definiens: shall mean any proprietary and secret ideas, proprietarytechnical information, know - how and proprietary commercial information or other similar proprietary information that are owned byLICENSEE . Collectively, LICENSEE Confidential Information and BCM Confidential Information may be referred to herein as A receiving Party shall not disclose the other Party ’s Confidential Information to any third party withoutthe other Party ’s prior written consent, and shall not use such Confidential Information of the other Party except as permittedhereunder . Employees, agents or subcontractors of a receiving Party shall be given access to the other Party ’s ConfidentialInformation only on a legitimate basis and after agreeing to be bound in writing to not divulge or reveal the otherParty ’s Confidential Information . The public disclosure by a receiving Party with the permission of the other Party of any onecomponent of that which was identified as or constituted the other Party ’s Confidential Information shall not prevent the othercomponents from retaining their status as Confidential Information and the property of the other Party17.2 Exclusion