customers or vendors of the Company or any subsidiary or affiliated entity, any statement that disparages, discredits, or defames the Company, including but not limited to disparaging, discrediting or defamatory statements regarding the Company’s financial condition, the Company’s products, or the directors, officers, managers, and employees of the Company. During the Term and thereafter, the Company shall not make any statement that disparages, discredits, or defames Executive to any person or entity, including but not limited to competitors, customers or vendors of the Company or any subsidiary or affiliated entity, and the Company shall instruct its respective officers and directors to not disparage, discredit or defame Executive to any person or entity; provided, that, this Section 7 shall not in any way preclude Executive and the Board or officers from engaging, during the Term, in performance reviews or other discourse relating to Executive’s performance, or otherwise discussing or conducting the business of the Company in the ordinary course. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Section 7 shall preclude Executive or the Company from making truthful statements required by applicable law, regulation or legal process, or in connection with any formal action to enforce their respective rights under this Agreement, as applicable.
8. ENFORCEMENT/REMEDIES.
(a) Arbitration. Executive acknowledges that she remains bound by and in compliance with the terms and conditions of that Arbitration Agreement entered into by and between Executive and the Company, attached hereto as Exhibit B (the “Arbitration Agreement”).
(b) Equitable Relief. The agreement to arbitrate set forth in Section 8(a) does not prohibit either party from filing an application for a provisional remedy or equitable relief to prevent actual or threatened irreparable harm in accordance with California law, including for breach or threatened breach of Sections 5 through 8 of this Agreement.
9. DEFINITIONS. As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the following meanings:
(a) “Cause” means one or more of the following events, as determined by the majority of disinterested members of the Board: (i) Executive’s commission of theft, embezzlement, fraud, dishonesty, misappropriation, or similar conduct against the Company, any subsidiary or any affiliated entity; (ii) Executive’s conviction for, or entry of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to, a felony or a crime involving moral turpitude; or (iii) Executive’s gross negligence or willful or intentional misconduct in the performance of Executive’s duties.
(b) “Change in Control” shall have the meaning set forth in the Plan.
(c) “Disability” means Executive’s inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment that can be expected to result in death or that has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than twelve (12) months as provided in Sections 22(e)(3) and 409A(a)(2)(c)(i) of the Code, and will be determined by the Board on the basis of such medical evidence as the Board deems warranted under the circumstances.
(d) “Good Reason” means the occurrence of any of the following events without Executive’s consent: (i) any material reduction in Executive’s authority, responsibilities
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