HEALTHCARE & EMERGENCY ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM (HEART)

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8. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INDEMNIFICATION Provider shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless the City, its officers, agents, representatives, and employees against any and all liability, including costs, and attorney's fees, for infringement of any United States' letters patent, trademark, or copyright contained in the work product or documents provided by Provider to the City pursuant to this Agreement. 9. RECORDS Provider shall keep records and invoices in connection with the work to be performed under this Agreement. Provider shall maintain complete and accurate records with respect to the costs incurred under this Agreement and any services, expenditures, and disbursements charged to the City for a minimum period of three (3) years, or for any longer period required by law, from the date of final payment to Provider under this Agreement. All such records and invoices shall be clearly identifiable. Provider shall allow a representative of the City to examine, audit, and make transcripts or copies of such records and any other documents created pursuant to this Agreement during regular business hours. Provider shall allow inspection of all work, data, documents, proceedings, and activities related to this Agreement for a period of three (3) years from the date of final payment to Provider under this Agreement. 10. CONFIDENTIALITY If Provider receives from the City information which due to the nature of such information is reasonably understood to be confidential and/or proprietary, Provider agrees that it shall not use or disclose such information except in the performance of this Agreement, and further agrees to exercise the same degree of care it uses to protect its own information of like importance, but in no event less than reasonable care. "Confidential Information" shall include all nonpublic information. Confidential information includes not only written information, but also information transferred orally, visually, electronically, or by other means. Confidential information disclosed to either party by any subsidiary and/or agent of the other party is covered by this Agreement. The foregoing obligations of non-use and nondisclosure shall not apply to any information that (a) has been disclosed in publicly available sources; (b) is, through no fault of the Provider disclosed in a publicly available source; (c) is in rightful possession of the Provider without an obligation of confidentiality; (d) is required to be disclosed by operation of law; or (e) is independently developed by the Provider without reference to information disclosed by the City. 11. CONFLICT OF INTEREST CLAUSE Provider covenants that it presently has no interest and shall not have interests, direct or indirect, which would conflict in any manner with performance of services specified under this Agreement. 12. NOTICE Any notice, tender, demand, delivery, or other communication pursuant to this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to be properly given if delivered in person or mailed by Page 6 of 10