Over the years, we’ve found that companies have grown more fanatical about nondisclosure agreements. And rightly so: confidential knowledge is core to any business. But often, companies seem to pay more attention to the nondisclosure agreement itself than the actual notion of confidentiality. What does “confidential” mean to you? Does the document you just sent me fall under our nondisclosure agreement? If it’s not marked “Confidential,” there’s often no way of knowing, which can defeat the purpose of the agreement.
So today, we added features to Approver.com that enable you to explicitly mark a document as confidential. When you do this, a “Confidential” box appears at the top of the document review page, making it obvious to all reviewers of the document that you consider this document to be confidential.
We know that “Confidential” means different things to different people, so we provided three different flavors of Confidential flags:
- Confidential
- Confidential/NDA (for information released under the terms of a nondisclosure agreement)
- Confidential Attorney/Client Privilege (for information communicated between an attorney and a client)
You can mark a document as confidential on the document authoring page. (As you might expect, you can mark uploaded files as confidential too.)
