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3.7.3 Use of Corporation Information by a Customer
Customer Obligations
3.8 Record Retention
The Corporation is not responsible and disclaims any responsibility for the
accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of any information disclosed by the
Corporation to a Customer; and the Corporation makes no warranty, express or
implied, including, but not limited to, any warranty of merchantability or fitness
for any particular purpose with respect to any information disclosed by or on
behalf of the Corporation to any Customer disclosed directly or indirectly to
any participant in a Customer’s Activity. Each Customer assumes all risk of use
of any information disclosed directly or indirectly to a Customer or to any
participant in a Customer’s Activity by or on behalf of the Corporation.
NOTE
Additional regional Rules on this topic appear in Chapter 20, “United States
Region” of this rulebook.
3.7.4 Confidential Information of the Corporation and the
Corporation’s Affiliates
3.8 Record Retention
A Customer must not disclose confidential information of the Corporation or
of the Corporation’s parents, subsidiaries, and Affiliates (herein collectively
referred to as the “Corporation’s Affiliates”) except:
1. on a need-to-know basis to the Customer’s staff, accountants, auditors, or
legal counsel subject to standard confidentiality restrictions, or
2. as may be required by any court process or governmental agency having or
claiming jurisdiction over the Customer, in which event the Customer must
promptly provide written notice of such requirement to the Secretary of the
Corporation and to the extent possible, the Customer must seek confidential
treatment by the court or agency.
The obligation set forth herein continues following the termination of a
Customer’s License. Information provided to Customers by the Corporation or
the Corporation’s Affiliates is deemed confidential unless otherwise stated in
writing.
A Customer may use confidential or proprietary information and/or trade
secrets of the Corporation and the Corporation’s Affiliates solely for the purpose
of carrying out the Customer’s Activities.
During the term of participation and for two (2) years after termination of
participation, each Customer agrees to receive and hold in confidence any
and all materials or information considered proprietary or confidential by any
other Customer.
For the purposes of this section of the Rules, confidential information includes,
without limitation, the following:
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Maestro Global Rules • 9 November 2012 3-11