Confidentiality agreement and obligation of secrecy
1. The approved company will keep all business transactions, strategies and market research data of the Deutsche Leasing Group and its affiliated or related companies that it gains knowledge of through the use of the CI Net completely confidential and will take all precautions to ensure that such knowledge is only known to the employees of the company entrusted with this task.
2. The company imposes an obligation of secrecy on the employees it commissions. This means that the authorised users of the CI Net are also obliged to comply with the following even after the employment relationship has been terminated:
- All the information accessible to them must be kept completely confidential and may be used only for their work. All downloads may only be used for the assignments commissioned by Deutsche Leasing and may not be passed on to third parties without the prior consent of Deutsche Leasing.
- The web presence, its content and data needed to access it must be kept secret from third parties. The employee is further obliged not to download, forward or publish any information, pictures or other data (e.g. screenshots, downloads, etc.) if they are not directly related to an assignment for Deutsche Leasing.
- The employee is forbidden to make content known to third parties or use it for or offer it to third parties in whole or in part. The employee is in particular forbidden from passing on any data, knowledge or results from the CI Net to Deutsche Leasing’s competitors.
- The employee is obliged not to infringe the licensing rights of Deutsche Leasing or third parties (in particular in connection with the use of the CI Net’s image database.
3. If the employment relationship of the user in the approved company ends, the company is obliged to notify Deutsche Leasing so that access can be blocked.
4. The approved company further undertakes not to make the content of strategies or concepts developed for the client known to third parties or to use it for third parties or offer it to them in whole or in part.