We shall store and process the customer details that were communicated in accordance with applicable laws for contract execution purposes, i.e. insofar as this is required for the establishment and execution of the underlying contractual relationship and/or any further agreements between us and the customer.
9.2 The customer shall treat as confidential any and all business and trade secrets of edding and its affiliated companies that the customer is made aware of as being any such by edding or to which the customer gains access during his work, also after the business relationship has ended. Documents on secret business processes that were entrusted to the customer must be returned to edding by the customer after their use as ordered, but no later than upon termination of the contractual relationship. The customer is obliged to treat the contract details as confidential. Exempted from this regulation is any disclosure to parties who are, by law, subject to professional confidentiality obligations. The customer shall be obliged to also bind his vicarious agents to the above confidentiality obligations.