NON-COMPETE AND CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT
This Non-Compete and Confidentiality Agreement (this "Agreement") is made at S.A.S. Nagar (Mohali) on 1 April 2026, effective from 2 April 2026.
BETWEEN
Northline Analytics Private Limited, a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 2013, of Plot No. 8, Phase 8-B, Industrial Area, S.A.S. Nagar (Mohali) 160055, acting through Rohit Nair, Director, authorised by board resolution dated 4 March 2026 (the "Company");
AND
Simran Kaur Dhillon, son/daughter/wife of Gurdeep Singh Dhillon, of House No. 214, Sector 15-A, Chandigarh 160015, employed by or engaged to be employed by the Company as Senior Business Analyst (the "Employee").
The Company and the Employee are each a "Party" and together the "Parties".
RECITALS
A. In the course of the Employee's employment, the Employee will have or come to have access to the Company's confidential business information, client relationships and staff.
B. This Agreement is entered into alongside, and not instead of, the letter or agreement recording the terms of the Employee's employment.
NOW THIS AGREEMENT WITNESSES AS FOLLOWS.
- 1. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. "Confidential Information" means all non-public information about the Company's business that the Employee learns in the course of employment, including client and vendor lists and contracts, pricing, financial information, business and marketing plans, processes, software, technical documentation and trade secrets, and in particular: client contracts and pricing, marketing and business strategy, unreleased product designs, source code and technical documentation, financial statements.
- 2. CONFIDENTIALITY OBLIGATION. The Employee shall keep all Confidential Information confidential, shall not use it for any purpose outside the proper performance of their duties to the Company, and shall not disclose it to any person outside the Company, both during the employment and indefinitely after it ends, except information that becomes public other than through the Employee's breach of this Agreement, or that the law compels the Employee to disclose.
- 3. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. All work product, inventions, designs, records and material the Employee creates in the course of employment, or using the Company's resources or Confidential Information, belong to the Company, and the Employee shall sign such further document as the Company reasonably requires to record that.
- 4. EXCLUSIVITY WHILE ENGAGED. While employed by the Company, the Employee shall not, directly or indirectly, engage in, be employed by, consult for, or hold any interest in, any business competing with the Company's business, without the Company's prior written consent. This restriction applies only for so long as the employment continues.
- 5. AFTER THE EMPLOYMENT ENDS. This Agreement does not restrain the Employee from taking up competing employment or business after the employment ends. Section 27 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 renders a restraint of trade void outside narrow statutory exceptions that do not extend to an ordinary contract of employment, and a clause purporting to bind the Employee not to compete after leaving would not be enforced. What continues to apply after the employment ends is clause 2 (confidentiality, without limit of time) and clause 6 (non-solicitation, for the period stated there).