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Executive shall hold in a fiduciary capacity for the benefit of the Company all confidential or proprietary information relating to or concerned with the Company or its Affiliates (as defined below) or its products or services, prospective products or services, operations, business and affairs (“Confidential Information”), and he shall not, at any time hereafter, use or disclose any Confidential Information to any person other than to the Company or its designees or except as may otherwise be required in connection with the business and affairs of the Company, and in furtherance of the foregoing Executive agrees that:

Trade Secrets. During the course of Executive's employment, Executive will have access to various trade secrets, confidential information, and inventions of the Company and its affiliates as defined below.

Trade Secrets. For purposes of this Agreement, “Trade Secrets” shall mean the chemical composition, formulations, ratios of chemical components and their constituent ingredients (as well as know-how related to how to manufacture and produce same), which comprise any party of the Subject Product, along with all non-public information that would enable a third party to manufacture and produce the Subject Product, or any of its ingredients.

Trade Secrets. Company considers much of its Confidential Information to constitute trade secrets of Company (“Trade Secrets”) which have independent value, provide Company with a competitive advantage over its competitors who do not know the Trade Secrets, and are protected from unauthorized disclosure under applicable law. However, whether or not the Confidential Information constitutes Trade Secrets, Employee acknowledges and agrees that the Confidential Information is protected from unauthorized disclosure or use due to Employee’s covenants under this Agreement and Employee’s fiduciary duties as an employee of Company.

The Employee specifically agrees that he will not at any time, whether during or subsequent to the term of the Employee’s employment by the Employer, in any fashion, form, or manner, unless specifically consented to in writing by the Employer, either directly or indirectly use or divulge, disclose, or communicate to any person, firm, or corporation, in any manner whatsoever, any confidential information of any kind, nature, or description concerning any matters affecting or relating to the business of the Employer, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the names or addresses of any of the shareholders or other employees of the Employer, the prices it obtains or has obtained or in which it will sell or has sold its inventory or services, the names, buying habits or practices of any of its customers, lists or other written records used in the Employer’s business, compensation paid to employees and other terms of employment, business systems, computer programs, or any other confidential information of, about, or concerning the business of the Employer, its manner of operation, or other confidential data of any kind, nature, or description whatsoever. The Parties to this Agreement stipulate that, as between them, the foregoing items are important, material, and confidential trade secrets and affect the successful conduct of the Employer’s business and its goodwill. Any breach of any

Trade Secrets. During Employee’s employment by the Company, Employee shall do what is reasonably necessary to prevent unauthorized misappropriation or disclosure and threatened misappropriation or disclosure of the Company’s or any of its subsidiaries’ Trade Secrets and, after termination of employment, Employee shall not use or disclose the Company’s or any of its subsidiaries’ Trade Secrets as long as they remain, without misappropriation, Trade Secrets.

Trade Secrets/Defend Trade Secrets Act. Nothing in this Agreement (or any prior agreement on confidentiality to which Pennypacker may be subject) diminishes or limits any protection granted by law to trade secrets or relieves Pennypacker of any duty not to disclose, use, or misappropriate any information that is a trade secret, for as long as such information remains a trade secret. Additionally, nothing in this Agreement (or any prior agreement on confidentiality to which Pennypacker may be subject) is intended to discourage him from reporting any theft of trade secrets to the appropriate government official pursuant to the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (“DTSA”) or other applicable state or federal law. Additionally, under the DTSA, a trade secret may be disclosed to report a suspected violation of law and/or in an anti-retaliation lawsuit, as follows:

The Participant acknowledges 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 Subsidiary or any customers thereof ("Confidential Information"). The Participant’s electronic signature also acknowledges that the Company has certain information that derives economic value from not being known to the general 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").

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It is the understanding of both the Company and Executive that Executive shall not divulge to the Company and/or its subsidiaries any confidential information or trade secrets belonging to others, including Executive’s former employers, nor shall the Company and/or its Affiliates seek to elicit from Executive any such information. Consistent with the foregoing, Executive shall not provide to the Company and/or its Affiliates, and the Company and/or its Affiliates shall not request, any documents or copies of documents containing such information.

Trade Secrets; Confidentiality and Company Property. During and at all times after Employee’s employment with the Company:

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