S&P Global Terms of Use

This web page, together with the legal pages, details the terms of a legal agreement (the "Terms of Use") between you and S&P Global Inc., also acting on behalf of its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively "S&P Global"). By accessing or using this website, located at spglobal.com  or any website or mobile application referring to these Terms of Use as its terms (the "the Website;) , or any Content (as defined below), you acknowledge and irrevocably represent that you have read and understood the Terms of Use, and you voluntarily and irrevocably accept and agree to be bound by the Terms of Use. You also agree to comply with all laws and regulations applicable to the use of this Website, the use of the internet, and the activities involved in using this Website.

If you do not agree with these Terms of Use, do not use this Website. If you, or the entity through which you were provided a log-in ID and password, subscribed to certain content or services found on this Website by way of executing a written agreement, in the form of an addendum, order form, or otherwise ("Agreement"), then these Terms of Use shall be supplemental to such Agreement, and use of this Website is subject to the terms of the Agreement in addition to these Terms of Use. By accessing this Website, you acknowledge that you have read and are bound by the Agreement (if you require a copy of the Agreement, please contact your company's contract administrator).

S&P Global reserves the right to vary, amend, remove or add to the Terms of Use at any time. Such modifications shall be effective immediately. Your continued access and use of this Website and Content following the posting of modifications to the Terms of Use shall constitute your acknowledgment and acceptance of such modifications. If, at any time, you do not wish to accept the Terms of Use, you must immediately cease to access or use this Website and all Content. Any additional terms, conditions, or modifications to these Terms of Use that are proposed by you shall be of no force or effect unless and until expressly agreed to by S&P Global in writing.

Unless expressly specified to the contrary, in these Terms of Use and in any data fields, parameters, displays, exports, or other contexts across all S&P Global platforms, products, and services provided to you, any reference to "Country" shall be interpreted as "Country or Region".

1. License

You acquire absolutely no rights or licenses in or to this Website and any text, graphics, user interfaces, visual interfaces, photographs, trademarks, logos, sounds, music, audio, video, artwork, computer code, information, data and material therein, including ratings or scores (collectively, the "Content") other than the limited right to utilize this Website and Content for your own personal, internal, non-commercial purposes in accordance with these Terms of Use.

2. General Restrictions on Use

You will not in connection with your use of this Website and all Content therein: (a) violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, statute, ordinance, rule or regulation, including without limitation those relating to competition, antitrust, economic sanctions, or export controls; (b) interfere with or disrupt the computer networks of S&P Global or attempt to do so; (c) forge headers or in any manner manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any information; (d) download, upload, post, transmit, publish, or distribute any material that infringes, violates, breaches or otherwise contravenes the rights of S&P Global or any third party, including any copyright, trademark, patent, rights of privacy or publicity or any other proprietary right; (e) interfere with or disrupt the use of this Website by any other customer or user or reverse look-up, trace or seek to trace any information on any other user of or visitor to this Website, or any other customer of S&P Global, including any S&P Global account not owned by you; (f) probe, scan or test the vulnerability of this Website or any network connected to this Website or attempt to gain unauthorized entry or access to the computer systems of any other person or entity; (g) take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the infrastructure of this Website or S&P Global's systems or networks, or any systems or networks connected to this Website or to S&P Global; or (h) download, upload, post, transmit, publish or distribute any material or information that constitutes or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, give rise to other liability, or otherwise violate applicable law.

You may not use any linking, deep-linking, framing or page-scraping technology, robots, spiders or other automatic devices, programs, algorithms or methodologies, or any similar or equivalent manual processes, to access, acquire, copy, distribute, display or monitor any portion of this Website or any Content, or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of this Website or any Content, to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials, documents or information through any means not purposely made available through this Website. Any automatic processing, downloading, scraping, or extraction of this Website or its Content is expressly prohibited unless specifically permitted by our robots.txt file.

Unless provided otherwise in an Agreement, you hereby agree and acknowledge that you are expressly prohibited from: (i) making available all or any portion of the Content to any other person or entity, except as expressly permitted in these Terms of Use or in an Agreement; (ii) creating derivative works from the Content; and (iii) using the Content in the provision of any services to third parties. In addition, you shall not distribute, transfer, sub-license, rent, lend, transmit, sell, re-circulate, repackage, assign, lease, resell, publish, copy, translate, convert, decompile, reverse engineer, alter, enhance, disassemble, modify, or change all or any portion of the Content.

You shall not use the Content to develop, support, create or provide pricing for: (i) any database or product that competes directly with the Content or any other S&P Global product or service offered in the marketplace or would create a functional substitute for any such S&P Global products or Content; or (ii) any index (e.g., any composite financial index).

You may download and use certain Content that is purposely and expressly made available by S&P Global for downloading from this Website (such as product sheets or articles), provided that you: (i) do not remove any proprietary notice or disclaimer language in any copies of such documents, (ii) use such information only for your personal, non-commercial informational purpose and do not copy or post such information on any networked computer or broadcast it in any media, (iii) make no modifications to any such information, and (iv) do not make any representations or warranties relating to same.

You grant to S&P Global a non-exclusive, perpetual, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide, royalty-free right and license to host, use, distribute, modify, enhance, run, copy, publicly perform and display, translate and create derivative works of and to all information, data, content and material submitted, uploaded, shared or otherwise made available on the Website by you and in any of S&P Global's and/or any of its affiliates' print or electronic publications, services or web sites ("Your Content"). This grant includes any suggestions, ideas, notes, concepts, or similar materials ("Feedback") that you submit about our Services or through the Website. We may use such Feedback for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without compensation to you, and all Feedback is deemed non-confidential and non-proprietary. By submitting Your Content, including any Feedback, you represent and warrant that: (i) you own or otherwise control all necessary rights to Your Content, including copyrights, (ii) Your Content is true and accurate, (iii) Your Content does not violate the rights of any other person or entity, including rights of privacy and publicity, and (iv) Your Content complies with all applicable laws, rules and regulations.

S&P Global has the right to remove any part of Your Content if such data, information or content (i) violates any of the terms of these Terms of Use or any other policy of S&P Global, (ii) violates any applicable laws or regulations, (iii) is misleading, discriminatory, inaccurate, untrue, threatening, defamatory, harassing, libelous, deceptive, racist, or invasive of another person's privacy or contains untrue statements, unsubstantiated rumors or any misrepresentations, (iv) contains explicit or graphic descriptions or accounts of sexual or violent acts, (v) infringes, violates or misappropriates any third party's rights, including, without limitation, intellectual property or proprietary rights. If you violate any of the terms of these Terms of Use, S&P Global has the right to restrict or prohibit your use of the Website without providing any notice to you. In addition, S&P Global can remove any content or restrict or prohibit your access to the Website if S&P Global determines in its sole discretion that doing so is reasonably necessary to avoid or mitigate adverse legal or regulatory impacts on S&P Global. S&P Global retains the right, which it may exercise in its sole discretion, to review, edit, or delete any content posted or provided by you, or to delete the relevant account(s), that S&P Global deems to be (i) illegal, (ii) offensive, (iii) in violation of contractual obligations, or (iv) otherwise inappropriate.

Qualified and Institutional Investors. Portions of this Website were created in order to enable "qualified institutional buyers," as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933 ("QIBs"), "), to analyze data made available by issuers to QIBs in securities offerings and in the QIB secondary market. These data may or may not otherwise be publicly available. If you choose to access such QIB information on the Website ("QIB Information"), you hereby acknowledge and agree that (a) you must be a QIB to access the QIB Information, (b) the QIB Information contained on this Website may only be available to QIBs, (c) you will not transmit or use any such QIB Information in violation of the federal securities laws, and (d) you represent and warrant to S&P Global (on behalf of yourself or your organization) that you have such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters so that you are capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the securities for which QIB Information has been made available by the issuers, and utilize effectively the software, products and/or data provided by S&P Global as an analytical tool to assist in any such evaluation. You also confirm that you are solely responsible for performing your own evaluation of any such securities, and with respect to QIB Information made available by issuers to QIBs in securities offerings and in the QIB secondary market, S&P does not make any recommendations as to whether to buy, sell or hold any such securities or as to the usefulness of its software, products, and data to you for purposes of making any such evaluation.

Events.  You hereby represent and warrant that by registering, accessing, or otherwise engaging in any S&P Global event through this website or which otherwise incorporate these Terms of Use: (i) you, your employer, directors or corporate officers of either your employer or your employer’s affiliates, are not the subject of any economic sanctions or export control measures administered by any applicable sanctions or export control authority (including, but not limited to, (a) the Government of the United States, including those administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury or the Bureau of Industry and Security of the U.S. Department of Commerce, (b) the European Union, and (c) the Government of the United Kingdom) which would prohibit your registration, access, or participation in the event; and (ii) you are not located in, an agency or instrumentality of, owned or controlled by, acting for or on behalf of, or otherwise organized under the laws of or resident in a country or territory that is, or whose government is, the subject of economic sanctions that broadly prohibit dealings with that country or territory which would prohibit your registration, access, or participation in the event. You acknowledge and agree that S&P Global has the right to immediately terminate all applicable services or remove you from any event, if S&P Global determines, in its sole discretion, that S&P Global is required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, or you have breached any of the representations or warranties in this paragraph.

3. Generative Artificial Intelligence Use

For Website Content, S&P Global may use generative artificial intelligence ("AI") in two ways: (1) to create and process Website Content, and (2) through interactive features such as chatbots and conversational AI assistants. Our AI capabilities provide targeted industry analyses, market insights, and business intelligence. While our coverage continues to expand, certain specialized data and assessments may not be currently available.

Published Content created or processed using AI is composed, reviewed, edited, and approved by S&P Global personnel. S&P Global claims full copyright ownership of all AI-assisted content, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. Real-time chat responses are generated without human review. Due to the nature of AI technology, responses may contain errors, omissions, inaccuracies, hallucinations, biases, inconsistencies, or outdated information. You must independently verify all content before use, and any reliance on such content is entirely at your own risk.

S&P Global and its affiliates do not accept any responsibility or liability for decisions made based on any AI-assisted or AI-generated Content or interactions, whether in contract, tort (including negligence and negligent misstatement), or otherwise. You may not attempt to reverse engineer our AI systems, and we may update features without notice. Conversations may be recorded and user feedback will be collected to improve service performance.

4. Additional Product Specific Restrictions on Use

4.1 S&P Global Ratings.

(a)Historical Ratings pursuant to SEC Rule 17g-7(b)

Historical S&P Global Ratings credit ratings in each class of credit rating for which S&P Global Ratings is registered as a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization ("NRSRO") is available at the Regulatory Tab (collectively, the "Ratings History") at www.spglobal.com/ratings. The Ratings History is made available free of charge subject to applicable time delays. It is intended that the availability of Ratings History on this Website will advance the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") goal of fostering accountability and comparability among NRSROs with respect to issuer-paid credit ratings. As such, the Ratings History may be used to, inter alia, perform analysis comparing how different NRSROs perform in the class of credit ratings for which they are registered.

Ratings History may not be used or disseminated in a manner that would serve as a substitute for any S&P Global product or service for which a fee is charged. This restriction is not intended to prevent the use of the Ratings History in accordance with the SEC’s stated objectives for SEC Rule 17g-7(b).

(b)Non-Historical Ratings

All ratings on this Website, excluding only the Ratings History, are referred to as "Non-Historical Ratings," regardless of their currency or date of issuance.

Except as expressly set forth below, you agree not to copy, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, or store any Non-Historical Ratings, in whole or in part, from this Website or to display, perform, publish, distribute, transmit, broadcast or circulate any Non-Historical Ratings to anyone, or use any Non-Historical Ratings for any commercial purpose, without the express prior written consent of S&P Global Ratings. You may, (a) on an ad hoc basis, use individual Non-Historical Ratings in the ordinary course of securities disclosure activities and the drafting of transaction documents internally within your organization or publish, on a non-commercial basis, selected individual Non-Historical Ratings, and (b) only insofar as you are directly compelled by applicable law or regulation: (1) include credit ratings within a report required by that law or regulation and (2) deliver such report only to such regulator, or authority or government agency as is identified by that law or regulation and solely insofar as to meet your own obligations under that law or regulation and not for the benefit of another party.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, Non-Historical Ratings may not (i) be compiled into a database; (ii) be used or disseminated in a manner that would serve as a substitute for any S&P Global product or service for which a fee is charged; or (iii) be systematically distributed or shared.

(c)Narrative and Other Content

You may also, on an occasional, ad hoc basis, reproduce, distribute, display or transmit an insubstantial portion of other narrative (non-ratings) content ("Narrative Content"), for a non-commercial purpose and without charge, to a limited number of individuals, provided you include all copyright and other proprietary rights notices and the S&P Global Ratings disclaimer with such portion of the Narrative Content in the same form in which the notices and disclaimer appear on the Website, the original source attribution, and the phrase "Used with permission from S&P Global Ratings." However, you may not post Narrative Content from this Website to forums, newsgroups, list serves, mailing lists, electronic bulletin boards, or other sites, without the prior written consent of S&P Global Ratings. To request consent for uses such as linking to Narrative Content or posting Narrative Content on your website, please contact S&P Global Ratings at ratings.request@spglobal.com.

Material that appears on this Website that is entered by you or other authorized users, or that is otherwise made accessible by other than S&P Global Ratings, is referred to as "Other Content." You may use Other Content in accordance with the terms set forth above relating to the use of Narrative Content.

(d)Country Conditions and Qualified Institutional Investors

The terms and conditions set forth in this section (the “Country Conditions”) are the result of various regulatory and/or legal requirements relating to the usage of this Website including its Content.  Your use of this Website in the specified jurisdictions is subject to these Country Conditions.

Australia.  To the extent that S&P’s Global Ratings credit ratings (the “Ratings”) are included as part of any Content, S&P Global Ratings Australia Pty Limited (ABN 62 007 324 852), being the holder of Australian Financial Services License No. 337565 issued pursuant to the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (“SPA”), whose registered office is located at Level 45, 120 Collins Street, Melbourne Vic 3000 Australia, shall provide such portion of Content to you and SPA shall license you the right to use the intellectual property in such portion of the Content and, as owner of such intellectual property, shall receive any fees with respect thereto. SPA expressly agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions of these Terms of Use to the extent it applies to the provision of the Ratings. You accept and acknowledge that SPA’s provision of the Ratings to you through the Website is based on, and conditional on, the veracity and accuracy of your representation that you are a “Wholesale Client” (as such is defined in Chapter 7 of the Corporations Act of 2001 (Australia)). In addition, you acknowledge that Ratings and/or related research licensed to you pursuant to these Terms of Use or an Agreement, as applicable, are not intended for, and should not be distributed to, any person other than a Wholesale Client (to the extent such distribution is permitted by an Agreement). In furtherance of the foregoing, you undertake that (a) you will not pass on any Rating and/or related research to a party who is not a Wholesale Client and (b) that you will obtain the same undertaking from your own Wholesale Clients (to the extent such distribution is permitted by an Agreement). S&P Global represents that it is authorized to bind SPA to the terms and conditions set forth in these Terms of Use to the extent such terms and conditions pertain to the provision of Ratings.

All countries located in Europe, the Middle East or Africa (“EMEA”).  In the event your use of the Ratings is in any country located in EMEA, you further acknowledge and agree to the following: The Ratings shall not in any circumstances be used by you where, as part of an effort to sell securities to Retail Investors (as defined below), you use the Ratings: (a) to create a type of recommendation, (b) to create your own interpretation of the Ratings or (c) in some other form of “risk classification.” For the purposes of these Terms of Use, “Retail Investor” shall mean an individual investor who buys and sells securities or other financial products for his/her personal account, and not for another company, individual or organization.

4.2 S&P Dow Jones Indices

Unless otherwise permitted, S&P Dow Jones Indices (“SPDJI”) data may be used solely for non-commercial, personal use. For complete and updated terms and conditions regarding SPDJI data usage, including performance disclosures, please visit  https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/disclaimers/ , which control in the event of a conflict with these Terms of Use. You understand and agree that you shall not: (i) use the SPDJI data to create, issue, manage, sponsor or develop any financial products (including, without limitation, derivatives, funds, structured products or contracts for difference) or asset management where the price, return and/or performance of such product is based on or intended to track any index published by SPDJI including, without limitation, customized versions thereof, such as direct indexing; (ii) use the SPDJI data to create or develop indices, a classification system or historical databases; (iii) create any derived data based on the SPDJI data, except with SPDJI’s express written consent; (iv) disclose, duplicate, display, redistribute, resell or otherwise convey the SPDJI data or any portion thereof internally within your organization except to other authorized end users of the relevant SPDJI services or externally to any third party.

SPDJI licenses its indices for use with financial products and receives compensation in connection with such licensing. SPDJI does not make any representation or warranty, express or implied, to the owners of such financial products or any member of the public regarding the advisability of investing in such financial products or the ability of SPDJI’s indices to track market performance. SPDJI is not a fiduciary, investment advisor, commodity trading advisor, commodity pool operator or a broker dealer. Inclusion of a security, commodity, cryptocurrency or other asset within an index is not a recommendation by SPDJI to buy, sell, or hold such security, commodity, cryptocurrency or other asset, nor is it considered to be investment advice or commodity trading advice. The opinions, observations, and analysis of SPDJI included within this Website are statements of opinion as of the date they are expressed and not statements of fact or recommendations to purchase, hold, or sell any securities, other assets or make any investment decisions. SPDJI assumes no obligation to update any Content included within this Website following publication. Users of the Website should not rely on any of the Content in making any investment decision. SPDJI’s opinions, observations and analyses do not address the suitability of any security or other asset. While SPDJI has obtained information from sources it believes to be reliable, SPDJI does not perform an audit and undertakes no duty of due diligence or independent verification of any information it receives.

4.3 S&P Global ESG Scores

All Content contained in this Website is the exclusive property of S&P Global, or their third party licensors and may not be copied or reproduced in any form except with the prior written permission of S&P Global. For clarity, all references to the S&P Global ESG Scores shall include their key component the S&P Global CSA Scores, unless expressly stated otherwise. The S&P Global ESG Scores are produced and issued by S&P Global Sustainable1 utilizing the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) and/or publicly available information. The Content, including the ESG Scores and related materials have been published here solely for informational purposes based upon information generally available to the public and from sources believed to be reliable.

The S&P Global ESG Scores are based on its proprietary global ESG Score methodology, which uses a consistent, rule-based methodology to convert an average of 1,000 data points per company into a score. The methodology evaluates approximately 23 different key themes across economic, social and environmental dimensions through industry-specific questionnaires. The underlying metrics are weighted according to their relevance and materiality to a given sub-industry. S&P Global Sustainable1 defines a sustainability issue as material if it presents a significant impact on society or the environment and a significant impact on a company's value drivers, competitive positioning, and long-term shareholder value creation.

S&P Global reserves the right to change a company’s ESG score from time to time, in accordance with its methodologies, policies and procedures. The S&P Global ESG Scores (as may be updated) are provided "as is" and reflect S&P Global Sustainable1's opinion as of the date they are expressed and do not constitute statements of fact.

S&P Global gives no representations or warranties regarding the use of these S&P Global ESG Scores and/or their fitness for a particular purpose. The S&P Global ESG Scores are not recommendations to purchase, hold, or sell any securities and do not address the suitability of any security for investment decision making or for investment analysis, compliance or research purposes related to ESG investment, performance, and practices in any particular jurisdiction. The Content, including, without limitation, the S&P Global ESG Scores, should not be relied on and is not a substitute for the skill, judgment and experience of the user, its management, employees, advisors and/or clients when making investment and other business decisions.

Unless explicitly permitted by S&P Global in writing, the Content or any portion thereof may not be (i) modified, reverse engineered, reproduced, or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, (ii) used to create any derivative works; (iii) used as the input value or the constituent for the creation, structuring, development, calculation, maintenance, publication, distribution or any other means to derive or establish a financial index or investment strategy; or (iv) used as a component of or as the basis for corporate financing (including, without limitation, ESG-linked loans, credit facilities) or used for any investment product or financial instrument to be developed, issued, traded, sold, marketed and/or promoted, including, without limitation, a security whose capital and/or income value is calculated based on changes in value of any index or any indexed fund based on the Content in whole or in part or passively managed funds.

S&P Global is committed to providing transparency to the market through high-quality independent opinions on sustainability. Safeguarding the quality, independence and integrity of S&P Global’s ESG Scores, including by identifying and managing potential conflicts of interest, is embedded in its culture and at the core of everything S&P Global does. S&P Global keeps certain activities of its business units separate from each other in order to preserve the independence and objectivity of their respective activities. As a result, certain business units of S&P Global may have information that is not available to other S&P Global units. S&P Global has established policies and procedures to maintain the confidentiality of certain non-public information received in connection with each analytical process.

Local Country Conditions:

India. The use of S&P Global ESG Scores on Indian Companies, which are issued by S&P Global Sustainable1, shall be restricted for use by users based in India as outlined by the applicable ESG rating provider regulation and associated guidance. The S&P Global ESG Scores (including their key component S&P Global CSA Scores) are not recommendations to purchase, hold, or sell any securities and do not address the suitability of any Indian security for investment decision making, investment analysis, compliance or research purposes related to ESG investment, performance, and practices or other related ancillary purposes in India. The S&P Global ESG Scores should not be relied on and are not a substitute for the skill, judgment and experience of the user, its management, employees, advisors and/or clients when making investment and other business decisions. For clarity, but otherwise subject to the foregoing and the Guidelines, S&P Global Sustainable1's S&P Global ESG Scores on Indian listed companies may be used by the rated entity (i) for their internal reference, (ii) to reference their score on their investor relations or similar company webpage, or company social media webpages, and/or (iii) in their corporate sustainability report (or similar) and/or annual report, all subject to appropriate source attribution to S&P Global Sustainable1.

For more information about our CSA methodologies visit  https://www.spglobal.com/esg/csa/csa-resources/csa-methodology

4.4 Commodity Insights LIVE. 

Commodity Insights LIVE is a virtual hub created to enable our clients and market participants to engage with us, and each other in relation to markets and commodity insights.  Commodity Insights LIVE also allows users to post information publicly which can be viewed by other users of Commodity Insights LIVE. Commodity Insights LIVE is hosted by a third party vendor. S&P Global retains no responsibility or liability to you or any third party for the availability of Commodity Insights LIVE, nor does it have any responsibility or liability to you or any third party for the content or security of Commodity Insights LIVE. 

(a)   Participant types

Access to Commodity Insights LIVE is through three categories of users. Guests do not need to register and, subject to these Terms of Use, will have limited access to Content and functionality on Commodity Insights LIVE. Members must register for a user account and, subject to these Terms of Use, will receive access to certain Content and user functionality on Commodity Insights LIVE. Premium members are existing customers of S&P Global and must register for a user account for Commodity Insights LIVE in addition to any other log-ins they might have with S&P Global. Subject to these Terms of Use, premium members have full access to all Content and user functionality on Commodity Insights LIVE.

(b)   Your Commodity Insights LIVE account

In order to access Commodity Insights LIVE as a member or a premium member, you must register for a user account. S&P Global reserves its right to accept or decline, in its sole discretion, a user registration application. As part of the registration process, you must create a user account by selecting a username and password and providing S&P Global with accurate, complete, and current information. You must keep your password safe and secure. If you know or suspect anyone other than you knows your password, please change your password immediately. You are required to register using an email address containing your employer's domain name. Failure to do so constitutes a breach of these Terms of Use, which may result in immediate termination of your access to Commodity Insights LIVE. To log into your Commodity Insights LIVE account after your registration has been approved, you will be sent either an Okta notification or an email verification to your registered email address. S&P Global may suspend, invalidate or terminate any user account, at any time, where S&P Global has reason to believe that you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms of Use. You must contact us through Commodity Insights LIVE if you wish to delete your Commodity Insights LIVE account. However, deletion of your Commodity Insights LIVE account will not remove any record of the content you posted.

(c)   User-generated content is not approved by S&P

Commodity Insights LIVE may include information and materials uploaded by other users of Commodity Insights LIVE. 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 S&P Global’s views or values. See also the section on Third Party Content below.

(d)   Your Content

We refer you to section 2 of these Terms of Use regarding Your Content. Subject to these Terms of Use and applicable law, you acknowledge and agree that you are responsible for any content you post or distribute via Commodity Insights LIVE and any consequences that arise out of the posting or distribution of such content. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, NEITHER S&P GLOBAL NOR ANY S&P GLOBAL AFFILIATE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONSEQUENCES OF POSTING OR DISTRIBUTING ANY PERSONAL OR OTHER INFORMATION VIA COMMODITY INSIGHTS LIVE. Your Content will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. As between you and S&P Global, you own the intellectual property rights in Your Content that you create and share on Commodity Insights LIVE, but you are required to grant us a limited license to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties. S&P Global may, at its sole discretion, remove or repost discussions and their content on Commodity Insights LIVE. Premium members may edit Your Content only within one hour of posting it. To delete Your Content as a member or a premium member, please contact us through Commodity Insights LIVE. Subject to applicable laws, regulations and court orders, removal of Your Content from public display on Commodity Insights LIVE may not result in the deletion of all of Your Content from Commodity Insights LIVE’s systems or backup files. We also have the right to remove Your Content if, in our opinion, (i) your post does not comply with the acceptable use standards set out in these Terms of Use and/or (ii) your post includes any competitively sensitive information or otherwise may breach any antitrust laws, rules or regulations, and we have the right to disclose Your Content to any legal or regulatory authority.

(e)   Acceptable use of Commodity Insights LIVE

You shall not utilize Commodity Insights LIVE to post or distribute any content that contains explicit or graphic descriptions or accounts of sexual acts or that is threatening, misleading, discriminatory, inaccurate, untrue, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, deceptive, racist, fraudulent, invasive of another person's privacy, infringing, tortious or that contains unsubstantiated rumors or misrepresentations. You shall not post or distribute any competitively sensitive information via Commodity Insights LIVE. You shall not post or distribute any content via Commodity Insights LIVE unless you own such content or otherwise have obtained the right to do so. You shall not transmit junk mail, chain letters, spam or unsolicited mailings via Commodity Insights LIVE and shall not use Commodity Insights LIVE to transmit instructions regarding illegal activities. You may not input or distribute any material through Commodity Insights LIVE that is promotional in nature, including solicitations for funds or business. We also refer you to section 2 of these Terms of Use regarding your obligations with reference to use of data that you access on Commodity Insights LIVE. For the avoidance of doubt and subject to these Terms of Use, you shall not scrape, copy, or in any way use, manipulate, or derive, any data visible on Commodity Insights LIVE for personal or commercial purposes, including (but not limited to) creating products or services to be sold by you or by third parties.

(f)     We are not responsible for Third Party Content on Commodity Insights LIVE

Commodity Insights LIVE may contain Third Party Content (as defined below in section 16). S&P Global has no responsibility or liability with respect to the Third Party Content. You acknowledge that S&P Global has no responsibility for verifying the accuracy or timeliness of any Third Party Content.  You acknowledge and agree that while S&P Global or any S&P Global affiliate may monitor the content posted or distributed via Commodity Insights LIVE, you are solely responsible for verifying the accuracy of all Third Party Content posted or distributed via Commodity Insights LIVE.  If you become aware of any violation of these Terms of Use by a third party, you shall promptly notify S&P Global. You may also, through hypertext or other computer links, gain access to websites operated by persons other than S&P Global. Such hyperlinks are provided for your reference and convenience only, and are the exclusive responsibility of such websites' owners. You agree that S&P Global is not responsible for the content or operation of such websites, and that S&P Global shall have no liability to you or any other person or entity for the use of third party websites. Except as described below, a hyperlink on Commodity Insights LIVE to another website does not imply or mean that S&P Global endorses the content on that website or the operator or operations of that site. You are solely responsible for determining the extent to which you may use any content at any other websites to which you link from Commodity Insights LIVE.

(g)   How to complain about or report content

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