premise: RECIPIENT will maintain adequate SAFEGUARDS to PROTECT such CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL and PREVENT its DISCLOSURE to others, except its own employees on a NEED-TO-KNOW BASIS, and will NEITHER USE nor DISCLOSE, DIRECTLY or INDIRECTLY, for him/herself or for the benefit of another, ANY CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL or perform any acts which may DIRECTLY or INDIRECTLY have an adverse effect upon the business of the COMPANY, or which would tend to reduce the proprietary value of such CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL to the COMPANY, without the COMPANY'S PRIOR WRITTEN APPROVAL. 