premise: The receiving party shall exercise the same degree of care and protection with respect to the Confidential Information of the disclosing party that it exercises with respect to the protection of its own confidential information of a similar nature but not less than a reasonable degree of care and shall prevent disclosure of the Confidential Information to anyone except to those of its employees that have a need to know such information solely in connection with the permitted use as set forth in Section 2 and who shall be required to observe the restrictions set forth in this Agreement. 