Confidentiality, Legal Notices, & Policies

Bilateral Non-Disclosure and Confidentiality Agreement

Part of the foundations for The Association of Due Diligence Professionals is the very long history and commitment of The Novum Group of Companies to educating, promoting, and supporting Intellectual Property (IP) protection. The Novum Group and The Association have extensive IP policies and procedures. As part of these policies and procedures, The Association of Due Diligence Professionals uses a bilateral approach to non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements developed and in use in The Novum Group for more than a quarter century in the network of people around The Association. This approach facilitates a more open exchange of information, while still maintaining clear delineations and definitions of confidential information.

The Association of Due Diligence Professionals Non-Disclosure and Confidentiality Agreement is in accord with the most current standard, Due Diligence Standard Processes, Version 101.0.

All Association team members work under this system, including our Alliances, Advisory Board, Boards of Directors, and Contractors, and including all of the above in The Novum Group, since the early 80s, totaling in excess of 1,000 signatories; and all of The Novum Group’s Clients, totaling in excess of 5,000 signatories.

Please email for the latest version of The Association of Due Diligence Professionals Non-Disclosure and Confidentiality Agreement.

Please send two completed and signed copies of The Association of Due Diligence Professionals Bilateral Non-Disclosure and Confidentiality Agreement to our mailing address, and we will return one signed copy.

Please Note: The Association of Due Diligence Professionals normally does not consider any other non-disclosure or similar agreements. Parties wishing to have The Association of Due Diligence Professionals consider any other non-disclosure or similar agreement, or to have The Association of Due Diligence Professionals consider modifying The Association of Due Diligence Professionals Bilateral Non-Disclosure and Confidentiality Agreement, will be required to pay the charges for the necessary legal services. The Association of Due Diligence Professionals also reserves the right to reject any such requests, and typically always does so, as the costs, overhead, and very long turnaround time necessary are overly onerous, especially considering the coordination of dozens, hundreds, or thousands of signatories.

The Association of Due Diligence Professionals accepts neither responsibility for keeping any part of an unsolicited proposal confidential, nor obligation to return unsolicited proposals to the applicant. All materials, confidential or otherwise, submitted to The Association of Due Diligence Professionals by a prospect or a client will be retained or destroyed at The Association of Due Diligence Professionals’ discretion, and will not be returned to the prospect or the client unless prior arrangements are made by the prospect or client, including expenses for returning such materials.

Legal Notices

The Association of Due Diligence Professionals Legal Policy

The following are terms of a legal agreement between you and The Association of Due Diligence Professionals. By accessing, browsing and/or using this Website (“Website”), you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree, to be bound by these terms and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations, including U.S. export and re-export control laws and regulations. The Association of Due Diligence Professionals makes no representation that materials in the Website are appropriate or available for use in other locations, and access to them from territories where their contents are illegal is prohibited. Those who choose to access this Website from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws. If you do not agree to these terms, do not use this Website.

The Association of Due Diligence Professionals hereby authorizes you to copy and display the content herein, but for your personal, non-commercial use only. Any copy you make must include this copyright notice. If attribution to The Association of Due Diligence Professionals is included, limited quotations from the content are hereby permitted. You may not copy or display for redistribution to third parties for commercial purposes any portion of the content without the prior written permission of The Association of Due Diligence Professionals You also may not, without The Association of Due Diligence Professionals’ permission, “mirror” any material contained on this Website on any other server.

The Association of Due Diligence Professionals’ trademarks may be used publicly with permission only from The Association of Due Diligence Professionals. Fair use of The Association of Due Diligence Professionals’ trademarks in advertising and promotion of The Association of Due Diligence Professionals products requires proper acknowledgement.

All other brands and names are the property of their respective owners.

Nothing contained herein shall be construed as conferring by implication, estoppel, or otherwise any license or right under any patent, trademark, copyright (except as expressly provided above), or proprietary rights of The Association of Due Diligence Professionals or of any third party.

The Association of Due Diligence Professionals makes no representations about the suitability of the content of this Website for any purpose. All content is provided “as is” without any warranty of any kind. The Association of Due Diligence Professionals hereby disclaims all warranties and conditions with regard to the content, including but not limited to all implied warranties and conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. In no event shall The Association of Due Diligence Professionals be liable for any special, indirect, exemplary, or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever, including but not limited to loss of use, data, or profits, without regard to the form of any action, including but not limited to contract, negligence, or other tortious actions, arising out of or in connection with the use, copying, or display of the content.

In no event will The Association of Due Diligence Professionals, its suppliers, or other third parties mentioned at this Website be liable for any damages whatsoever (including, without limitation, those resulting from lost profits, lost data or business interruption) arising out of the use, inability to use, or the results of use of this Website, any websites linked to this Website, or the materials or information or services contained at any or all such sites, whether based on warranty, contract, tort or any other legal theory and whether or not advised of the possibility of such damages. If your use of the materials, information or services from this Website results in the need for servicing, repair or correction of equipment or data, you assume all costs thereof. Applicable law may not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you.

Applicable Laws. This Website is administered by The Association of Due Diligence Professionals from its offices within the United States. The Association of Due Diligence Professionals makes no representation that materials or services at this Website are appropriate or available for use outside the United States, and access to them from territories where their contents are illegal is prohibited. You may not use or export or re-export the materials or services at this Website or any copy or adaptation in violation of any applicable laws or regulations including without limitation U.S. export laws and regulations. If you choose to access this Website from outside the United States, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws. These Terms will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Colorado, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of laws.

User Submissions. Other than personally identifiable information, which is covered elsewhere herein, or member-specific proprietary information, any material, information or other communication you transmit or post to this Website will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary (Submissions). The Association of Due Diligence Professionals will have no obligations with respect to the Submissions. The Association of Due Diligence Professionals and/or its designees will be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use the Submissions, including all data, images, sounds, text, and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes.

You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this Website any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, or other material that would violate any law.

Although The Association of Due Diligence Professionals believes the content to be accurate, complete, and current, The Association of Due Diligence Professionals makes no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or currency of the content. It is your responsibility to verify any information before relying on it. The content of this Website may include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. From time to time changes are made to the content herein. The Association of Due Diligence Professionals may make changes in the products and/or the services described herein at any time.

Any opinions expressed herein are solely those of the creators of the material and are not the opinions of The Association of Due Diligence Professionals, or its affiliates, or of the management of those entities.

This Website contains a variety of proprietary notices and copyright information, the terms of which must be observed and followed.

Information on this Website may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors.

Information may be changed or updated without notice.

The Association of Due Diligence Professionals may also make improvements and/or changes in the products and/or the products, services and/or programs described on this Website at any time without notice.

If you breach any of these terms, your authorization to use this Website automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed materials. The Association of Due Diligence Professionals also reserves the right to terminate your authorization to use any services at the Website and to delete any one or more of your related accounts, with or without cause, immediately and at any time.

The Association of Due Diligence Professionals accepts neither responsibility for keeping any part of an unsolicited proposal confidential, nor obligation to return unsolicited proposals to the applicant. All materials, confidential or otherwise, submitted to The Association of Due Diligence Professionals will be retained or destroyed at The Association of Due Diligence Professionals’ discretion, and will not be returned unless prior arrangements are made, including expenses for returning such materials.

The Association of Due Diligence Professionals makes no representations whatsoever about any other Website which you may access through this one. When you access a non-The Association of Due Diligence Professionals Website, even one that may contain The Association of Due Diligence Professionals logo, please understand that it is independent from The Association of Due Diligence Professionals, and that The Association of Due Diligence Professionals has no control over the content on that Website. In addition, a link to a non- Novum Group Website does not mean that The Association of Due Diligence Professionals endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content, or the use, of such Website. It is up to you to take precautions to ensure that whatever you select for your use is free of such items as viruses, worms, trojan horses and other items of a destructive nature. In no event will The Association of Due Diligence Professionals be liable to any party for any direct, indirect, special or other consequential damages for any use of this website, or on any other hyper linked website, including, without limitation, any lost profits, business interruption, loss of programs or other data on your information handling system or otherwise, even if we are expressly advised of the possibility of such damages.

Privacy Policy

We understand the importance of privacy to our members and visitors to our Website. Our policy is to treat what we learn about our members as confidential. We will not give or sell confidential or personal information about our members to any third party not affiliated with our firm, except as required by law or as necessary to provide The Association of Due Diligence Professionals services to the member.

We collect and store information about every member we handle so that we can efficiently provide the member the services they demand. We use information about our members, their members, and their activities to provide or enhance the services we make available to our members, to enhance our ability to communicate with our members about additional services they may find of value, to satisfy our legitimate business interests (including performing trend analysis and market studies), to set prices, establish credit, fulfill contracts, accomplish the billing function, and to comply with government regulations. As we collect and use information about our members, we may contract with vendors to assist us in processing that information. These vendors are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information and are restricted from using the information for any purpose other than helping to provide The Association of Due Diligence Professionals services to our members.

Some of the information collected by The Association of Due Diligence Professionals is personal data or data which relates to an identifiable person, such as names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers. We never sell information to third parties not affiliated with our firm that could be used to specifically to identify an individual member or group of members. Anonymous data, with all names, addresses and other personally identifiable information removed, is sometimes shared with third parties or used to create data for publications. We will provide personal data to government agencies as required by law or regulation.

Your continued use of this Website signifies your assent to The Association of Due Diligence Professionals Legal Policy. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to, modify, add, or remove portions of this policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for changes.

If you have questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this Website, or your experience with The Association of Due Diligence Professionals, you can contact:

Email: operations@duediligenceassociation.org

or write:

The Association of Due Diligence Professionals
1153 Bergen Parkway, Ste M271
Evergreen CO 80439

Comments, suggestions or materials sent or transmitted to The Association of Due Diligence Professionals shall be deemed to be non-confidential, unless other arrangements are made, or for member materials and information. The Association of Due Diligence Professionals shall have no obligation of any kind with respect to such comments, suggestions or materials and shall be free to use and distribute them to others without limitation, including, but not limited to developing and marketing products incorporating them.

Policies of The Association of Due Diligence Professionals

Terms and Policies

Invoices and statements are rendered to once or twice each calendar month, solely at the discretion of The Association of Due Diligence Professionals, for fees, expenses and other charges for the period. Standard payment terms are: due immediately on invoice. Any other arrangements must be agreed to in advance.

All Membership fees, Examination fees and the Due Diligence Course/Handbook fees are non-refundable.

Expense receipts are provided only for travel expenses, or for single expense items above $500. Any other arrangements must be agreed to in advance.

Detailed billing must be arranged in advance, preferably at the original contract date. Detailed invoice billing will be provided only on request, and administrative charges will be incurred.

Interest and administrative charges are made on all accounts past due, and invoices are past due 15 calendar days after the issue date of the invoices. An interest charge of a minimum of fifteen percent (15.00%), and an administrative charge of a minimum of two hundred fifty US dollars, (USD250.00) per month, will be applied for all accounts past due. The Association of Due Diligence Professionals reserves the right to charge up to the maximum rates permissible by law for any account past due. Any other arrangements must be agreed to in advance. Collection activities may result in the maximum rates permissible by law, and all collection costs will be applied to accounts sent for collection.