For Clear Pest Pros, which employees are required to sign non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements?
Clear_Pest_Pros Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
At the start of their employment, you must require, as consideration for employment, each of your Managing Owners, Designated General Managers, sales and/or account management employees to sign non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements that we have specified or approved. Such agreements will prohibit disclosure, by the employee to any other person or legal entity, of any trade secrets, customer lists, or other information, knowledge, or know-how regarding the System or the operation of the Business, which is deemed confidential and/or proprietary by us. Such employee non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements will, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, prevent employees from servicing or soliciting any of the customers of your Business, except in their capacities as employees of the Business. We may require you to send us a copy of such agreements once fully signed.
Source: Item 22 — CONTRACTS (FDD pages 67–68)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Clear Pest Pros' 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, franchisees must require certain employees to sign non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements at the start of their employment. These employees include Managing Owners, Designated General Managers, and sales and/or account management employees.
The agreements aim to protect Clear Pest Pros' confidential information, trade secrets, and customer relationships. Specifically, the agreements prohibit employees from disclosing trade secrets, customer lists, or other information about the System or the Business's operations that Clear Pest Pros deems confidential or proprietary.
These agreements also prevent employees from servicing or soliciting the Business's customers, except in their capacity as employees of the Business, to the fullest extent permitted by law. Clear Pest Pros may also require franchisees to provide copies of these signed agreements.