself and current or past employers, or between yourself and any other parties. As an employee of the Company, you will be expected to abide by Company rules and regulations. View More