premise: 1. The Definition of "Confidential Information": The term "Confidential Information" shall mean all information disclosed by one Party to the other Party, whether orally, in written, electronic or other format, and whether disclosed by a Party’s agents, principals, employees or representatives, and whether to the other Party's agent's principals, employees or representatives.  “Confidential Information” shall include, without limitation, all ideas improvements, inventions, methodologies, works and other innovations of any kind, authored, conceived, developed, made or reduced to practice by the disclosing Party, whether or not eligible for copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other legal protection (including, without limitation, formulas, processes, databases, mechanical and electronic hardware, electronic components, computers and their parts, computer programs and their documentation, encoding techniques, marketing and new product plans, production, processes, advertising, packaging and marketing techniques, marketing plans, product plans, technical plans, business strategies, strategic alliances and partners, financial information, engineering data, methodologies and processes, forecasts, personnel information, customer and prospective customer lists, trade secrets, product design, capabilities, specifications, the identify of potential and actual customers, and suppliers and all documentation, materials and media provided by one Party to the other). 2. Protection of "Confidential Information":  In consideration of each Party's disclosure of Confidential Information to the other Party, each Party agrees with respect to the Confidential Information received from the other Party, that it: (a) shall maintain such Confidential Information in the strictest confidence; (b) shall not disclose, transfer or otherwise make available any of such Confidential Information to any third party, unless such Confidential Information must be disclosed for the purposes contemplated herein, or under legal compulsion to disclose any such Confidential Information, in which event each Party shall, prior to such disclosure, obtain written consent from the other Party and obtain from the third person a written agreement acknowledging the binding effect of these restrictions regarding the Confidential Information; and