Neither the CONTRACTOR nor its employees, agents or Subcontractors, or their employees or agents, shall make any payment or give anything of value to any official of any government or public international organization (including any officer or employee of any government department, agency or instrumentality) to influence his/her or its decision, or to gain any other advantage for the COMPANY or the CONTRACTOR in connection with the Services performed hereunder. The CONTRACTOR shall immediately notify the COMPANY in writing of any violation of this clause. In the event of any violation of this clause, the COMPANY may, at its sole option, terminate this Agreement at any time and notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, and pay no compensation or reimbursement to the CONTRACTOR for any Services performed after the date of such violation.
15. NON-DISCLOSURE
Any specifications or other information provided to CONTRACTOR by COMPANY shall be treated as confidential, shall be use only for the purpose of the performance of this Agreement and shall not be reproduced in whole or in part for any other purpose.
The CONTRACTOR hereby agrees and undertakes, subject only as provided below:
(a) to preserve the secrecy of, and not disclose to others (other than its employees or agents on a need to know basis), the Confidential Information disclosed to, or received or obtained by it or of which it becomes aware belonging or relating to the COMPANY;
(b) to keep the Confidential Information secure and protected against theft, damage, loss or unauthorized access; and
(c) not to retain, duplicate, modify, adapt or use the Confidential Information for any purpose except for the performance of its obligations under or otherwise as contemplated by this Agreement and to ensure that theses obligations are observed by its employees, officers, agents, Subcontractors and any other person to whom it discloses the Confidential Information in accordance with the term of this Agreement.
The CONTRACTOR further agrees and undertakes that it shall, immediately on a written request of the COMPANY, return all documents and materials containing any Confidential Information or, if so required, shall at the written request of the COMPANY destroy all materials containing any Confidential Information (including any copies, analysis, memoranda or other notes made by the CONTRACTOR or any Subcontractors) in its possession or under its custody and control and shall in addition remove any Confidential Information stored within any computer or word processing system whether or not in machine-readable form and confirm to the COMPANY in writing as soon as reasonably practicable that all such Confidential Information has been completely destroyed.
In case where proper confidentiality agreement is required to be executed by Subcontractor who has been disclosed with or is recipient of the Confidential Information, the CONTRACTOR undertakes to procure such Subcontractor to execute the confidentiality agreement in a form satisfactory to the COMPANY.
The obligations imposed under this clauseshall survive the termination or expiry of this Agreement but shall not apply to information which the CONTRACTOR can prove:
(a) at the time it is received is in the public domain;
(b) subsequent to its disclosure in connection with this Agreement comes into the public domain without its fault;
(c) is lawfully received by the CONTRACTOR from a third party on an unrestricted basis; or