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s Carolyn has been emphasizing
over the last few Employee
Owners’ meetings,
confidentiality is an important
consideration in our business.
Often before we receive
information from a client on
which to form a proposal, we are
asked to sign a confidentiality
agreement. Many of the
contracts we sign that are
produced by our clients contain
confidentiality paragraphs.
What these agreements and
provisions typically say is
we will use the information
given to us only on a need-to-
know basis – meaning that it
should only be shared with your
project team. Additionally,
these provisions and agreements
often ask us to guard the
confidential information in the
same manner and with the same
controls that we guard our own
information. Therefore, the
information that Dave provided
in his recent Lunch and Learns
is not only important to
safeguard BL’s data, but it’s
critically important for meeting
our contractual obligations to
our clients to safeguard their
information.
Please continue to be mindful
of what you disclose in
conversation around the
office and outside the office.
Please continue to be wary
of suspicious e-mails and
links. In kick-off meetings
prior to the start of projects,
this topic should always be
discussed and it is best
practice to simply treat all
client information, whether
we’ve signed a confidentiality
agreement or not, as
confidential.