1. Parties
Stevin.AI B.V., trading as Stevin.AI (Stevin), and the Customer using or considering the Stevin services. Together referred to as the Parties.
2. Confidential Information
Confidential Information means any information disclosed by one Party to the other, in any form, that should reasonably be considered confidential, including:
- Campaign and advertising data, performance numbers, conversion data and budgets
- Customer and prospect data, CRM records, contact lists
- Strategies, briefings, plans and internal reports
- Source code, models, prompts, technical architecture and algorithms of the Stevin platform
- Pricing, margins, commercial terms
- End-customer business information of Customer
Information is not Confidential when it is demonstrably already public, lawfully obtained from a third party without confidentiality obligation, or independently developed without use of Confidential Information.
3. Obligations
- The receiving Party treats Confidential Information strictly confidential and shares it only with employees and engaged third parties on a need-to-know basis.
- Those individuals are bound by equivalent confidentiality obligations.
- Confidential Information is used solely for the purpose for which it was disclosed.
- The receiving Party applies at least the same protective measures as for its own confidential information of comparable sensitivity, and in any case reasonable measures.
4. No reverse engineering
Customer shall not decompile, reverse-engineer or attempt to reproduce the Stevin platform, its AI models or associated prompts, and shall not use platform output to train or build competing services.
5. Duration
Confidentiality obligations apply for the duration of the contractual relationship and survive for five (5) years after termination. For personal data and trade secrets, the obligation applies indefinitely.
6. Return or destruction
Upon request, and in any case after termination, each Party returns or destroys the Confidential Information received and confirms in writing. Stevin may retain backup copies as technically necessary, subject to this NDA and a maximum retention of 90 days.
7. Mandatory disclosure
If the receiving Party is legally required to disclose Confidential Information, it shall notify the other Party promptly to allow appropriate legal action, to the extent legally permitted.
8. Liability
For attributable breach of confidentiality, the breaching Party is liable for the resulting damages, subject to the liability regime in the Terms of Service. A court may impose an appropriate penalty payment at a Party's request.
9. Governing law
Governed by Dutch law. Disputes submitted to the competent court in Breda, the Netherlands.