definiens: sha ll mean all oral and written information relating to a Party, which is disclosed or made ava ilable to or learned by the other Party or its personnel in connection with this Agreement, includ ing but not lim ited to financial statements or data, production data, trade secrets, informatio n relating to manufacturing and research methods and projects, production plants and other f acilities, technology, apparatus, equipment and systems, marketing or customer data, prices, Specifications, information regarding the disclosing Party ’s employees, officers, directors a nd consultants, research tools, sales information, the existence, terms or conditions of this Agreement, or other information that is not generally availa ble to the public and that relates to the business of the disclosing Party . Each Party agrees to take commercially reasonable precau tions to keep secret and confidential all Confidential Information, and shall not use ( for it self or others ) nor disclose, a nd shall not permit the use nor disclosure of, any Confidential Informa tion, except to the extent required for the purpose of performing its obligations pursuant to t his Agreement, and in such event, Confidential Information 19 shall be disclosed only to those or its or its Affi liates ’ officers, directors, employees, or subcontr actors who require such information in order to perform activities pur suant to this Agreement, and who are bound by oblig ations of confidentiality at least as strict as those in this Section 13