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# One-way non-disclosure agreement

Last updated: October 7, 2026

These proposed confidentiality terms are for Devife, Hermesweg 4A, 3741 GP Baarn, the Netherlands, and a business counterparty. They take effect only when both parties accept them in writing and identify the permitted purpose. Reading this page creates no agreement.

## Parties, purpose and confidential information

The signed schedule identifies the disclosing party and the recipient. Only the recipient undertakes the confidentiality obligations for information received from the disclosing party; Devife may occupy either role as agreed. The permitted purpose is evaluation or performance of the particular business relationship identified in the signed schedule.

Confidential information includes non-public project plans, designs, code, credentials, business information, financial information and other material disclosed in any form that is marked confidential or reasonably understood to be confidential given its nature and circumstances. The schedule identifies whether earlier disclosures are covered.

## Protection and permitted use

The recipient uses the information only for the permitted purpose and protects it with at least reasonable care and the care applied to its own comparable information. Disclosure is limited to personnel and professional advisers who need to know and are bound by equivalent confidentiality duties. The recipient is responsible for their compliance. It must not upload confidential information to external AI services, use it to train models or reverse-engineer supplied confidential technology without prior written permission, except where mandatory law permits. It promptly reports unauthorised access, use or disclosure and cooperates in mitigation.

## Exclusions and required disclosure

These obligations do not cover information the recipient can demonstrate was already lawfully known without a duty of confidence, becomes public without breach, is independently developed without use of the information, or is lawfully obtained from a third party without confidentiality restrictions.

If disclosure is legally required, the recipient gives advance notice where permitted, cooperates in seeking protection and discloses only what is legally necessary. This does not prohibit protected reporting to competent authorities or legally protected whistleblowing.

## Ownership, return and duration

Information remains the discloser's property; no intellectual property licence or obligation to enter a project follows from disclosure. Information is supplied for evaluation without a promise of accuracy or suitability, subject to liabilities that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Either party may end future exchanges by written notice. On request or termination the recipient promptly returns or destroys confidential information, including working copies, and confirms destruction on request. Legally required records and backups not reasonably removable may be retained under continuing confidentiality, without use for other purposes.

Unless the signed schedule agrees otherwise, the disclosure period ends two years after the effective date and confidentiality continues for five years after each disclosure. Trade secrets remain protected while they qualify as trade secrets. Earlier accrued rights survive termination.

## Remedies, law and acceptance

The discloser may seek appropriate court relief for actual or threatened breach, subject to applicable law. No automatic penalty is created. Dutch law applies and the competent Dutch court hears unresolved disputes. Changes require written agreement. An invalid provision leaves the rest effective where legally possible. Neither party may transfer this agreement without the other's written consent. Electronic signatures and counterparts may be used where legally valid.

The signed schedule records both parties' full legal names and addresses, roles, permitted purpose, effective date, any earlier disclosures, this version date, notice contacts and authorised names, signatures and dates. Request an agreement from [info@devife.com](mailto:info@devife.com). A separate DPA is required where the exchange involves processing personal data on another party's instructions.

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