Business or Trade Information. The Executive shall not during or after the termination of his employment hereunder disclose to any person, firm of company whatsoever or use for his own purpose or for any purposes other than those of the Company any information relating to the Company (including any parent, subsidiary or associated company of the Company) or its business or trade secrets of which he has or shall hereafter become possessed. These restrictions shall cease to apply to any information which may come into the public domain (other than by breach of the provisions hereof). In the event that the Executive does not comply with this Section 8, the Company shall be entitled to damages equal to six (6) times the average monthly Base Salary that the Executive received during the preceding twelve (12) months, if the Executive continues to be employed, or during the last twelve (12) months prior to his Date of Termination, if the Executive’s employment has terminated; provided, however, that nothing in this Section 8 shall preclude the Company from pursuing arbitration in accordance with Section 16 herein and seeking additional damages from the Executive in the event that the Company is able to demonstrate to the arbitrators that the value of the damages incurred by the Company due to the Executive’s violation of this Section 8 exceed the aggregate value of the damages paid by the Executive to the Company pursuant to the foregoing provision.

Trade Secret Information. In addition to the protections afforded to Confidential Information in Section 10.1, each Party shall also abide by the following for the other Party’s Trade Secret Information:

Confidential Information and Trade Secrets. Employee acknowledges Employee's ongoing legal and fiduciary obligations to maintain, and hereby contractually agrees to maintain, the confidentiality of Employer's confidential business-related information and trade secrets, including, but not limited to, Employer's strategy, future plans, merchandising, marketing and sales initiatives, and proprietary business methods and processes.

You acknowledge that the Company regards certain information relating to its business and operations as confidential. This includes all confidential and proprietary information concerning the assets, business or affairs of the Company or any customers thereof (“Confidential Information”). You further acknowledge that the Company has certain information that derives economic value from not being known to the public or to others who could obtain economic value from its disclosure or use, which the Company takes reasonable efforts to protect the secrecy of (“Trade Secrets”).

TRADE SECRETS AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. Employee hereby covenants and agrees that he will not, except as may be required in connection with his employment under this Agreement, directly or indirectly, use or disclose to any other person, firm or corporation, whether during or subsequent to the term of his employment by Company, irrespective of the time, manner or cause of the termination of his employment, any information of a proprietary nature belonging to Company, or which could be reasonably expected to have an adverse effect on Company, its businesses, property or financial condition, including but not limited to records, data, documents, processes, specifications, methods of operation, techniques and know-how, plans, policies, customer lists, the names and addresses of suppliers or representatives, investigations or other matters of any kind or description relating to the products, services, suppliers, customers, sales or businesses of Company. All records, files, documents, equipment and the like relating to Company's businesses which Employee shall prepare, use or observe shall be and remain the sole property of Company, and upon termination of this Agreement or his employment hereunder for any reason, Employee shall return to the possession of Company any items of that nature and any copies thereof which he may have in his possession.

Confidential Information and Trade Secrets. The Participant agrees that during the course of Service with Vericity, the Participant has and will come into contact with and have access to various forms of Confidential Information and Trade Secrets, which are the property 81636087v1 November 07, 2019 1:54 PM

Confidential/Trade Secret Information Defined. During the course of Executive’s employment, Executive will have access to various Confidential/Trade Secret Information of the Company and information developed for the Company. For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Confidential/Trade Secret Information” is information that is not generally known to the public and, as a result, is of economic benefit to the Company in the conduct of its business, and the business of the Company’s subsidiaries. Executive and the Company agree that the term “Confidential/Trade Secret Information” includes but is not limited to all information developed or obtained by the Company, including its affiliates, and predecessors, and comprising the following items, whether or not such items have been reduced to tangible form (e.g., physical writing, computer hard drive, disk, tape, e-mail, etc.): all methods, techniques, processes, ideas, research and development, product designs, engineering designs, plans, models, production plans, business plans, add-on features, trade names, service marks, slogans, forms, pricing structures, business forms, marketing programs and plans, layouts and designs, financial structures, operational methods and tactics, cost information, the identity of and/or contractual arrangements with customers, partners, suppliers and/or vendors, accounting procedures, and any document, record or other information of the Company relating to the above. Confidential/Trade Secret Information includes not only information directly belonging to the Company which existed before the date of this Agreement and the Prior Agreement, but also information developed by Executive for the Company, including its subsidiaries, affiliates and predecessors, during the term of Executive’s employment with the Company. Confidential/Trade Secret Information does not include any information which # was in the lawful and unrestricted possession of Executive prior to its disclosure to Executive by the Company, its subsidiaries, affiliates or predecessors, # is or becomes generally available to the public by lawful acts other than those of Executive after receiving it, or # has been received lawfully and in good faith by Executive from a third party who is not and has never been an executive of the Company, its subsidiaries, affiliates or predecessors, and who did not derive it from the Company, its subsidiaries, affiliates or predecessors.

For purposes of this paragraph 8, “Confidential Information” means all non-public or proprietary data or information (other than Trade Secrets) concerning the business and operations of the [[Company:Organization]] Companies, including, but not limited to, any non-public information (regardless of whether in writing or retained as personal knowledge) pertaining to research and development; product costs, designs and processes; equityholder information; pricing, cost, or profit factors; quality programs; annual budget and long-range business plans; marketing plans and methods; contracts and bids; business ideas and methods, store concepts, inventions, innovations, developments, graphic designs, website designs, patterns, specifications, procedures, databases and personnel. “Trade Secret” means trade secret as defined by applicable state law. In the absence of such a definition, Trade Secret means information including, but not limited to, any technical or nontechnical data, formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, drawing, process, financial data, financial plan, product plan, list of actual or potential customers or suppliers or other information similar to any of the foregoing, which # derives economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by, other persons who can derive economic value from its disclosure or use and # is the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy.

Stop Trade. An SEC or judicial stop trade or order trading suspension with respect to the Borrower’s Common Stock that lasts for seven (7) or more consecutive trading days.

Trade Relations. To the actual knowledge of Borrowers, there exists no actual or threatened termination of any business relationship between Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries and any customer or supplier, or any group of customers or suppliers, who individually or in the aggregate are material to the business of Borrowers or such Subsidiary.