Last updated 21.12.2022

Acceptance of the Terms and Conditions

The Global Public Policy Committee (a consortium of accounting firms referred to in this Agreement as the “GPPC,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) provides and makes available this website (the “Site”).  All use of the Site is subject to these Website Terms and Conditions (this “Agreement”).  Please read this Agreement carefully.  By accessing, browsing, or otherwise using the Site, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by this Agreement.  If you do not accept the terms and conditions of this Agreement, you shall not access, browse or use the Site.  For information about how we collect, use, share, and otherwise process information, please see GPPC’s Privacy Policy located at [https://www.globalpublicpolicycommittee.org/privacy-policy/].

 

You understand and agree that we may change this Agreement at any time without prior notice.  You may read a current, effective copy of this Agreement at any time by selecting the “Terms and Conditions” link on the Site.  The revised terms and conditions will become effective at the time of posting.  Any use of the Site after such date shall constitute your acceptance of such revised terms and conditions. If any change to this Agreement is not acceptable to you, your sole remedy is to cease accessing, browsing, and otherwise using the Site.

Intellectual Property Rights

Through the Site, GPPC publishes research, position, and policy papers and similar materials (the “Materials”). GPPC makes the Materials available pursuant to the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. This license permits you to share and adapt the Materials for personal, non-commercial purposes provided that you attribute the Materials to GPPC and redistribute the Materials or distribute any adaptations to the Materials under the same license.

The Site also contains content other than the Materials, including but not limited to software, text, graphics and images (collectively referred to as the “Content”). We may own the Content or portions of the Content may be made available to us through arrangements that we have with third-parties, including GPPC’s members and their affiliates and member firms.  The Content is protected by United States and foreign intellectual property laws.  Unauthorized use of the Content may result in violation of copyright, trademark, and other laws.  You have no rights in or to the Content, and you will not copy the Content and will only access and use the Content for your personal purposes. You may not sell, transfer, assign, license, sublicense, or modify the Content or reproduce, display, publicly perform, make a derivative version of, distribute, or otherwise use the Content in any way for any public or commercial purpose.  The use or posting of the Content on any other website or computer network for any purpose is expressly prohibited. If you violate any part of this Agreement, your right to access and/or use the Content and Site shall automatically terminate.

The trademarks, service marks, and logos of GPPC (the “GPPC Trademarks”) used and displayed on the Site are registered and unregistered trademarks or service marks of GPPC.  Other company, product, and service names located on the Site may be trademarks or service marks owned by third-parties, including GPPC’s members (the “Third-Party Trademarks”, and, collectively with GPPC Trademarks, the “Trademarks”).  Nothing on the Site or in this Agreement should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use any Trademark displayed on the Site without the prior written consent of GPPC specific for each such use.  The Trademarks may not be used to disparage GPPC or the applicable third-party, GPPC’s Materials or third-party’s products or services, or in any manner (using commercially reasonable judgment) that may damage any goodwill in the Trademarks.  Use of any Trademarks as part of a link to or from any website is prohibited without GPPC’s prior written consent.  All goodwill generated from the use of any GPPC Trademark shall inure to GPPC’s benefit.

You may from time to time provide suggestions, comments for enhancements or functionality, or other feedback (“Feedback”) to us with respect to the Site, Materials, or Content.  We shall have full discretion to determine whether to proceed with the development, implementation, or incorporation of any Feedback in to the Site, Materials, or Content.  You hereby grant GPPC a royalty-free, fully paid up, worldwide, transferable, sublicensable, irrevocable, perpetual license to (a) copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, and create derivative works of the Feedback; and (b) use the Feedback and/or any subject matter thereof, including without limitation, the right to develop, manufacture, have manufactured, market, promote, sell, have sold, offer for sale, have offered for sale, import, have imported, rent, provide and/or lease products or services which practice or embody, or are configured for use in practicing, the Feedback and/or any subject matter of the Feedback.

Prohibited Conduct

You agree not to: (a) use the Materials or the Site for any illegal or unauthorized purpose, or engage in or promote any activity that that violates this Agreement; (b) take any action that imposes an unreasonable load on the Site’s infrastructure, (c) use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site or any activity being conducted on the Site, (d) attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of the software comprising or making up the Site, (e) delete or alter any Content, or (f) frame or link to any of the Content.

Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability

GPPC, ITS MEMBERS, THEIR RESPECTIVE AFFILIATES AND MEMBER FIRMS, AND ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, SUPPLIERS, OR LICENSORS (COLLECTIVELY, THE “GPPC PARTIES”) MAKE NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SITE, MATERIALS, OR CONTENT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES AS TO ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS, TIMELINESS OR RELIABILITY.  THE GPPC PARTIES SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO LIABILITY FOR THE TRUTH, ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE SITE, MATERIALS, OR CONTENT OR ANY OTHER INFORMATION CONVEYED TO THE USER OR FOR ERRORS, MISTAKES OR OMISSIONS THEREIN OR FOR ANY DELAYS OR INTERRUPTIONS OF THE DATA OR INFORMATION STREAM FROM WHATEVER CAUSE.  YOU USE THE SITE, MATERIALS, AND CONTENT AT YOUR OWN RISK.

GPPC PARTIES DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SITE WILL OPERATE ERROR FREE OR THAT THE SITE, ITS SERVER, THE MATERIALS, OR THE CONTENT ARE FREE OF COMPUTER VIRUSES OR SIMILAR CONTAMINATION OR DESTRUCTIVE FEATURES. IF YOUR USE OF THE SITE, THE MATERIALS, OR THE CONTENT RESULTS IN THE NEED FOR SERVICING OR REPLACING EQUIPMENT OR DATA, NO GPPC PARTY SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THOSE COSTS.

THE SITE, MATERIALS, AND CONTENT ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. GPPC PARTIES DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, NONINFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTIES RIGHTS, AND FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

IN NO EVENT WILL ANY GPPC PARTY BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, INCIDENTAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOST DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) RESULTING FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE, MATERIALS, OR CONTENT, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, EVEN IF SUCH GPPC PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE DISCLAIMER OR EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.  ACCORDINGLY, IN SUCH JURISDICTIONS, SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU OR BE ENFORCEABLE WITH RESPECT TO YOU. IN THAT CASE, THE LIABILITY OF GPPC PARTIES SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the GPPC Parties from and against any claims, actions or demands, including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, arising or resulting from your breach of this Agreement or your access to, use, or misuse of the Materials, Content, or Site.  GPPC shall provide notice to you of any such claim, suit, or proceeding.  GPPC reserves the right to assume the exclusive control of the defense and settlement of any matter which is subject to indemnification under this section. In such case, you agree to cooperate with any reasonable requests assisting GPPC’s defense of such matter.

Termination

GPPC reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to restrict, suspend, or terminate this Agreement and your access to all or any part of the Site or the Content at any time and for any reason without prior notice or liability. GPPC reserves the right to change, suspend, or discontinue all or any part of the Site, Materials, or the Content at any time without prior notice or liability.

The Intellectual Property Rights, Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability, Indemnification, Termination, and Miscellaneous sections shall survive the termination of this Agreement.

Miscellaneous

This Agreement is governed by the internal substantive laws of the State of New York, without respect to its conflict of laws provisions. You expressly agree to submit to the exclusive personal jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in the City of New York in the State of New York with respect to any claims arising from this Agreement and/or your use of the Site, Materials, or Content. If any provision of this Agreement is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this Agreement, which shall remain in full force and effect. Failure of GPPC to act on or enforce any provision of the Agreement shall not be construed as a waiver of that provision or any other provision in this Agreement. No waiver shall be effective against GPPC unless made in writing, and no such waiver shall be construed as a waiver in any other or subsequent instance. Except as expressly agreed in writing by GPPC and you, this Agreement constitutes the entire Agreement between you and GPPC with respect to the subject matter, and supersedes all previous or contemporaneous agreements, whether written or oral, between the parties with respect to the subject matter. This Agreement will inure to the benefit of our successors, assigns, licensees, and sublicensees.