14. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
« Confidential Information » means any information, personal data, document, material, or data provided or disclosed by Brevo to the Business Contributor (whether orally, in writing or electronic form or any other media), including without limitation, any document or piece of information provided by Brevo, as well as all statements, studies, documentation resulting from the processing of Brevo’s data, as well as customer and/or contact data, data and information being processed by the information system used in connection with the performance of the Services and/or the Business Contributor could have been aware of as it performs the Terms and those concerning Brevo’s organization, activities and profits.
For the duration of the Terms and during ten (10) years after these Terms has been terminated for any reason what so ever, the Business Contributor undertakes and warrants that the Confidential Information transferred to it by Brevo:
• Shall not be disclosed or disseminated, directly or indirectly, to third parties, without the express prior written authorization of Brevo:
• Is protected and will be processed according to market practice and state of the art;
• Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, it is understood that Confidential Information may be disclosed to employees, directors, officers, professional advisors, insurance brokers and statutory auditors of the Business Contributor on a need-to-know basis for the purposes of the project. In any event, the Business Contributor shall remain fully responsible for any disclosure of any Confidential Information by any person to whom it disclosed Confidential Information.
• Are not used in whole or partly for other purposes than those set out in this clause, without Brevo’s consent ;
• Are not copied, reproduced, duplicated in whole or in part, unless such copy reproduction or duplication is necessary to perform commitments set out in these Terms or unless Brevo agreed expressly and in writing to such reproduction or duplication.
• In addition, the Business Contributor will not use any knowledge it might have learned out concerning the organization and strategy of Brevo, to the benefit of any third parties.
Brevo will still own all property rights on Confidential Information it transferred to the Business Contributor. Such Confidential Information will be returned to Brevo once these Terms have been terminated.
The Business Contributor will have no obligation or bear any restrictions concerning Confidential Information if it can prove that :
• Such Confidential Information was in the public domain before Brevo transferred them to the Business Contributor, unless the Confidential Information is in the public domain through the Business Contributor’s fault; or
• Business Contributor received such Confidential Information from a third party, through no breach of a confidentiality commitment; or
• Such Confidential Information was published through no breach of this clause; or
• Brevo agreed on the use and disclosure of such Confidential.