As an employee of Company, Employee received proprietary, confidential, and trade secret information of Company and/or its parent or affiliated companies during the course of Employee’s employment with Company, including information relating to Company’s customers and prospects.  Employee represents that Employee has not improperly disclosed such information to any third party outside of Company and further agrees to keep all such information confidential and to not use the same in the course of Employee’s future endeavors.  In further consideration of the payment of the foregoing sum, Employee agrees that he or she shall keep the terms and provisions of this agreement in strict confidence.  Specifically, the payment involved in this agreement shall not be published, displayed, discussed, disclosed, or revealed in any way by Employee or anyone on behalf of Employee without written permission of Company or as required by court order, except that Employee may discuss the fact of settlement and its terms with his or her spouse, attorney, and tax preparer or accountant.  Prior to disclosing these terms to any of the above-referenced persons, Employee shall inform them of their obligations not to disclose the terms further.  Disclosure of the terms of this agreement by anyone to whom Employee discloses them shall be an unauthorized disclosure by Employee.  Within one year following the execution of this release Employee will not directly or indirectly solicit employees to leave the employment of Company.