How Can We Ensure Employees Respect Confidentiality and Client Boundaries After Leaving?

Hello, We are a company specializing in machine design and would like to request employees to agree not to misuse any documents and designs (computer data) during or after their employment. Additionally, salespersons are required not to maintain any connection with our company's clients after their employment period or establish a business for at least 2-3 years. Please assist me in incorporating the above requirements into the documentation using appropriate language.

Thank you,

Regards, Aruna

Hi,

The proper term for this clause is called a Non-disclosure agreement.

Please go through the following, and you may use it as per your requirement.

During the service period, you will observe secrecy and confidentiality and will not divulge, disclose, or make known to any person/third party, nor will you unauthorizedly use any knowledge or information regarding manufacturing, technical trade secrets, or business data (including manufacturing process, technical know-how, customer information, business plans, and similar matters) that are necessarily confidential and have come to your knowledge during the course of your employment with the company. You shall not copy or transmit the same unauthorizedly, nor will you grant permission to assist, permit entry to, or in any manner cooperate with any third person for the purposes of accessing, obtaining, copying, transmitting, or removing the above. Even after the expiry of the employment period, you will not use, divulge, disclose, or remove in any manner whatsoever, confidential information obtained by you during the course of employment with the company of the type described above, of which you are possessed with, during the service period.

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