The four decisions that matter are already made for you in every template. Here you make them, and see what each one costs.
This agreement is made on between [first party] and [second party].
The information is being shared for the following purpose, and for no other: [what the information is for]
Using it for anything else, including evaluating a competing opportunity, is a breach of this agreement.
Confidential information means any non public information disclosed for the purpose above, in any form, whether or not it is marked confidential. It includes business plans, finances, customer and supplier information, technical material, source code, designs, and the existence and contents of the discussions between the parties.
Information is not confidential if the receiving party can show that it was already public, became public without any breach of this agreement, was already known to it without an obligation of confidence, was received from a third party entitled to disclose it, or was developed independently without using the disclosing party's information.
The receiving party will keep the information confidential, use it only for the purpose above, and protect it with at least the care it uses for its own confidential information. It may share the information with employees, contractors and professional advisers who need it for the purpose, provided each of them is bound by obligations at least as protective as these, and it remains responsible for their compliance.
If the receiving party is required by law, a court or a regulator to disclose any of the information, it may do so, but it will where lawfully able give the disclosing party prompt notice so that the disclosing party can seek protection, and it will disclose only what is required.
On written request, or when the purpose has ended, the receiving party will return or destroy the confidential information and any copies, except for one copy retained for legal or record keeping purposes and for copies held in routine backups. Retained copies remain subject to this agreement.
Nothing in this agreement transfers ownership of anything or grants any licence. The information is provided as it is, with no warranty as to its accuracy or completeness, and neither party is obliged to enter into any further agreement.
The parties agree that damages alone may not be an adequate remedy for a breach of this agreement, and that the affected party may seek an injunction or other equitable relief in addition to any other remedy available to it.
This agreement is governed by the law of [country or state], and any dispute will be heard by the courts of [country or state].
This is the entire agreement between the parties on this subject and replaces any earlier understanding about it. Any change must be in writing and signed by both parties. If any part of this agreement is held to be unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.
Read it on the right, then download it without the watermark.
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It is written from the terms these agreements normally contain and it explains the choices in plain words, which is more than a blank template does. It is not a substitute for a lawyer, it does not know your circumstances, and for anything high value, cross border or unusual you should have it reviewed. Nothing you type here is sent to us.
The first party's name is missing.
Search for a contract template and you get a PDF with square brackets in it. The shape is right, and the shape was never the hard part. The hard part is that the decisions which decide what happens when something goes wrong are already made for you, written in language designed to be skimmed, and you sign them without ever knowingly choosing them.
Who owns the work if the invoice goes unpaid. How long the confidentiality obligation lasts. Whether your liability is capped at the fee or open ended. Whose courts hear a dispute. Those four answers are the contract; everything else is furniture.
So this asks them one at a time, in ordinary words, with a line under each saying what that choice costs you. The clauses rewrite themselves on the right as you answer, so what you are reading is the document rather than a form. Nothing you type is sent to us.
Pick the agreement
A non disclosure agreement for before you show someone your numbers, your customers or your idea. A freelance services agreement for before you start work.
Answer the choices that matter
Who owns the finished work and when. How long confidentiality lasts. Whether liability is capped. Each one has a note under it saying, in plain words, what you have just decided.
Watch the clauses change
The document on the right rewrites itself as you answer. Choose a mutual NDA and the wording becomes mutual; cap your liability and the clause appears. You read the contract, not a preview of a template.
Download and sign
An A4 PDF with numbered clauses and a signature block for each party. Take it straight to the signing tool on this site and it never has to be printed.
These are the ones that determine what happens when a project goes wrong. Most templates make them for you silently.
The risky default
What this does
Not whether the contract is legally sound, which no tool can tell you. These are the specific defaults people accept by accident and regret later.
The client owns the work before paying for it
If ownership transfers on creation and the invoice is never paid, you have handed over the work and kept the debt. Transfer on payment is the safer default.
An NDA with no end date
A perpetual obligation is harder to enforce in several countries, and plenty of people simply refuse to sign it. Two to five years is the norm.
A purpose so broad it restricts nothing
"For business discussions" covers everything and therefore forbids nothing in particular. Naming the actual project is what makes the agreement work.
Uncapped liability
Without a cap a small project can carry a bill many times the fee. Capping at the fees paid is standard practice.
No governing law
Without it, which country's rules apply is an argument in itself, and that argument happens exactly when things are already going badly.
Nothing out of scope, no deposit, long payment terms
The three things that turn a profitable freelance project into an unprofitable one.
Why this is not a lawyer, and what it is instead
A template cannot know your circumstances, and this one does not claim to. What it can do is stop you accepting decisions you did not know you were making, which is what a blank template with square brackets does to people every day. The clauses here are written from the terms these agreements normally contain, in language the two people signing can actually read. Where a choice has consequences, the consequence is stated next to the choice in the same words the question used, so the form and the document agree. For anything high value, cross border, or unusual in shape, have it reviewed. A lawyer reading a document you have already thought through is a much cheaper hour than a lawyer starting from nothing, and much cheaper than the argument the missing clause causes.
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