This simple letter of confidentiality is a shorter version of our standard confidentiality letter. It has been designed with ease of use in mind, rather than comprehensiveness. You can view a sample version of this letter of confidentiality here:

Sample Letter of Confidentiality

After you have edited the letter of confidentiality to your satisfaction, two signed copies should be sent by the person disclosing the confidential information (the disclosor) to the person to whom the confidential information will be disclosed (the recipient). Both copies should then be counter-signed by the recipient, and one copy should be returned to the sender. The confidentiality letter expressly provides that it will only come into force when the counter-signed letter is received by the disclosor (although, as with the rest of the letter, you may amend this term).

This template letter of confidentiality contains the following provisions:

> Definitions
> Term
> Confidentiality obligations
> Warranties
> Termination
> General

This letter of confidentiality is 6 pages long, although the edited end-product should be only 3 or 4 pages long in a standard font. The letter is supplied in MS Word (.doc) format for easy editing.