ETB Non-Disclosure Agreement
This Non-Disclosure Agreement (the “Agreement”) is made between Environmental Toner Brokers Inc., the “Company”: and the Outside Sales Rep. The signatories referred to herein individually as a “Party” or collectively as the “Parties”. For good and valuable consideration, the receipt of sufficiency of which each of the Parties hereto acknowledge, the Parties do hereby agree as follows:
1. Each party shall disclose the Confidential Information of the other only to those of its employees having a need to know such Confidential Information and shall take all reasonable precautions to ensure that its employees comply with the provisions of this Section of this agreement. Any confidential or sensitive information provided by the receiving party to other third parties such as contractor, vendors or consultants etc, must be preceded by exaction of this NDA by such third parties before any such disclosures can be made.
2. The term “Confidential Information” shall mean any and all information or proprietary materials (in every form and media) not generally known in the relevant trade or industry and which has been or is hereafter disclosed or made available by either party (the “disclosing party”) to the other (the “receiving party”) in connection with the efforts contemplated hereunder, including (i) all trade secrets, (ii) existing or contemplated products, services, designs, technology, processes, technical data, engineering, techniques, methodologies and concepts and any information related thereto, and (iii) information relating to business plans, sales or marketing methods and customer lists or requirements. (iv) any information of a Party submitted to the other Party and marked as confidential or other similar marking.
3. The obligations of either party under this Section 6.1 will not apply to information that the receiving party can demonstrate (i) was in its possession at the time of disclosure and without restriction as to confidentiality, (ii) at the time of disclosure is generally available to the public or after disclosure becomes generally available to the public through no breach of agreement or other wrongful act by the receiving party, (iii) has been received from a third party without restriction on disclosure and without breach of agreement by the receiving party, (iv) is independently developed by the receiving party without regard to the Confidential Information of the other party, or (v) is required to be disclosed by law or order of a court of competent jurisdiction or regulatory authority, provided that the receiving party shall furnish prompt written notice of such required disclosure and reasonably cooperate with the disclosing party, at the disclosing party’s expense, in any effort made by the disclosing party to seek a protective order or other appropriate protection of its Confidential Information. (vi) any information, which by its nature and or content would reasonably be considered to be confidential and or propriety to the introducing party provided.
4. Each Party agrees that during and after the expiration of the Agreement it will maintain the Confidential Information in confidence in the same manner and with the same degree of care that such Party uses to protect its own proprietary information, but in no event no less than a reasonable degree of care. The receiving Party will not disclose, reproduce, alter, modify, enhance, reverse engineer, give away, divulge, exchange or make known or available in any manner to any person, firm, corporation or any other entity (whether the receiving Party receives any benefit there from) the disclosing Party’s Confidential Information to any person that is not an officer, director or employee of the receiving Party without prior written consent from the disclosing Party; provided however, the receiving Party acknowledges and agrees that it shall be responsible and held liable for the breach of this Agreement by any such officer, director or employee (regardless whether or not such breach is within their scope of employment) with respect to the maintenance of the secrecy and confidentiality of the Confidential Information for evaluation purposes only, unless otherwise agreed in writing between the Parties, and will not use the Confidential Information for its own benefit.
5. The Parties hereby acknowledge that each Party has developed proprietary knowledge and technology in the same field as the Confidential Information to be disclosed by the other Party and that such Confidential Information may overlap the information and technology developed by such Party. The Parties further acknowledge and agree that the disclosure of its Confidential Information to the other Party shall in no manner, whatsoever, prohibit, impede or otherwise restrict the disclosing Party from continuing to develop knowledge, technology, products and other intellectual property, whether or not such development is in the same field as, or otherwise overlaps, the Confidential Information of the Receiving Party. The receiving party further agrees to promptly disclose the existence of any conflicts of interests including work relating to competing projects, that could reasonable be known prior to acceptance or confidential information-or any conflicts which might arise during the course of the receiving party’s business relationship.
6. Upon written demand of the disclosing Party, the receiving Party shall deliver all documentation, records, notes, data, memoranda, models and equipment of any nature, including all copies and/or extracts there from, that are or were in such Party’s possession or under its control and that are the property of the disclosing Party or comprise part of or otherwise relate to the disclosing Party’s Confidential Information; except for a copy of such materials that may be maintained by the legal counsel of the receiving Party so long as such information remains is maintained as confidential pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.
7. The Parties acknowledge that compliance with this Agreement is necessary to protect the goodwill and other proprietary interests of the Parties and that a breach of this Agreement will give rise to irreparable and continuing injury to the non-breaching Party which is not adequately compensable in monetary damages or law. Accordingly, the Parties agree that a non-breaching Party may obtain injunctive and other equitable relief against the breach or threatened breach of the foregoing provisions, in addition to any other legal remedies that may be available under this Agreement. If the non-breaching Party shall make application to a court of competent jurisdiction for injunctive relief to enforce this Agreement, the breaching Party waives, the greatest extent permissible, any requirement that the non-breaching Party post a bond or other security as a precondition to an injunction, whether temporary or permanent.
8. The receiving Party agrees that if they are to violate any of the covenants or agreements under this Agreement, the Partner shall be entitled to an accounting and repayment of all profits, compensation, commissions, remuneration, or other benefits that the receiving Party or any third party given access to (or possession of) the former Party’s Confidential Information, directly or indirectly, by the other Party, directly or indirectly, has realized and/or may realize as a result of, growing out of, or in connection with such violation. These remedies shall be in addition to, and not in limitation of any injunctive relief or other rights to which the former Party is or may be entitled at law, or in equity, under this Agreement.
9. The laws of the Province of Ontario shall govern this Agreement. Any action hereunder shall be taken in a Provincial Court located in Ontario. The Parties hereto waive and agree that they shall not assert that such forum is inconvenient or improper. In the event either Party initiates action to enforce his, her or its legal rights hereunder, the prevailing Party shall recover from the non-prevailing Party its reasonable expenses, court costs, including taxed and untaxed costs, and reasonable attorneys’ fees, whether suit be brought or not.
10. The term of this Agreement shall be for a term of ten (10) years, or until the Partner decides to terminate, from the date of this Agreement. This Agreement sets forth a mutual understanding between the Parties as to the subject matters hereof and supercedes any and all prior and collateral agreements and representations between the Parties. The invalidity or unenforceability of a particular provision of this Agreement shall not affect the other provisions hereto, and this Agreement shall be construed in all respects as if such invalid or unenforceable provisions were omitted.
11. It is further understood that the parties intend to introduce prospective investors, strategic partners, vendors, consultants, contractors or other commercial third parties “Introduced Parties” for the purpose of developing projects to be defined in further disclosures or agreements.
