Exhibit 99.3
AGREEMENT FOR USE AND NON-DISCLOSURE OF PROPRIETARY INFORMATION
This Agreement for Use and Non-Disclosure of Proprietary Information (“Agreement”) between CEA Industries Inc. and its subsidiaries (“CEAII”), and 111 Equity Group LLC (“Company”) is effective as of the 26th day of June 2024 (“Effective Date”). CEAII and Company shall be referred to as the “Parties” and each a “Party.” The Parties enter this Agreement to assure the protection and preservation of the confidential and/or proprietary nature of information to be disclosed or made available between the Parties.
Now, therefore, for good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency of which is acknowledged, the Parties agree as follows:
1. Proprietary Information. All confidential, non-public and/or proprietary information, including without limitation all oral and written information, disclosed by a Party (“Disclosing Party”) or a Disclosing Party’s affiliates, respective employees, officers, directors, agents, legal counsel, accountants, auditors and other representatives and advisors (hereinafter “Disclosing Party Representative”), to the other Party (“Recipient”) is deemed to be confidential, restricted and proprietary to such Disclosing Party (hereinafter referred to as “Proprietary Information”).
2. Use. Recipient agrees to use any Proprietary Information received from the Disclosing Party and Disclosing Party Representatives only for the purpose of the Parties conducting business together (“Permitted Use”).
3. Nondisclosure; Care. Recipient may use the Proprietary Information only for the Permitted Use and will protect all Proprietary Information from disclosure to others using the same degree of care used to protect its own proprietary information of a similar nature and kind, but in any case using no less than a reasonable degree of care. Recipient may not reproduce Proprietary Information in any form except as required for the Permitted Use.
4. Ownership. All Proprietary Information will remain the property of the relevant Disclosing Party, may be used by Recipient only for the Permitted Use, and such Proprietary Information, including all copies thereof, must be returned to such Disclosing Party or be destroyed, at the Recipient’s option, upon such Disclosing Party’s written request, without retaining any copies thereof.
5. Limitation. Recipient has no obligation to protect any Proprietary Information that:
i) has been or in the future is published or is now or in the future otherwise enters the public domain, other than as a result of disclosure by Recipient in violation of this Agreement;
ii) before disclosure hereunder, properly is within Recipient’s legitimate possession provided that the source of such information was not known by Recipient (after reasonable inquiry) to be bound by a confidentiality agreement with or other contractual, legal or fiduciary obligation of confidentiality to the Disclosing Party or any other party with respect to such information; or
iii) subsequent to disclosure hereunder is received lawfully by Recipient from a third party, who is not known (subject to reasonable inquiry) by Recipient to be prohibited from disclosing the information to Recipient.
6. Term and Termination. The term of this Agreement shall commence on the Effective Date and shall expire two (2) years from the Effective Date, provided that either Party may terminate this Agreement at any time by providing written notice to the other Party. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, each Party’s rights and obligations under this Agreement shall survive the expiration or termination of this Agreement for a period of two (2) years from the date of such expiration or termination, even after the return or destruction of Proprietary Information by the Recipient (the “Survival Period”), provided that for any and all trade secrets of the Disclosing Party, the Survival Period shall last for as long as such Proprietary Information qualifies as a trade secret under applicable federal, state and/or local law.
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