WORKING GROUP APPLICATION
AGREEMENT POLICIES
In the course of your service on an ASSE committee, you may have access to confidential materials submitted by persons or entities seeking ASSE certification, or
approval (“Applicants”). This Confidentiality Agreement governs your responsibility with respect to those documents.
As an ASSE International (ASSE) employee, agent, contractor, subcontractor or committee member you agree to use all confidential information received from any
Applicant, its directors, officers, employees or agents including, without limitation, any confidential training materials, presentations, curriculum, designs, layouts, or any other confidential business matters relating to applicant (collectively, the "Data"), solely only in connection with the required evaluations to be performed in the course of your service on the committee.
You shall maintain the Data in strictest confidence and shall not disclose the Data to any person (the term "'person" to be construed to the broadest sense) other than ASSE unless given the express prior written consent of applicant or as may be required by any applicable laws or regulations, subpoena from a court of law, or other court order or decree.
For purposes of this Agreement, the term Data does not include any information which (i) becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of a disclosure by you or ASSE, (ii) was available to you or ASSE on a non-confidential basis prior to its disclosure to ASSE by Applicant, its directors, officers, employees or agents, or (iii) becomes available to you or ASSE on a non-confidential basis from a source other than Applicant, its directors, officers, employees or agents, provided that such source is not bound by a confidentiality agreement with Applicant or otherwise prohibited from transmitting the Data to ASSE by an contractual, legal or fiduciary obligation.
When you serve in this role, you make a commitment to maintain impartiality and avoid bias, including bias that may arise from: self-interest, self-review, advocacy, over-familiarity, intimidation, competition, or other any other source.