PERSONNEL CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT
This agreement between Ask Ministries, Inc. (“company”) and
__________________ (“employee”), dated _____________, sets forth certain requirements of confidentiality as pertains to the proprietary and confidential information of company as may be disclosed to employee. This agreement also establishes company as the one and only true owner of any and all things created, completed or incomplete, by employee during employees’ employment, this includes but is not limited to songs, lyrics, musical scores, art, animations, written materials, audio, and video (“materials”).
SECTION ONE
CONFIDENTIALITY
Employee agrees that (a) all knowledge and information that employee may receive from company or from its employees or consultants of company, or by virtue of the performance of services under and pursuant to this agreement, relating to materials, inventions, costs, business affairs, future plans, or technical data that belong to company or to those with whom company has contracted regarding such information, and (b) all information provided by employee to company, directly or indirectly, in reports of work done, together with any other information acquired or gained by employee as a direct result of employee’s employment and during the term of such assignment, shall for all time and for all purposes be regarded by employee as strictly confidential and held by employee in confidence, and solely for company’s benefit and use, and shall not be used by employee or directly or indirectly disclosed by employee to any person whatsoever excepting to company or with company’s prior written permission.
SECTION TWO
CREATED MATERIALS, INVENTIONS AND COPYRIGHTABLE WORKS
A. Employee further agrees that on behalf of employee, employee will promptly communicate and disclose to company or to its nominee, all created materials, computer programs, documentation, software and other copyrightable works (hereinafter called “copyrightable works”), discoveries, improvements, and inventions (hereinafter called “inventions”) conceived, reduced to practice, or made by employee, whether solely or jointly with others, during the term of this agreement (a) along the lines of company’s products or applicable to or useful with such products, or (b) relating to company’s processes or procedures or in connection with such, or (c) relating to company’s investigations or to the nature of its business at the time of the invention or (d) resulting from or related to any work employee may do on behalf of company or at its request. All such inventions that employee is obligated to disclose, whether patented or not, shall be and remain entirely the property of company or its nominees, successors, or assigns. It is agreed that this is a work-for-hire agreement and that all such created materials and copyrightable works are works made for hire that shall be the exclusive property of company. Further, employee agrees to assign and hereby assigns to company any rights it may have in such created materials and copyrightable works.
B. Employee will assist company and its nominees, successors, or assigns, upon request, during and following the term of this agreement, at the expense of company, to obtain and maintain for its own benefit, patents for such inventions in any and all countries. Such assistance shall include, but not be limited to, the execution and delivery of specific assignments of any such invention and all domestic and foreign patent rights therein, and all other papers and documents that relate to the securing and maintenance of such patent rights, and the performance of all other lawful acts, as may be deemed necessary or advisable by company or its nominees, successors or assigns.
SECTION THREE
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
By signature below, employee acknowledges and agrees that, by virtue of employee’s assignment to provide services to company under the above-referenced agreement, employee is bound by all of the terms and conditions of that agreement, and that the agreements of confidentiality and assignment recited above are made in affirmation of similar requirements of that agreement. The agreements herein expressed are made with the understanding that such agreements are a condition of company’s acceptance of employee’s assignment to provide services under the above-referenced agreement.
SECTION FOUR
GOVERNING LAW
It is agreed that this agreement shall be governed by, construed, and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware.
SECTION FIVE
EFFECT OF PARTIAL INVALIDITY
The invalidity of any portion of this agreement will not and shall not be deemed to affect the validity of any other provision. In the event that any provision of this agreement is held to be invalid, the parties agree that the remaining provisions shall be deemed to be in full force and effect as if they had been executed by both parties subsequent to the expungement of the invalid provision.
SECTION SIX
MODIFICATION OF AGREEMENT
Any modification of this agreement of additional obligation assumed by either party in connection with this agreement shall be binding only if evidenced in writing signed by each party or an authorized representative of each party.
In witness whereof, each party to this agreement has caused it to be executed at Magnolia, DE on the date indicated below.
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