Awardee will not directly or indirectly use any Trade Secrets or other Confidential Information other than as directed by the Company in writing;

Consultant and its Representatives will take reasonable steps to safeguard such Trade Secrets and Confidential Information and prevent their disclosure to unauthorized persons.

Neither Confidential Information nor Trade Secrets include general skills or knowledge or skills that you obtained prior to your employment with the Company.

It is the understanding of both the Company and Executive that Executive shall not divulge to the Company and/or its subsidiaries any confidential information or trade secrets belonging to others, including Executive’s former employers, nor shall the Company and/or its Affiliates seek to elicit from Executive any such information. Consistent with the foregoing, Executive shall not provide to the Company and/or its Affiliates, and the Company and/or its Affiliates shall not request, any documents or copies of documents containing such information.

Consultant and its Representatives will not use any Trade Secrets or Confidential Information in order to solicit or call upon any person or entity.

May contain or be derived from ideas, concepts, creations, or trade secrets and other proprietary and Confidential Information as defined in this Agreement; or

Employee acknowledges that if he were to compete with the Company in the Business of the Company, he could cause serious harm to the Company. Employee further acknowledges that during his employment, Employee will gain valuable confidential business or professional information that qualify as Trade Secrets under the Georgia Uniform Trade Secrets Act and that otherwise does not qualify as trade secrets; maintains and builds

enter into or engage in any business competitive with that carried on by the Company or his or her Employer within any area of the United States in which his or her Employer or the Company is then doing business, providing Employee has had access to any of the Company's or his or her Employer's trade secrets, confidential underwriting or business information, programs, plans, data, processes, techniques, or customer information; or

Restrictions on Access, Use and Disclosure. I understand and agree that I must safeguard and maintain the confidentiality, integrity and availability of all Confidential Information at all times. I will not, during or at any time after the cessation of my Engagement with the Company for whatever reason, access, use, reproduce, or disclose any of the Company’s trade secrets, except # in the course of performing my duties as an employee, director or officer of the Company, or # with the prior written consent of the Company. I will not, during or for 12 months after the cessation of my Engagement with the Company for whatever reason, access, use, reproduce, or disclose any of the Confidential Information, except # in the course of performing my duties as an employee, director or officer of the Company, or # with the prior written consent of the Company. I will access, use, reproduce and/or disclose only the minimum Confidential Information necessary to perform my assigned duties. I also will use my best efforts to prevent the unauthorized access, reproduction, disclosure, misappropriation or use of Confidential Information by others.

The Participant understands that the restrictions set forth in this Section 16(e) shall continue to apply after the employment relationship terminates, regardless of the reason for such termination. The Participant understands and acknowledges that the Participant's obligations under this Award Agreement with regard to any particular Confidential Information shall commence immediately upon the Participant first having access to such Confidential Information and shall continue during and after employment with the Corporation or an Affiliate until such time as such Confidential Information has become public knowledge other than as a result of the Participant's breach of this Award Agreement or breach by those acting in concert with the Participant or on the Participant 's behalf, and shall be indefinite where permitted by state and local law, and shall not continue longer than two (2) years where indefinite confidentiality provisions are not permitted. Notwithstanding, the Participant s confidentiality obligations under this Award Agreement with regard to any trade secrets shall continue during and after the Participant 's employment by the Corporation or an Affiliate until such trade secrets are no longer trade secrets under applicable law.