An NDA that runs the wrong way leaves someone's information uncovered. Here is what each structure does.
In a one-way NDA, one side is the Disclosing Party and the other is the Receiving Party bound to confidentiality. That is the structure of our template — obligations run from the receiver to the discloser.
Prepare the NDAA one-way NDA can run in either direction: the Disclosing Party is whoever shares the information, and the Receiving Party is whoever is bound. The interview asks which side is which, and the obligations bind the receiving side.
Prepare the NDAA mutual NDA binds both sides; a one-way NDA binds one. Our template is one-way. Two mirrored one-way NDAs — each side signing one as the Disclosing Party — cover both directions, and a single mutual NDA drafted for both directions is a document an attorney can prepare.
Prepare the NDAA one-way NDA protects one side's information: the Disclosing Party shares, the Receiving Party is bound. A mutual NDA binds both sides symmetrically. The common mistake is signing a one-way NDA as the receiver while also revealing your own confidential material — your information then has no protection at all. An NDA’s direction follows who actually reveals something worth protecting, which is not always the side that proposed the document.
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