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The Halopedia Non-disclosure agreement(HNDA), is an agreement by Halopedia staff members that ensures confidential material, knowledge, or information given to Halopedia Staff members from Microsoft and its associates is not released unless otherwise specified.

Why we have HNDA?
We have the HNDA for several reasons, here is a few reasons below:
 * We do not want any legal repercussions with Microsoft and its associates.
 * We do not want to risk the job of anyone working for Microsoft and its associates if they accidentally break their Non-disclosure agreement in some form with us.

What do Halopedia staff do when we get information?
If a Halopedia staff member if given a piece of confidential material, knowledge, or information. They should do the following:
 * They are to keep the information they are told private until otherwise stated by Microsoft and its associates.
 * They are to not disclose the private information to other Halopedia staff members, unless given permission by Microsoft and its associates.
 * They are to show the person working for Microsoft and its associates that is supplying them the information this page so they are aware of what we are trying to do.
 * If applicable, sign off on any official Non-disclosure agreement that is given to them relating to the confidential material, knowledge, or information.

When we can release information?
Halopedia staff can only release information given by Microsoft and its associates if either given one or both of the following is recieved:
 * Given a date and time to pass for the information to become public.
 * The person signed off the information to be released.

There may be more steps or different requirements pending on what Microsoft and its associates say, but that two is the most common ways for us to get permission to release information.

How we deal with Interviews?
Halopedia sometimes might have interviews with people from Microsoft and its associates, these interviews might hold content that risks breaking that persons NDA with Microsoft and their Associates, so we must offer the following to ensure the information they give is safe for them to release and does not put them at risk:
 * They are allowed to review the interview at any time.
 * They are allowed to redact segments of the interview at any time.
 * They are allowed to retract the entire interview at any time.

How we deal with Early access?
Halopedia staff sometimes might get hold of Halo media early from Microsoft and its associates. In the case this happens some of the following might happen:
 * Halopedia staff have no permission to release the information and is to keep all the information private till the relevant release.
 * Halopedia staff have permission to release specific information. This means we can only release information that we are allowed to release.
 * Halopedia staff have to wait till a certain event or date passes to release information.

Helping Microsoft and its associates
Halopedia staff sometimes might get asked to help out several people from Microsoft and its associates. In the case this happens, Halopedia staff will keep all conversations private and will not release them unless otherwise stated.

Breaking the HNDA
Anyone caught breaking the HNDA will be given a warning or banned from Halopedia pending on the severity of the breach, with any offending information removed off Halopedia. This is to ensure information is kept safe.