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Client Agreement for Climate Friendly Food Participatory Certification Scheme

You must agree to accept the following Terms and Conditions:

1. Use of the Carbon Calculator

   Climate Friendly Food Carbon Calculators (all versions) are copyrighted to Climate Friendly Food Community Interest Company registered no. 6815026 and cannot be replicated without permission. The carbon calculator's use is

   • free-of-charge to web users
   • on the basis that scientific information is correct and to the best of our knowledge at the time of writing.

   You are not permitted to make your results public, or use them for marketing purposes, without entering Climate Friendly Food's Participatory Certification scheme. The Certification scheme is currently only available in the UK.

2. Carbon Footprint results

   Climate Friendly Food (CFF) collects data saved in the carbon calculator in a farm carbon database. Information is strictly confidential and will not be shared without your permission. Data will be used by CFF for education, promotion and funding monitoring purposes without ever identifying individual farms' identities. We hope this database will become an invaluable resource in coming years.

   CFF cannot take responsibility for the effect that any errors in calculations or original data used may have on organisations, business or individuals. We aim to update the calculator every year according to the latest best science.

3. Legal Position of Participatory Guarantee Scheme

   Climate Friendly Food Participatory Guarantee Scheme is an informal quality assurance scheme using farmer-to-farmer inspection and does not fall within the remit of EU Regulation 2092/91 with regards organic labelling.

   You understand that, if you are not organically certified, whilst you are agreeing to abide by the IFOAM Norms for organic production, any crops or livestock produce marketed under the Climate Friendly Food logo will NOT be legally entitled to be called “organic” unless successfully inspected by an organic certification body.

4. Participatory Certification

   Climate Friendly Food's Participatory Certification scheme is copyrighted to Climate Friendly Food Community Interest Company (registered no. 6815026) and cannot be replicated without permission.

   You can only label produce in accordance with Climate Friendly Food that has satisfied the following requirements for certification:

   1. You will become a member of Climate Friendly Food's Participatory Certification scheme.
   2. You are committed to continually reducing the carbon footprint of the food you produce. You will commit to either the bronze, silver or gold low carbon farming commitments.
   3. You must complete Climate Friendly Food's farmer and grower carbon calculator (version 2.0) on the Climate Friendly Food website.
   4. You will practise organic methods of food production. If your farm is not certified organic by an organic certification body you must agree to abide by the IFOAM Norms for Organic Production.
   5. You will be willing to undergo an annual farmer-to-farmer inspection process
   6. You understand that you have to complete at least one farmer-to-farmer Certification Inspection of another holding in our area each year.
   7. You must abide by the guidelines for logo use on food packaging.

5. Terms of business

   Payment terms —Certification fees start from £35 per year. This is payable via PayPal as part of the online Certification process.

   Annual renewal: all the above terms and conditions are subject to the annual renewal of membership of the Participatory Certification Scheme.

   Cooling off period: you are allowed to terminate your Participatory Certification membership within 14 days of payment and obtain a full refund if dissatisfied with the services provided. You will not be considered a member of the Certification scheme any longer and will be ineligible to make any claims about your carbon footprint as calculated by the Climate Friendly Food carbon calculator, or use any CFF logos.

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