Terms of Service

Effective date: 11 July 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 is a deforestation risk screening tool, not a compliance certification, legal opinion, or substitute for a formal EUDR Article 10/11 due diligence statement. It checks satellite forest-cover and change signals against publicly available datasets (JRC, Hansen/UMD, GFW/Wageningen, and others credited in the Service's own attribution line) and reports the result as a screening flag, alongside separate country-level due-diligence context. A "GREEN" or clean result means no satellite-detected signal was found at the resolution and cadence these datasets provide — it is not a certification that a supplier is EUDR-compliant. Full technical limitations (agroforestry false positives, annual-data lag, geocoding approximation) are disclosed in-product and are incorporated into these Terms by reference.

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

3. Customer obligations

The customer will: (a) only upload supplier data it is lawfully entitled to process and share for this purpose; (b) use the Service only for its own legitimate business due-diligence purposes, not to resell, sublicense, or redistribute the Service itself; (c) not attempt to circumvent the Service's access-token gate or abuse-prevention limits (upload size/row caps); (d) treat any RED/AMBER/GREEN result as a screening signal requiring further judgment, not a final compliance determination.

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). 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.