PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE
What's in these terms?
These terms tell you the rules for using our website https://vertree.earth/ (our site).
Contents
Who we are and how to contact us
By using our site you accept these terms
There are other terms that may apply to you
We may make changes to these terms
We may make changes to our site
We may suspend or withdraw our site
We may transfer this agreement to someone else
You must keep your account details safe
How you may use material on our site
Do not rely on information on our site
We are not responsible for websites we link to
User-generated content is not approved by us
How to complain about or report content
Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you
Exclusion of liability for digital content
How we may use your personal information
Uploading content to our site
Rights you are giving us to use material you upload
We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them
Rules about linking to our site
Which country's laws apply to any disputes?
Our trade marks are registered
1. Who we are and how to contact us
https://vertree.earth/ is a site operated by Vertree Partners Limited ("We").
We are a limited liability company registered in England and Wales under company number 12449855.
Our registered office is at 2nd Floor, Cardinal Place, 100 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 5JL, England.
To contact us, please email sales@vertree.earth or telephone +44 207 201 7134.
2. By using our site you accept these terms
By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them.
If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site.
We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.
3. There are other terms that may apply to you
These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:
Our Acceptable Use Policy below which sets out the permitted uses and prohibited uses of our site. When using our site, you must comply with this Acceptable Use Policy.
Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our site.
4. We may make changes to these terms
We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. These terms are effective from 01/02/2024
5. We may make changes to our site
We may update and change our site from time to time.
6. We may suspend or withdraw our site
Our site is made available free of charge.
We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.
You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.
7. We may transfer this agreement to someone else
We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation. We will always tell you in writing if this happens and we will ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights under the contract.
8. You must keep your account details safe
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. 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 reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at our contact details set out herein.
9. No text or data mining, or web scraping
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. This includes using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of):
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 site or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same.
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.
The provisions in this clause should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of Digital Copyright Directive ((EU) 2019/790).
This clause shall not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) we are unable to exclude or limit text or data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us.
10. Do not rely on information on this site
The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.
Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up to date.
11. We are not responsible for websites we link to
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.
We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.
12. User-generated content is not approved by us
This website may include information and materials uploaded by other users of the site, including to social media pages, video-sharing sites, bulletin boards and chat rooms. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.
13. How to complain about or report content
If you become aware of any material that could comprise or be connected to child sexual abuse or exploitation or that could comprise terrorist content or be connected to terrorism, please contact us immediately at the contact details provided in these terms.
If you wish to complain about any other content, please contact us at the contact details provided in these terms.
14. Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you
We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it.
We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:
use of, or inability to use, our site; or
use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.
In particular, we will not be liable for:
loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
business interruption;
loss of anticipated savings;
loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
any indirect or consequential loss or damage.
15. How we may use your personal information
We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Policy.
16. Uploading content to our site
Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy below
You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.
Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us [and other users of our site] a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties. The rights you license to us are described in the “Rights you are giving us to use material you upload” section below.
We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights or of their right to privacy.
We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy below.
If you wish to contact us in relation to content you have uploaded to our site and that we have taken down, please contact us at the contact details set out herein.
You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.
You must not upload any material that could incite a terrorist offence, solicit any person to participate in terrorist activities, provide instruction on any method or technique for committing a terrorist offence or threaten to commit a terrorist offence.
17. Rights you are giving us to use material you upload
When you upload or post content to our site, you grant us the following rights to use that content:
a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence in perpetuity to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that user-generated content in connection with the service provided by the website and across different media including to promote the site or the service.
18. Use of material from our site
In this clause, the following definitions have the following meanings:
Materials means all reports, photographs, videos or other material which we make available on our site for download and use and which promote or describe a Specified Project.
Permitted Use means the use of the Materials for the sole purpose of promoting your involvement in a Specified Project via your purchase [and retirement] of Carbon Credits in relation to that Specified Project.
Project Developer means the third party responsible for developing a Specified Project.
Specified Project means the carbon offsetting project in relation to which you have purchased carbon credits from us.
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the content published on it (including the Materials). Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
We provide you with a non-exclusive, revocable, non-assignable, non-licensable, royalty-free licence to use the Materials strictly for the Permitted Use for twelve (12) months from the retirement of the Carbon Credits at the relevant carbon registry. You do not have any rights in relation to photographs, videos or other materials which are not made available to you to download.
You undertake to:
Only use the materials for the Permitted Use.
Not alter or edit any of the Materials or content on our site without our prior written consent;
Ensure that any text or commentary you publish in connection with your use of any Materials and/or any Specified Project gives a fair and truthful representation of your connection to the Specified Project and to immediately take down or amend to our reasonable satisfaction any such material which we (acting reasonably) consider to be untruthful or misleading;
Not sub-licence or allow third-parties to use the Materials without our prior written consent;
Not to take any screenshot of our site to use for any Specified Project;
Immediately cease use of the Materials if we ask you to do so.
Accord to us credit on any use or reproduction of the Materials used from our site in the form “Reproduced under licence from Vertree Partners Limited”, such credit to be placed as close as possible to the parameters of the Materials used.
You acknowledge that where you make any claims in connection with the use or retirement of Carbon Credits from Specified Projects, we do not make any representations, warranties or guarantees in respect of the suitability of such Carbon Credits in respect of such claims. If you require any advice in relation to carbon neutral or net zero claims, please contact advisory@vertree.earth .
You shall indemnify us against all losses, costs, expenses, damages and losses (including any direct, indirect or consequential losses, loss of profit, loss of reputation and all interest, penalties and legal costs (calculated on a full indemnity basis) and all other reasonable professional costs and expenses) suffered or incurred by us arising out of or in connection with your use of the Materials.
We make no warranty or representation in relation to the Materials or your use of them and to the fullest extent permitted by law, we shall not be liable to you for any costs, expenses, loss or damage (whether direct, indirect or consequential, and whether economic or other) arising from your exercise and use of the Materials.
You agree that the exclusion of our liability under this clause is fair and reasonable on the basis that we are making the Materials available for your use on a free of charge basis.
If you print off, copy, download, share or repost any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
19. We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them
We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.
You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised 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. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such 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.
20. Rules about linking to our site
You may link to https://vertree.earth/, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.
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.
You must not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you.
Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page.
We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy below
If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact us.
21. Which country's laws apply to any disputes?
These terms of use, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
22. Our trade marks are registered
"Vertree" is a registered trade mark of Vertree Partners Limited. You are not permitted to use it without our approval, unless they are part of material you are using as permitted under the section on “How you may use material on our site”.
Acceptable Use policy
PLEASE READ THE TERMS OF THIS POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE SITE
1. What's in these terms?
This acceptable use policy sets out the content standards that apply when you interact with or link to our site in anyway. Click on the links below to go straight to more information on each area:
Who we are and how to contact us
By using our site you accept these terms
There are other terms that may apply to you
We may make changes to the terms of this policy
Prohibited uses
Interactive services
Breach of this policy
How this contract can be transferred
Which country's laws apply to any disputes?
2. Who we are and how to contact us
www.vertree.earth is a site operated by Vertree Partners Limited ("We").
We are registered in England and Wales under company number 12449855.
We have our registered office at 2nd Floor, Cardinal Place, 100 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 5JL, England.
To contact us, please email sales@vertree.earth or telephone +44 207 201 7134.
3. By using our site you accept these terms
By using our site, you confirm that you accept the terms of this policy and that you agree to comply with them.
If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site.
We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.
4. There are other terms that may apply to you
Our Terms of website use also apply to your use of our site.
5. We may make changes to the terms of this policy
We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. These terms are effective from [DATE].
6. Prohibited uses
You may not use our site:
In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
To bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate any person.
To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
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 upload terrorist content.
You also agree:
Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the provisions of our terms of website use.
Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
any part of our site;
any equipment or network on which our site is stored;
any software used in the provision of our site; or
any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.
7. Interactive services
We may from time to time provide interactive services on our site, (interactive services). Any such interactive services shall be governed by our Terms of website use.
8. Breach of this policy
When we consider that a breach of this acceptable use policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.
Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of the terms of use upon which you are permitted to use our site, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:
Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site.
Issue of a warning to you.
Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
Further legal action against you.
Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary or as required by law.
We exclude our liability for all action we may take in response to breaches of this acceptable use policy. The actions we may take are not limited to those described above, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.
9. How this contract can be transferred
We can transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to any third party, provided this does not adversely affect your rights under these terms.
10. Which country's laws apply to any disputes?
The terms of this policy, its subject matter and its formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.