Non-Disclosure & Confidentiality
INTRODUCTION
Due to the confidential and strategically critical nature of revenue, monetization, pricing and value strategy, ACV.dev has taken a very deliberate approach to client-customer engagements. This stems from the interests of both our clients-customers and ACV.dev.
For this reason, every ACV.dev engagement has included Non-Disclosure Agreement language that maintains the strictest confidentiality and heavily favors ACV.dev clients-customers.
This level of confidentiality creates a high level of trust for ACV.dev clients-customers. Confidentiality and trust both enables and leads to greater access and detail around a client-customer company’s value roadmap, technology, operations and related sensitive information.
Past clients-customers have strongly voiced their appreciation and have noted they never would have thought of the full scope of risks were it not for this proactive approach.
AGREEMENT
I, as the official and legal representative for ACV.dev, hereinafter “The Advisor”, in consideration of and on an behalf of the principals, associates, agents, or employees of client's-customer's company or organization, hereinafter “The Client”, understand, agree and hereby acknowledge that in the course of our mutual business relationship The Client may make certain information available to The Advisor, including all business data such as company name, pricing data, customer databases, customer lists, marketing information, technical or design information, performance and production standards, trade secrets, copyrighted materials, patents and inventions and any and all other confidential information, hereinafter “Confidential Information”.
This Confidential Information is acknowledged by The Advisor to have inherent value, both economic and otherwise, and that disclosure thereof could result in economic losses to The Client or economic gains to others who could potentially profit by disclosure.
The Advisor hereby agrees to hold confidential and make reasonable efforts to maintain secrecy and confidentiality of all Confidential Information that may pass to The Advisor from The Client.
The Advisor further agrees, after the termination of this agreement, not to make use of any Confidential Information to solicit current or future customers of The Client.
Confidential Information" includes information disclosed by the Client to the Advisor before the execution of this Agreement, but does not include any information which can be reasonably shown to already be available in the public domain.
Upon request of the Client, the Advisor shall return to the Client all Confidential Information received by the Advisor from the Client (and all copies, notes from and reproductions thereof). In addition, the Advisor shall destroy, and certify in writing the destruction of all Confidential Information. Notwithstanding the return or destruction of the Proprietary Information, the Advisor will continue to be bound by their obligations of confidentiality and other obligations hereunder.
This Agreement shall apply to all Confidential Information disclosed between the parties, both information disclosed prior to the Effective Date (the date of payment completed on the ACV.dev website), on the Effective Date and after the Effective Date until the fifth anniversary of the Effective Date. The confidentiality obligations imposed by this Agreement shall continue with respect to a particular item of Confidential Information until the fifth anniversary of the disclosure of such Confidential Information to the Advisor pursuant to this Agreement; provided, however, that the confidentiality obligations imposed by this Agreement with respect to source code or trade secrets included in the Confidential Information shall continue in perpetuity.
This Agreement shall be construed and interpreted in accordance with the internal laws of the state of Washington, United States of America.
Respectfully,
Chris Hopf
Founder / CEO
Due to the confidential and strategically critical nature of revenue, monetization, pricing and value strategy, ACV.dev has taken a very deliberate approach to client-customer engagements. This stems from the interests of both our clients-customers and ACV.dev.
For this reason, every ACV.dev engagement has included Non-Disclosure Agreement language that maintains the strictest confidentiality and heavily favors ACV.dev clients-customers.
This level of confidentiality creates a high level of trust for ACV.dev clients-customers. Confidentiality and trust both enables and leads to greater access and detail around a client-customer company’s value roadmap, technology, operations and related sensitive information.
Past clients-customers have strongly voiced their appreciation and have noted they never would have thought of the full scope of risks were it not for this proactive approach.
AGREEMENT
I, as the official and legal representative for ACV.dev, hereinafter “The Advisor”, in consideration of and on an behalf of the principals, associates, agents, or employees of client's-customer's company or organization, hereinafter “The Client”, understand, agree and hereby acknowledge that in the course of our mutual business relationship The Client may make certain information available to The Advisor, including all business data such as company name, pricing data, customer databases, customer lists, marketing information, technical or design information, performance and production standards, trade secrets, copyrighted materials, patents and inventions and any and all other confidential information, hereinafter “Confidential Information”.
This Confidential Information is acknowledged by The Advisor to have inherent value, both economic and otherwise, and that disclosure thereof could result in economic losses to The Client or economic gains to others who could potentially profit by disclosure.
The Advisor hereby agrees to hold confidential and make reasonable efforts to maintain secrecy and confidentiality of all Confidential Information that may pass to The Advisor from The Client.
The Advisor further agrees, after the termination of this agreement, not to make use of any Confidential Information to solicit current or future customers of The Client.
Confidential Information" includes information disclosed by the Client to the Advisor before the execution of this Agreement, but does not include any information which can be reasonably shown to already be available in the public domain.
Upon request of the Client, the Advisor shall return to the Client all Confidential Information received by the Advisor from the Client (and all copies, notes from and reproductions thereof). In addition, the Advisor shall destroy, and certify in writing the destruction of all Confidential Information. Notwithstanding the return or destruction of the Proprietary Information, the Advisor will continue to be bound by their obligations of confidentiality and other obligations hereunder.
This Agreement shall apply to all Confidential Information disclosed between the parties, both information disclosed prior to the Effective Date (the date of payment completed on the ACV.dev website), on the Effective Date and after the Effective Date until the fifth anniversary of the Effective Date. The confidentiality obligations imposed by this Agreement shall continue with respect to a particular item of Confidential Information until the fifth anniversary of the disclosure of such Confidential Information to the Advisor pursuant to this Agreement; provided, however, that the confidentiality obligations imposed by this Agreement with respect to source code or trade secrets included in the Confidential Information shall continue in perpetuity.
This Agreement shall be construed and interpreted in accordance with the internal laws of the state of Washington, United States of America.
Respectfully,
Chris Hopf
Founder / CEO
