By accessing this platform provided and operated by RaiseNow (the Platform) and any page thereof you agree to be bound by these terms of use (Terms of Use). If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, do not proceed to further pages of this Platform.
This Platform is in place within the context of NetZeroYou2. NetZeroYou2 is an employee engagement programme aimed to inspire colleagues to take action against climate change and get involved in Swiss Re's commitment to reaching net-zero emissions.
The platform is making possible to you to buy carbon certificates. The goal of purchasing certificates using the Platform is to offer a unique service for Swiss Re employees to contribute to helping the world achieve net-zero emissions through contributions to carbon certificates, i.e., the possibility to purchase both carbon avoidance and carbon removal certificates. Please note, that your financial contribution will be collected on the bank account of Swiss Re and will be solely used for the purchasing of carbon certificates as described here.
All employees recognize that their involvement into the Platform operated by RaiseNow is completely voluntary and not related to the services provided by Swiss Re. Therefore, the participants acknowledge and accept that all activities on the Platform do not constitute any labor benefits, nor anything derived from the provision of their services and that the activities on the Platform will be performed for a completely unrelated situation to the labor relationship between the parties and to their work activities.
Please note, that Swiss Re does not assume any liability for any of these activities. All information provided on the Platform are provided to RaiseNow and Swiss Re does not assume any liability of any of these information.
Please note that the services on the Platform are govern by RaiseNow (external company). By continuing to access or use this Platform after any changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Terms of Use. Please visit these Terms of Use on a regular basis to ensure that you have read the latest version. These Terms of Use were updated the last time on the date indicated at the end of the terms.
The headings used for each of the paragraphs of these Terms of Use do not affect its interpretation. The reference to a person is a reference to an individual, a body corporate and an unincorporated association of persons. "You" means a user of this Platform. "We" means Swiss Re , "Service Provider" means RaiseNow.
This Platform and all information and functionality contained within this Platform are not directed to or intended for use by any person resident or located in any country where the distribution of such information or functionality or usage of this Platform is contrary to the laws of such country. The same applies to any person resident or located in any country where such distribution or functionality is prohibited without obtaining the necessary licenses or authorizations and such licenses or authorizations have not been obtained by the Swiss Re. If any such local access restriction applies to you, you are not authorized to access this Platform or use any of the information on this Platform.
Swiss Re is organized and existing under the laws of Switzerland. Please note that in addition to these Terms of Use this Platform may include legal information specific to one or several countries. Such information may, in particular, include corporate and contact information, local licensing information or other local disclosure requirements.
This Platform is hosted by the Swiss Re.
This Platform is operated as a Software-as-a-Service by RaiseNow (www.raisenow.com), a provider of online fundraising tools and solutions with principal place of business in Zurich, Switzerland, and is processed according to applicable data protection and privacy laws. The Service Provider (i.e. Raise Now) uses data centers in the United Kingdom, Germany and Switzerland and provides specific service (collecting contributions towards carbon certificates and reporting on amounts raised) to Swiss Re in connection with the operation of this Platform (the Services). The Service Provider owns all right, title, and interest to all software, products, works, and other intellectual property created, used, or provided by the Service Provider including, but not limited to, the Platform and any other part of the Services. The Service Provider is fully responsible for the operation of the Platform.
This Platform includes various functionalities. Please note that certain functionalities of this Platform may not work, unless you have installed appropriate software on your local station. It is the sole responsibility of each user to install the necessary software in order to effectively use this Platform.
Swiss Re makes no representation that all services and solutions described on this Platform are appropriate or available for use in your country. Furthermore, some services or solutions may only be available to certain categories of persons. Therefore, please read carefully the relevant description on this Platform or request further information about the relevant service or solution.
Any materials available on this Platform have no regard to the specific objectives, financial situation or particular needs of any specific recipient. Swiss Re does not represent that any services or solutions discussed on this Platform are suitable for any individual or corporate recipient. No representation or warranty, either express or implied, is provided in relation to the accuracy, completeness or reliability of the materials, nor are they a complete statement of the services or solutions, markets or developments referred to therein. The materials should not be regarded by recipients as a substitute for the exercise of their judgment. Any opinions are subject to change without notice. Swiss Re is not under any obligation to update or keep current the information about services and solutions contained in this Platform.
The information contained in this Platform is just for information purposes, while these information are provided by RaiseNow. No information available on this Platform constitutes a solicitation, an offer, or a recommendation from Swiss Re, to effect any transactions or to conclude any legal act of any kind whatsoever. You or your company may not rely on information on this Platform for making any decision relating to Swiss Re services or solutions .
The information and materials that are contained on the Platform are provided as is and as available. Swiss Re gives no representation, warranty or condition, express or implied, statutory or otherwise, as to condition, satisfactory quality, performance, fitness for purpose, non-infringement, merchantability or otherwise in respect of this Platform or its Content. Without limiting the foregoing, Swiss Re does not warrant the accuracy, timeliness, completeness, reliability or availability of the Platform or the information or results obtained from the Platform, or that this Platform or downloads from this Platform are virus-free or error-free. All such representations, warranties and conditions are excluded, except to the extent that their exclusion is not permitted by applicable law. For the purpose of these Terms of Use, Content means any text, software, database, format, graphic, images, photo, video clips, written work, databases, listings, and all other materials developed by, or on behalf of, us which are or form part of this Platform. Please also check disclaimers on or in respect of individual documents on this Platform.
Swiss Re (without limiting the foregoing) disclaims all warranties with respect to the operation of this Platform and related software for this Platform, express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for particular purpose and the non-infringement. Swiss Re disclaims all warranties that the Platform and related software are not interrupted or error free. Swiss Re disclaims all warranties as to the results that may be obtained from the use of this Platform.
Swiss Re will not be liable for any indirect, special, incidental, consequential, punitive or exemplary loss, liability or costs, whether arising from negligence, breach of contract or otherwise and regardless whether the damage was foreseeable or not. Swiss Re will not be liable for any loss of profits, business or data. Swiss Re will not be liable for any damage or loss (especially loss of data, alteration of data, or downtime) that may be caused to any equipment or software due to any viruses, defects or malfunctions in connection with the access or use of this Platform or downloads from this Platform.
Intellectual Property Rights in the pages of this Platform belong to Swiss Re or to the Service Provider or other third parties. You do not acquire, by virtue of your use of this Platform, any rights, title or interest in any of the Intellectual Property Rights in the Content and this Platform. For the purpose of these Terms of Use, Intellectual Property Rights means (i) copyright, patents, database rights and rights in trademarks, designs, know-how and registered or non-registered confidential information; (ii) applications for registration and the right to apply for registration for any of these rights; and (iii) all other intellectual property rights and equivalent or similar forms of protection existing anywhere in the world.
You may print or save individual pages and/or sections of this Platform and its Content for personal or internal use only. Such print-outs or savings, however, must retain all applicable copyright or other proprietary notices. You must not modify, copy, transmit, distribute, display, reproduce, publish, perform, license, frame, create derivative works from, transfer or use in any other way for commercial or public purposes in whole or in part any Content obtained from this Platform without the prior written permission of Swiss Re or Service Provider. It is prohibited to systematically retrieve Content from this Platform to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database or directory (whether through robots, spiders, automatic devices or manual processes) without written permission from Swiss Re or Service Provider.
The copyright in some documents and other material available on this Platform belongs to third parties (Third Party Documents) and such documents and other material have been produced on this Platform with the permission of the third party copyright owners. You must check copyright notices on or in respect of individual Third Party Documents. Unless otherwise specified in the copyright notice for a Third Party Document or permitted by applicable law, you are not allowed to copy (except to the extent required for the use of this Platform in accordance with these Terms of Use), store in any medium (including in any other website), distribute, transmit, re-transmit, broadcast, modify, or otherwise make available or communicate to the public all or any part of the Third Party Document or systematically extract material from it or in any other way exploit for commercial purposes all or any part of it.
You may provide comments to Swiss Re by e-mail or otherwise. Furthermore, Swiss R may invite users to participate in own or third party surveys or polls and comment on a particular issue raised. If you provide comments to Swiss Re, Swiss Re shall be entitled, but not in any way obliged to make available all or parts of your comments with unmodified or modified content on the Platform. If so doing, Swiss Re will label the comments, without mentioning your name, as third party comment, survey result or in another appropriate way. Swiss Re will not mention your name, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise. If you provide comments to Swiss Re you agree to grant Swiss Re all necessary rights, if any, or license to use, reproduce, distribute, modify, and publicly display your comments on the Platform for an unlimited period of time.
You agree to ensure that all comments you send to this Platform are legal, decent and truthful, comply with all applicable laws and regulations, do not infringe the Intellectual Property Rights or other rights of Swiss Re or any third party, are not defamatory, unreliable or misleading or otherwise objectionable.
You may be requested to provide your contact details, in particular your e-mail address. By providing your contact details you expressly agree that SR retains your contact information and may contact you, in particular for the following reasons: requesting for clarifications or additional comments; sending SR publications, sending information about SR events; asking for your participation in surveys or polls; sending information about services and solutions or other marketing information of SR. However, SR will not send out mass unsolicited e-mails or mails.
Please note that you may when first contacting SR or at any time thereafter inform SR that you would rather not receive any information or not receive any specific information (e.g. promotion material) from SR. You may inform SRF by email: netzero_you2@swissre.com.
The Privacy Policy determines the basis on which your personal data will be used. By using this Platform, you agree with the terms of the Privacy Policy.
If a provision of these Terms of Use is or becomes illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any country, that will not affect the legality, validity or enforceability in that country of any other provision or in other jurisdictions of that or any other provisions of these Terms of Use.
Certain pages or areas on this Platform may contain additional terms, conditions, disclosures or disclaimers (the Additional Terms). In the event of a conflict between these Terms of Use and the Additional Terms, the Additional Terms will govern for those pages or areas.
Our rights under these Terms of Use may be exercised as often as necessary. They are cumulative and not exclusive of rights or remedies provided by law. They may be waived only in writing and specifically. Delay in the exercise or non-exercise of any such right is not a waiver of that right. An express or implied waiver of any of the provisions or of any breach of or default in performing any of the provisions of these Terms of Use will not constitute a continuing waiver and that waiver will not prevent the waiving party from subsequently enforcing any of the provisions of these Terms of Use not waived or from acting on any subsequent breach of or default by the other party under any of the provisions of these Terms of Use.
Any notice or other communication given under or in connection with these Terms of Use will be in English. All other documents provided under or in connection with these Terms of Use will be in English. A document in another language must be accompanied by a certified English translation. In such a situation the English translation will prevail, unless the document is a statutory or other official document.
These Terms of Use shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with Swiss law and we and you each submit irrevocably to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts of Zurich, Switzerland.
If you have any questions relating to these Terms of Use, please email netzero_you2@swissre.com.
Latest update: 28 September 2021