the public or competitors of the Company or if Consultant is compelled by judicial or administrative proceedings to disclose Confidential Information of the Company and Consultant has diligently tried to avoid each disclosure and has afforded Company the opportunity to obtain assurance that compelled disclosure will be kept confidential. If Consultant is uncertain whether something is Confidential Information, Consultant should treat it as Confidential Information until Consultant receives clarification from the Company that it is not Confidential Information. Consultant shall restrict access to Confidential Information to its personnel and employees on a need-to-know basis, and Consultant acknowledges and agrees that it shall be responsible for any breach of the terms of this Agreement by any of its agents or employees, including, but not limited to, Carlson.
7.3. All notes, data, reference materials, sketches, drawings, memoranda, documentation and records that in any way incorporate or reflect any of the Confidential Information, and all proprietary rights therein, including copyrights, shall belong exclusively to the Company. Upon the request of the Company or upon termination of the Services hereunder, Consultant agrees to surrender to the Company all such materials that are in Consultant’s, or any of its agent’s or employee’s, including, but not limited to, Carlson’s, control, regardless of the format in which such information is stored.
7.4. The obligations of this Section 7 shall survive the termination or expiration of this Agreement.
8. Relief. Consultant recognizes that any actual or threatened breach of this Agreement may cause irreparable injury to the Company, inadequately compensable in monetary damages. Accordingly, in addition to any other legal or equitable remedies that may be available to the Company, Consultant agrees that the Company shall be able to seek and obtain injunctive relief in the form of a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction, and/or permanent injunction, in each case without notice or bond, against Consultant to enforce this Agreement. The Company shall not be required to demonstrate actual injury or damage to obtain injunctive relief from the courts. In addition, if Consultant breaches this Agreement in any way, the Company shall be entitled to recover, in addition to any damages caused by a breach of this Agreement, all costs and expenses, including, but not limited to, the Company’s reasonable attorneys’ fees, expenses, and court costs incurred by the Company in connection with any action or proceeding to enforce this Agreement or to obtain a declaration that the restrictions herein are enforceable.
9. Indemnification.
9.1. Consultant agrees that it will indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its officers, managers, employees, members, agents, representatives, successors and assigns from and against all liabilities, claims, damages, expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees), fines and penalties, in each case payable by the Company to third parties, whether in tort or contract, arising out of or relating to, directly or indirectly, (a) a breach of this Agreement by Consultant, (b) the performance of, or failure to perform, the Services, or (c) gross negligence or willful misconduct by Consultant (collectively, “Company Losses”), except to the extent that any such Company Loss is due to the material breach of this Agreement, gross negligence or willful misconduct by the Company. The provisions of this Section 9.1 shall indefinitely survive the termination or expiration of this Agreement.
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