(b) Receiving Party shall protect all such Confidential Information of the Disclosing Party using the same safeguards as Receiving Party customarily uses to protect Receiving Party’s own Confidential Information of a similar character. The obligations of each Party pursuant to this paragraph shall survive for a three-year period following the early termination or expiration of the Term. As used in this Agreement, “Confidential Information” means and includes all financial, technical, and other information provided by the Disclosing Party to the Receiving Party, which is marked as confidential (or, if delivered orally, which is identified as confidential at the time of disclosure), or given the circumstances a reasonable person would consider such information confidential in nature, including, but not limited to, any inventions, software, discoveries, developments, formulas, processes, methods, trade secrets, know-how, databases, or innovations and information that is used in the Disclosing Party's business and is proprietary to, about, or created by the Disclosing Party, including but not limited to, financial information, market information, sales information, customer information, personnel information, vendor information, and marketing strategies.