Terms of website use

1. Our written consent is required for certain usage

1.1 You must not, without our prior written consent, use any part of the: (i) materials/content; or (ii) data on our site:

a) for commercial purposes without obtaining a license to do so from us and/or our licensors;
b) in a tradable index, or a benchmark regulated by applicable international benchmark regulations;
c) for an investment fund or investment product;
d) in a subscription or fee-based database service; or
e) to be republished, packaged, or resold.

1.2 You must not, without our prior written consent, use any data on our site for anything other than internal use.

1.3 For the purpose of interpreting these terms, “materials/content” refers to reports, media, insights, and any content from our blog (that is open source), and “data” refers to questionnaire disclosure data collected through our disclosure system.

1.4 This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells you the terms under which you may use our website www.cdp.net (our “site”), whether as a guest or a registered user. Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the site. By using our site, you are deemed to accept these terms. By accepting these terms, you indicate that you have read and understood them and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site.

2. Information about us

2.1 Our site is operated by CDP Worldwide, a registered charity with registration number 1122330 a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales with registration number 05013650 and its wholly owned subsidiary CDP Operations Limited, a limited company registered in England and Wales with registration number 06602534 (together “CDP”, “we” or “us”). Our headquarters are at 4th Floor, 60 Great Tower Street, London, EC3R 5AZ, UK.

2.2 CDP Worldwide is regulated by the Charity Commission of England and Wales.

2.3 CDP’s affiliates are globally located subsidiaries of CDP Operations Limited and other organizations within CDP Worldwide’s operational group to whom CDP Worldwide licenses its name and brand (such as CDP North America Inc., and CDP Europe AISBL, and their affiliates).

3. Accessing our site

3.1 We reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site and your access without notice (see Section 3.5 below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

3.2 We permit access to specific areas (“sub-domains”) of our site, to users who have registered with us.

3.3 If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party.

3.4 We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms.

3.5 When using our site, you must comply with the provisions of our acceptable use policy.

3.6 You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary related to your access to our site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.

4. Intellectual property rights

4.1 We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the materials/content and data published on it. These materials/content and data are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world.

4.2 All intellectual property rights are reserved.

4.3 “CDP” is a UK registered trademark of CDP Worldwide, 4th Floor, 60 Great Tower Street, London, EC3R 5AZ. Other product and company names and logos mentioned or displayed on our site may be the trademarks, service marks or trading names of CDP or third parties.

5. Your permitted use of materials/content on our site

5.1 You may retrieve and view materials/content from our site, print off one copy of individual pages, and may store these pages for research, your personal use, or other non-commercial use provided that wherever you cite the materials/content you credit “CDP Worldwide” as the source. For clarity, you may also use materials/content from our site in your own publishable editorial content, provided that you credit “CDP Worldwide” as the source.

5.2 This permission is separate to the strict requirements:

5.3 You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials/content you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text without prior written permission from CDP.

5.4 Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors/the source of materials/content on our site must always be acknowledged.

5.5 If you print off, copy or download any materials/content our site in breach of Sections 5.1, 5.3 and 5.4 of these terms, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials/content you have made.

6. Your permitted use of data on our site

6.1 If you wish to access data from our site, please contact [email protected].

6.2 If you wish to use data from our site in any way not expressly permitted in these terms or wish to access further questionnaire disclosure responses on our site on behalf of your organizational group, please contact [email protected].

6.3 If you use, view or download any data on our site in breach of Section 6 of these terms, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the data you have made.

6.4 Specific terms may apply to your registered use of data accessible on our sub-domains from time to time, which take precedence over these terms. Please refer to the terms that apply to each sub-domain for permitted and prohibited usage.

7. Use of our site by registered users

7.1 When you use any of our sub-domains, you must provide accurate and complete registration information. To illustrate: our site includes the sub-domain of the “CDP Portal”, which is accessible solely to registered users from disclosure requesters and disclosing organizations, if we have agreed for your organization to be granted access.

7.2 You must always comply with the specific terms that govern your use and access to sub-domains of our site in addition to these terms. If no specific terms are referenced, these terms will apply to govern your use and access.

7.3 Reserve the right to cease your organization’s access to any sub-domains in the event of: (i) any breach of these terms (including our acceptable use policy), or (ii) any breach, termination or expiry of any other specific contractual terms notified to you or agreed with us by your organization as being applicable to your registered use. Sub-domains of our site include (but are not limited to):

• The CDP Portal
• The CDP Government Dashboard
• The CDP Open Data Platform
• The CDP Capital Markets Signatory Dashboard
• our regional websites

7.4 The above list of sub-domains of our site is non-exhaustive and subject to change. CDP reserves the right to amend materials/content and other information or documentation contained within each sub-domain, including but not limited to its: scoring methodologies; scoring criteria; guidance; and questionnaire(s), in respect of the content, format, and structure of each, at any time.

8. Third party data

8.1 Materials/content and data on our site may contain third party data assets licensed by us from third party service providers. Such third party data may include (but is not limited to):

a) Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.’s DUNS numbers which are unique identifiers made available within certain parts of our site and/or sub-domains for the sole purpose of facilitating disclosure submissions in the CDP Portal. A DUNS number is a unique nine-digit identifier for businesses, assigned in accordance with Dun & Bradstreet Inc.’s patented identity resolution process;
b) CUSIP Global Services International Securities Identification Numbers (or “ISINs”) in the U.S. and in other areas where designated or appointed, which are unique global codes that identify corporate entities; and
c) S&P Global Inc.’s company ID information which includes LEIs, Tickers and other identifiers that map to market and financial intelligence data for corporate entities, (collectively “licensed content”).

8.2 You are expressly prohibited from distributing or reselling any licensed content to any distributors, resellers, remarketers, brokers, or any other person or entity for further resale or distribution without our express written consent, which must be procured in addition to the licensors consent.

8.3 You are strictly prohibited from downloading individual DUNS numbers for all and any purposes (save your internal use for facilitation of disclosure within the CDP Portal), without our prior written consent.

8.4 In using our site and sub-domains, including the CDP Portal, you hereby agree to indemnify us fully on demand, and hold us harmless in the event of any third party claim in connection with your prohibited use of licensed content.

Read CDP's Third Party Data License Notice.

9. Our site changes regularly

9.1 We aim to update our site regularly and may change the materials/content and data on it at any time.

9.2 If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, relocate it at another url or domain, and/or close it indefinitely.

9.3 Any of the materials/content or data on our site may be out of date at any given time. For clarity we are under no obligation to update such materials/content or data.

10. Reliance on information posted

10.1 Commentary and other materials/content or data posted on our site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials/content or data by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

11. Our liability

11.1 We do not examine or edit the questionnaire disclosure responses provided on our site, or other data accessible via our site.

11.2 Accordingly, the data displayed on our site, including its sub-domains, is provided without any guarantees, conditions, or warranties as to its accuracy.

11.3 To the fullest extent permitted by law, CDP, CDP’s affiliates, and third parties connected to us expressly disclaim all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law, or the law of equity.

11.4 To the fullest extent permitted by law, CDP, CDP’s affiliates, and third parties connected to us expressly exclude:

a) any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our site or in connection with the use, inability to use; results of the use of our site, including its sub-domains;
b) any liability in relation to websites linked to our site, including its sub-domains, and any materials/content or data posted on it;
c) any liability whether arising in contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability (whether such losses or damage were foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise) for:

i) loss of income or revenue;
ii) loss of business;
iii) loss of actual or anticipated profits or contracts;
iv) loss of anticipated savings;
v) loss of opportunity;
vi) loss of reputation;
vii) ex-gratia payments;
viii) loss of or damage to or corruption of data or software;
ix) loss of goodwill; and
x) wasted expenditure, management or office time.

11.5 This does not exclude our liability for death or personal injury arising from negligence, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

12. Personal Data for registered and unregistered users

12.1 You must inform us of any changes to the personal data that we hold about you. We process information provided by you in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and our privacy notice. Unless explicitly stated, we will not pass your personal data to any third party. By using our site as a registered user, you consent to such processing, and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

13. Uploading materials to our site

13.1 Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload material to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy. You warrant that any such contribution complies with those standards, and you shall indemnify us fully on demand for any breach of that warranty.

13.2 We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of our site.

13.3 We have the right to remove any material or posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, such material does not comply with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy.

14. Viruses, hacking and other offences

14.1 You must not damage, interfere with or disrupt access to our site, or do anything which might interrupt or impair its functionality. You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorized access to our site, the server on which our site is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

14.2 By breaching this provision, you may commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such potential breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities, and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

14.3 We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

15. No text or data mining

15.1 You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our site or any services provided via, or in relation to our site, including its sub-domains. This includes using (or permitting, authorising, or attempting the use of):

a) any “robot”, “bot”, “spider”, “scraper” or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process, or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of our site, including its sub-domains, or any materials/content or data, information or services accessed via the same;
b) any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.

16. Linking to our site

16.1 You may link to a public page of our site, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

16.2 It is your responsibility to ensure that any link you establish from any website that is not owned by you is permitted by that website. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

16.3 If you wish to make any use of materials/content or data on our site other than that set out above, please address your request to [email protected].

17. Links from our site

17.1 Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

18. Variations

18.1 We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.

19. Jurisdiction and applicable law

19.1 The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these terms in your country of residence or any other relevant country.

19.2 These terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales.

20. Your concerns

20.1 If you have any concerns about materials/content or data which appears on our site, please contact [email protected]. Thank you for visiting our site.