NDA generator

How to create an NDA

1. 1

   Choose one-way or mutual

   One-way protects information that flows in a single direction; mutual protects both sides when the conversation goes both ways.

2. 2

   Enter the parties, purpose and term

   Add both legal names, who signs for each side, the purpose, what counts as confidential, and how long the agreement and the duty of secrecy last.

3. 3

   Check the preview and download

   The agreement appears as you type: twelve numbered articles and a signature block for both parties. Download a PDF to sign or plain text to edit.

What this NDA generator gives you

This NDA generator asks for the facts of your deal and nothing else: both parties with their legal names, addresses and signers, the purpose of the disclosure, the effective date, what counts as confidential, the exclusions, how long the agreement runs and how long secrecy survives it, and the governing law and venue. From those answers it builds a non-disclosure agreement of twelve numbered articles, from the parties and the purpose through obligations, return of materials and remedies to governing law and signatures, with a reminder on its first line that it is a template, not legal advice. The document is on screen while you type. Download it as an A4 PDF with page numbers and a signature block for both sides, or as a plain-text file to open in Word or Google Docs and edit. Every sentence comes from one fixed template, so the same answers always give the same agreement.

One-way or mutual NDA: which to choose

Choose one-way when only one side hands over secrets: a company briefing a freelancer, a startup showing its product to a possible buyer, a manufacturer sending drawings to a supplier. One side is the Disclosing Party, the other is the Receiving Party, and only the receiving side takes on duties. Choose mutual when both sides will share, as in partnership talks, a joint venture or the early stage of an acquisition. The articles on obligations, term and survival, return of materials and remedies are then written about each Party rather than about the Receiving Party, so the same duties bind both sides; the other articles read the same in both versions.

The clauses you can turn on and off

The definition of confidential information is assembled from the categories you tick, so an agreement about source code says source code rather than a generic phrase, and Something else takes your own wording. The exclusions article is built the same way, numbered without gaps. Selecting source code or customer data adds a paragraph keeping trade secrets protected for as long as the law treats them as trade secrets, past the end of the term. Turning on liquidated damages adds a paragraph with the amount you enter; leaving it off keeps the remedy to an injunction and proven actual loss. Leave governing law or venue blank and the article prints blank lines to fill in by hand, and the page warns you about it: an agreement that silently picked a jurisdiction for you would be worse.

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