Mattermaps Terms of Use

Mattermaps Terms and Conditions have been updated, and must be accepted in the first log in. T&Cs are now divided into two aspects:

1) Universal Customer Agreement (UCA): which can be found and downloaded directly online.

2) Supplemental Terms, which can be found and downloaded under: DP | Data Exchange & Traceability Platforms. 
 

No. Siemens only provides the infrastructure necessary to enable you the exchange of PCF. As per stated in Section 5.3. of our T&Cs:

“Siemens will not acquire any rights, title, or interest in or to Customer’s Content, except as granted under these Terms. Subject to Section 12, Siemens and its business partners have a worldwide, non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free right to use, host, store, transmit, display, modify, and reproduce Customer’s Content solely for the purpose of technically providing the Platform.”

In order for you to be able to rely on the correctness and sovereignty of the transmitted Product Carbon Footprints (PCF) in Mattermaps, we rely on the verification of the data via the trust model of the so-called Trust Triangle. The Trust Triangle is based on the standardized mechanism of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and was implemented by the European network ID-Union, whose principle Mattermaps uses for secure data transfer. Traditionally, the concept of the Trust Triangle consists in the fact that the data that one party transmits to another are checked again by an independent third party and their correctness is thus confirmed.

In Mattermaps, we implement this principle through the additional verification of PCFs by an independent and accredited certifier. If your supplier receives your PCF request, they will create a corresponding PCF based on the CO2 values determined by them and have it certified by a third independent body. After successful testing, the certifier issues your supplier with the so-called a PCF – an invariable, forgery-proof, digital proof of the correct calculation of the PCF.

By the way: Even without the verification of the independent certifier, Mattermaps offers you the opportunity to assess the resilience of the emission data obtained. Automatically determined data quality indicators give you an idea of how transparent, precise and reliable your supplier's information is to be assessed. In addition, the self-verification at Mattermaps offers the possibility to provide supplementary metadata for the completion of the PCF.

If you do a PCF in compliance with the “GHG-Protocol product accounting”, you can use Mattermaps.

If you receive a PCF from a supplier via Mattermaps, you can use it for your own Scope 3.1 or Scope 3.4, or even Scope 2 reporting.