charged to the City for a minimum period of three (3) years, or for any longer period required by
<br /> law, from the date of final payment to Contractor under this Agreement. All such records and
<br /> invoices shall be clearly identifiable. Contractor shall allow a representative of the City to
<br /> examine, audit, and make transcripts or copies of such records and any other documents created
<br /> pursuant to this Agreement during regular business hours. Contractor shall allow inspection of all
<br /> work, data, documents, proceedings, and activities related to this Agreement for a period of three
<br /> (3) years from the date of final payment to Contractor under this Agreement.
<br /> 10. CONFIDENTIALITY
<br /> If Contractor receives from the City information which due to the nature of such
<br /> information is reasonably understood to be confidential and/or proprietary, Contractor agrees that
<br /> it shall not use or disclose such information except in the performance of this Agreement, and
<br /> further agrees to exercise the same degree of care it uses to protect its own information of like
<br /> importance, but in no event less than reasonable care. "Confidential Information"shall include all
<br /> nonpublic information. Confidential information includes not only written information, but also
<br /> information transferred orally, visually, electronically, or by other means. Confidential
<br /> information disclosed to either party by any subsidiary and/or agent of the other party is covered
<br /> by this Agreement. The foregoing obligations of non-use and nondisclosure shall not apply to any
<br /> information that(a)has been disclosed in publicly available sources; (b) is, through no fault of the
<br /> Contractor disclosed in a publicly available source; (c) is in rightful possession of the Contractor
<br /> without an obligation of confidentiality; (d) is required to be disclosed by operation of law; or (e)
<br /> is independently developed by the Contractor without reference to information disclosed by the
<br /> City.
<br /> 11. CONFLICT OF INTEREST CLAUSE
<br /> Contractor covenants that it presently has no interests and shall not have interests, direct or
<br /> indirect, which would conflict in any manner with performance of services specified under this
<br /> Agreement.
<br /> 12. NON-DISCRIMINATION
<br /> Contractor shall not discriminate because of race, color, creed, religion, sex,marital status,
<br /> sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, gender, medical conditions, genetic
<br /> information, or military and veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, or disability, as defined
<br /> and prohibited by applicable law, in the recruitment, selection, teaching, training, utilization,
<br /> promotion, termination or other employment related activities or any services provided under this
<br /> Agreement. Contractor affirms that it is an equal opportunity employer and shall comply with all
<br /> applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations.
<br /> 13. EXCLUSIVITY AND AMENDMENT
<br /> This Agreement represents the complete and exclusive statement between the City and
<br /> Contractor, and supersedes any and all other agreements, oral or written, between the parties. In
<br /> the event of a conflict between the terms of this Agreement and any attachments hereto, the terms
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