QUESTION
in business lease protected to confidentiality on its content.
Asked on Sep 10th, 2014 on Contracts - Michigan
More details to this question:
management has shared my content of my lease agreement with other officials and tenants in the building which I have had to approach over a building issue of not venting a business and causing me to become very ill from toxic chemicals which they manufacture in there business. My question is are business leases protected for confidentiallity or they allowed to be discussed with other goverment officials without my approval of releasing this information.
1 ANSWER
The confidentiality of some informatin is protected by statute. For example, HIPAA protects the confidentiality of information related to medical conditions and treatment. In most cases, however, if you want a third party with which you have shared information not to share that information with anyone else, you have to provide for that in a contract. Absent a non-disclosure clause or similar provision in your lease, I don't believe that the landlord was under any legal obligation not to share it with others.
Answered on Sep 10th, 2014 at 9:21 AM