Employee Confidentiality Agreement

EMPLOYEE CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT This AGREEMENT is made on [effective_date] between [company_name], of [company_address] (the "Company"), and [employee_name], employed as [designation] (the "Employee"). 1. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION 1.1 "Confidential Information" means all non-public information of the Company, its group companies, its clients and its business partners, in whatever form, which the Employee acquires in the course of employment, including: [confidential_categories] It also includes, without limitation: business and financial information, client and supplier lists and terms, pricing, strategies and plans, technical data, source code, designs, processes, know-how, personnel information, and the terms of the Employee's own remuneration. 1.2 Confidential Information does not include information that is or becomes public otherwise than through the Employee's breach, or that the Employee can show was already lawfully known without obligation of confidence. 2. OBLIGATIONS The Employee shall: 2.1 Keep all Confidential Information strictly confidential, both during employment and after it ends; 2.2 Use it solely for the proper performance of the Employee's duties, and for no other purpose; 2.3 Not disclose it to any person outside the Company, nor to any colleague who does not need it for their own duties; 2.4 Not copy, remove, transmit or store Confidential Information outside the Company's authorised systems, including on personal devices, email or cloud accounts, without written authorisation; 2.5 Comply with the Company's information security and acceptable use policies; 2.6 Report immediately any actual or suspected unauthorised disclosure or loss. 3. RETURN OF INFORMATION On termination of employment, or earlier on demand, the Employee shall return to the Company all documents, records, data, devices and copies containing Confidential Information, and shall permanently delete any such material held on personal devices or accounts, certifying compliance in writing if asked. 4. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY All inventions, designs, software, works of authorship and other intellectual property created by the Employee in the course of employment, and relating to the Company's business, shall vest absolutely in the Company. The Employee shall execute such documents as may be required to give effect to this. 5. DURATION The obligations in this Agreement continue during employment and for [survival_years] years after it ends, and indefinitely in respect of any information constituting a trade secret. 6. NO RESTRAINT OF TRADE 6.1 Nothing in this Agreement restrains the Employee from taking up employment or carrying on any lawful profession, trade or business after the employment ends. 6.2 The parties record that under Section 27 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 an agreement in restraint of trade is void, and that this Agreement is confined to the protection of confidential information and intellectual property, which is enforceable, rather than operating as a non-compete, which is not. 7. REMEDIES The Employee acknowledges that damages alone may not adequately remedy a breach, and that the Company may seek injunctive relief in addition to any other remedy available in law. 8. GOVERNING LAW Governed by the laws of India, with the courts at the Company's registered office having jurisdiction. FOR THE COMPANY EMPLOYEE [company_name] [employee_name] Name: Designation: