Are Hydrodog franchisees required to have employees and independent contractors sign confidentiality and non-competition agreements?
Hydrodog Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
ally prescribe to prevent unauthorized use or disclosure of Confidential Information, including, without limitation, restricting its disclosure to Franchised Business personnel and others needing to know such Confidential Information to operate your HydroDog Business, and requiring all employees and independent contractors having access to Confidential Information to sign confidentiality and non-competition agreements in a form acceptable to us. We have the right to regulate the form of confidentiality and non-competition agreement that you use and to be a third-party beneficiary of that agreement with independent enforcement rights.
You must disclose to us all ideas, techniques, services and products concerning the development and operation of your HydroDog Business that you or your employees conceive or develop during the term of this Agreement.
Source: Item 23 — RECEIPTS (FDD pages 43–166)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Hydrodog's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, franchisees are required to ensure that certain personnel sign confidentiality and non-competition agreements. Specifically, any General Manager and, if the franchisee is an entity, any officer must sign Hydrodog's current "Confidentiality and Non-Solicitation and Non-Competition Agreement" as a condition of their employment or appointment.
Furthermore, all of the franchisee's employees, independent contractors, agents, or representatives who may have access to Hydrodog's confidential information must sign Hydrodog's standard confidentiality agreement. This requirement applies regardless of whether they have already signed a Confidentiality and Non-Solicitation and Non-Competition Agreement.
Hydrodog also retains the right to regulate the form of the confidentiality and non-competition agreement used by the franchisee and to be a third-party beneficiary of that agreement with independent enforcement rights. This ensures that Hydrodog can directly enforce these agreements to protect its confidential information and competitive interests.