Mutual non-disclosure agreement
Protection for information shared by either side. No purchase required.
For review — not yet signed
Version: September 25, 2026. Select “Arrange a mutual NDA with my brief” when sending your high-level outline, or request it by email. Our team will confirm the parties and project and arrange a copy for both parties to sign. Keep confidential details back until that process is complete.
Viewing this page, checking the request box or sending a brief does not sign this agreement. Your executed copy records the version and any agreed changes.
1. Parties and purpose
This mutual non-disclosure agreement is between AppVerticals and the customer identified in the signature section below. Each may disclose information to the other to evaluate and discuss a proposed app-development or app-as-a-service project (the Purpose). It takes effect on the date of the last signature. Any later delivery or processing of personal information is also subject to the applicable service agreement and data processing agreement.
2. What is confidential
Confidential Information means non-public information disclosed by either party in connection with the Purpose, in writing, orally, visually or electronically, that is identified as confidential or that a reasonable person would understand to be confidential. It includes briefs, business and product plans, designs, prototypes, technical information, source code, customer information, pricing and financial information. It also includes copies and notes that reveal that information.
3. Each party’s obligations
The receiving party will use Confidential Information only for the Purpose, protect it with at least reasonable care and no less care than it uses for its own similar information, and not disclose it except as allowed here. Access is limited to employees, contractors, professional advisers and service providers who need it for the Purpose and are bound by confidentiality obligations at least as protective as those applicable to their access here. The receiving party is responsible for their compliance. Copies may be made only as reasonably necessary for the Purpose.
4. Information outside this agreement
These obligations do not apply to information the receiving party can demonstrate was lawfully known to it without restriction before disclosure, becomes public through no breach of an obligation, is independently developed without using the Confidential Information, or is lawfully received from a third party entitled to disclose it without restriction. The disclosing party may also authorise a specific disclosure in writing.
5. Legally required disclosure
If law or a binding legal process requires disclosure, the receiving party may disclose only what is legally required. Where legally permitted, it will give prompt advance notice and reasonable cooperation, at the disclosing party’s expense, to seek confidential treatment or other protection. Nothing here requires a party to violate law or a court order.
6. Ownership and no obligation to proceed
Each party retains its rights in its information and materials. No intellectual-property ownership is transferred and no licence is granted except the limited right to use the information for the Purpose. Neither party is required to purchase, supply or enter into a further business relationship. This agreement does not create exclusivity or prevent independent development that does not use the other party’s Confidential Information.
7. Duration
Either party may end further disclosures under this agreement by written notice. Unless ended earlier, the disclosure period lasts two years from the effective date. Confidentiality and purpose-limited use obligations continue for two years after each disclosure. Information qualifying as a trade secret remains protected for as long as it qualifies under applicable law. Ending discussions does not end obligations for information already received.
8. Return or deletion
On written request, the receiving party will return or securely delete the disclosing party’s Confidential Information within thirty days, including working copies, and confirm completion on request. It may retain information required by law or reasonably necessary to document compliance or legal claims, and copies in routine backups until their normal deletion cycle. Retained copies remain subject to this agreement and may not be used for another purpose.
9. Unauthorised access and remedies
A receiving party that becomes aware of unauthorised use or disclosure will promptly notify the disclosing party and take reasonable steps to contain it and cooperate in addressing it. Each party may seek remedies available under applicable law, including appropriate injunctive relief. This agreement does not promise that any system is immune from security incidents.
10. Law, notices and written changes
Texas law governs this agreement, subject to rights that cannot lawfully be excluded. The parties submit to the state or federal courts serving Dallas County, Texas, except where mandatory law requires otherwise. Notices must be sent to the contacts identified below. Changes must be agreed in writing by both parties. This agreement governs the confidentiality of disclosures for the Purpose unless a later signed agreement expressly replaces it. It may be signed in counterparts and using electronic signatures.
To complete in the signing copy
Project / evaluation purpose: ______________________________
AppVerticals
Authorised representative: __________________
Title: __________________
Notice email: __________________
Signature: __________________
Date: __________________
Customer / company: __________________
Authorised representative: __________________
Title: __________________
Notice email: __________________
Signature: __________________
Date: __________________