An NDA, like all legal agreements or contracts, is just as good as the person who signed it. It doesn`t matter if it`s good, if the person who signed it wants to violate the NDA`s terms, they will. And in most years, it will do so in a way that will make your life difficult. NDAs are clearly not a concrete protection for your confidential information. Sometimes people want you to sign them for a different reason than the one they present. In both cases, time-limited confidentiality conditions resulted in a loss of trade secrets protection. While in such cases, the appropriate solution might be to implement unlimited confidentiality conditions in many U.S. states and other jurisdictions around the world, these agreements are considered “inappropriate trade restrictions” because they do not guarantee concrete protection of confidential information for such a long period of time. This dilemma arises to a large extent in other jurisdictions. The exchange of valuable information with other partners is usually a necessity that is regularly done through collaborative or corporate initiatives. Confidentiality issues and measures to exchange information securely, facilitate the development of the project and ensure the non-disclosure of sensitive technologies, confidential business or business information should therefore be taken into account. Therefore, signing a confidentiality agreement or confidentiality agreement (NDA) at the proposal stage, or even before the proposal phase, the inclusion of confidentiality clauses in the consortium agreement and compliance with confidentiality obligations throughout the duration of the project and subsequently, among other things, are very important steps to keep confidential information secret in order to gain a competitive advantage. In order to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace, companies should continue to innovate and work on new projects, products and services to minimize pressure against their competitors.

This is the case in a wide range of activities, from technology to finance. A Confidentiality Agreement (NDA) is a legal document intended to contain this sensitive information mentioned above. In a legal document or a larger contract, they are called confidentiality clauses, confidentiality declarations or confidentiality agreements (CA). From a legal point of view, it is a legal contract between at least two parties that aims to explain the knowledge and/or confidential information that the parties wish to communicate only to each other and to restrict third party/party access to all access. In most commercial applications, this “information” is generally referred to as intellectual property, while the term may refer to other sensitive information in cases of bank client confidentiality, solicitor-client privilege, priestly penance privilege, and physician and patient confidentiality. It should be noted, however, that in all previous examples excluding commercial applications, the non-disclosure guarantee is generally not provided in the form of a written agreement between the parties. However, intellectual property must continue to be used, even at the risk of revealing original ideas or concepts. Just as a distribution company would not keep its trucks in the garage to prevent them from being involved in an accident on the highway, a start-up cannot distance its ideas from the business partners that can make it a success. The distribution company protects its assets (trucks) with auto insurance so that they can use them without exposing the company to financial ruin.