Confidentiality
One-way confidentiality agreement
In the libraryThe door has this paper. Type its name at the composer. It offers to start from it.
One side is doing the telling and the other side is doing the listening, and only the listener promises anything. You ask for this one by name — a bare "NDA" is read as the two-way paper, because being specific is cheap and being wrong in the general case is not. It is the shape used when a company shows something to a candidate, a supplier, a contractor or a visitor and expects nothing confidential back.
- Printed on the page as
- One-Way Non-Disclosure Agreement
- Where it can live
- Any of the 184 governing laws
Who uses one
- A company showing a product, a dataset or a plan to somebody who will not be showing anything back.
- Anyone briefing a contractor, an agency or a freelancer on work that has not been announced.
- A founder taking a first meeting where they will describe the business and the other side will listen.
What you are deciding
- Who is disclosing and who is receiving
- What counts as confidential, and whether it has to be marked
- What the receiving side may use it for, and what it may not do
- Who on the receiving side may be told
- What is carved out: already public, already known, independently made
- How long the promise lasts after the disclosure
- What happens to copies at the end
Blanks you leave stay blank and wait in the room. Nothing is filled in from a guess.
The sections a draft usually has
- 1The disclosing side and the receiving side
- 2What confidential information means
- 3The promise not to disclose
- 4Permitted use
- 5Exclusions
- 6Return or destruction at the end
- 7How long it runs
- 8Governing law
A general outline, not a required one. What turns up in a draft follows what you described. A contract is written in the order a contract is read.
What people call it
Type any of these at the door. It offers this paper. The matching happens in your own browser, on a wordlist you could read. No model runs before you sign in.
- one way nda
- one sided nda
- unilateral nda
- one way non disclosure agreement
- one way nondisclosure agreement
- unilateral non disclosure agreement
- one way confidentiality agreement
Questions people ask
- When is a one-way NDA used instead of a mutual one?
- When only one side expects to disclose anything worth protecting — a company briefing a candidate, a supplier or a visitor. Where both sides will describe their own business, the mutual paper is the one usually reached for.
- Can a one-way NDA cover things said before it was signed?
- It commonly can, if it says so. Papers of this kind often name a date from which disclosures are covered, and that date can sit before the signing date.
- Does the receiving side get anything out of it?
- The exchange is usually the conversation itself: the disclosing side will not say the thing at all until the promise exists. The paper records the promise, not a payment.
General answers about the document. Not advice about your situation. Not written about any one country.
Where it lives
A contract names the legal system it is governed by. That is a separate decision from which paper it is. You pick it at the door, from any of the 184 units in Governing law, including England and Wales, Delaware, California and New York.
Say what you agreed in one sentence. When what you describe is one-way confidentiality agreement, the door offers this paper. One press takes it. One press refuses it.
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