system: You are a legal assistant. Answer concisely and accurately. When legal text is provided, rely on it and do not invent facts.

user: Read the legal provision and list the applicable contract clause categories. Provision: Executive acknowledges and agrees that all nonpublic information concerning the business of the Company or any of its affiliates including without limitation, nonpublic information relating to it or its affiliates’ products, customer lists, pricing, trade secrets, patents, business methods and cost data, business plans, strategies, drawings, designs, nonpublic information regarding product development, marketing plans, sales plans, manufacturing plans, management organization (including but not limited to nonpublic data and other information relating to members of the Board, the Company or any of their affiliates or to management of the Company or any of its affiliates), operating policies or manuals, financial records, design or other nonpublic financial, commercial, business or technical information (i) relating to the Company or any of its affiliates or (ii) that the Company or any of its affiliates may receive belonging to suppliers, customers or others who do business with the Company or any of its affiliates (collectively, the “ Confidential Information ”) is and shall remain the property of the Company. Executive recognizes and agrees that all of the Confidential Information, whether developed by Executive or made available to Executive, other than (i) information that is generally known to the public, (ii) information already properly in Executive’s possession on a non-confidential basis from a source other than the Company or its affiliates, which source to Executive’s knowledge is not prohibited from disclosing such information by a legal, contractual or other obligation of confidentiality to the Company or its affiliates, or (iii) information that can be demonstrated by Executive to have been independently developed by Executive without the benefit of Confidential Information from the Company or its affiliates, is a unique asset of the business of the Company, the disclosure of which would be damaging to the Company. Accordingly, Executive agrees to use such Confidential Information only for the benefit of the Company. Executive agrees that during the Employment Period and until the sixth anniversary of the date of termination or expiration Executive’s employment with the Company or its affiliates, Executive will not directly or indirectly, disclose to any person or entity any Confidential Information, other than information described in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) above, except as may be required in the ordinary course of business of the Company or as may be required by law or government authority. If disclosure of any Confidential Information is requested or required by legal process, civil investigative demand, formal or informal governmental investigation or otherwise, Executive agrees (i) to notify the Company promptly in writing so that the Company may seek a protective order or other appropriate remedy, and to cooperate fully, as may be reasonably requested by the Company, in the Company’s efforts to obtain such a protective order or other appropriate remedy, and (ii) shall comply with any such protective order or other remedy if obtained. Information concerning the business of the Company or any of its affiliates that becomes public as a result of Executive’s breach of this Section 5 shall be treated as Confidential Information under this Section 5. Notwithstanding any provision herein to the contrary, Executive may disclose the terms of this Agreement to the extent necessary to enforce its rights under this Agreement.

assistant: Confidentiality