In the course of your employment by the Company hereunder, you will have access to confidential or proprietary data or information of the Company and its operations. You will not at any time divulge or communicate to any person nor will you direct any Company employee to divulge or communicate to any person (other than to a person bound by confidentiality obligations similar to those contained herein and other than as necessary in performing your duties hereunder) or use to the detriment of the Company or for the benefit of any other person, any of such data or information. The provisions of this Section 7(a) will survive your employment hereunder, whether by the normal expiration thereof or otherwise. The term “confidential or proprietary data or information” as used in this Agreement will mean information not generally available to the public or generally known within the relevant industry, including, without limitation, personnel information, financial information, customer lists, supplier lists, trade secrets, information regarding operations, systems, services, knowhow, computer and any other processed or collated data, computer programs, pricing, marketing and advertising data. Nothing in this agreement shall prohibit or impede you from making disclosures to any federal, state or local governmental or law enforcement branch, agency or entity with respect to possible violations of any U.S. federal, state or local law or regulation, or otherwise making disclosures to any of the foregoing that are protected under the whistleblower provisions of any such law or regulation. You shall have no obligation to obtain any authorization or give any notice to the Company regarding any such communication or disclosure.