Confidentiality Agreement
 

Media Verification, Inc.
Circulation Verification Council
Information Confidentiality, Trade Secrets, & Non Disclosure Agreement


1. Information access applicant understands that upon approval all information obtained from CVC including, but not limited to, all MVI files, audit reports, publisher's statements, records, copies, forms, data, brochures, information, programs, client accounting and background are owned by MVI.

2. Information access applicant understands and agrees that all MVI files, audit reports, publisher's statements, records, copies, forms, data, brochures, information, programs, client accounting and background are all confidential and cannot be transmitted either orally or in any other form to any other entity and/or person except for media purchase evaluation without the express written permission of CVC.

3. Information access applicant understands and agrees that all MVI files, records, copies, forms, data, brochures, information, programs, client accounting and background are all trade secrets and cannot be transmitted either orally or in any other form to any other entity and/or person except for media purchase evaluation without the express written permission of CVC.

4. Information access applicant understands and agrees that paragraphs one (1) through four (4) above as they define property and information may not be all inclusive, and that any and all property and information of any kind or type of MVI are under this Confidentiality, Trade Secrets, and Non-Disclosure Agreement.

5. Information access applicant understands and agrees that upon expiration of annual information access status with MVI, that this Confidentiality, Trade Secrets, and Non-Disclosure Agreement survives the MVI / information access relationship. Information access applicant therefore understands and agrees that they is bound by all of this Agreement's terms after any information access relationship ceases.

6. Information access applicant understands and agrees that if the Agreement is breached in any form, the information access applicant will be responsible for damages, including attorney's fees, and information access applicant understands and agrees that they have read this Agreement and adopts in full all of its provisions. This agreement shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Missouri. Any lawsuit or action by any party shall be filed and adjudicated in the state court for St. Louis County, Missouri, and the parties consent to the venue and exclusive jurisdiction of such court.

7. For purposes of membership class information access applicants will be classified as CVC Associate Members with no member voting rights.