definiens: means information ( in any form or media ) regarding a party ’s customers, prospectivecustomers ( including lists of customers and prospective customers ), methods of operation, engineering methods andprocesses ( including any information which may be obtained by a party by reverse engineering, decompiling or examiningany software or hardware provided by the other party under this Agreement ), programs and databases, patents and designs, billing rates, billing procedures, vendors and suppliers, business methods, finances, management, or any other7 business information relating to such party ( whether constituting a trade secret or proprietary or otherwise ) which has valueto such party and is treated by such party as being confidential ; provided, however, that Confidential Information does notinclude information that ( i ) is known to the other party prior to receipt from the disclosing party hereunder, whichknowledge shall be evidenced by written records, ( ii ) is or becomes in the public domain through no breach of thisAgreement, ( iii ) is received from a third party without breach of any obligation of confidentiality or ( iv ) informationindependently developed by the other party