What Do I Need to Know about Confidentiality Agreements?

If your freelancers are working with sensitive information — future
marketing plans, proprietary software, legal or financial issues –
it's important to protect your organization in advance by having them
sign a confidentiality agreement. This prevents the freelancers from
disclosing any information about your company that they may come across
in the course of their work. Ideally, the contract will also protect
freelancers from having their work misused or reappropriated by the
employer, or from having their business information publicly disclosed.
The more specific you can be in this part of the contract, the better.
If very sensitive information is involved on either side, it may be
wise to have a lawyer look over the agreement before anyone signs.

Tags: contracts, freelancers

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