premise: Confidential Information means any information and documents (whether or not designated as confidential), including, without limitation, financial, tax, commercial, corporate, legal, technical, operational, management, business and other information and documents concerning the Target or any of their Affiliates, as well as any and all information and documents regarding the intended sale of the Target, that is directly or indirectly disclosed, furnished or made available, whether before or after the date hereof, in any way or by any means whatsoever (including, without limitation, in writing, orally or in electronic form), in a data room or elsewhere, to the Receiving Party or any employees of the Receiving Party, by any director, manager, agent, representative, advisor or employee of the Disclosing Party or any Affiliate of the Disclosing Party, in connection with the intended sale of the Target.  Confidential Information may include, without limitation, trade secrets, know-how, inventions, technical data or specifications, testing methods, Target or financial information, research and development activities, product and marketing plans, and customer and supplier information. 