Common use of Non-Competition; Non-Solicitation; Non-Interference Clause in Contracts

Non-Competition; Non-Solicitation; Non-Interference. Employee acknowledges that the highly competitive nature of the Company’s business, Employee’s position with the Company, and the Confidential Information, Company Relationships, training, and goodwill provided to Employee during his/her employment with the Company, support Employee’s promises not to compete with the Company, and not to solicit or interfere with the Company’s relationships with its customers and employees as stated below in the rest of this Section 4, during his/her employment with the Company and for 12 months following his/her separation from the Company (“the Restricted Period”) regardless of the reason for the separation, within the “Restricted Area,” which is defined as the geographic area in which the Company Business (as defined below) has been carried on during Employee’s employment with the Company or, following Employee’s separation from the Company, during the 12 months preceding Employee’s separation from the Company (the “Prior Period”) and with which geographic area the Employee was involved or concerned on behalf of the Company Business or about which Employee was otherwise in possession of Confidential Information or had access to Company Relationships in each case during the Prior Period.