Confidential Information. “Confidential Information” is to be broadly interpreted and means # all non-public techniques/strategies and information that Company has or Executive (in the course and scope of employment with the Company) develops, compiles, acquires, or receives that has or may have commercial value or usefulness to the Company, to its clients or to their competitors in their respective businesses; # all non-public information that, if disclosed without authorization, could be detrimental to the interest of Company or its clients, whether or not such information is identified as Confidential Information or otherwise “confidential” by Company or its Clients; # any consumer, customer, or employee information, including all personally identifiable information of any consumer, customer, or employee in any format to which Executive may have access during employment with Company; and # all information belonging to third parties, such as vendors, that the Company is bound by contract or otherwise to keep confidential. Confidential Information includes not only information disclosed by Company (including its employees, agents, and independent contractors) or its clients to Executive, but also information developed or learned by Executive in the course and scope of employment with the Company. By example only and without limitation, “Confidential Information” includes all information on trade secrets, inventions, innovations, processes, discoveries, improvements, research or development test results, specifications, data, data compilations and analyses, know-how, formats, employee information, subscriber information, marketing plans, business plans, strategies, forecasts, unpublished financial information, budgets, projections, and client, prospective client and supplier identities and contact information, characteristics and agreements, whether in print, in electronic files, or residing on non-public Internet sites.

"Confidential Information" means the trade secrets and other information of Company, including but not limited to # the customer lists, customer contact information, customer purchase information, pricing information, strategic and marketing plans, compilations of customer information, names of employees, contracts with third parties, training, financial and marketing books, sales projections, internal employer databases, reports, manuals and information including information related to Company, its Affiliates or its customers, including those documents and items which any employee may develop or help develop while in the employ of the Company or any of its Affiliates, whether or not developed during regular working hours or on the premises of the Company or such Affiliate; # the identity, skills, personnel file information, performance appraisals and compensation of job applicants, employees, contractors, and consultants; # specialized training; # source code, scripts, user screens, reports or any other information pertaining to the internal information technology or network of the Company and/or its Affiliates, including the proprietary database system commonly referred to as the Office System; and # information related to inventions owned by the Company or any of its Affiliates or licensed from third parties; and unless the context requires otherwise, the term "Confidential Information" includes the original of such materials, any copies thereof, any notes derived from such materials, and any derivative work of such materials. The term "Confidential Information" does not include # information that was or becomes generally available publicly other than through disclosure by Executive, or # is required to be disclosed to any governmental agency or self-regulatory body or is otherwise required to be disclosed by law. Unless the context requires otherwise, the term "Confidential Information" shall include the original of such materials, any copies thereof, any notes derived from such materials, and any derivative work of such materials.

Company’s Confidential Information. During the course of performing Executive’s duties as a Company employee, Executive was exposed to and acquired Company’s Confidential Information. As used herein, “Confidential Information” refers to any and all information of a confidential, proprietary, or trade secret nature that is maintained in confidence by Company for the protection of its business. Confidential Information includes, but is not limited to, Company’s information about or related to # any current or planned products, # research and development or investigations related to prospective products, # proprietary software and systems, # suppliers or customers, # cost information, profits, sales information, and accounting and unpublished financial information, # business and marketing plans and methods, and # any other information not generally known to the public that, if misused or disclosed to a competitor, could reasonably be expected to adversely affect the Company.

“Confidential Information” means any information that is not generally known outside the Company, including but not limited to trade secrets, and that is proprietary to the Company, relating to any phase of the Company’s existing or reasonably foreseeable business, including information conceived, discovered or developed by Executive. Confidential Information includes, but is not limited to, business plans; strategic plans and initiatives; financial information, statements and projections; new store plans or locations; payroll and personnel records and information; marketing information, materials and plans; product designs; supplier information; customer information; customer lists; project lists; information relating to pricing and costs; or other information that is designated by the Company as “Confidential” or other similar designation or is treated by the Company as Confidential.

“Confidential Information” means any non-public information that Executive may generate, receive and/or have access to as a result of my employment (including information concerning or received from the Company or its Affiliates, partners, vendors, customers or others with whom the Company has an obligation of confidentiality) regardless of whether such information is marked as “confidential” or whether such information is in electronic, oral, visual, written, or intangible form (including information that is protected as a trade secret under applicable law; any non-public information pertaining to Work Product; any other non-public business, financial, customer, product, technical, research, development, engineering, manufacturing, purchasing, accounting, marketing, selling, cost and pricing, competitive analysis, or personnel information or data; or information developed, held or acquired by or accessible to Executive in connection with the provision of services to or any relationship or engagement with the Company, including any information developed or acquired before the Effective Date).

"Confidential information" shall mean any confidential, proprietary and or trade secret information, including, but not limited to, concepts, ideas, information and materials relating to the Company, client records, client lists, economic and financial analysis, financial data, customer contracts, marketing plans, notes, memoranda, lists, books, correspondence, manuals, reports or research, whether developed by the Company or developed by Executive acting alone or jointly with the Company while Executive was employed by the Company. Confidential information does not include information which is in the public domain or generally known in the Company’s industry or becomes publicly disseminated by means other than a breach of this [Section 5.2].

Confidential Information: As used in this Agreement, the term “Confidential Information” means information in whatever form, pertaining to the business of the Company that is not generally known outside of the Company, or that is known outside of the Company through improper means. Without limiting the foregoing definition, Confidential Information includes, but is not limited to: # technical information, formulas, teaching and development techniques, methodologies, processes, trade secrets, computer programs, electronic codes, designs, product development information, inventions, improvements, and research projects; # information about finances, costs, profits, markets, proposals, sales, and lists of customers or clients; # business, marketing, and strategic plans; and # employee personnel files and compensation information.

“Confidential Information” means any information, knowledge or data of any nature and in any form (including, without limitation, any information that is electronically transmitted or stored on any form of magnetic or electronic storage media) relating to the past, current or prospective business or operations of the Company and its Affiliates (including, without limitation, the Business as conducted by the Company and its Affiliates), that at the time or times concerned is not generally known to Persons engaged in businesses similar to the Business or those conducted or contemplated by the Company and its Affiliates (other than information known by such persons or entities through a violation of an obligation of confidentiality to the Company), whether produced by the Company and its Affiliates or any of their consultants, agents, or independent contractors or by the Executive in the course of his performance of services for the Company and its Affiliates, and whether or not marked confidential, including without limitation information relating to products and services, business plans, business acquisitions, processes, formulas, product or service research and development methods or techniques, training methods and other operational methods or techniques, quality assurance procedures or standards, operating procedures, files, plans, specifications, proposals, drawings, charts, graphs, support data, inventions and improvements, trade secrets, intellectual property or other proprietary information, supplier lists, supplier information, purchasing methods or practices, distribution and selling activities, consultants’ reports, marketing and engineering or other technical studies, maintenance records, employment or personnel data, marketing data, strategies or techniques, financial reports, budgets, projections, cost analyses, price lists and analyses, employee lists, customer lists, customer source lists, proprietary computer software, and internal notes and memoranda relating to any of the foregoing. For the avoidance of doubt, “Confidential Information” shall not include information, knowledge or data # generally known to persons or entities engaged in businesses similar to the Business or those conducted or contemplated by the Company and its Affiliates (other than information known by such persons or entities through a violation of an obligation of confidentiality to the Company), # that was known to Executive prior to Executive performing services for the Company and/or any of its Affiliates, # that after the termination of Executive’s employment with the Company comes into the possession of Executive from a third party who to Executive’s knowledge is not prohibited by duties of confidentiality to the Company from disclosing such information to Executive or # that after the termination of Executive’s employment with the Company is independently developed by Executive without use of and/or reference to any Confidential Information of the Company or its Affiliates.

Confidential Information. “Confidential Information” shall mean any information not generally known or readily ascertainable by the Company’s competitors or the general public. Confidential Information includes, but is not limited to, use of or customization to computer, software, and/or internet applications; data of any type that is created by Employee, which is provided, or to which access is provided, in the course of Employee’s employment by the Company; data or conclusions or opinions formed by Employee in the course of employment; manuals; trade secrets; methods, procedures or techniques pertaining to the business of the Company; specifications; systems; price lists; marketing plans; sales or service analyses; financial information; client names, contact information, requirements, purchase history or other information; supplier names or other information; employee names or other information; research and development data; diagrams; drawings; videotapes, audiotapes, or computerized media used as training regimens; and notes, memoranda, notebooks, and records or documents that are created, handled, seen, or used by Employee in the course of employment. Confidential Information does not include information that Employee can demonstrate by reliable, corroborated documentary evidence # is generally available to the public or # became generally available to the public through no act or failure to act by Employee.

The term “Confidential Information” means any and all confidential and/or proprietary knowledge, data or information of the Company. By way of illustration, but not limitation, “ Confidential Information” includes # trade secrets, inventions, mask works, ideas, processes, formulas, source and object codes, data, programs, marketing innovations (including brand names, taglines and logos), other works of authorship, know-how, improvements, discoveries, developments, designs and techniques (collectively referred to as “Inventions”); # client lists and information, including the terms of contracts and arrangements with and proposals to Company’s clients and prospective clients (collectively “Clients”); # terms of agreements with franchisees and developmental licensees; # customer lists, personal data, financial data and other information obtained from customers of the Company and Company’s affiliates, franchisees and developmental licensees (“​ System Parties”); # non-public pricing information, vendor prices and lists, buying and pricing strategies and merchandise plans, including the terms of contracts and arrangements with vendors, service providers or suppliers to the ​ System Parties; # promotional, marketing and advertising strategies and plans, including information about projects in development and the terms of contracts and arrangements relating to promotions, marketing and advertising (including arrangements with athletes and other third parties); # non-public financial and statistical information relating to the Company, its business, the businesses of its Clients and the businesses of the ​ System Parties, including budgets, financial and business forecasts, expansion plans and business strategies; # information regarding the skills, performance and compensation of other employees, contractors and consultants of the Company; and # any information received from third parties for which the Company may owe a duty to maintain confidential or use solely for limited purposes.