In consideration of your disclosing to us information concerning the above business introduced by you and which is not publicly available, we undertake both to you and the vendor that we shall:-
1. Treat the information as being strictly private and confidential and shall take all precautions to maintain its status as such;
2. Use and apply the information solely for the purpose of evaluation of the business with a view to the acquisition of that business;
3. Not at any time disclose or otherwise make available to the third party any information other than;
(a) To those of our officers and employees who are required by us in the course of (and solely for the purpose of) such evaluation to receive and consider the information (and we agree that any such disclosure is on the basis that such officers and employees are made aware of and accept the strictest provisions of this undertaking); and
(b) To our professional advisers (as may be notified to you); that we agree that any such disclosure is on the basis that they and their staff are made aware of and accept the strict provisions of this undertaking.
4. Upon receipt of the written demand from you, to return the information to you together with any copies in our possession or that of our professional advisers.
We further confirm that no approaches of any kind will be made to the staff, customers or suppliers of the business without the vendors’ knowledge and authority.
Christie & Co is registered under the Data Protection Act 2018 and General Data Protection Regulation 2016 (“GDPR”) under registration number Z8293541. All Personal Data about you will be treated as private and confidential. The Christie Group will use the Personal Data supplied by you only for purposes associated with legitimate business interests such as the administration of the (potential) business relationship. We follow the rules of GDPR and the terms of our registration when dealing with your Personal Data and we have a formal complaints procedure, a copy of which is available on request or on our website at https://www.christie.com/complaints/.
