The website is solely for the use of GCF members and third parties with a legitimate interest in certifying Connected Vehicles. Please read the terms and conditions of use below before clicking on the link at the bottom of the page to request access to the Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website.
This document covers the TERMS AND CONDITIONS of the Global Certification Forum (GCF) Ltd regulating access to and use of the Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website.
In this agreement the following words and expressions shall have the following meaning: 'Access(ed)' shall mean access to the Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website via electronic means. 'Documentation/Information' shall mean all information including information contained in files, in any format whatsoever, originating from the GCF or from an alternative source which is contained in the Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website, including but not limited to Permanent Reference Documents, meeting reports and papers, reference information and advisory notes. 'GCF' shall mean the Global Certification Forum (GCF) Ltd or agents acting for and on behalf of the Global Certification Forum (GCF) Ltd. 'Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website’ shall mean the secure website accessible by a User and managed by the GCF. 'Retrieved 'or 'Retrieval' shall include Access to Documentation/Information which thereafter is received, viewed or stored in any format. 'Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website Area' Shall mean a part of the Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website which is separately administered with respect to Access to and use by a User. 'User' shall mean the person who is granted Access. 'User Administrator' shall mean an employee, officer or duly authorised agent of the GCF who has been duly appointed to manage the administration of Access to at least one Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website Area on the Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website.
3.1. Duty of Non-Disclosure and Confidentiality 3.1.1 All Documentation/Information is proprietary to the GCF and constitutes confidential information unless otherwise stated. The User shall preserve the confidentiality of all such Documentation/Information whether or not marked as such and shall abide by the procedural guidelines, specific to the Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website and each Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website Area, concerning distribution of Documentation/Information for the Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website and each Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website Area or parts thereof which may be issued to a User by the GCF from time to time. 3.1.2 Furthermore, it shall be the responsibility of the User to ensure that employees of the User's organisation only receive Documentation/Information on a 'need to know' basis and preserve the confidentiality of all Documentation/Information as required under 3.1.1 above and that same is kept under secure conditions no less rigorous than those used for confidential information of the User's organisation, but in any event, taking all necessary precautions for their safe custody, Retrieval and disposal. 3.1.3 The duty of non-disclosure and confidentiality set out above shall not apply to Documentation/Information (a) which becomes available to the public through no wrongful act of the person retrieving; or (b) is or comes into the public domain or otherwise ceases to be of a confidential nature other than as a result of wrongful disclosure hereunder by the User; or (c) becomes available to a User on a non-confidential basis from a source other than the disclosure through the Connected Vehicle Work Stream website; or (d) is separately generated by a User who is not privy to the Confidential Information; or (e) is required to be disclosed by any law or order of a court of competent jurisdiction, recognised stock exchange, governmental department or agency provided that the User (where legally permitted to do so) promptly notifies the GCF of any such requirement, takes full account of any reasonable representations made by the GCF in connection therewith and uses its best efforts to ensure that confidential treatment is accorded to the confidential Information disclosed. 3.1.4 Third Parties not being GCF members agree to not to refer to any products listed on the Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website to be “GCF Certified” or similar, nor to claim GCF membership including any usage of the GCF logos in connection with presenting or marketing of products. 3.1.5 The provisions of this clause 3.1 shall apply to the User during the term of this agreement and shall continue to apply after the termination of this agreement without limit in point of time but shall cease to apply to information or knowledge which may reasonably be said to have come into the public domain other than by a breach by the User of this provision. 3.2 Authorised and Unauthorised Usage of the Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website 3.2.1 The GCF shall consider that a User and employees of the User's organisation shall be authorised to Access, read, print or download Documentation/Information or extracts therefrom to be used for information purposes within the User's organisation in accordance with procedural guidelines which may be issued from time to time to the User by the GCF. 3.2.2 The GCF considers that the following shall constitute unauthorised usage of the Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website: (a) posting or transmitting any unlawful, threatening, abusive, libellous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic or otherwise objectionable information of any kind, including without limitation any transmissions constituting or encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any local, state, national or international law including without limitation competition law, export control laws or laws relating to Data Protection or Intellectual Property; (b) posting or transmitting any information or software that contains a virus or any other harmful component; or (c) posting, publishing, transmitting, reproducing, distributing or in any way exploiting any information or other material obtained through the Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website for commercial purposes other than as mentioned in 3.2.1. (d) accessing or attempting to Access Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website Areas by means other than that provided for such Access. 3.2.3 The GCF shall in no way be held liable for any loss or damage resulting from an unauthorised usage, as described above, of the Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website. 3.3 Duty of Providing Information to the GCF 3.3.1 It shall be the responsibility of the User to provide accurate information to the GCF when applying to register as a User. The User shall be obliged to immediately inform the GCF if any such information changes or is modified. Failure to fulfil this requirement shall be treated as a serious breach of the agreement and shall entitle the GCF to deny Access forthwith in accordance with clause 6 of this agreement.
4.1 All copyright, intellectual property and other similar rights in the Documentation/Information contained in the Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website is and remains at all times the property of the GCF unless otherwise stated. All reproduction or transmittal in any form or by any means is not permitted unless authorised under the terms of this agreement or expressly permitted in writing by the GCF or expressly stated in procedures relating to specific Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website Areas. 4.2 Nothing contained in this agreement shall be construed as granting or conferring any rights (direct or indirect) by license or otherwise in the copyright, intellectual property or other similar rights to the Documentation/Information on the Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website.
5.1 The GCF does not make any representation, warranty or undertaking (express or implied) with respect to, and does not accept any responsibility for, (and hereby disclaims liability for), the quality, accuracy or completeness, performance or fitness for a particular purpose of the Documentation /Information. The contents of the Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website are for information purposes only and do not constitute advice by the GCF and should be treated accordingly. The GCF relies on parties including Users, Agreement Groups, GCF Manufacturer, Observer and Operator Members to provide it with updated Documentation/Information. The GCF does not warrant, and it should not be assumed that the Documentation/Information is necessarily accurate, complete or up-to-date at any given time. Contents contained on this website, including without limitation terminal data, may contain errors, omissions, inaccuracies, or outdated information. GCF does not warrant reliability of any statement or other information displayed or distributed through the site. GCF reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to correct any errors or omissions in any portion of the site. GCF may make any other changes to this site, including without limitation terminal data, (if any) described in this site at any time without notice. 5.2 All reasonable security measures have been implemented to preserve the security of the Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website but nevertheless Users should be aware of a possible risk of interference from third parties. Furthermore the GCF does not warrant that the contents of the Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website are free from infection by viruses or anything else which has contaminating or destructive properties.
5.3 The GCF is not responsible for any loss or damage, direct or indirect, financial, business, arising in contract or tort or otherwise occasioned by any user of the Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website, arising as a result of Access to (or any delay or interruption in such Access) or reliance on the Documentation/Information in the Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website.
5.4 The Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website may rely on resources located on servers or websites maintained by third parties over whom the GCF has no control. The GCF accepts no responsibility or liability (however arising) for any of the material, information or images contained on those servers or websites.
6.1 This agreement shall commence on the indication of acceptance of these conditions by the User when first requesting Access to the Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website and shall continue in force until any of the following events occurs, whichever is the earlier. The occurrence of any of the following events shall entitle the GCF to deny Access to the User forthwith: (a) notice is sent to all Users that the Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website is no longer in operation for whatever reason. (b) the User is no longer judged by the GCF, in accordance with its procedural guidelines which may be issued from time to time, to be eligible for Access to any Area of the Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website for whatever reason. (c) the User commits a serious breach of any provisions of this agreement. In the event that the breach is capable of being remedied by the User, but shall not have been remedied within 7 days of a written request from a Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website User Administrator to remedy same, Access may be denied forthwith. (d) this agreement is superseded or amended by another agreement or new terms and conditions whereupon the new conditions will apply from first acceptance thereof by the User. 6.2 Upon the occurrence of any of the events described above Access may be denied to the User to any or all Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website Areas at the discretion of the GCF which discretion shall be exercised by the relevant Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website User Administrator(s). In the event of any disagreement with the decisions of the Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website User Administrator(s), the User, or person seeking to become a User, may contact the General Manager of the GCF at the e-mail address below to attempt to resolve the matter. If the matter is not resolved by the General Manager within 30 days of having being contacted by the User it may be referred to the Chair and Vice Chair of the GCF Steering Group who shall make a decision on the matter and such decision shall be final.
This agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the United Kingdom. The parties submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of the United Kingdom.
8.1 The GCF may from time to time issue to the User procedural guidelines applicable to the User's Access to and use of Documentation/Information on the Connected Vehicle Work Stream Website which the User agrees to be bound by and which the User acknowledges may amend the terms of this agreement. 8.2 If any provision of this agreement is held by a competent authority to be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part the validity of the other provisions of the agreement and the remainder of the provision in question shall not be affected thereby.
If you have any questions relating to the above terms and conditions, please contact us at the following address: Global Certification Forum (GCF) Ltd Suite 1, 7th Floor 50 Broadway London SW1H 0BL United Kingdom E-mail: [email protected]
The private site is for official users only. Your application will be reviewed by the GCF Office.
If you do not represent a valid Connected Vehicle Work Stream Organisation, your request will be rejected.
