Use this confidentiality letter template when you are about to share your confidential information or ideas with another business or person. Using this document will protect your confidential ideas and information. It provides that the person you have shared your information or ideas with cannot misuse them. Without such protection, you are not safe to share your ideas or information. Ideas themselves are not subject to copyright protection.

A template you can use time and time again

Written in plain English, this letter template is the briefest and most straight-forward of all the confidentiality agreements that we offer. It has been drafted by a UK legal specialist with many years of experience in drafting confidentiality agreements.

You will have permanent access to the confidentiality letter template through your Legalo account, in case you ever need to use it again. If we update it, we will let you know and you will have free access to the updated version.

You can also email us or use our telephone helpline for free assistance with completing your template. However, it comes with a full written guide to help you complete it.

When and how to use a Confidentiality Letter

You should always get a confidentiality letter in place before you share important information with people who are not part of your organisation. The exceptions are:

Where you disclose information to professionals who already owe you a duty of confidentiality, such as solicitors and accountants.
Your company’s directors would be under a duty of confidentiality as part of their statutory director’s duties while they remain as directors, but you would want some form of confidentiality in their contract that was stated to last after they have ceased to be directors.

Other employees will need a clause in their contract of employment that deals with confidentiality.

This type of confidentiality letter is ideal when giving outline details or basic information that is confidential. Whether that information relates to an idea, a business concept or contract material, you can protect it with this letter. Before you disclose any of the confidential information or ideas, ensure that you get this confidentiality letter signed by the recipient. This letter is ideal where only one party is giving out information that needs protecting. If both parties are doing so, then try our template for a mutual or reciprocal confidentiality agreement. Click on the link.

When you need a confidentiality agreement with an employee, try this one.

If you need confidentiality so you can discuss a patent or patent application safely, then try our Patent Confidentiality Letter.

When you really want to keep the confidentiality agreement as short and simple as possible, then try this one.

Completing the Confidentiality Letter template

Once you have bought it, you can download the confidentiality letter draft from your account in Word format. It is easy to fill in, with the help of our free guidance notes, which come with the download. Then you just need to print it off and get the other party to sign and return it. The whole process will only take you a few minutes.