Terms of Service

Effective date: 26 August 2026.

1. Who these Terms apply to

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern the use of the EUDR Deforestation Risk Screening Tool available at eudrscreening.com (the "Service"), provided by Gian-Luca Kaufmann, trading as EUDR Screening, Röntgenstrasse 87, 8005 Zurich, Switzerland ("we", "us", "the Provider").

The Service is offered exclusively to businesses acting in their trade, business, or profession, and not to consumers. By using the Service, you confirm that you are accessing it in that capacity, and not for personal, family, or household purposes.

2. The Service

The Service provides two purpose profiles, EUDR compliance and Deforestation screening, through one shared satellite-screening method. It is not a compliance certification, legal opinion, verification of a deforestation-free claim, or substitute for a formal risk assessment, mitigation process, buyer review, or due diligence statement. It checks forest-cover and change signals in named public datasets and reports a screening flag plus coverage and limitations. A "GREEN" result means no checked signal was found at the resolution and cadence those datasets provide. It does not establish legality, traceability, chain of custody, product origin, compliance with a law or buyer standard, or absence of deforestation.

The customer is solely responsible for its own EUDR compliance, including risk assessment under Article 10, any mitigation required under Article 11, and submission of any required due diligence statement. The Service is one input into that process, not a replacement for it.

The optional case workspace lets a customer organize product, supplier, origin, production-period, and screening information across sessions. Each case stores its purpose. EUDR cases may include the EUDR workflow and DDS-preparation records; deforestation-screening cases suppress those controls and create a shorter evidence record. Neither is a compliance determination, certificate, public assurance label, filed Due Diligence Statement, or submission to TRACES NT or any authority.

Data sources and attribution

Screening outputs may use European Commission Joint Research Centre datasets (JRC Global Forest Cover 2020 and JRC Tropical Moist Forest); USGS/NASA and University of Maryland data (Hansen Global Forest Change); Global Forest Watch and Wageningen University alerts (RADD, GLAD-L, and GLAD-S2); WWF HydroSHEDS; Copernicus/ESA Sentinel-2 imagery and cloud probability; Esri map tiles incorporating imagery and data from i-cubed, USDA, USGS, AEX, GeoEye, Getmapping, Aerogrid, IGN, IGP, UPR-EGP, and the GIS User Community; and OpenStreetMap contributors through Nominatim. Country risk tiers come from Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1093. Where the Canopy Watch road-proximity driver is enabled, it may also use the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency's GRIP4 global roads dataset (Meijer et al. 2018).

3. Customer obligations

The customer will: (a) only upload supplier data it is lawfully entitled to process and share for the selected purpose; (b) use the Service only for legitimate business screening, procurement, audit-support, or due-diligence purposes, not to resell, sublicense, or redistribute the Service itself; (c) not attempt to circumvent access or abuse-prevention controls; (d) treat every result as a screening signal requiring further judgment; and (e) independently confirm the supplied location/product relationship and remain responsible for buyer, regulatory, or public claims made from the output.

4. Fees and payment

Fees are agreed per quote or invoice at the time of engagement. Invoices are payable within the term stated on the invoice. Access to results and reports is granted once payment has been received and cleared. No self-serve payment or subscription mechanism exists as of this version; all fulfillment is manual (data received → invoice issued → results delivered once funds clear).

5. Pilot / Beta use

Where the Service is provided free of charge as part of a pilot or beta program, these Terms apply in full except for Section 4 (Fees): pilot use is provided "as is," with no warranty beyond what Section 8 already limits, and either party may end the pilot at any time on written notice (including email). Because Section 8.3's liability cap is calculated from fees paid, and no fees are paid during a free pilot or beta engagement, our total liability for ordinary negligence arising from that engagement is limited to zero; liability for intent or gross negligence remains governed by Section 8.2 regardless of whether any fee was paid. Pilot use does not itself create any right to continued or discounted access once commercial pricing applies. The data protection obligations in our Data Processing Agreement apply equally to pilot and paid use.

6. Intellectual property

The Service, its underlying software, and its output format (report layout, narrative templates) remain the Provider's property. The customer owns the data it uploads and the specific results generated for it, and may use, store, and share its own results freely.

7. Data protection

Processing of personal data (which may include supplier names and addresses linked to identifiable individuals, e.g. smallholder farmers) is governed by our Privacy Policy and, for paying and pilot customers alike, our Data Processing Agreement, both incorporated into these Terms by reference.

8. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

Under Article 100 of the Swiss Code of Obligations, liability for intent or gross negligence cannot be excluded by contract; liability for ordinary negligence may be excluded in an arm's-length business-to-business contract such as this one. Accordingly:

8.1 The Service is provided "as is" and "as available." To the maximum extent permitted by law, we make no warranty that the Service's results are complete, accurate, or fit for any particular regulatory purpose beyond an initial screening signal.

8.2 To the extent permitted by law, our liability for damages arising from ordinary negligence is excluded. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for intent or gross negligence, or for death or personal injury, where such exclusion would be void under mandatory Swiss law.

8.3 Where liability is not excluded under 8.2, our total liability arising out of or in connection with the Service is capped at the total fees paid by the customer for the specific screening report giving rise to the claim, in the twelve months preceding the claim.

9. Confidentiality

Each party will keep confidential any non-public business information it learns from the other in connection with the Service (for us, this includes the customer's uploaded supplier data and screening results; for the customer, this includes any non-public information we share about our methodology or pricing), and will use it only to perform this agreement. This does not cover information that is public, already known, independently developed, or required to be disclosed by law. This clause survives termination for two years, and is separate from, and does not narrow, the data-protection obligations in Section 7.

10. Force majeure

Neither party is liable for a delay or failure to perform caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control (e.g. internet or cloud-infrastructure outages, natural disaster, war, government action), provided the affected party gives prompt notice and resumes performance as soon as reasonably possible. This does not excuse payment obligations for a screening already delivered.

11. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable by a competent court, that provision is severed and the remainder of these Terms remains in full force and effect. The parties agree to replace any severed provision with a valid one that most closely reflects its original commercial intent.

12. Term and termination

These Terms apply for as long as the customer uses the Service. Either party may terminate at any time on written notice (email is sufficient). Sections 6 (IP), 7 (data protection), 8 (liability), 9 (confidentiality), 11 (severability), and 13 (governing law) survive termination.

13. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the substantive law of Switzerland, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules and the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Any dispute arising from these Terms is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Zurich, Switzerland.

14. Miscellaneous

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and Data Processing Agreement, constitute the entire agreement between the parties regarding the Service. These Terms are reviewed periodically for legal and regulatory accuracy and may be updated from time to time; the effective date above will change accordingly, and for any customer with an active paid engagement we will additionally notify by email before a material change takes effect. Continued use of the Service after a non-material update constitutes acceptance. The customer may not assign its rights under these Terms without our prior written consent.

15. Contact

Questions about these Terms: contact@eudrscreening.com.