IC+ End User Licence Agreement (EULA)

The EULA is the agreement governing how individual End Users may access and use IC+ Data.

It works alongside the Commercial Data Licence Agreement (CDLA) under which the End User is authorised. The EULA governs the conduct of the individuals accessing the data.

Anyone accessing or using IC+ Data must read and comply with the EULA.

This includes users accessing IC+ directly, as well as users accessing IC+ through licensed tools, software, platforms, spreadsheets, APIs or other resources.

An End User is an individual who can access or use IC+ Data.

This includes anyone able to see an IC+ emission factor or access information from which an IC+ factor could reasonably be identified, inferred, extracted, reconstructed, or back-calculated.

Access is what matters. Someone may count as an End User even if they use IC+ infrequently or do not personally select the factors. Someone receiving only a project-specific result, without access to the underlying IC+ Data, will not normally count as an End User.

An End User does not need to be an employee of the licence holder. Depending on the agreed licence scope, End Users may include clients, project partners, auditors, reviewers, or other recipients who need access to IC+ factors or reconstructable factor-level information.

A Tool is a reusable resource that incorporates, stores, accesses, applies or makes IC+ Data available. This could include:

• Software or a web application
• A spreadsheet calculator or reusable template
• A database or data platform
• A model, dashboard or reporting system
• An API
• A plug-in or add-on
• An automated workflow

A simple one-off calculation, project file, report or assessment will not necessarily be treated as a separate Tool. Circular Ecology will consider how the resource is structured, whether it is reusable, how it is deployed and who can access it.

If you are unsure whether a resource should be treated as a Tool, please contact us before using IC+ within it.

Yes. Project-specific results, reports and assessments can generally be shared where this is permitted under the applicable licence.

Recipients will not normally require licence coverage if they receive only project-specific results and cannot access or determine the underlying IC+ Data.

If a report, spreadsheet, or other deliverable contains IC+ factors, or enough information to reconstruct or back-calculate them, the recipients will need to be covered as End Users. The organisation holding the Commercial Data Licence Agreement may include the recipients within its own End User allowance, provided the relevant organisations, territories, and use are covered. Alternatively, the recipients may hold another suitable IC+ licence.

The required IC+ Licensing Notice must also be included within or alongside the relevant Output.

Only within the scope of the applicable licence.

IC+ factors must not be published or made publicly available. They must also not be shared with individuals who are not covered by an appropriate licence. This applies regardless of the format used, including spreadsheets, PDFs, reports, dashboards, exports, and API responses.

Yes. Where a project Output contains IC+ emission factors, or information from which those factors can reasonably be identified or back-calculated, the recipients must be covered by an appropriate IC+ licence.

This does not necessarily mean that each recipient or client organisation must purchase a separate licence directly from us. The licence holder may be able to include the relevant recipients as Authorised End Users under its own Commercial Data Licence Agreement, subject to the agreed End User allowance, organisations, territories, and use.

The required IC+ Licensing Notice (provided by Circular Ecology) must also be included within or alongside the relevant Output. The notice does not replace End User coverage.

If the recipients are not covered, the Output must be presented in a protected form that does not disclose or allow reconstruction of the underlying IC+ Data. Alternatively, the recipients may obtain their own suitable IC+ licence.

Please contact us before providing factor-level information to additional recipients or if the number of Authorised End Users is likely to exceed the allowance recorded in the Commercial Data Licence Agreement.

Only where that use is covered by the applicable Commercial Data Licence Agreement.

Please contact Circular Ecology before:

• Adding IC+ to another Tool or platform
• Introducing API access
• Making IC+ available to additional users
• Providing access to another legal entity
• Integrating IC+ into third-party software
• Expanding use into another territory

Public or unauthenticated access to IC+ Data is not permitted. Where IC+ is to be hosted within an authenticated third-party platform, the platform owner must hold a suitable IC+ licence.

Access to and active use of IC+ must stop if the applicable licence expires, is suspended, or is terminated.

Completed reports and historic project records may normally be retained for audit or record-keeping. However, the IC+ Data contained within them must not be extracted, reused, recalculated or applied to new work without a valid licence.

Please contact us or the applicable licence holder before proceeding. Most questions can be resolved by confirming the intended users, tools, access arrangements and outputs.

Not necessarily. We will consider the nature, purpose, scope and deployment of the resource when assessing the number of Tools requiring licence coverage.

Stop any further disclosure where reasonably possible and notify your IC+ licence administrator.

The licence-holding organisation should notify us promptly where it becomes aware of unauthorised access, copying, disclosure, loss, extraction or misuse of IC+ Data.

Documentation, guidance, webinars, and supporting materials are planned and will be made available following launch. For now, please see our latest ICE update webinar recording here.

The ICE Database Educational is intended to continue the educational legacy of the ICE Database.

However, maintaining and developing embodied carbon data to modern expectations requires substantial ongoing investment and resources.

IC+ has been developed to provide a sustainable route for maintaining and expanding the data whilst continuing to make ICE available as a free educational resource.

Please visit the ICE Database Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) page for more information.