Your shared PCF will likely be included in your customer’s product emissions calculations. When your customers share their PCF, they will only provide the total product emissions which will aggregate many components emissions, own emission and transportation, not the individual component values.

This way only your customers see your product's PCF, and thanks to our request-share mechanism you determine who receives your PCF information, and retain full control over your data. Your customer cannot retrieve data from your account, you have to share your PCFs manually. 

The User Confidentiality Commitment ensures that users can exchange PCFs in a confidential way. Every person signing up to Mattermaps must accept a User Confidentiality Commitment as a personal commitment to comply with the platform’s confidentiality terms. This binds every individual on the platform to the same confidentiality commitments, providing a safe space for PCF exchange either manually or via APIs.

Below you will find the User Confidentiality Commitment:

By using Mattermaps, you will access Confidential Information. For the purpose of this user confidentiality commitment, ‘Confidential Information’ encompasses, inter alia, information and (meta)data on product carbon footprints (PCF) or other information and data the confidential nature of which is evident to a reasonable person. Confidential Information does not include information that (i) is or becomes generally available to the public other than by violation of this user confidentiality commitment; (ii) becomes available to you from a source other than the disclosing entity, provided that you have no reason to believe that the information is subject to an obligation of confidentiality; (iii) was in your possession without obligation of confidentiality prior to receipt from disclosing user; or (iv) is independently developed by you without the use of the Confidential Information.

Clicking the button, accessing, or using Mattermaps indicates that you have read, understood, and you will acknowledge and accept,

1. to always treat Confidential Information as confidential and protect them using the same means that you use to protect your own information of a similar nature, and in any event not less than reasonable means;
2. to not disclose the Confidential Information to third parties, except to those of its employees, employees of affiliated entities, advisors, and contractors who have a need to know such Confidential Information and who must have executed a written agreement no less stringent than this user confidentiality commitment. You will be liable for compliance with this user confidentiality commitment by each recipient;
3. where you are required by a governmental agency or law to disclose Confidential Information, you will give written notice to the disclosing entity promptly upon receipt of notice of the required disclosure to the extent such notice is permitted by law, and cooperate with disclosing entity to limit the scope of disclosure;
4. to use Confidential information solely for the purpose of, depending on your user role, (i) evaluating, calculating and publicly reporting the carbon footprint of your products, provided that, in the latter case you will use the Confidential Information only in aggregated form and not disclose any information or (meta) data that discloses the source of Confidential Information without the disclosing entity’s prior consent; (ii) supporting the evaluation and calculation of product carbon footprints of the entity you are sourcing with your Confidential Information; (iii) certifying the product carbon footprint as an accredited certifier upon instruction of your client;
5. that the disclosing entity and its affiliated entities are third-party beneficiaries of this user confidentiality commitment, and that, upon your acceptance of this user confidentiality commitment, the disclosing entity will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce this user confidentiality commitment against you as a third-party beneficiary; and
6. to destroy, upon request of the disclosing entity, Confidential Information except copies required for compliance with applicable laws or made as a matter of routine information technology backup, so long as they remain confidential per this user confidentiality commitment.