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Each of Cosmos and the acknowledges and agrees that it may receive Confidential Information in connection with this Transaction including without limitation, the Disclosure Schedule and any information disclosed during the due diligence process, the public disclosure of which will harm the disclosing party’s business. The Receiving Party may use Confidential Information only in connection with the Transaction. The results of the due diligence review may not be used for any other purpose other than in connection with the Transaction. Except as expressly provided in this Agreement, the Receiving Party shall not disclose Confidential Information to anyone without the Disclosing Party’s prior written consent. The Receiving Party shall take all reasonable measures to avoid disclosure, dissemination or unauthorized use of Confidential Information, including, at a minimum, those measures it takes to protect its own confidential information of a similar nature. The Receiving Party shall not export any Confidential Information in any manner contrary to the export regulations of the governmental jurisdiction to which it is subject.

Disclosure of Confidential Information. The Executive recognizes, acknowledges and agrees that he have access to secret and confidential information regarding the Company, its subsidiaries and their respective businesses, including but not limited to, its research programs, research results, technologies, products, methods, formulas, software code, patents, sources of supply, customer dealings, data, know-how, trade secrets and business plans. All of such information shall be deemed "Confidential Information", provided such information is not in or does not hereafter become part of the public domain, or become available to the public generally through no fault of the Executive. The Executive acknowledges that such information is of great value to the Company, is necessary for the conduct of the Company's business, and has been and will be acquired by him in confidence. In consideration of the obligations undertaken by the Company herein, the Executive will not, at any time, during or after his employment hereunder, reveal, divulge or make known to any person, any information acquired by the Executive during the course of his employment, which is treated as confidential by the Company, and not otherwise in the public domain. The provisions of this [Section 12] shall survive the termination of the Executive’s employment hereunder.

Any Finance Party may disclose:

Non-Disclosure of Confidential Information. At the time Executive executes this Agreement, # Executive has received and # the Executive may in the future develop, hold, have access to, or receive, certain Confidential Information, including with respect to identifiable, specific and discrete business opportunities being pursued by the Company. Except as otherwise consented to by the Board in writing, Executive agrees that Executive, during and after the term of this Agreement, shall keep confidential and shall not, whether directly or indirectly, through an Affiliate or otherwise, take commercial or proprietary advantage of or profit from any Confidential Information or disclose Confidential Information to any Person for any reason or purpose whatsoever, except # to authorized managers, directors, officers, representatives, agents and employees of the Company and as otherwise may be proper in the course of performing Executive’s obligations provided that such disclosure is for the sole benefit of the Company, or # as is required to be disclosed by order of a court of competent jurisdiction, administrative body or governmental body, or by subpoena, summons or legal process, or by law, rule or regulations; provided that, if Executive is required to make such disclosure, Executive shall # provide to the Company prompt written notice (if legally permissible) prior to such disclosure and cooperate reasonably, at the Company’s sole expense, with the efforts of the Company to seek an appropriate protective order or confidential treatment and # takes and uses all reasonable measures to attempt to preserve the confidentiality and limit the disclosure of such Confidential Information. For purposes of this [Section 6(a)], Executive is only required to hold in confidence any Confidential Information that is not a trade secret for the maximum duration permitted by applicable law; and the term “Confidential Information” shall not include any information that at the time of disclosure is in, or thereafter is publicly known other than as a result of any disclosure directly or indirectly by Executive or a third party in violation of this Agreement or any other obligation of confidentiality binding upon Executive or such third party. Nothing in this [Section 6(a)] shall in any way limit, narrow or otherwise modify any confidentiality covenants or other restrictive covenants entered into by Executive pursuant to any other agreement entered into with the Company.

Authorized Disclosure of Confidential Information. Notwithstanding [Section 15.1], each Party may disclose Confidential Information to the extent such disclosure is reasonably necessary in the following situations:

Non-Disclosure of Confidential Information. Except in the course of his/her employment with the Company and in the pursuit of the business of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, the Executive shall not, at any time during or following the Contract Period, disclose or use, any confidential information or proprietary data of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates. The Executive agrees that, among other things, all information concerning the identity of and the Company’s relations with its customers is confidential information.

The Executive recognizes and acknowledges that the continued success of and its Affiliates depends upon the use and protection of a large body of confidential and proprietary information and that the Executive will have access to the entire universe of ’s Confidential Information (as defined below in [Section 10(b)]), as well as certain confidential information of other Persons with which and its Affiliates do business, and that such information constitutes valuable, special and unique property of , its Affiliates and such other Persons.

Confidential Information. For purposes of this Agreement, ’s “Confidential Information” shall include and its Affiliates’ trade secrets as defined under Delaware law, as well as any other information or material which is not generally known to the public, and which: # is generated, collected by or utilized in the operations of or its Affiliates’ business and relates to the actual or anticipated business, research or development of , its Affiliates or and its Affiliates’ actual or prospective Customers; or # is suggested by or results from any task assigned to the Executive by or its Affiliates, or work performed by the Executive for or on behalf of or its Affiliates. Confidential Information shall not be considered generally known to the public if the Executive or others improperly reveal such information to the public without or its Affiliates’ express written consent and/or in violation of an obligation of confidentiality owed to or its Affiliates. Confidential Information includes, without limitation, the information, observations and data obtained by the Executive while employed by concerning the business or affairs of or its Affiliates, including information concerning acquisition opportunities in or reasonably related to or its Affiliates’ business or industry, the identities of and other information (such as databases) relating to the current, former or prospective employees, suppliers and Customers of or its Affiliates, development, transition and transformation plans, methodologies and methods of doing business, strategic, marketing and expansion plans, financial and business plans, financial data, pricing information, employee lists and telephone numbers, locations of sales representatives, new and existing customer or supplier programs and services, customer terms, customer service and integration processes, requirements and costs of providing service, support and equipment.

Confidential Information. Except as permitted by the Company, Executive will not at any time divulge, furnish or make accessible to anyone or use in any way other than in the ordinary course of the business of the Company or its Affiliates, any confidential, proprietary or secret knowledge or information of the Company or its Affiliates that Executive has acquired or will acquire about the Company or its Affiliates, whether developed by Executive or by others, concerning # any trade secrets, # any confidential, proprietary or secret designs, programs, processes, formulae, plans, devices or material (whether or not patented or patentable) directly or indirectly useful in any aspect of the business of the Company or of its Affiliates, # any customer or supplier lists, # any confidential, proprietary or secret development or research work, # any strategic or other business, marketing or sales plans, # any financial data or plans, or # any other confidential or proprietary information or secret aspects of the business of the Company or of its Affiliates. Executive acknowledges that the above-described knowledge and information constitutes a unique and valuable asset of the Company and represents a substantial investment of

For purposes of this Agreement, “Confidential Information” includes, but is not limited to, all information not generally known to the public, in spoken, printed, electronic or any other form or medium, relating directly or indirectly to: business processes, products, patents, sources of supply, customer dealings, data, source code, business plans, practices, methods, policies, publications, research, operations, strategies, techniques, agreements, transactions, potential transactions, negotiations, know-how, trade secrets, computer programs, computer software, applications, operating systems, software design, work-in-process, databases, records, systems, supplier information, vendor information, financial information, results, legal information, marketing and advertising information, pricing information, design information, personnel information, developments, reports, internal controls, graphics, drawings, market studies, sales information, revenue, costs, notes, communications, algorithms, product plans, designs, models, ideas, inventions, unpublished patent applications, original works of authorship, discoveries, experimental processes, experimental results, specifications, customer information, customer lists, distributor lists, and buyer lists of the Company or its subsidiaries, affiliates or any existing or prospective customer, supplier, investor or other associated third party, or of any other Person that has entrusted information to the Company in confidence. Employee understands that the above list is not exhaustive, and that Confidential Information also includes other information that is marked or otherwise identified as confidential or proprietary, or that would otherwise appear to a reasonable person to be confidential or proprietary in the context and circumstances in which the information is known or used. For purposes of this Agreement, “Person” means an individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company, governmental authority, unincorporated organization, trust, association, or other entity.

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