Non-disclosure agreement
- Contract value
- $12,000
- Deposit due at signing
- $3,000
- Balance after the deposit
- $9,000
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A non-disclosure agreement is the first document most small businesses sign with anyone: before the pitch, before the supplier sees the numbers, before the contractor sees the code. It is also the one most often signed without reading, because it looks the same every time and the stakes seem low. The stakes are in three figures the template leaves for you to fill in: how long the obligation lasts, how long after the relationship ends it survives, and what counts as confidential in the first place. This guide walks what a non-disclosure agreement has to say for a small business, mutual and one-way, where the figures sit inside it, and how the free worksheets on this site carry the NDA's dates alongside the services agreement it usually precedes.
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One-way or mutual, and what is confidential
A one-way NDA protects the party disclosing; a mutual non-disclosure agreement protects both, and is the right shape whenever both sides will show the other something. The definition of confidential information is the clause that decides everything later: marked documents only, or anything disclosed in the relationship, with the usual exclusions for what was already public or already known. A small business writing its own should read that clause twice.
The dates: term, survival and return
The obligation runs for the term of the relationship and survives it for a stated period, commonly a number of years, and the information is returned or destroyed at the end. Those are figures, and they belong with the agreement the NDA protects: the services agreement worksheet on this site works the engagement's term and notice date, and the NDA's survival period is counted from the same end date so the two documents agree.
Keeping the NDA with the deal it protects
An NDA on its own is a file nobody can find in two years; kept against the counterparty with the services agreement it preceded, it is the answer to the question of what that party may and may not say. Termslane Pro keeps the NDA, the services agreement and the counterparty together, with the survival date on the record, and exports them when the question comes.
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Non-disclosure agreement: common questions
What is the difference between a mutual and a one-way NDA?
A one-way NDA binds only the party receiving information; a mutual NDA binds both. Use mutual whenever both sides will disclose something, which in a partnership or a joint pitch is nearly always.
How long should an NDA last?
For the relationship plus a survival period after it, stated in years. Trade secrets are often protected for as long as they remain secret. Termslane publishes no standard period; the figure is yours and the worksheet keeps it against the deal's end date.
Do I need a lawyer for a non-disclosure agreement?
For a routine NDA between small businesses, most owners sign a well-read template. Where the information is the business itself, or the counterparty is much larger, have a lawyer read the definition and the remedies clauses.