Description
Key Characteristics
- Mutual confidentiality obligations on each party.
- Confidential information and security measures: generic only.
- The defined purpose is for discussions on future working relationships.
- Duration: 12 months with automatic termination.
- Termination: any time for any reason on one week’s notice.
- Post-termination obligation of confidentiality: 3 years.
- Law: English law
- This template is NOT AI generated.
To use
- Insert names and address of the parties at the beginning and in the signature block
Document format
- Latest version of Microsoft Word – .docx
- Font: Ariel, 11 point, single spacing
- 4 pages in total
When to use
- When parties want to have a discussion about future working relationship and both want to share information for example for a party to provide a quote, or enter into an agreement for services.
- It is not suitable for when only one party is sharing information or where the information is high value confidential information for example any intellectual property or trade secrets or when one party wants to specify how the recipient handles and keeps secure any confidential information for example kept separate from any other files.
- It may not be suitable where one party is a multi-national and there is an intention that some of the confidential information may cross borders or be shared with other group companies.
Additional help
- If you need further help on this before you purchase, then feel free to drop us a message using the contact form. You will need a Tier 1 membership to do this.
- If you want additional help with reformatting, drafting or making amendments to this NDA to make it bespoke to your business, then buy additional time.
- Note that when you buy time, and it is your first time buying time then you will be treated as a new client and there will be additional client on-boarding steps that will need to be undertaken: ID, proof of address and conflict check. This will not need to be done again unless there is a significant change.
Additional resources
- Unclear about NDAs? The try taking the course.
- Have a look at this checklist for NDAs
- If you want to understand a bit more about some of the boilerplate clauses, then look here (need at Tier 2 membership for accessing the majority of the content).
