
Will you ensure the privacy and security of my project/product? Should we sign an NDA? How will we handle intellectual property (IP) rights?
Signing an NDA with your software development partner is required if you are concerned about securing your trade secrets, keeping the project secret before release, or protecting other sensitive information. There are two kinds of NDAs:
● Unilateral: In this case, only one party aggress to protect the proprietary information of the other one.
● Mutual: Both parties (the client and software vendor) agree to protect the information of each other.
Unilateral NDAs are typically the most common because it is the client who shares sensitive information with the software vendor and is frequently concerned with intellectual property rights. Qualified software development firms have no reservations about signing such documents, but they are not thrilled about it. The reason is that if the software development project has a signed NDA, the software vendor usually also agrees not to use the project as a case study.
We at CodeRiders, have no problem signing NDAs and ensuring that there is no leak of information in response to client requests. In our portfolio section, only projects that have been agreed upon for public sharing as a software development case study.