Confidentiality Agreement with Employee
(Unilateral)

Summary

This template is a unilateral confidentiality agreement between an employer and an employee. This template includes practical guidance, drafting notes, and alternate clauses. In this template, the parties agree that, in connection with the employee's employment, he or she will learn and be exposed to information that the employer considers confidential and must keep that information confidential. For the sake of uniformity and administrative ease, employers typically use the same form confidentiality agreements for all employees (in contrast to consultants, whose templates are more customized—for an example, see Confidentiality Agreement with Consultant (Unilateral)). For more information on confidentiality agreements, see Confidentiality Agreements. For information on state laws concerning confidentiality agreements, see Non-competes and Trade Secret Protection State Practice Notes Chart. For additional resources, see Confidentiality and Non-disclosure Agreements Resource Kit.