Affiliate Partner acknowledges that he will have and will become familiar with highly confidential and/or proprietary information relating to the business of RIPTec Ltd, for example, without limitation, sales and marketing strategies and plans, bids, projections, and product development. Affiliate Partner further recognises that the business of RIPTec is highly competitive, and that RIPTec has a legitimate business interest in preserving any and all trade secrets or other highly confidential and/or proprietary information that Affiliate Partner may acquire through its relationship with RIPTec which are essential to the continued success of RIPTec, and that RIPTec will suffer irreparable harm should such skills or confidential information be utilised by a competitor.

Affiliate Partner agrees that they will not, at any time, whether during the term of this contract or thereafter, disclose to any unauthorised person, firm or corporation any information acquired in confidence through involvement with RIPTec, it being understood that all such confidential and/or proprietary information constitutes trade secrets which are material to the successful conduct of RIPTec and belong exclusively to RIPTec. By way of example and not limitation, such confidential and/or proprietary information and trade secrets include any and all information, not otherwise available to the public, concerning: (i) marketing plans, business plans, strategies, forecasts, unpublished financial statements, budgets, bids, projections and costs; (ii) personnel information; (iii) customer lists, customer and supplier transaction histories, identities, contacts, volumes, characteristics, Agreements and prices; (iv) information regarding promotional, operational, program management, sales, marketing, research and development techniques, methods and reports and (v) other trade secrets. Affiliate Partner specifically acknowledges that such confidential and/or proprietary information and trade secrets have commercial value for RIPTec, the unauthorised disclosure of which could be detrimental to the interests of RIPTec, whether or not such information is specifically identified as confidential and/or proprietary information and trade secrets by RIPTec. The confidentiality portions of this Agreement will survive the termination of the Agreement itself.