Destruction of Confidential Information and Materials. Each Party shall destroy or cause to be destroyed (or, at the other Party’s written request, return or cause to be returned) all Confidential Information of the other Party in the possession of such Party or its Affiliates or Sublicensees as of the effective date of expiration or termination (with the exception of one copy of such Confidential Information, which may be retained by the legal department of the Party that received such Confidential Information to confirm compliance with the nonuse and nondisclosure provisions of this Agreement), provided that each Party may retain and continue to use such Confidential Information of the other Party to the extent necessary to exercise any surviving rights, licenses or obligations under this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Party shall not be required to destroy any computer files created during automatic system back up that are subsequently stored securely by it and not readily accessible to its employees, consultants, or others who received Confidential Information under this Agreement. Each Party shall destroy or cause to be destroyed, or at the other Party’s option, return or cause to be returned to such other Party, all Materials of such other Party in its possession or its Affiliates’ or Sublicensees’ possession as of the effective date of expiration or termination.

Upon termination or expiration of this Agreement, # each Party shall promptly return to the other Party (or destroy and provide the other Party with a certificate of destruction) all transferred materials, # each Party shall promptly return to the other Party all relevant records and materials in its possession or control containing or comprising the other Party’s Confidential Information and to which the Party does not retain rights hereunder; provided, however, that each Party shall be entitled to retain copies of the other Party’s Confidential Information to the extent necessary to comply with applicable regulatory obligations and shall be entitled to retain one copy of the other Party’s Confidential Information for archival purposes.

Upon the expiration or earlier termination of this Agreement, each Party shall return to the other Party or destroy all documents and tangible materials (and any copies) containing, reflecting, incorporating, or based on the other Party’s Confidential Information (defined below). In addition, and if applicable, each Party, upon the other Party’s written request (email is sufficient), will certify in writing to such other Party that it has complied with the requirements of this section.

Return of Confidential Information. Upon the termination of this Agreement, each Party, at its own cost, shall promptly return to the Disclosing Party any and all documents and materials constituting or containing Confidential Information of the Disclosing Party which are in its possession or control, or at its option, shall destroy such documents and materials and certify such destruction in writing to the Disclosing Party.

Return of Confidential Information. Within […​…] following the expiration or termination of this Agreement, each party shall return to the other party, or destroy, upon the written request of the other party, any and all Confidential Information of the other party in such party’s possession; provided, however that each party may retain one copy of the other party’s Confidential Information in such party’s legal archives for the sole purpose of monitoring compliance with such party’s obligations, enforcing such party’s rights hereunder, and exercising such party’s surviving rights hereunder.

Return of Confidential Information. Upon the effective date of the termination of this Agreement for any reason, either Party may request in writing, and the other Party shall either, with respect to Confidential Information (in the event of termination of this Agreement with respect to one (1) or more Terminated Territories but not in its entirety, solely to the extent relating specifically and exclusively to such Terminated Territories) to which such first Party does not retain rights under the surviving provisions of this Agreement # as soon as reasonably practicable, destroy all copies of such Confidential Information in the possession of the other Party and confirm such destruction in writing to the requesting Party, or # as soon as reasonably practicable, deliver to the requesting Party, at the other Party’s expense, all copies of such Confidential Information in the possession of the other Party; provided, that the other Party shall be permitted to retain one (1) copy of such Confidential Information for the sole purpose of performing any continuing obligations hereunder, as required by Applicable Law, or for archival purposes. Notwithstanding the foregoing, such other Party also shall be permitted to retain such additional copies of or any computer records or files containing such Confidential Information that have been created solely by such Party’s automatic archiving and back-up procedures, to the extent created and retained in a manner consistent with such other Party’s standard archiving and back-up procedures, but not for any other use or purpose.