premise: "Confidential Information" means any operational, administrative business or technical information, in whatever form transmitted, whether or not stored in any medium, relating to the disclosing party's operations and/or business (and/or those of its suppliers and customers), including but not limited to equipment, software, designs, technology, technical documentation, product or service specifications or strategies, marketing plans, pricing information, financial information, information relating to existing, previous and potential suppliers, customers and contracts, inventions, applications, methodologies and other know-how, that is either proprietary to the disclosing party or the disclosing party's contractors or which either of the foregoing maintains as confidential and nonpublic. 