13Confidentiality and commercial-in-confidence

13 Confidentiality and commercial-in-confidence

13 Confidentiality and commercial-in-confidence

(1) A data recipient that is provided with government sector data that contains confidential or commercially sensitive information must ensure that the information is dealt with in a way that complies with any contractual or equitable obligations of the data provider concerning how it is to be dealt with.

(2) In this section—

confidential or commercially sensitive information means—

(a) information a person or body controls that the person or body is required to keep confidential because of a contractual or equitable obligation, or

(b) without limiting paragraph (a), information about commercial-in-confidence provisions of a contract (within the meaning of the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009), or

(c) any other information the disclosure of which would prejudice any person’s legitimate business, commercial, professional or financial interests.