It is stipulated and agreed that the Company is engaged in the business of: transportation, warehousing, distribution, and logistics services for delivery of furniture and related goods, including home delivery (the “Business”). It is further stipulated and agreed that as a result of Employee’s employment by the Company, and as a result of Employee’s continued employment hereunder, Employee has and will have access to valuable, highly confidential, privileged and proprietary information not generally available in the public domain relating to the Company’s Business (the “Confidential Information”). For purposes of this Agreement, “Confidential Information” means customer lists, customer requirements and specifications, financial data, sales figures, costs and pricing figures, marketing and other business plans, product development information, product design information, computer programs and listings, marketing concepts, personnel matters, drawings, specifications, instructions, methods, processes, techniques, shop practices, formulae or any other information relating to the Company’s sales, technology, research data, and all other know-how, trade secrets or proprietary information, or any copies, elaborations, modifications and adaptations thereof, which are in the possession of the Company and which have not been published or disclosed to, and are not otherwise known to, the public. It is further acknowledged that the unauthorized use or disclosure by Employee of any of the Confidential Information would seriously damage the Company in its Business.

Promise and Covenant Not to Disclose. The parties acknowledge that Company is the sole and exclusive owner of Confidential Information, and that Company has legitimate business interests in protecting Confidential Information. The parties further acknowledge that Company has invested, and continues to invest, considerable amounts of time and money in obtaining, developing, and preserving the confidentiality of Confidential Information and that, by reason of the trust relationship arising between Executive and Company, Executive owes Company a fiduciary duty to preserve and protect Confidential Information from all unauthorized disclosure and unauthorized use. Executive shall not, directly or indirectly, disclose Confidential Information to any third party (except to Executive's attorneys, the Company's personnel, other persons designated in writing by the Company, or except as otherwise provided by law) or use Confidential Information for any purpose other than for the direct benefit of Company while in Company's employ and thereafter.

Access to and Agreement Not To Disclose Confidential Information. During Participant’s Company employment, the Company agrees to provide the Participant with some or all of the Company’s Confidential Information to which the Participant has not had previous access or knowledge. By executing this Agreement, the Participant agrees that the Confidential Information constitutes valuable, special and unique assets of the Company, developed at the Company’s great expense, the unauthorized use or disclosure of which would cause irreparable harm to the Company. The Participant understands and acknowledges that the Company is engaged in a specialized and competitive industry; that the Company relies heavily on information, data, programs, and processes it has developed and acquired; and that competitors can reap potential or real economic benefits from the possession of the Confidential Information that is otherwise not available to its competitors. The Participant understands and acknowledges, therefore, that the protection of the Company’s Confidential Information constitutes the Company’s legitimate business interest. The Participant acknowledges that the Confidential Information is the Company’s exclusive property, and the Participant will hold the Confidential Information in trust and solely for the Company’s benefit. The Participant further acknowledges that the Confidential Information includes “trade secrets” under Texas law and, in addition to the other protections provided in this Agreement, all trade secrets will be accorded the protection and benefits under Texas law and any other applicable law. The Participant waives any requirement that the Company submit proof of any trade secret’s economic value or post a bond or other security should the need arise.

Covenant to Preserve Confidential Information. At all times during the term of Executive’s employment with McDonald’s and continuing at all times after the termination of Executive’s employment with McDonald’s for any reason, whether with or without cause, at the option of McDonald’s or Executive, with or without notice, Executive agrees and covenants that # Executive will hold in strict confidence and will not use, disclose, communicate, or distribute, to any person(s), firm or corporation, any Confidential Information (as defined herein), except as may be authorized and required in connection with Executive’s work for McDonald’s, unless Executive is compelled to do so by judicial process, or unless the General Counsel of McDonald’s expressly authorizes such in writing. Executive understands and agrees that any unauthorized use of Confidential Information by Executive or by any party receiving such information through Executive shall be deemed a material breach of this agreement; # Executive will not take, but will leave with McDonald’s, all records (including electronic data) and papers and all other items of whatever nature that contain Confidential Information; and # Executive will not write, confirm or otherwise communicate or publish to any person or entity any of McDonald’s trade secrets, proprietary information or Confidential Information, including, without limitation while using social media (e.g., blogging, tweeting, and postings on social networking sites).

Confidential Information. The Participant recognizes that by virtue of his or her service with the Company Group, he or she will be granted otherwise prohibited access to confidential information and proprietary data which are not known, and not readily accessible to the Company Group’s competitors. This information (the “Confidential Information”) includes, but is not limited to, identity of current and prospective customers; identity of key contacts at such customers; customers’ particularized preferences and needs; pricing, length and other terms of customer contracts; marketing strategies and plans; financial data; personnel data; compensation data; proprietary procedures and processes; and other unique and specialized practices, programs and plans of the Company Group and their respective customers and prospective customers. The Participant recognizes that this Confidential Information constitutes a valuable property of the Company Group, developed over a significant period of time and at substantial expense. Accordingly, the Participant agrees that he or she shall not, at any time during or after his or her service with the Company Group, divulge such Confidential Information or make use of it for his or her own purposes or the purposes of any person or entity other than the Company Group.

Confidential Information. Executive acknowledges that in the course of her employment with the Company, she has had access to Confidential Information. “Confidential Information” includes but is not limited to information not generally known to the public, in spoken, printed, electronic or any other form or medium relating directly or indirectly to: business processes, practices, policies, plans, documents, operations, services and strategies; contracts, transactions, and potential transactions; negotiations and pending negotiations; proprietary information, trade secrets and intellectual property; supplier and vendor agreements, strategies, plans and information; financial information and results, accounting information and records; legal strategies and information; marketing plans and strategies; pricing strategies; personnel information and staffing and succession planning practices and strategies; internal controls and security policies, strategies and procedures; and/or other confidential business information that she has learned, received or used at any time during her employment with Patterson whether or not such information has been previously identified as confidential or proprietary.

Confidential Information. “Confidential Information” shall mean all information relating to Company’s or Provider’s business or business plans, including but not limited to suppliers, customers, prospective customers, contractors, clinical data, the content and format of various clinical and medical databases, utilization data, cost and pricing data, disease management data, software products, programming techniques, data warehouse and methodologies, all proprietary information, know-how, trade secrets, technical and non-technical materials, products, specifications, processes, sales and marketing plans and strategies, designs, and any discussions and proceedings relating to any of the foregoing, whether disclosed in oral, electronic, visual, written or any other form, disclosed to the other Party. Confidential Information includes, without limitation, the terms and conditions of this Agreement and any SOW. Company shall own any Confidential Information generated by Company or Provider in the course of the Services, only to the extent such Confidential Information is entirely unique to Company or Company products, including but not limited to data regarding and use of Company products. Confidential Information shall not include information which is: # known to a Party or its Personnel which have been reduced to writing prior to disclosure by the Party and that are not subject to another obligation of secrecy; # hereafter lawfully obtained from other sources on a non-confidential basis; or # otherwise generally available to the public, absent any breach of this Section 11 by the Party.

Each Recipient agrees to use the Discloser’s Confidential Information only for the purposes of the Research Project and/or this Agreement, unless otherwise expressly agreed to in writing by the Discloser.

Confidential Information. CEO recognizes the interests of USPB and its Affiliates in maintaining the confidential nature of its respective proprietary information. CEO shall not, during the Term or at any time after the termination of employment with the USPB, in any manner that does not promote the interests of USPB and its Affiliates, directly or indirectly, publish, disclose or use, or authorize anyone else to publish, disclose or use, any secret, confidential or proprietary information of USPB, or its Affiliates which USPB and its Affiliates intend to be maintained as confidential information that is in the public domain through no fault of CEO, which is information acquired by CEO in connection with CEO's employment with USPB or work with the USPB prior to the date of this agreement and relates to any aspect of the operations, activities, research, investigations or obligations of USPB, or its Affiliates, including confidential material or information relating to the business, customers, suppliers, trade or industrial practices, trade secrets, technology, know-how or intellectual property of USPB and its Affiliates (collectively, the "Confidential Information"). Confidential Information does not include all records, files, data, documents and the like relating to suppliers, customers, costs, prices, systems, methods, personnel, equipment and other materials relating to USPB, or the its Affiliates (including, but not limited to, the Confidential Information), shall be and remain the sole property of USPB or its Affiliates. Any disclosure of Confidential Information by the CEO shall include appropriate protection for the type of information to protect USPB's interests in the Confidential Information. Upon termination of CEO's employment with USPB, CEO shall not remove from USPB's premises, or retain, any of the Confidential Information materials described in this Section.

Executive agrees and acknowledges that all non-public or proprietary information regarding the Company Group, whether or not maintained in written form and whether in digital, hardcopy, or other format, including all personal information, personnel information, financial data, investment data, commercial data, trade secrets, business plans, business models, cost and pricing information, organizational structures and models, blueprints, business strategies, strategies, internal controls, risk management, security procedures, internal industry studies, research and development efforts, marketing plans, information and materials, processes, inventions, devices, training manuals, computer programs, analytical models, templates and agreements, and all other non-public, proprietary or confidential information, concerning or provided by or on behalf of the Company Group, including information regarding any actual or prospective business opportunities, employment opportunities, finances, investments, other proprietary information and trade secrets, including, in each case, such information, observations and data obtained prior to the date of this Agreement concerning the business or affairs of any member of the Company Group or their predecessors (collectively, “Confidential Information”) are the property of such entity and Executive agrees that such entity has a protectable interest in such Confidential Information. Therefore, Executive agrees that Executive shall not (during the Employment Period or at any time thereafter) disclose to any Person or use any such Confidential Information without the prior written consent of the Board unless and to the extent that the aforementioned matters: # become or are generally known to and available for use other than as a result of Executive’s acts or omissions in breach of this Agreement, # are required to be disclosed by judicial process or law (provided that Executive, if possible under the circumstances, shall give prompt advance written notice of such requirement to the Company to enable the Company to seek an appropriate protective order or confidential treatment), or ((c) are in furtherance of Executive’s good faith performance of duties in respect of Executive’s employment with or service to any member of the Company Group in accordance with Company Group policy or applicable directive. Upon termination of this Agreement for any reason whatsoever, or at any time requested by the Company, Executive shall promptly deliver or cause to be delivered to the Company any and all Company property, including keys and keycards, computers, personal data assistants, cell phones, software, documents, manuals, records, notebooks and similar materials, including any copies thereof, regardless of whether such items constitute or contain Confidential Information (and not retain or otherwise have access to, including via any removable storage or file hosting service). Executive shall provide all passwords and locations of Confidential Information that are not located on the Company’s computers or servers. Executive shall not retain any Confidential Information on Executive’s personal computer, portable memory devices, phone or tablets following Executive’s Termination Date and shall make all personal devices readily available upon request by any member of the Company Group for the removal of Confidential Information. If Executive becomes aware of Confidential Information on any of Executive’s personal devices, including the devices listed in the prior sentence, the Executive shall promptly notify the Board of such Confidential Information and shall follow the instructions of the Board. Executive shall only destroy Confidential Information (or copies thereof) at the direction of the Board and in the manner provided by the Board.