Confidentiality

During your employment you may be party to Confidential Information concerning the Company and its business. You shall make yourself aware of the Company’s policies in relation to compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act in force and undertake to act in accordance with these at all times. This includes exercising reasonable care to keep safe all documentary or other material containing confidential information. You shall inform the Company immediately upon discovery of a data breach. You shall, at the time of termination of your employment with us, or at any other time upon demand, return to us any such material in your possession. You shall not (except in the proper course of your duties), either during your employment or at any time after its termination (however arising), use or disclose to any person, company or other organisation whatsoever (and you agree to use your best endeavours to prevent the publication or disclosure of) any Confidential Information.

This shall not apply to:

• any use or disclosure authorised by the Company or as required by law;

• any information which is already in, or comes into, the public domain other than through your unauthorised disclosure; or

• any protected disclosure within the meaning of section 43A of the Employment Rights Act 1996.

In this agreement ‘Confidential Information’ means any information (whether or not recorded in documentary form, or stored on any magnetic or optical disk or memory) relating to the business, products, affairs and finances of the Company for the time being confidential to the Company and trade secrets including, without limitation, technical data, designs and know-how relating to the business of the Company or any of its business contacts, customers and suppliers, including in particular (by way of illustration only and without limitation) details of the Company’s business contacts, customers and suppliers and their requirements, terms of business withcustomers including prices charged, marketing plans, financial information (save to the extent that these are included in published audited accounts), details of employees and officers of the Company and of the remuneration and other benefits paid to them, information relating to secret processes, designs and product lines, know-how, and whether or not any such information is marked or stated to be confidential, and any information which has been given to the Company in confidence by business contacts, customers or suppliers or any other third party.