The Purchaser will hold, and will cause its respective Affiliates and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents, attorneys, accountants and financial advisors to hold, in strict confidence, unless disclosure is requested or legally compelled (in either case pursuant to the terms of a valid and effective subpoena or order issued by a court of competent jurisdiction or a federal, state or local governmental or regulatory body or pursuant to a civil investigative demand or similar judicial process, and in such cases, the Purchaser shall provide the Company with prompt written notice of the proposed disclosure so that the Company may seek a protective order or other appropriate remedy (and in the event that such protective order or other remedy is not obtained, or that the Company waives compliance with this provision, the Purchaser will furnish only that portion of such information that the Purchaser is advised by legal counsel is legally required and will exercise its best efforts to obtain  a protective order or other reliable assurance that confidential treatment will be accorded such information)), all non-public records, books, contracts, instruments, computer data and other data and information (collectively, “ Information ”) concerning the Company furnished to the Purchaser by or on behalf of the Company or its representatives pursuant to this Agreement (except to the extent that such information can be shown (a) to have been previously known to the Purchaser on a nonconfidential basis, prior to its disclosure by the Company, from other sources that, after reasonable inquiry, is entitled to disclose such information and is not bound by a contractual, legal or fiduciary obligation of confidentiality to the Company with respect to such information, (b) to have been or to be generally known to the public through no violation of this Section 3.5 by the Purchaser, (c) to have been in the possession of the Purchaser on a nonconfidential basis, prior to its disclosure by the Company or (d) to be subsequently developed by the Purchaser without using all or any portion of the Information or violating any of the obligations of the Purchaser under this Agreement), and the Purchaser shall not release or disclose such Information to any other person, except its auditors, attorneys, accountants and financial advisors.  In addition, nothing in this Section 3.5 shall restrict the disclosure by Purchaser or its Affiliates and its and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents, attorneys, accountants and financial advisors to (x) Permitted Transferees in connection with a proposed Transfer of Series A Preference Shares or Common Shares (it being understood that prior to any such disclosures, the prospective transferee shall be informed of the confidential nature of the information and the Purchaser shall be responsible for any breach of this Section 3.5 by such Person) or (y) to Purchaser’s limited partners; provided that for purposes of this clause (y), such Information is limited to financial and other information regarding the Company or its Subsidiaries that is contractually required or customarily provided to investors in Purchaser.  The Confidentiality Agreement, dated as of July 3, 2016 (the “ Confidentiality Agreement ”), by and between Signet Jewelers Limited and Leonard Green & Partners L.P., shall remain in full force and effect.