These terms and conditions (“Terms and Conditions”) set out the terms and conditions on which you make use of the InfluenceMap.org and associated web sites (LobbyMap.org, FinanceMap.org, JETI.eco, carbonmajors.org) (hence the “Site”). We may change these Terms and Conditions from time to time. By accessing or using any part of the Site you engage in our “Service” and thereby agree to these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree to these Terms and Conditions, you must not use our Site. We reserve the right to terminate your use of the Site or any of our Services for violating any of the provisions of these Terms and Conditions.
We will not be liable if for any reason our Site is unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, we may allow access to some parts of our Site, or our entire Site, only to users who have registered with us. 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. 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 and Conditions. You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have 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 Conditions, and that they comply with them.
You may not engage in the use of the Site or any of its content, information or data:
a) In a tradable index or investment product;
b) In a subscription or fee-based database service and
c) To be republished, packaged, or resold for commercial purposes.
For any unlawful purpose or to solicit others to perform or participate in any unlawful acts.
In any way that breaches any applicable local, national, or international law or regulation.
To infringe upon or violate our intellectual property rights or the intellectual property rights of others.
To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
To collect or track the personal information of others.
To spam, phish, pharm, pretext, spider, crawl, or scrape.
To harass, abuse, insult, harm, defame, slander, disparage, intimidate, or discriminate based on gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, race, age, national origin, or disability.
To suggest the endorsement or association of any third-party entity, person, product, or service by InfluenceMap CIC unless express written permission has been given by us in advance.
In accessing and using our Site you agree:
Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, modify, adapt, translate, create derivative works of, alter, publicly distribute, republish, upload, post, transmit, publicly perform or display, license, transfer, sell, re-sell, mirror, frame, "deep link," "scrape," data mine, or otherwise use any part of our Site in contravention of the provisions of these Terms and Conditions.
Not to decompile, reverse-engineer, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive source code from any part of the Site.
Not to modify in any way the paper or digital copies of any materials that you have printed off or downloaded in accordance with the rights granted in Section 2.2
Not to use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text without prior written permission from InfluenceMap CIC.
Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage, or disrupt any part of our Site; and/or any equipment or network on which our Site is stored. As an example, the overall LobbyMap scoring of companies is derived from numerous (often thousands) of evidence points, archived, and scored on the LobbyMap.org platform. It would be misrepresentative to isolate any one or any few of these scored evidence pieces as representative of the overall score of the company or entity concerned.
Any unauthorized use of this Site or the content, information or data made available on it may violate applicable laws, including copyright law, trademark laws, and commercial regulations and statutes.
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 affiliation, association, approval, or endorsement on our part where none exists. 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.
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 liability or responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
InfluenceMap CIC is the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Site, and of the material published on it (with exceptions as noted in 2.3). We own the intellectual property rights to our methodology (see our Methodology section as posted on InfluenceMap.org) and its applications as displayed on our Site as well as the branding and graphics on our Site. You may not transfer or use our methodology in any manner without our written permission.
We grant to you a personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use this Site for non-commercial purposes only, conditioned on your continued compliance with these Terms and Conditions. You may view content, information or data from our Site, print off or download one copy of individual pages, and may store these individual pages for academic research purposes, in non-commercial editorial content or, for your own personal, non-commercial, use, provided that wherever you cite the data, you credit “InfluenceMap.org” as the source, including with the appropriate landing page if relevant. We respect the intellectual property rights of others. We ask our users to do the same. If intellectual property that you own or have rights to has been infringed, or used without your permission, on our Site, please contact us at info@influencemap.org to report the concern.
The exception to 2.1 is in the case where we may refer to via Web hyperlinks or references of publication, externally published material. We may include extracts and/or scanned documents and/or Web page snap shots. All intellectual property rights of these external materials are held by the original publishers as noted in our reference or on the scanned documents and/or Web page snap shots themselves. We make no claim over such materials but note that they are or were in the recent past (as noted on the date of publication by InfluenceMap.org of the external material on our Site) in the public domain and thus available in their entirety at no charge to any interested party. We make no claim as to the accuracy or quality of external material presented on our Site but make reasonable efforts to post only information from reputable media and disclosure routes, directly published information by an entity we are scoring and/or governmental information sources. Should you be aware of any defamatory, false, or otherwise harmful information be present on our Site as external material, we would request you notify us in accordance with Section 2.5 for our review and revision as necessary.
Commentary and other materials posted on our Site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our Site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents. Any parties taking investment or other commercial decisions based on materials on our Site are advised to review the full sources we quote and associated peripheral information and materials available publicly, along with suitable professional advice prior to decision. The information presented on our Site is not intended as investment advice.
While we strive for accuracy and complete objectivity in the information contained within our Site, we acknowledge that due to the large amount of stored information, the information and materials on this web site may contain typographical errors or inaccuracies. InfluenceMap CIC reserves the right, in its sole discretion, without any obligation and without any notice requirement and for any reason, to change, improve or correct the information and materials. Any of the material on our Site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material, except as required by law. All of the evidence-type information posted on our Site in the form of either Web links, scanned documents or dated screen shots were sourced from publicly available sources at the time of posting.
Should any interested parties be of the opinion that the information portrayed on our Site be inaccurate or be unrepresentative of the organizations we describe, we are willing to consider updating and revising following such items being brought to our attention by interested parties. All such communications should be sent to us by email only to info@influencemap.org. We endeavour to respond to such requests in a timely manner.
We aim to strictly adhere to the all applicable data protection law, including the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with regards to relevant data collated by our Site, including but not limited to user login details, cookies, browsing preferences and any email addresses held on our Site as a result of our aggregation of publicly available data. Passwords are held using encryption, so the user only has access. We strictly will not share user email addresses or information with third parties for any reason and will allow you full control over to opt out of any information (e.g., newsletters) we may send you.
(Please see our Section 4 for a summary of our personal data collection and use practices with respect to the Site and the Services. By using this Site and the Services, you consent to our collection and use of personal data as outlined in the Privacy Policy.)
Although the information provided to you on this web site is obtained or compiled from sources we believe to be reliable, InfluenceMap CIC cannot and does not guarantee the accuracy, validity, timeliness or completeness of any information or data made available to you for any particular purpose. We accept no liability for commercial or other decisions taken based on the information on InfluenceMap.org. Neither InfluenceMap CIC, nor any of its affiliates, directors, officers or employees, nor its successors or assigns, nor any third-party vendor, will be liable or have any responsibility of any kind for any loss or damage that you incur, arising from any failure or interruption of this web site, or resulting from the act or omission of any other party involved in making this web site, the data contained herein or the products or services offered on this web site available to you, or from any other cause relating to your access to, inability to access, or use of the Site or the data contained herein. Nothing in these Terms and Conditions excludes or limits any liability which cannot be excluded or limited by law. You and InfluenceMap CIC agree that no third party shall have the right to enforce any provision of the Terms and Conditions under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 or otherwise.
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 conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country. These Terms and Conditions 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.
InfluenceMap understands that your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your personal data is used. We respect and value the privacy of everyone who visits the Site and will only collect and use personal data in ways that are described here, and in a way that is consistent with Our obligations and your rights under the law. This Policy applies only to your use of the Site. The Sites may contain links to other websites that are operated by other organizations. Please note that we have no control over how your data is collected, stored, or used by other websites and we advise you to check the privacy policies or notices of any such websites before providing any personal data to them.
In this Policy the following terms shall have the following meanings. 'Account': means an account required to access and/or use certain areas and features of the Site. 'Cookie': means a small text file placed on your computer or device by the Site when you visit certain parts of the Site and/or when you use certain features of the Site. 'Cookie Law': means the relevant parts of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 'Personal data': means all data that relates to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified from that data, as defined by EU Regulation 2016/679 General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).
Depending upon your use of the Site, we may collect some or all of the following personal data. We collect the following information from you when you sign up for an account with us: Name, Organization, Role, Location, Email, Password. It is noted that the Password is encrypted in a manner that makes it inaccessible to us. We collect the following information from you automatically when you visit one of our Sites and accept cookies: IP Address, Browser Type, Operating System, your activity on the Site, and the site you exit to. We collect this data for system administration purposes, so that we can improve the relevant Site, and deliver customized, personalized content and enhanced user experience.
Your personal data may be used for one of the following purposes: Creating and managing your account on the Site; Personalizing your user experience on the Site, Communicating with you (via newsletters and emails). With your permission and were permitted by law, we may also use your personal data for our newsletter, which may include contacting you by email with information on our research. You will not be sent any unlawful marketing or spam. We will always work to fully protect your rights and comply with our obligations under data protection law, and you can opt-out of receiving any communications from us by emailing us or by following the instructions in any emails you receive from us. We will not keep your personal data for any longer than is necessary considering the reason(s) for which it was first collected or until you notify us that you no longer wish to receive our information. We will not share your personal information with third parties, without your express permission.
All data related to the Site and any Personal Data is Stored on secure services operated by AWS (Amazon Web Services) based in the UK and Ireland.
Your rights to your Personal Data are protected under the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The following is a UK government website outlining this regulation: https://www.gov.uk/data-protection.
We may change our Terms and Conditions including Our Privacy Policy from time to time. This may be necessary, for example, if the law changes, or if we change our business in a way that affects personal data protection. Updates will be posted on this page, and we recommend that you check this page from time to time to keep up to date. We will also use reasonable efforts to inform you of any significant changes by email where appropriate.
Updated on 8 November 2023
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