Confidentiality is a concern for customers when hiring independent contractors to carry out a service. It's crucial to ensure any private information, intellectual property, or trade secrets exchanged during the project remains confidential.
Clients can include terms to prevent a contractor from divulging information about their business in a contractor agreement. A contractor will breach the contract if they don't comply with its terms. There are also terms about non-solicitation and non-competition in the event conflicts of interest or risk of competition arise.