What is Byrider's standard regarding confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements?
Byrider Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
Licensee will not disclose, publish, or disseminate Confidential Information to anyone other than (a) those of its employees and contractors with a demonstrable "need to know" who have a binding, written, confidentiality obligation to Licensee that protect such Confidential Information against disclosure, or (b) other employees and contractors working for Licensee that have entered into a Non-Disclosure Agreement with Licensor. Licensee shall not, and shall not attempt to, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, modify, network, rent, lease, or loan the Confidential Information without prior written authorization of Licensor. Licensee shall not remove, overprint, or deface any notice of copyright, patent, trademark, logo, legend, or other notices of ownership from any originals or copies of Confidential Information. Licensee further agrees not to introduce any virus, worm, Trojan horse, bomb, sniffer, or other malicious computer code or process into the Licensed System or onto or through the Hosting Platform or any other Licensor network/s. Licensee agrees and consents that the mingling of the Confidential Information with
Source: Item 23 — Receipts (FDD pages 88–335)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Byrider's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, a Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement is included as Exhibit A.1a. This agreement outlines the obligations of the franchisee (referred to as Licensee) regarding confidential information. The Licensee is prohibited from disclosing, publishing, or disseminating confidential information to anyone except their employees and contractors with a "need to know" who are bound by a written confidentiality agreement, or other employees and contractors who have signed a Non-Disclosure Agreement with Byrider (referred to as Licensor).
The agreement also restricts the franchisee from decompiling, reverse engineering, disassembling, modifying, networking, renting, leasing, or loaning the confidential information without Byrider's prior written authorization. Franchisees must not remove or alter any copyright, patent, trademark, logo, or other ownership notices from the confidential information.
Furthermore, the franchisee is prohibited from introducing any malicious computer code, such as viruses or worms, into the licensed system or Byrider's networks. The franchisee also consents to the mingling of confidential information.