Confidentiality agreement
To help protect Vappingo clients, editors and proofreaders are required to provide services subject to confidentiality and non-disclosure obligations. Moo Media Limited is the company behind Vappingo and may act through freelance and self-employed language professionals.
Provision of language services as an agent
An editor, proofreader or language professional engaged through Vappingo acts as an independent freelance or self-employed agent rather than an employee. There is no entitlement to a minimum volume of assignments. The agent is responsible for personal business expenses, tax, insurance and registrations connected with self-employment.
Confidentiality and non-disclosure
All non-public information connected with a Vappingo client, transaction, document, service or assignment must be treated as confidential. Confidential material may be used only for the assignment for which it was supplied and must not be disclosed to another person except where disclosure is legally required. The duty of confidentiality continues after an assignment ends.
Personal performance
The agent must perform the assigned work personally and must not allow another person to access client material or confidential information without prior written authorisation.
Consequences of breach
A breach of confidentiality, misuse of client information or unauthorised disclosure may result in immediate termination of access to Vappingo assignments and may give rise to contractual, injunctive or other legal remedies.
Storage, transmission and deletion
The agent must use appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect client files during storage and transmission. Confidential data should be encrypted where appropriate and must be returned, destroyed or securely deleted when requested. The agent may be required to confirm deletion.
Conduct in the event of legal duty of disclosure
If an agent is legally compelled to disclose confidential information, the agent should notify Moo Media Limited as soon as legally permitted and disclose only the information that the law requires.
Right of inspection and verification
Moo Media Limited may request reasonable evidence that confidentiality, storage, security and deletion requirements are being followed in relation to Vappingo assignments.
Assignment of copyrights and other intellectual property rights
To the extent required for the customer to receive the commissioned work, the agent assigns to Moo Media Limited the transferable rights in work created for a Vappingo assignment, subject to applicable law and the underlying rights of the client in material supplied.
Prohibition on poaching
An agent must not solicit or accept direct assignments from a client introduced through Vappingo for six months after the agent’s last assignment for that client, unless the relationship demonstrably existed before the Vappingo introduction.
Contractual penalty
The current confidentiality agreement provides for a contractual penalty of GBP 10,000 for each breach of specified obligations. Payment of a contractual penalty does not prevent Moo Media Limited from seeking additional damages or other remedies where legally available.
Applicability and duration
The confidentiality obligations apply to all Vappingo assignments accepted by the agent. Obligations concerning confidential information, client protection and relevant intellectual property continue after an individual assignment ends and are not limited to the period during which work is actively being performed.
Applicable law, place of performance and jurisdiction
The agreement is connected with the registered office of Moo Media Limited in the United Kingdom. Subject to mandatory law, disputes may be pursued in the competent jurisdiction at the company’s registered office or another jurisdiction available under the agreement and applicable law.