Module 3 · Chapter 6

Confidentiality, Intellectual Property and the Privacy Notice

A seller carries her employer’s customers and prices in her head. The contract keeps them secret, gives the employer what she makes in her job, and tells her how her own data is used.

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In this chapter

  • What Cressby keeps secret, and what Esme may still report
  • Who owns the work and the inventions she makes
  • Why the Contract points to a privacy notice instead of asking for consent

6.1Secrets, ownership and data in brief

Esme will know who Cressby’s customers are, what they pay and what it plans next. Clause 16 keeps that information secret, while she works for Cressby and after she leaves. Clause 17 gives Cressby the rights in what she makes in her job. Clause 18 tells her how Cressby uses her own personal data.

The law sets a limit on each clause. She may always report wrongdoing, and she keeps inventions made outside her normal duties. And Cressby cannot rely on her consent to use her data, so it tells her instead.

Key point

Cressby protects what is its own, and no more. A clause that reaches past the law’s limits gains Cressby nothing.

Also in this chapter

  1. What Cressby keeps secret
  2. Reporting wrongdoing comes first
  3. Who owns the work she makes
  4. The privacy notice, not consent
  5. Your job

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