The confidentiality agreement between you and SlingIP, effective when you start an engagement.

This Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement ("Agreement") is between you — the individual and the company you represent ("You") — and SlingIP, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("SlingIP"). It takes effect the moment you accept it by continuing past the first step of an engagement, and it governs everything you share with us and everything we share with you from that point on. If you are accepting on behalf of a company, you confirm you have authority to bind that company.

"Confidential Information" means any non-public information one party (the "Discloser") shares with the other (the "Recipient"), in any form, that is marked confidential or that a reasonable person would understand to be confidential given its nature or the circumstances. For You, this includes your source code, specifications, R&D memos, invention disclosures, technical documents, pitch materials, and the inventions themselves. For SlingIP, this includes our analysis methods, prompts, models, pricing, and non-public product details.

The Recipient will: (a) use the Confidential Information only to evaluate, deliver, or receive SlingIP's patent-harvesting services (the "Purpose"); (b) protect it with at least the same care it uses for its own confidential information, and no less than reasonable care; and (c) disclose it only to its own employees, contractors, and professional advisers who need it for the Purpose and who are bound by confidentiality obligations at least as protective as these.

SlingIP will not use Your Confidential Information to train, fine-tune, or improve any foundation model, and will not use it to improve SlingIP for any other customer. This obligation is in addition to, and does not limit, anything else in this Agreement.

This Agreement does not cover information that the Recipient can show: (a) was public at the time of disclosure or became public through no fault of the Recipient; (b) the Recipient already knew, free of any confidentiality duty, before receiving it; (c) the Recipient developed independently without using the Confidential Information; or (d) the Recipient rightfully received from a third party who was free to share it.

If the Recipient is legally compelled to disclose Confidential Information (for example, by a court order or subpoena), it may do so, but only to the extent required, and — where legally permitted — it will give the Discloser prompt notice so the Discloser can seek protection.

Nothing here transfers ownership of, or grants any license to, any Confidential Information, invention, or intellectual property. Each party keeps all rights in what it shares. Nothing here obligates either party to proceed with any engagement, purchase, or transaction.

On the Discloser's written request, the Recipient will promptly return or delete the Confidential Information in its possession, except for copies kept in routine backups or required by law, which stay subject to this Agreement until deleted.

This Agreement stays in effect for three years from the date you accept it. Each party's obligations for Confidential Information disclosed during that period survive for three years after disclosure — and for any information that qualifies as a trade secret, for as long as it remains a trade secret under applicable law.

Confidential Information is provided "as is." This Agreement is a confidentiality agreement only. It is not legal advice, and it does not create an attorney-client relationship. SlingIP is not a law firm.

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.

This is the entire agreement between You and SlingIP about confidentiality, and it replaces any prior confidentiality understanding on this subject. If any part is unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. Neither party may assign it without the other's consent, except to a successor in a merger or sale of substantially all assets.

Questions about this Agreement go to hello@slingip.ai.