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This Confidentiality and Restrictions Agreement (“Agreement”) formally identifies and memorializes
your agreement to certain important terms designed to protect the business, financial, competitive
and proprietary interests of Kaplan Test Prep, a division of Kaplan, Inc. (“Company”). Among other
things, this Agreement covers confidentiality, intellectual property rights, and post-employment
restrictions. If you have any questions about this Agreement, please contact Human Resources or
email: kpa.benefits@kaplan.com
1. “At Will” Employment: Your employment at Company is “at will,” meaning that either you or
Company can end that employment at any time and for any reason, with or without notice,
and nothing in this Agreement changes that arrangement or constitutes a promise of
continued employment for any defined period.
2. Confidentiality:
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c. “Customer Information” includes any personal and/or private information of or about
any individual, group of individuals, or institutions who purchased or participated (or
may purchase or participate) in any Company product or who is (or has been) a
customer or business partner of Company. Customer Information includes, but is not
limited to the name, contact details, biographical information, social security number,
credit card and bank information, medical information, test scores, or other data
relating to an individual’s inquiry about or participation in Company’s courses or use
of Company’s products, and any education record as defined by The Family
Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 U.S.C. § 1232g; 34 CFR Part 99).
e. Company also expects you to respect any lawful and binding confidentiality
obligations that you may owe to third parties, such as former employers, and you
agree that you will honor any such obligations.
3. Information Security: The use of your sign-on privilege gives you access to data concerning
Company, its courses and research, its Protected Information, and its systems. You have a
responsibility to maintain the security of that information and to keep it completely
confidential, except in the proper performance of your duties to Company. You may not share
your sign-on and/or password or privileges with any other user without your supervisor’s prior
written approval. Permission to access data does not include permission to re-print or re-
publish it. You agree that upon the written request of your supervisor, you will disclose all
passwords necessary or desirable for Company to obtain access to any Protected Information.
4. Intellectual Property:
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proofs of concept, trade secrets, designs, innovations, discoveries, inventions,
improvements, (whether or not patentable or copyrightable) that are conceived,
created, designed or developed by you, solely or jointly with others, relating in any
manner to any present or prospective business or research activities of Company or
its affiliates or resulting from the use of Company’s time, materials, information, or
facilities, or from the services you perform for Company (whether during normal
business hours or other than during normal business hours) during your employment
by Company, or that become known to you by virtue of that employment.
b. With respect to any Intellectual Property that is protected under U.S. or international
copyright law, you agree that, to the maximum extent permissible under copyright
law, all Intellectual Property created (in whole or in part) by you during your Company
employment will be deemed a work for hire under copyright law and that Company
will be deemed the "author" of such Intellectual Property for the purposes of
copyright, and the copyright to such Intellectual Property will vest initially with
Company. If some or all of the Intellectual Property protected under U.S. copyright
law is deemed by a competent authority to be ineligible for work for hire status, then
you hereby assign to Company all right, title, and interest in and to such Intellectual
Property, including but not limited to worldwide copyright rights therein, without
limitation, for the entire term of copyright protection.
c. With respect to any Intellectual Property that is or may be protected under U.S.
patent law or the patent laws of any country or territory, you hereby assign to
Company the complete title to such Intellectual Property without limitation
throughout the world for the entire term of patent protection.
d. With respect to all Intellectual Property, you agree to execute all documents and
assist in all proceedings to perfect, register, or record the rights of Company to the
Intellectual Property, or secure, maintain or protect Company's ownership of the
Intellectual Property, as Company may deem appropriate. If you do not, within five (5)
days of presentment, return the requested executed documents, then Company is
hereby granted a limited power of attorney to execute all such documents on your
behalf. This power of attorney is coupled with an interest and is irrevocable.
e. You grant Company the right to use in perpetuity throughout the world, in any media
that is currently existing or may be developed, all video, images and recordings of me
made by Company, its affiliates or their respective agents in connection with my
employment at Company (“Recordings”), in whole or in part, in original form or as
edited or modified by Company. You also grant Company the right in perpetuity to
use your name and/or likeness in, or in connection with Recordings.
State-Specific Limitations: Subsection 5(b)(i) below regarding non-competition does not apply to
you during any employment with Company in California, North Dakota, or Oklahoma. Subsection
5(b)(iii) below regarding non-solicitation of customers does not apply to you during any
employment with Company in California or North Dakota. During any employment in Louisiana,
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the restrictions in Subsections 5(b)(i) and 5(b)(iii) shall apply only in the Louisiana parishes of
Orleans, East Baton Rouge, Caddo, Jefferson, Bossier, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Lafayette, St.
Charles, Ascension, Calcasieu, Lincoln, Iberia, Ouachita, Terrebonne, Beauregard, Livingston,
Morehouse, Sabine, and St. Helena.
a. You recognize that due to the nature of your employment with Company, you will
have access to and develop Protected Information. By signing below, you hereby
acknowledge that such information is valuable to the business of Company, and that
disclosure to, or use for the benefit of, any person or entity other than Company in
the proper performance of your duties to Company would cause substantial and
irreparable damage to Company. You further acknowledge that as a result of your
duties for Company and on behalf of Company, you will develop close relationships
and significant goodwill with Company clients, customers and/or vendors, potential
clients, customers and/or vendors, employees and/or management, and that such
relationships and goodwill are developed at a significant cost to Company and render
your services special, unique and extraordinary. Finally, you acknowledge that
Company has legitimate business interests in protecting such Protected Information,
relationships, and goodwill.
b. Accordingly, during your employment with Company and for a period of one year
following termination of your employment for any reason (the “Restricted Period”),
you agree that you will not, without prior written consent from the Company, directly
or through others:
ii. solicit Company employees or anyone who was employed by Company within
the prior six months to leave Company or to work for or join another
company; or hire, attempt to hire, or assist any other company or party in
hiring any Company employees or anyone who was employed by Company
within the prior six months; or
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c. You recognize that the geographic locations within which Company does business
and/or markets its products and services are international, that your work for
Company is not limited or confined to any single jurisdiction and agree that it is
reasonably necessary for the legitimate protection of Company’s customer
relationships and goodwill and Company Protected Information that the scope of the
restrictions referenced in this provision be as broad as the area in which the division
or unit of Company for which you worked or about which you have Protected
Information does business. Accordingly, the restrictions referenced in this provision
will be applicable to the entire United States and to those additional cities, regions
and countries where the division or unit of Company for which you worked or about
which you have Protected Information is located, operates or provides offerings.
d. By signing this Agreement, you acknowledge and agree without reservation that each
of the restraints contained in this Agreement is necessary for the reasonable and
proper protection of the goodwill, Protected Information and other legitimate
interests of Company and that each and every one of these restraints is reasonable in
respect to subject matter, length of time, and geographic area. You further agree that
you will never assert, or permit to be asserted on your behalf, in any forum, any
contrary position. No breach of any provision of this Agreement by Company, or any
other claimed breach of contract or violation of law, or change in the nature or scope
of your employment relationship with Company, shall operate to extinguish your
obligation to comply with the terms of this Agreement.
e. If you breach any of these provisions, you agree that the Restricted Period during
which you are prohibited from competing with Company, and soliciting customers and
personnel from Company will be tolled during the period of such breach and will not
begin accruing again until after the breach has ceased, whether voluntarily or by order
of a court or arbitrator.
6. Remedies: You agree that in the event that you breach or threaten to breach any provision of
this Agreement, Company will be entitled, in addition to any other right or remedy available to
it by law or pursuant to this Agreement, to seek in a court of competent jurisdiction an
immediate injunction restraining such breach or threatened breach, and Company will not be
required to demonstrate irreparable harm or actual damage nor be required to post a bond in
any proceeding brought for such purpose. You agree that this Agreement shall be construed
and enforced in accordance with the substantive laws of the State of Florida, without giving
effect to its conflict of law principles. You hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the
state and federal courts located in the State of Florida for the resolution of any dispute
regarding or arising out of this Agreement, and you agree to the personal jurisdiction of those
courts. You waive any objection you may now or hereafter have to the venue of any such
action in those courts, and further irrevocably waive any claim you may now or hereafter have
that any such action brought in those courts has been brought in an inconvenient forum.
Should any dispute or controversy arising from or relating to this Agreement be submitted for
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adjudication to any court, the preservation of the secrecy of Protected Information may be
jeopardized. Consequently, the parties agree that all issues of fact shall be tried without a jury.
8. Scope and Duration of Agreement: This Agreement applies to your current position and will
continue to apply notwithstanding any changes made in the future to your employment,
including but not limited to changes in your salary, benefits, bonus plans, job title, reporting
structure and job responsibilities, except to the extent otherwise provided in any other
agreement covering your employment. The restrictions imposed by this Agreement with
respect to Company also apply to current and future subsidiaries, affiliates, and successors
and assigns of Company. During the Restricted Period, you agree that you shall, and Company
may, show this Agreement to any subsequent employer or potential employer. This
Agreement may be enforced by Company as well as its successors and assigns.
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Date: {{Sig1_es_:signer1:date}}
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