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Confidentiality & non-disclosure

Most employees, customers and competitors do not know a business is for sale — and a leak can damage the company before a transaction ever closes. Confidentiality is not a formality here.

For sellers

Listings are published as blind profiles: industry, region, size and story. No company name, no address, nothing identifying.
Buyers accept a confidentiality agreement and are qualified before anything specific is released.
We do not contact your employees, customers, suppliers or lenders. Buyers agree not to either — every approach goes through us.
You decide what is released and when. Financial detail, the confidential information memorandum and any site visit all happen on your instruction.

For buyers

Accepting the agreement takes one form and about a minute. It records your name, the date, time and IP address, and a hash of the exact wording you agreed to.
You may share information with your own advisors, lenders and financing sources — provided they are told about the obligation and accept it. You remain responsible for them.
The agreement is mutual in spirit and standard in the industry. Your own attorney is welcome to review it.

Data handling

Everything is transmitted over HTTPS and stored on our own server, not a third-party CRM.
Inquiry data is never sold, never shared with foreign entities and never used for unsolicited marketing.
Public forms are protected by a hidden-field trap, a signed timing check, a challenge question and a country check. Blocked attempts are logged, not delivered.
You can request deletion of your information at any time.

The agreement, in full

Current version 2026.1. This is the text presented on every listing inquiry.

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CONFIDENTIALITY AND NON-DISCLOSURE UNDERTAKING (v2026.1)

In consideration of Dykstra Consulting ("the Advisor") providing information regarding a business
offered for sale, identified as the listings presented ("the Business"), the undersigned ("the Recipient") agrees:

1. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. All information furnished by the Advisor or the owner of the
Business — including financial statements, customer and supplier information, employee
information, operating data, the identity of the Business and the fact that it is offered
for sale — is confidential and is provided solely to evaluate a possible acquisition.

2. NON-DISCLOSURE. The Recipient will not disclose confidential information to any person
other than advisors, lenders or financing sources who need it to evaluate the transaction,
and who are informed of and agree to these obligations. The Recipient is responsible for
any breach by those persons.

3. NO CONTACT. The Recipient will not contact the owners, employees, customers, suppliers,
landlords or lenders of the Business regarding the Business or a possible transaction,
except through the Advisor.

4. NO SOLICITATION. For two (2) years, the Recipient will not solicit for employment any
employee of the Business first identified through this process, other than through a
general public advertisement not directed at them.

5. NO USE. Confidential information will not be used for any purpose other than evaluating
this acquisition, and specifically not to compete with the Business.

6. ACCURACY. Information is provided by the owner of the Business. The Advisor has not
independently verified it, makes no representation as to its accuracy or completeness,
and the Recipient will conduct its own due diligence and rely on its own advisors.

7. RETURN OR DESTRUCTION. On request, the Recipient will return or destroy all confidential
information, including copies and derived materials.

8. NO OBLIGATION. Nothing here obligates either party to proceed with any transaction, and
no agreement to sell exists unless set out in a signed definitive agreement.

9. REMEDIES. The Recipient agrees that a breach may cause harm for which money damages are
inadequate, and that the Advisor and the owner of the Business may seek injunctive relief
in addition to any other remedy.

10. TERM. These obligations continue for three (3) years from the date of acceptance, except
that trade secrets remain protected for as long as the law provides.

By typing their name below, the Recipient adopts that typed name as an electronic signature
under the E-SIGN Act and applicable state law, and confirms authority to bind any entity named.

This agreement is a standard confidentiality undertaking, not legal advice. Buyers should have their own counsel review it, and sellers should have theirs approve the wording used on their transaction.

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