premise: 1. Each party may be provided with access to selected information (oral, written, or electronic) of the other which helps meet a regulatory purpose or business need, including, but not limited to, that information which relates or refers to: business planning; internal controls; computer, data processing, or communications architectures or systems; electronic data processing architectures, applications, programs, routines, or subroutines; business affairs and methods of operation or proposed methods of operations, techniques or systems of a party or any customer of a party, financial or other non-public information, including but not limited to proposals, processes, forecasts, ideas, concepts, projections, analyses, software, hardware, marketing information, documentation, structure and protocols.  Some of the information in each of these categories is confidential in nature or constitutes a trade secret as it is not generally known to its competitors or the public.  This information received from a party, either orally or in writing, during the course of the Project shall be deemed to be confidential information (“Confidential Information”) for purposes of this Confidentiality Agreement. 