NATIONAL INSURANCE CRIME BUREAU (NICB)

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("Confidential Information"). Confidential Informational shall be held in the strictest confidence and shall not be released, disseminated, used, accessed, copied, shared, transferred, or disclosed by Agency, except as strictly necessary for the Purpose. B. Confidential Information shall not include any information, however designated or marked, that: (i) is publicly available, or subsequently becomes publicly available, after the time it was communicated to the recipient through no breach of this MOU by the recipient; (ii) was in the recipient's possession free of any obligation of confidence prior to being communicated to the recipient by the disclosing party, or is in the recipient's possession free of any obligation of confidence subsequent to the time it was communicated to the recipient by the disclosing party; (iii) is independently developed by employees or agents, without use of the data contained in the ISO ClaimSearch, of the recipient and can be so proven by recipient; or (iv) is obtained by the receiving party from a third party lawfully in possession of such information and without a breach of such third party's obligations of confidentiality. C. It shall not be a violation of Section 3 of this MOU for Agency to disclose Confidential Information as required by standard legal procedure in order to prosecute crime. Further, disclosure is permitted in response to a lawful subpoena or other legal process served upon Agency or where applicable law requires the disclosure of Confidential Information, provided that: (i) if not prohibited under applicable law, Agency, prior to disclosing such information, gives reasonable written notice to NICB sufficient to permit NICB to seek a protective order if it so chooses; and (ii) in all cases, Agency discloses only that information that is legally required to be disclosed. For clarity, any of the Confidential Information Agency discloses pursuant to this Section 3. c. shall remain subject to the confidentiality requirements under this MOU for all other purposes. 4. Agency Obligations. In exchange for access to ISO ClaimSearch, the Agency agrees to comply with the following obligations: A. Administrator. Agency shall appoint an Administrator who shall be identified to NICB and shall be responsible for adding or removing Designees, as appropriate, as well as maintaining a list of active Designees. No Designee may be granted access to ISO ClaimSearch without Administrator approval. The Administrator shall be the Agency contact responsible for fulfilling Agency obligations required under this MOU. B. Designees. Designees shall be restricted to active Agency employees who: (1) are in good standing and not under suspension for any criminal or civil violation, or under active criminal investigation or indictment ("Good Standing"); and (2) have a need to know the Confidential Information for the Purpose. P1