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A confidentiality agreement should include a clear definition of the confidential information, scope of the agreement, obligations of the receiving party, the duration of the contract, any exceptions to confidentiality, and the consequences of a breach of the contract.

A typical confidentiality clause might say, "The phrases and circumstances of this Agreement are completely confidential between the parties and shall not be disclosed to anybody else.

This agreement is made between ________________________("Employee") and [Company Name] on __________________20___. Employee will perform services for [Company Name] that may require [Company Name] to disclose confidential and proprietary information ("Confidential Information") to Employee.

Employee agrees that he/she will never use any Confidential Information for his/her own benefit or for the benefit of any person or entity other than the Company, and will not permit or allow any Confidential Information to be used in competition with the Company.

You do not need a lawyer to create and sign a non-disclosure agreement. However, if the information you are trying to protect is important enough to warrant an NDA, you may want to have the document reviewed by someone with legal expertise.

Laws on employee NDAs differ across states, and California courts have long enforced NDAs for certain confidential business, financial, and technical information as ?trade secrets,? such as: client lists (Gordon v. Schwartz (1956), 147 Cal.