Data Licence Agreement.

This section sets out some key details for you to consider before entering into the Data Licence Agreement contained in the following pages. It is not designed to address all material aspects of the agreement, but aims to highlight some key provisions to assist with your consideration of it. Accordingly, you should carefully read and have regard to the full terms and, if appropriate, seek legal advice before entering the agreement as, once you proceed, the Data Licence Agreement will form a binding contract. This section does not constitute or contain legal advice.

If you have any questions or would like to discuss the Data Licence Agreement before proceeding please contact us on certification@accountingfornature.org.

• Data Licence: Under the Data Licence Agreement that follows (the Agreement), you license us (Accounting for Nature Limited (ABN 25 629 446 493)) to use the data and information we receive from you in connection with the project or environmental account.

• Permitted Purposes: We will use this data and information for the permitted purposes listed in clause 3.2 of the Agreement, but subject always to the usage restrictions that are also listed in clause 3.2.

• Use in connection with the proposed project: These permitted purposes mostly relate to use in connection with your proposed project including review of your proposed project to determine whether it is eligible for registration under the Accounting for Nature Framework, and purposes connected to any registration of your project on the environmental account registry (including both the registration and certification of the project and the ongoing maintenance of the registry) and related purposes. This includes making all material required for inclusion in the registry public.

• Use for other purposes: We may also aggregate and use your data and information for other purposes such as for research purposes, commercial purposes, promotional purposes or public purposes. However, if we use your data for such purposes we will only do so in an aggregated, de-identified manner.

• Responsibility for third party material: Before you provide data or other materials to us, you need to make sure that you own or hold all necessary rights to allow us to use it for the purposes described in clause 3.2 of the Agreement and that our use of that data and material will not breach any person's intellectual property rights, moral rights, rights of confidence or other rights.

• Indemnity: If you do not do this, please be aware that you will responsible for issues that arise if a third party makes a claim against us. Under the Agreement, you indemnify us against all costs, claims, losses, demands and expenses arising directly or indirectly from any person making any claim alleging that the data or our use of it infringes that person's rights. Please be aware that these obligations apply to any third-party materials you supply to us (e.g. reports, notes, memoranda of advice etc.) and you should carefully check that you have the necessary rights to provide us with such material for the purposes listed in clause 3.2 of the Agreement before you do so. If you do not hold the necessary rights in the material you should not provide it to us.