Overview

One of your employees has left to work for a competitor. You suspect that they have taken a copy of your customer database with them. What can you do to stop them poaching your customers?

The obvious course of action is to claim that they have broken their employment contract. But in this situation, database rights can often be a potent additional weapon.

This briefing from Travers Smith explores the limitations of employment contracts, and how database rights can be employed as an additional tool in your right to protect your data from unauthorised use.