Sensitive data Where the transfer involves personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, genetic data, or biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or a person’s sex life or sexual orientation, or data relating to criminal convictions and offences (hereinafter ‘sensitive data’), the data importer shall apply the specific restrictions and/or additional safeguards described in Annex I.B.
Protection of Proprietary Information “Proprietary Information” means a disclosing party’s ( including DirectTrust, any Participant, or any Participant’s CA or RA) business operations, financial condition, customers, products, services, technical knowledge, information, materials, processes, ideas, and techniques (whether or not reduced to writing) (i) which are not generally known in the relevant industry; (ii) which afford possessors of the information a commercial advantage over others; (iii) which are considered trade secrets under Applicable Law; and/or (iv) which, if utilized or disclosed by a party receiving such information, would place the party disclosing such information at a competitive disadvantage. Except as necessary for a party to perform its obligations under this Agreement, as permitted under a written consent of a disclosing party, or as required under Applicable Law, a party will not use or disclose Proprietary Information received from DirectTrust, any Participant, or any Participant’s CA or RA. Each party’s Proprietary Information will remain the confidential information of that party except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement. Each of the parties will use at least the same degree of care to safeguard and to prevent disclosing to third parties the Proprietary Information of the other as it employs to avoid unauthorized disclosure or publication of its own information of a similar nature, and in any event, no less than reasonable care. Each party may disclose relevant aspects of the other party’s Proprietary Information to its employees, affiliates, subcontractors and agents to the extent such disclosure is reasonably necessary for the performance of its obligations, or the enforcement of its rights, under this Agreement; provided, however, that such party will cause such employees, affiliates, subcontractors or agents to comply with these confidentiality provisions. Neither party will (i) make any use or copies of the Proprietary Information of the other except as contemplated by this Agreement; or (ii) acquire any right in or assert any lien against the Proprietary Information of the other; or (iii) sell, assign, lease or otherwise commercially exploit the Proprietary Information of the other party. Neither party may withhold the Proprietary Information of the other party or refuse for any reason (including due to the other party’s actual or alleged breach of this Agreement) to promptly return to the other party its Proprietary Information (including copies thereof) if requested to do so. Upon expiration or termination of this Agreement and completion of a party’s obligations under this Agreement, each Party will, at the request of the other party, (and except as otherwise provided in this Agreement) return or destroy, as the other party may direct, all documentation in any medium that contains or refers to the other party’s Proprietary Information, and retain no copies. This Section III.a will not apply to any particular information that either party can demonstrate