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Confidential Information: As used in this Agreement, the term “Confidential Information” means information in whatever form, pertaining to the business of the Company that is not generally known outside of the Company, or that is known outside of the Company through improper means. Without limiting the foregoing definition, Confidential Information includes, but is not limited to: # technical information, formulas, teaching and development techniques, methodologies, processes, trade secrets, computer programs, electronic codes, designs, product development information, inventions, improvements, and research projects; # information about finances, costs, profits, markets, proposals, sales, and lists of customers or clients; # business, marketing, and strategic plans; and # employee personnel files and compensation information.

Definition of Confidential Information: As used in this Agreement,Information. “Confidential Information” means any information, technical data, or know-how, including, but not limited to, that which relates to research, acquisitions, product plans, products, services, customers, consultants, markets, processes, designs, drawings, marketing or finances of the Company. The term “Confidential Informationmeansincludes trade secrets and to any and all information in whatever form, pertainingof any nature or kind whatsoever which relates to all proprietary and financial information relating to the Company’s business; to any and all information concerning the Company’s customers; and to the content of any and all working papers, discussion papers, business plans, documents and products of any nature or kind which the Company has created, amended or enhanced. Confidential Information does not include information, technical data or know-how which # is in the possession of the Company that is not generally known outsideEmployee at the time of disclosure to him as shown by the Employee’s files and records immediately prior to the time of disclosure; # the Employee can prove, from contemporaneous written evidence, has been independently developed by him without access to, either directly or indirectly, the Company’s Confidential Information; # prior to or after the time of disclosure becomes part of the Company,public knowledge or that is known outsideliterature other than as a result of any improper inaction or action of the Employee; # is approved in writing by the Company through improper means. Without limitingfor release; or # is required to be disclosed by applicable law or proper legal, governmental or other competent authority (provided that the foregoing definition, Confidential Information includes, but is not limited to: # technical information, formulas, teaching and development techniques, methodologies, processes, trade secrets, computer programs, electronic codes, designs, product development information, inventions, improvements, and research projects; # information about finances, costs, profits, markets, proposals, sales, and listsCompany shall be notified sufficiently in advance of customers or clients; # business, marketing, and strategic plans; and # employee personnel files and compensation information.such requirement so that it may seek a protective order (or equivalent) with respect to such disclosure, with which the Employee shall fully comply).

Confidential Information: As used in this Agreement, the term “Confidential Information” means any information in whatever form, pertaining toconcerning the business and affairs of the Company that is not generally known outsideavailable to the public, including know-how, trade secrets, customer lists, details of the Company,customer or that is known outside ofconsultant contracts, pricing policies, operational methods and marketing plans or strategies, and any information disclosed to the Company through improper means. Without limitingby third parties to the foregoing definition, Confidential Information includes, but is not limited to: # technical information, formulas, teaching and development techniques, methodologies, processes, trade secrets, computer programs, electronic codes, designs, product development information, inventions, improvements, and research projects; # information about finances, costs, profits, markets, proposals, sales, and listsextent that the Company has an obligation of customers or clients; # business, marketing, and strategic plans; and # employee personnel files and compensation information.confidentiality in connection therewith.

Confidential Information: As used in this Agreement, theInformation. The term “Confidential Information” means any documentation, data, or information in whatever form, pertainingwhich is valuable to the business of the Company that is and not generally known outside ofto the Company, or that is known outside of the Company through improper means. Without limiting the foregoing definition, Confidential Information includes,public, including but is not limited to:to any and all knowledge, data or information related to Company’s business or its actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, including without limitation # technical information, formulas, teaching and development techniques, methodologies, processes, trade secrets, computermask works, ideas, processes, formulas, source and object codes, data, programs, electronic codes, designs, product development information, inventions,other works of authorship, know-how, improvements, discoveries, developments, designs and research projects;techniques; # information about finances,regarding plans for research, development, new products and services, marketing and selling, business plans, budgets and unpublished financial statements, licenses, prices and costs, profits, markets, proposals, sales,suppliers and listscustomers; # information regarding the skills and compensation of customers or clients; # business, marketing,other employees, contractors, and strategic plans;any other service providers of Company; and # employee personnel filesthe existence of any business discussions, negotiations, or agreements between Company and compensation information.any third party.

Confidential Information: As used in this Agreement, the term “Confidential Information” means confidential, secret or other non-public or proprietary information in whatever form, pertainingof or about the Company and its affiliates, their respective products, licensors, suppliers or customers and shall include, without limitation, information regarding: Inventions, methodologies, processes, tools, computer programs and documentation, manufacturing and application information, business strategies, financial information, forecasts, personnel information, customer lists or other customer information, trade secrets, new product developments, market information and advertising, business and marketing plans relating to the business ofCompany and its affiliates and any other non-public information, whether in writing or given to me orally, which I know or have reason to know the Company that is not generally known outside of the Company,would like to treat as confidential for any purpose, such as maintaining a competitive advantage or that is known outside of the Company through improper means. Without limiting the foregoing definition, Confidential Information includes, but is not limited to: # technical information, formulas, teaching and development techniques, methodologies, processes, trade secrets, computer programs, electronic codes, designs, product development information, inventions, improvements, and research projects; # information about finances, costs, profits, markets, proposals, sales, and lists of customers or clients; # business, marketing, and strategic plans; and # employee personnel files and compensation information.avoiding undesirable publicity.

Confidential Information: AsInformation. For purposes of this Agreement, "Confidential Information" means confidential information, to the extent it is not a trade secret, that is possessed by or developed for the Company and that relates to the Company's business or technology, including but not limited to computer program object and source codes, business plans and strategies, existing or proposed bids, technical developments, existing or proposed research projects, financial or business projections, investments, marketing plans and strategies, pricing and cost information, negotiations strategies, sales strategies, training information and materials, employee compensation and other employee information, customer or potential customer lists, customer purchasing history, and information generated for customer engagements. Confidential Information also includes information received by the Company from others which the Company has an obligation to treat as confidential, including information obtained in connection with customer engagements. Confidential Information shall not include information that is or becomes available to the public through no wrongful act or omission of Employee. The parties agree that the Company's Confidential Information was established at great expense and protected as confidential information and provides the Company with a substantial competitive advantage in conducting its business. The parties further agree that by virtue of the Employee's employment with the Company, Employee will have access to, and be entrusted with, Confidential Information and that the Company would suffer great loss and

injury if the Employee would disclose this information or use it to compete with the Company. Therefore, the Employee agrees that during the term of Employee's employment, and until the first to occur of # such time as the Confidential Information becomes generally available to the public through no fault of Employee, # such time as the Confidential Information no longer provides a benefit to the Company or # the second anniversary of the termination of Employee's employment with the Company, Employee will not, directly or indirectly, in any capacity, use or disclose, or cause to be used or disclosed, in any geographic area in which such use or disclosure could harm the Company's business interests, any Confidential Information. This provision does not prohibit Employee's use of general skills acquired prior to or during employment by the Company, as long as such use does not involve the use or disclosure of Confidential Information or trade secrets. The restrictions contained in this Agreement,paragraph apply to Confidential Information regardless of the term “Confidential Information” meansfact that the Employee may have participated in the discovery and the development of that information. Employee also agrees and acknowledges that Employee will comply with all applicable laws regarding insider trading or the use of material nonpublic information in whatever form, pertaining toconnection with the businesstrading of securities. For purposes of this section 8, Company shall include any subsidiaries of the Company that is not generally known outside of the Company, or that is known outside of the Company through improper means. Without limiting the foregoing definition, Confidential Information includes, but is not limited to: # technical information, formulas, teaching and development techniques, methodologies, processes, trade secrets, computer programs, electronic codes, designs, product development information, inventions, improvements, and research projects; # information about finances, costs, profits, markets, proposals, sales, and lists of customers or clients; # business, marketing, and strategic plans; and # employee personnel files and compensation information.Company.

Confidential Information: As used inFor purposes of this Agreement, the term Confidential Informationmeansshall mean any and all information pertaining to the Company and the Business, whether such information is in written form or communicated orally, visually or otherwise, that is proprietary, non-public or relates to any trade secret, including, but not limited to, # information, observations and data obtained by the Employee while employed by the Company concerning the Business, # products or services, # fees, costs and pricing structures, # designs, # analyses, # drawings, photographs and reports, # computer software, including operating systems, applications and program listings, # flow charts, manuals and documentation, # data bases, # accounting and business methods, # inventions, devices, new developments, methods and processes, whether patentable or unpatentable and whether or not reduced to practice, # customers, suppliers, clients and customer, supplier and client lists, # other copyrightable works, # marketing plans and trade secrets, and # all similar and related information in whatever form, pertaining toform. Notwithstanding the businessforegoing, “Confidential Information” shall not include information that # is or becomes generally available to, or known by, the public through no fault of the Company thatEmployee, or # is not generally known outsideindependently acquired or developed by the Employee without violating any of the Company, or that is known outside of the Company through improper means. Without limiting the foregoing definition, Confidential Information includes, but is not limited to: # technical information, formulas, teaching and development techniques, methodologies, processes, trade secrets, computer programs, electronic codes, designs, product development information, inventions, improvements, and research projects; # information about finances, costs, profits, markets, proposals, sales, and lists of customers or clients; # business, marketing, and strategic plans; and # employee personnel files and compensation information.her obligations under this Agreement.

Confidential Information: As used in this Agreement, the term “Confidential Information” means any information in whatever form, pertaining to the business of the Company that is not generally known outside the Company, including but not limited to trade secrets, and that is proprietary to the Company, relating to any phase of the Company,Company’s existing or that is known outside of the Company through improper means. Without limiting the foregoing definition,reasonably foreseeable business, including information conceived, discovered or developed by Executive. Confidential Information includes, but is not limited to: # technicalto, business plans; strategic plans and initiatives; financial information, formulas, teachingstatements and development techniques, methodologies, processes, trade secrets, computer programs, electronic codes, designs,projections; new store plans or locations; payroll and personnel records and information; marketing information, materials and plans; product development information, inventions, improvements,designs; supplier information; customer information; customer lists; project lists; information relating to pricing and research projects; #costs; or other information about finances, costs, profits, markets, proposals, sales, and lists of customersthat is designated by the Company as “Confidential or clients; # business, marketing, and strategic plans; and # employee personnel files and compensation information.other similar designation or is treated by the Company as Confidential.

Confidential Information: As used inInformation Defined. For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Confidential Information“Confidential Information” means any and all proprietary information in whatever form, pertaining to the business of the Company that isderives independent economic value by virtue of its not generallybeing known outsideto the Company’s competitors or the general public including, but not limited to, customer lists, customer information, intellectual property, employee lists, employee information, prospect lists, prospect information, pricing information, inventions, research and development, financial statements, marketing plans, management systems and procedures, trade secrets, supplier lists, sales techniques, software specifications and information, results of the Company,research and development, whether complete or that is known outside ofin process, and any other information which the Company through improper means. Without limitingidentifies in writing and provided to the foregoing definition,Company as Confidential Information includes, but is not limited to: # technical information, formulas, teaching and development techniques, methodologies, processes, trade secrets, computer programs, electronic codes, designs, product development information, inventions, improvements, and research projects; # information about finances, costs, profits, markets, proposals, sales, and lists of customers or clients; # business, marketing, and strategic plans; and # employee personnel files and compensation information.Information.

"Confidential Information: As usedInformation" means the trade secrets and other information of Company, including but not limited to # the customer lists, customer contact information, customer purchase information, pricing information, strategic and marketing plans, compilations of customer information, names of employees, contracts with third parties, training, financial and marketing books, sales projections, internal employer databases, reports, manuals and information including information related to Company, its Affiliates or its customers, including those documents and items which any employee may develop or help develop while in this Agreement, the term “Confidential Information” meansemploy of the Company or any of its Affiliates, whether or not developed during regular working hours or on the premises of the Company or such Affiliate; # the identity, skills, personnel file information, performance appraisals and compensation of job applicants, employees, contractors, and consultants; # specialized training; # source code, scripts, user screens, reports or any other information in whatever form, pertaining to the businessinternal information technology or network of the Company that is not generally known outside ofand/or its Affiliates, including the Company, or that is known outside ofproprietary database system commonly referred to as the Office System; and # information related to inventions owned by the Company through improper means. Without limitingor any of its Affiliates or licensed from third parties; and unless the foregoing definition, Confidential Information includes, but iscontext requires otherwise, the term "Confidential Information" includes the original of such materials, any copies thereof, any notes derived from such materials, and any derivative work of such materials. The term "Confidential Information" does not limited to: # technical information, formulas, teaching and development techniques, methodologies, processes, trade secrets, computer programs, electronic codes, designs, product development information, inventions, improvements, and research projects;include # information about finances, costs, profits, markets, proposals, sales,that was or becomes generally available publicly other than through disclosure by Executive, or # is required to be disclosed to any governmental agency or self-regulatory body or is otherwise required to be disclosed by law. Unless the context requires otherwise, the term "Confidential Information" shall include the original of such materials, any copies thereof, any notes derived from such materials, and listsany derivative work of customers or clients; # business, marketing, and strategic plans; and # employee personnel files and compensation information.such materials.

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