What’s Proprietary About Outsourcing

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What’s proprietary about outsourcing? Our book, “Outsourcing Through RentACoder” explains it all. Below are a few selected snippets that describe its importance and why you, as an outsourcer, should care.

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Excerpts:

• Company policy could prohibit sharing proprietary information over the internet. Or co-workers could sabotage your outsourcing ideas before they even get off the drawing board. (page 90)
• Intellectual rights address things like copyrights, patents, trademarks, and proprietary information. In an outsourcing relationship, who owns what must be clearly identified in the outsourcing contract — else, the task is simply futile. (page 91)
• Not talking about customer information this time, but proprietary information such as patented designs or black box software code. The risk of handing this information over to a contractor may be too great and the ramifications of doing so anyway could cost you your job. (page 104)
• Companies may feel more comfortable working with an online employment resource knowing that their proprietary data is protected and enforced with this type of legally binding agreement. (page 116)
• In the event RentACoder discovers compromised material, it informs affected parties via email. Buyers who supply coders with proprietary information are additionally encouraged to encrypt sensitive data. (page 117)
• Although RentACoder secures and privatizes personal account data, some project-related information is available to anyone who creates a free account. This is what makes privatization and NDAs an important issue should your project contain proprietary information or sensitive company data. (page 119)
• A non-disclosure agreement (NDA) — also known as a confidentiality agreement, confidential disclosure agreement (CDA), proprietary information agreement (PIA), or secrecy agreement — is a legal contract between two parties that describes the conditions in which confidential information may be accessed, used, and shared. (page 158)

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