1. Your use of the CDP Government Portal
1.1. This page (together with the documents referred to on it) informs you of the terms governing your use of the CDP Government Portal (including the CDP Government Dashboard), as a registered user.
1.2. Please read these terms carefully before you start to use the CDP Government Portal.
1.3. By accepting these terms, you indicate that you have read and understood them and that you agree to abide by them.
1.4. If you do not agree to these terms of use, you will not be able to use the CDP Government Portal.
2. Registration required
2.1. Only registered users can access the CDP Government Portal.
2.2. CDP monitors use of the CDP Government Portal and failure to comply with these terms may result in withdrawal of your access.
3. Other terms that apply to your access and use
3.1. These terms are specific to your use of the CDP Government Portal, but you are also required to comply with all other terms governing general use of other parts of our website at: www.cdp.net (our “site”), whether as a guest or registered user.
3.2. Other mandatory terms of use can be accessed via the following link: terms of use.
4. Information about us
4.1. The CDP Government Portal is operated by CDP Worldwide, a registered charity with registration number 1122330 and a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales with registered number 05013650 and its wholly owned subsidiary CDP Operations Limited, a 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.
4.2. CDP Worldwide is regulated by the Charity Commission of England and Wales.
4.3. 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).
5. Intellectual property rights
5.1. We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in the CDP Government Portal, 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.
5.2. All intellectual property rights are reserved.
5.3. 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 the CDP Government Portal and the site (more generally) may be the trademarks, service marks or trading names of CDP or third parties.
6. Accessing the CDP Government Portal
6.1. Access to the CDP Government Portal is permitted solely for registered users, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on the CDP Government Portal without notice (see Section 6.7 below). We will not be liable if for any reason the CDP Government Portal is unavailable at any time or for any period.
6.2. As we only allow access to the CDP Government Portal, to users who have registered with us, your continued access is contingent with compliance with these terms of use.
6.3. 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, including any other person or persons within your organisation.
6.4. Your login details are unique to you, and you are not permitted to share access credentials or login details with anyone, save where you make a request for single sign-on access for your organisation and such request is granted by us.
6.5. Where we accept your organisation’s request for single sign-on access, we will require a regularly updated list of users within your organisation with access, from time to time, and may at our sole discretion, impose a limit of the number of users that are able to access the CDP Government Portal via single sign-on.
6.6. Please direct any requests for single sign-on access to: [email protected]t.
6.7. All users within your organisation must comply with these terms. 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.
6.8. When using the CDP Government Portal, you must comply with the provisions of our acceptable use policy.
6.9. You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the CDP Government Portal. Each registered user is responsible for ensuring that when you access the CDP Government Portal through your internet connection, you are aware of these terms, and that you comply with them.
7. You permitted use of materials/content and data on the CDP Government Portal
7.1. For the purpose of interpreting these terms, “materials/content” refers to reports, media, insights, and any content, and “data” refers to questionnaire disclosure response data collected through our disclosure system.
7.2. You may retrieve and view materials/content and data from the CDP Government Portal, print off one copy of individual pages, and may store these pages for research, your personal use, or other non-commercial and (at all times) internal use provided that wherever you cite the materials/content and data, you credit “CDP Worldwide” as the source.
7.3. You may also use materials/content and data from the CDP Government Portal in internal editorial content, provided that you credit “CDP Worldwide” as the source.
7.4. In addition, you are permitted to:
a) print off one copy of individual pages;
b) take screenshots of the dashboard for internal use purposes only; or
c) otherwise digitally copy information on the dashboard for internal use purposes only,
provided that you credit “CDP Worldwide” as the source.
7.5. You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials/content or data 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.
7.6. Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of materials/content or data on the CDP Government Portal must always be acknowledged.
8. Prohibited use of the CDP Government Portal
8.1. You must not, without our prior written consent, use any part of the materials/content or data on the CDP Government Portal:
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;
e) to be republished, packaged, or resold.
8.2. Registration to view data on the CDP Government Portal will grant access to 1 unique disclosure response.
8.3. This restriction applies to multiple users from the same organization who at all times must have unique individual registration details in order to access the CDP Government Portal.
8.4. If you wish to use data from the CDP Government Portal in any way not expressly permitted in these terms, please contact the Global Policy Team at [email protected].
8.5. Downloading materials/content or data in bulk from the CDP Government Portal is is strictly prohibited unless we enable a specific technical feature to do so (as may be the case from time to time, for reports).
8.6. If you print off, copy or download any part of the CDP Government Portal in breach of Section 7 or Section 8 of these terms, your right to use the CDP Government Portal will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials/content or data you have made.
9. The CDP Government Portal changes regularly
9.1. We aim to update the CDP Government Portal 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 the CDP Government Portal, relocate it at another url or domain, and/or close it indefinitely.
9.3. Any of the materials/content or data on the CDP Government Portal 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. Materials/content or data on the CDP Government Portal is 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 the CDP Government Portal, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its materials/content or data.
11. Our liability
11.1. Some of the data on the CDP Government Portal is collated through data that we collect via questionnaire disclosure responses.
11.2. We do not examine or edit the questionnaire disclosure responses provided on the CDP Government Portal, or other data accessible via the CDP Government Portal.
11.3. Accordingly, the materials/content and data displayed on the CDP Government Portal is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy.
11.4. 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.
11.5. 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 the CDP Government Portal or in connection with the use, inability to use; results of the use of our site;
b) any liability in relation to websites linked to the CDP Government Portal 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.
11.6. This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
12. Information about you and your visits to the CDP Government Portal
12.1. Specific sections of the CDP Government Portal that require you to register to use them, you must provide accurate and complete registration information.
12.2. 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.
13. Personal Data for registered users
13.1. Unless explicitly stated, we will not pass your personal data to any third party. By using the CDP Government Portal, you consent to such processing, and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
14. Viruses, hacking and other offences
14.1. You must not damage, interfere with or disrupt access to the CDP Government Portal, or do anything which might interrupt or impair its functionality.
14.2. You must not misuse the CDP Government Portal by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful.
14.3. You must not attempt to gain unauthorized access to the CDP Government Portal, the server on which the CDP Government Portal is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to the CDP Government Portal. You must not attack the CDP Government Portal via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.
14.4. 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 the CDP Government Portal will cease immediately.
14.5. 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 the CDP Government Portal.
15. Linking to the CDP Government Portal
15.1. You may link to any live, public landing page of the CDP Government Portal, to encourage use of the CDP Government Portal, solely within your organisation, 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.
15.2. It is your responsibility to ensure that any link you establish from any CDP Government Portal that is not owned by you is permitted by that CDP Government Portal.
15.3. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
16. No text or data mining
16.1. You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to the CDP Government Portal or any services provided via, or in relation to our site. 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 the CDP Government Portal or any data, content, 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.
17. Links from the CDP Government Portal
17.1. Where the CDP Government Portal 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 of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on the CDP Government Portal and/or 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 the CDP Government Portal although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country.
19.2. These terms of use 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 the CDP Government Portal, please contact [email protected]. Thank you for registering to use the CDP Government Portal.