Template:Confi basic structure

Basic structure of a confidentiality agreement

1. Who is who: who is disclosing and who is receiving, or is it mutual? 2. The Confidential information: what is it?

(a) What generally counts as confidential information?

(b) What is excluded from that general definition?

3. Purpose: What is the purpose of disclosing the confidential information?
4. Recipients: who is allowed access to the confidential information?

(a) Which of the recipient’s personnel can access the confidential information?

(a) Are there any external personnel with whom the recipient can share confidential information?

5. The confidentiality undertaking itself

(a) To keep the confidential information confidential; ,maintain appropriate information barriers etc.

(b) To use it only for the permitted purpose

(c) Return or destroy confidential information at the end of the project

6. Under what circumstances can the recipient disclose confidential information, and to whom, beyond the purpose?

(a) Regulator’s requests

(b) During dispute resolution processes

7. Term of the confidentiality obligation 8. General (a) What representations does the discloser make? (b) What acknowledgments does the recipient make? (c) Governing law