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4. INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR Consultant shall, during the entire term of this Agreement, be construed to be an independent contractor and not an employee of the Authority. This Agreement is not intended nor shall it be construed to create an employer-employee relationship, ajoint venture relationship, or to allow the City to exercise discretion or control over the professional manner in which Consultant performs the services which are the subject matter of this Agreement; however, the services to be provided by Consultant shall be provided in a manner consistent with all applicable standards and regulations governing such services. Consultant shall pay all salaries and wages, employer's social security taxes, unemployment insurance and similar taxes relating to employees and shall be responsible for all applicable withholding taxes. 5. INDEMNIFICATION At its expense, Fluke will settle or defend and pay all damages (except incidental and consequential damages) and costs finally awarded in any action brought against Buyer to the extent that it is based on a claim that the damages are caused by Fluke's negligence, provided; Buyer promptly notifies Fluke of the action and furnishes copies of each communication related thereto; Buyer gives Fluke the authority and assistance (at Fluke's expense) necessary to defend or settle the claim, and the action does not arise out of the negligence of Buyer, Buyer's service, alteration or handling of the product, Buyer's recommendation or its customer's application or Buyer's failure to provide its customers with warnings as requested in writing by Fluke 6. CONFIDENTIALITY If Consultant receives from the City information which due to the nature of such information is reasonably understood to be confidential and/or proprietary, Consultant agrees that it shall not use or disclose such information except in the performance of this Agreement, and further agrees to exercise the same degree of care it uses to protect its own information of like importance, but in no event less than reasonable care. "Confidential Information" shall include all nonpublic information. Confidential information includes not only written information, but also information transferred orally, visually, electronically, or by other means. Confidential information disclosed to either party by any subsidiary and/or agent of the other party is covered by this Agreement. The foregoing obligations of non-use and nondisclosure shall not apply to any information that (a) has been disclosed in publicly available sources; (b) is, through no fault of the Consultant disclosed in a publicly available source; (c) is in rightful possession of the Consultant without an obligation of confidentiality; (d) is required to be disclosed by operation of law; or (e) is independently developed by the Consultant without reference to information disclosed by the City. 7. CONFLICT OF INTEREST CLAUSE Consultant covenants that it presently has no interests and shall not have interests, direct or indirect, which would conflict in any manner with performance of services specified under this Agreement.