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Fill out the templateA Confidentiality Agreement, also known as a Non Disclosure Agreement or NDA is a commercial agreement between two people or companies where the parties agree to protect the Confidential Information of one or both of the parties.
Non-Disclosure Agreements or Confidentiality Agreements generally enable parties to reveal information with commercial value that they might otherwise keep secret, so that commercial negotiations can continue openly and honestly.
Some examples of situations where a Confidentiality Agreement might be needed include:
(a) where a company is engaging a new employee (under an Employment Agreement or Letter of Offer of Employment) or contractor (under a Service Agreement or Freelance Agreement) who will have access to secret information, trade secrets or other valuable commercial information of the company;
(b) where two parties are investigating the possibility of an investment or are considering signing a Business Sale Agreement together, and wish to discuss commercially sensitive information;
(c) where a new start-up or inventor has an idea it wishes to discuss with another party to test the possibility of an investment or partnership (under a Partnership Agreement).
A Confidentiality Agreement makes it so that the party receiving the confidential information isn't permitted to disclose that information to anyone else or profit from the use of that information in an unauthorised way.
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This can be used either where only one party is disclosing information (a unilateral disclosure) or where two parties are sharing information with each other (a mutual disclosure).
Persons or organisations intending to rely on a Confidentiality Agreement should make sure that both parties sign the document, before any confidential information is shared. The Confidentiality Agreement is not effective unless it has been signed by both parties. It also may not protect information that has been shared before the Agreement was signed.
Where a party signing this agreement is a person, they can have a witness present when the document is signed. A witness should be an independent adult (aged over 18) who has full mental capacity.
Applicable law
There is no law or regulation governing the use or terms of Confidentiality Agreements in Australia. The broad principles that apply to contract and restraints of trade are applicable to this Confidentiality Agreement.
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Other names for the document:
Confidentiality Agreement and NDA Combined, Non-disclosure Agreement, Secrecy Agreement, Proprietary Information Agreement, NDA
Country: Australia