Before you send us anything about a client, this protects both directions. Version 1.1, effective 17 September 2026.
1. Who this is between
This agreement is between Ronin and the agency named on the account being created. It runs both ways: each of us is going to see things the other would rather the market didn't, and both of us are bound by the same terms.
2. What counts as confidential
Anything either of us shares in connection with working together that a reasonable person would treat as private. On your side that includes your clients and prospects, their briefs and data, your pricing and margins, and the fact you use an outside crew at all. On ours it includes our rates, our methods, our source code and anything we tell you about how the work gets done.
3. What doesn't
Information that was already public, that becomes public without either of us breaking this agreement, that you or we already held before it was disclosed, or that either of us develops independently without reference to the other's information. If a court or regulator compels disclosure we'll comply, but we'll tell the other side first where we're legally allowed to.
4. What we each agree to do
Use the other side's information only for the work in hand, and nothing else. Keep it to the people who genuinely need it to do that work, and make sure they're bound by obligations no weaker than these. Protect it at least as carefully as we protect our own. Don't copy it further than the work requires. Where part of the work is done by a service provider we rely on — our identity-verification and invoicing providers are named in our privacy policy — we may pass on only what that provider needs to do its job, and only where it is bound to protect it on terms no weaker than these.
5. Your clients are yours
This is the clause that matters most to you, so it's explicit: Ronin will not approach, solicit, market to, or take on as a direct client any business we learn about through you, for two years after the last work we do for you involving them. Not through us, not through anyone acting for us. Everything we build for you ships under your name and ours appears nowhere on it unless you ask.
6. Nothing is being licensed or promised
Sharing information doesn't transfer ownership of it, grant any licence to it, or oblige either of us to enter into any further agreement. Work that's been commissioned and paid for is covered by whatever we agree for that job, not by this.
7. Giving it back
Either of us can ask the other to return or destroy their confidential information at any time, and we'll do it promptly — except for copies we're required to keep by law or that sit in routine backups, which stay covered by this agreement until they age out.
8. How long it lasts
Three years from the date any particular piece of information is disclosed. Anything that qualifies as a trade secret stays protected for as long as it remains one. The commitment in clause 5 about your clients runs for its own two years regardless of when the rest expires.
9. If it's breached
Both of us accept that money alone may not fix a breach of this agreement, and that the wronged side may seek an injunction or similar relief in addition to any other remedy available to them.
10. The rest
If any clause turns out to be unenforceable, the others survive it. Neither of us waives a right by not enforcing it immediately. This is the whole of what's agreed on confidentiality between us, and it replaces anything said beforehand on the subject.