{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:1355","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Duty of Confidentiality","number":"1355","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1355/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK V - OBLIGATIONS","title":"TITLE I - CONTRACTS IN GENERAL","chapter":"Chapter 2. - Formation of Contracts","section":null,"paragraph":null},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"Where information is given as confidential by one party in the course of negotiations, the other party is under a duty not to disclose that information or to use it improperly for its own purposes, whether or not a contract is subsequently concluded. Where appropriate, the remedy for breach of that duty may include compensation based on the benefit received by the other party.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1355/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":378,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/378/?article=1355&paragraph=lead#article-1355-lead"}]}],"caution":"This is the 2015 English-language edition attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force. Nine passages are incomplete in the available scan and are identified where they occur."}