This confidentiality agreement is a contractual template designed to regulate relations between parties exchanging confidential information within a joint project, without establishing a formal trade secret regime under Federal Law No. 98-FZ.

It is based solely on the principles of Russian civil law, where non-disclosure obligations arise from contractual relations, without the need to approve a special trade secret policy.

The document defines confidential information, sets rules for its use, protection, and return, and provides for liability for breaches. Such an agreement is used in situations where companies or individual entrepreneurs negotiate partnerships, develop joint projects such as software creation or business strategies, exchange technical data, know-how, or financial information, but prefer to avoid bureaucratic procedures for introducing a trade secret regime, relying on mutual contractual guarantees to protect interests without court recognition of the information as secret.