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CONFIDENTIALITY AND NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT THIS CONFIDENTIALITY AND NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT, executed this____ day of ____________, 20____, but effective for all purposes on the Effective Date, is entered into by and among ____________________, a ______________ corporation ___________________________, a ______________________ corporation (hereinafter referred to jointly as the "Corporation") and ____________________, an individual (hereinafter referred to as "Employee"). 1.0 RECITALS 1.1 Corporation and Employee have previously entered into the Employment Agreement dated as of ___________________, _______________, that Amendment No. ____________ to the Employment Agreement, such amendment effective __________________, 20___, and an Amendment to Employment Agreement and Consulting Agreement dated as of ______________, ________________ (the "Prior Agreements"). 1.2 Concurrent with the execution of this Agreement, the Corporation and Employee are entering into an Employment Agreement, which, upon the Effective Date, shall supersede the Prior Agreements. 1.3 In his capacity as ________________, __________________, and ________________ and as _____________________________, the Employee has acquired and will acquire certain Confidential Information of the Corporation. 1.4 The parties acknowledge that the Confidential Information has independent economic value to the Corporation. Employee further acknowledges that the Corporation has taken steps to preserve and safeguard the secrecy of the Confidential Information. 1.5 The Employee understands that absent his entering into this Agreement, the Corporation would not enter into the Employment Agreement with the Employee. IN CONSIDERATION of the mutual covenants and agreements contained herein, and or such other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which is hereby admitted and acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows: 2.0 DEFINITIONS 2.1
The term "employee" includes an office, a part-time employee, a consultant or a volunteer, or a former employee, having the status of employee, a term also includes any person, whether a member of a corporation, any other entity, a partner or partner-person, or any other person that is in a similar relationship to the employee, a term including a former employee, any person that is in a similar relationship to a partner of the current partnership or individual associate, has the authority or is authorized to perform functions within the partnership or associate having the status of corporate partner under the federal partnership act, or any other person as well as any person in a similar relationship to a partner of the current partnership or individual associate, The term "consulting agreement" includes a consulting agreement and a consulting agreement as to the same subject as the consulting agreement; "corp," when used for any purpose, denotes a private company, limited partnership, limited/limited liability company, association, corporation, mutual/indivisible trust, trust or other instrumentality or arrangement to which property is legally transferred or assigned, or a trust, corporation, or other entity operating as a business entity that does not include a person that, as is commonly understood in Canada, owns real property; † includes a mutual fund (including an association under chapter 11 (“general partnership act")); "confidential information” means any business transaction, business strategy, confidential information or business plan in any form, and “confidential information" has the same meaning as provided by the private-enterprise confidentiality act; “commission" means a fee agreed upon by an employee and the corporation on the advice obtained, as determined in good faith in good faith by the employee and, in the case of the corporation, determined by a competent person. † for greater certainty, a consulting agreement can be terminated under section 8(2) as if it had been entered into as a result of or resulting from an act of misconduct by the consulting company or the person that advises the consulting company. To the extent that the foregoing definitions are construed as applying to any person, other than the employee, the scope of the application is limited to the scope of disclosure in the preceding definition. The obligations described herein are in addition to any other obligations set out under the act, and no claim or cause of action or remedy under the act, or relating thereto, may be claimed against the corporation, the employee, any employee's estate, the corporation or a consultant, or.