Terms of Use

What this library is

This site is published by FutureTechnologies ("the publisher", "we"). It is a reference library about certifications, standards, mandatory permits, incentive programmes and occupational safety, organised by ISO standard, certification scheme, industry sector and jurisdiction. Using it — browsing, searching or reading any page — means you accept these terms.

What using this library does and does not do

• It does not make you a client, and reading a record does not create a consulting, advisory or contractual relationship with the publisher.
• It does not certify anything. Certification is issued by an independent certification body; choosing an accredited one gives independent confirmation of its competence; this library records who those bodies are and how to verify their work, and stops there.
• It is informational. A record here is a starting point for your own research, not a substitute for professional or legal advice specific to your situation.

Accuracy and verification

Every published record is checked against a primary source and dated at the time of that check (see the Editorial & Verification Policy). Sources change — a standard is revised, a register moves — and a record can fall out of date between checks. The publisher corrects records once a change is confirmed, but makes no warranty that any record is complete, current, or error-free at the moment you read it. Verify anything decision-relevant against the linked primary source before acting on it.

Paid template products

This library also offers a small catalogue of paid, downloadable template products (the "Products"), clearly marked as such. Everything else on this site remains free to read.

• Purchases are processed by Paddle. Paddle acts as the merchant of record: your purchase contract, invoice, payment processing and any statutory withdrawal rights are handled under Paddle's Buyer Terms and Refund Policy, linked at checkout. We do not receive or store your payment details.
• Products are self-serve templates, not consultancy. Buying a Product does not make you a client and does not create an advisory relationship. A Product is a starting skeleton that you adapt to your own organisation; adapting it is your responsibility.
• Products do not grant certification and do not guarantee any audit or certification outcome. Certification is issued by an independent certification body; choosing an accredited one gives independent confirmation of its competence, and only a regulator can determine compliance. No Product claims, and nothing on this site should be read as claiming, that using a template makes you compliant or certifiable.
• Each Product file is a dated snapshot. Every file states the date on which its factual content was verified and the sources used. A downloaded file does not update itself; the laws, standards and registers it describes can change after that date.
• Corrections are free; new editions are new products. If we find a factual error in a Product file, we will correct it and make the corrected file available to existing buyers of that Product at no charge. A version rewritten for a new edition of a standard, or for a change in law after your purchase date, is a new product, not a free update.

Product licence

When you buy a Product, we grant the organisation named at checkout (or, if you buy as an individual, you personally) a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to:

• use and adapt the Product internally, for that one organisation (a single legal entity), with no limit on the number of internal users;
• keep and use the files after the licence is granted, indefinitely.
• If the licensee merges, is renamed or transfers its business as a whole, the licence continues with the legal successor to that business; it does not otherwise transfer.

Licence restrictions

The licence does not permit:

• reselling, sublicensing, publishing or redistributing the Product or any adapted version of it outside the licensed organisation. Exception: the licensed organisation or licensed individual (together, the "licensee") may share, publish or submit a completed document in the ordinary course of its own business or compliance — for example a published privacy notice, a policy or contract provided to a counterparty, or records provided to an auditor, certification body or regulator. A document is "completed" when it has been adapted to, and adopted for, the licensee's own operations and reflects the licensee's own information. This exception does not permit: (a) providing any document, completed or otherwise, to another legal entity — including a parent, subsidiary or affiliate — to serve as a template or as the basis for that entity's own compliance documentation (each legal entity requires its own licence); (b) providing documents to third parties as a deliverable of services (paid or unpaid) that the licensee provides to those third parties; or (c) sharing the templates themselves, whether blank or adapted. For clarity, the licensee's own contractors and professional advisers (for example an outsourced data protection officer or a law firm) may access and work on the files solely on the licensee's behalf and for the licensee's own compliance, provided they do not retain, reuse or provide the files for or to any other person. The CertifideX notice, verification dates and source references must be retained on template copies and working copies; they may be removed from a completed document that the licensee has adopted, issued or published under this exception.
• using the Product to provide paid services to third parties (for example, a consultancy delivering it to clients) — consultancies and multi-entity groups need one licence per legal entity served, bought in the name of the entity that will use the Product;
• removing the verification dates, source references or attribution from the files as we deliver them. (Your internal adaptations are yours to restructure — but they must not present our verification dates as covering content you have changed.)

Ownership of Product content

The Products are our own editorial work. They do not contain and do not reproduce the text of any ISO or IEC standard or any certification scheme's copyrighted material; where a Product refers to such a document, it cites clause numbers and headings and expects you to hold your own licensed copy.

Limitation of liability

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited by applicable law, including mandatory consumer rights in your country of residence.

Subject to that:

• The free, editorial part of this library is provided "as is" for general information; we accept no liability for decisions taken on the basis of free content (see "Accuracy and verification" above).
• For paid Products, our total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with a Product is limited to the amount you paid for that Product.
• We are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, including lost profits, lost contracts, audit or certification outcomes, or regulatory penalties, arising from the use of a Product.
• These terms, and any dispute arising from the use of this site or the licence of a Product, are governed by the laws of the Republic of Türkiye, without prejudice to mandatory consumer protection provisions of the country where you habitually reside. (Your purchase contract with Paddle is governed by Paddle's own terms.)

Intellectual property

The text, organisation and presentation of this library are the publisher's own work unless stated otherwise. The standards, schemes, laws and registers this library describes remain the property of the bodies that publish them; this library links to and cites those sources rather than reproducing them.

External links

Every record links to the official source it was checked against. Those sources are operated by third parties the publisher does not control; the publisher is not responsible for their content or availability.

Changes to these terms

These terms may be updated as the site or the publisher's legal review develops. The date at the top of this page reflects the last change.