1. Who we are and what these terms cover
Front Carbon CCS Map (the “Service”) is operated by Front Solutions AS, organisation number 933 375 250, a company registered in Norway, with registered address Agnes torg 18, 3290 Stavern (“Front Solutions”, “we”, “us”, “our”). Contact: post@frontcarbon.com.
These Terms of Use (the “Terms”) govern your access to and use of the Service, including the map application at map.frontcarbon.com and all related features, data, and content. By creating an account, subscribing, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
These Terms apply together with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we process personal data.
2. Who the Service is for
The Service is available to both business and individual (consumer) subscribers. If you use the Service for purposes relating to your trade, business, profession, or craft, you are a business user. If you subscribe as a private individual outside such purposes, you are a consumer: the consumer provisions in section 16 apply to you, and the clauses below are read subject to mandatory consumer-protection law. Where you act for an organisation, you confirm that you are authorised to bind it.
3. The Service and the nature of the data
The Service presents a curated, systematised view of publicly available information about CO₂ point emitters and carbon capture and storage (CCS) infrastructure across Europe, assembled from third-party public sources. What we provide is the assembly, normalisation, linking, geocoding, and presentation of this information; we do not own the underlying public data.
You acknowledge and agree that:
- The data is compiled from third-party public sources (including, without limitation, the EU Transaction Log / EUETS.INFO, UK ETS, national environmental registers, and published industry datasets), which we do not control and cannot guarantee.
- The data is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, for general information and decision-support purposes only.
- We do not warrant, and expressly disclaim any warranty, that the data is accurate, complete, current, error-free, or fit for any particular purpose.
- Coordinates may be indicative rather than exact (for example, offshore sites may be shown as licence-area centroids, not precise injection points), and emissions figures, capacities, statuses, and links between facilities may be incomplete, estimated, or out of date.
- Descriptions, summaries, and enrichment are curated and compiled from public sources; they are informational only, may contain errors, and must not be relied upon as verified fact.
3a. No reliance; your own due diligence
The Service is a decision-support and information tool. It is not, and must not be relied upon as, professional, investment, engineering, legal, regulatory, financial, or technical advice. You are solely responsible for independently verifying any information before relying on it, and for any decision you make based on the Service. You should confirm critical figures against the original sources and obtain qualified professional advice where appropriate.
4. Accounts
You must provide accurate registration information and keep your credentials confidential. You are responsible for all activity under your account. You must be at least 18 years old and authorised to enter into these Terms (including on behalf of any organisation you represent). Notify us promptly of any unauthorised use.
5. Access tiers, subscriptions, payment, and access
The Service may be offered with a free tier and one or more paid tiers; some features and regions require a paid subscription. Subscriptions, payments, renewals, invoicing, and cancellations are handled by our payment processor, Stripe, and are subject to Stripe’s terms. Paid access is granted per entitled region and is recurring (auto-renewing) until cancelled. Prices are shown at checkout and include any applicable VAT/MVA where required. We may change prices on prospective renewal with reasonable notice. You can manage or cancel your subscription through the customer portal; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid period unless stated otherwise. Except where mandatory law provides otherwise (including any consumer withdrawal right under section 16), fees already paid are non-refundable.
6. Permitted use and the restrictions that protect the Service
Subject to these Terms and an active subscription (where required for the relevant features), we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to access and use the Service for your own internal business or personal purposes.
You must not, and must not permit any third party to:
- resell, sublicense, redistribute, publish, or otherwise make the Service or its data available to anyone who is not an authorised user under your subscription;
- perform bulk extraction, systematic downloading, scraping, crawling, or harvesting of the data, or use any automated means to access the Service, except features we expressly provide for export;
- use the data to build, train, or populate a competing product, dataset, or database, or to reconstruct a substantial part of our compilation;
- circumvent, disable, or interfere with any access control, rate limit, security, or entitlement mechanism;
- share account credentials or allow access by users outside your subscription;
- remove or obscure any source attribution, notice, or labelling.
The value of the Service is the compilation and presentation; these restrictions protect that. We may suspend or terminate access for breach, including suspected sharing, scraping, or bulk extraction.
7. Intellectual property and database rights
The underlying public data originates from third-party sources and remains subject to those sources’ rights. The compilation, structure, selection, arrangement, normalisation, linking, geocoding, curated descriptions, software, design, and presentation of the Service are owned by Front Solutions or its licensors and are protected by applicable law.
In particular, the Service constitutes a database in which we hold the sui generis database right under the EU Database Directive (96/9/EC) as implemented in Norway in the Copyright Act (åndsverkloven § 24), reflecting our substantial investment in obtaining, verifying, and presenting the contents. You must not extract or re-utilise the whole or a substantial part of the database. Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership to you.
8. Availability
We aim for high availability but do not guarantee that the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free. We may modify, suspend, or discontinue features, and perform maintenance, at our discretion.
9. Disclaimer of warranties
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Service and all data and content are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including any implied warranties of accuracy, completeness, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. Where you are a consumer, your mandatory rights under applicable law are not affected.
10. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law:
- We are not liable for any decision made, or action taken or not taken, in reliance on the Service or its data, nor for any inaccuracy, incompleteness, or outdatedness of the data.
- We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, revenue, data, business, or goodwill.
- Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Service and these Terms is limited to the amounts you paid to us for the Service in the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including liability for gross negligence (grov uaktsomhet) or wilful misconduct (forsett), for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or any non-waivable rights you have as a consumer or under other mandatory law.
11. Indemnity
If you use the Service for business purposes, you agree to indemnify and hold Front Solutions harmless from third-party claims arising out of your breach of these Terms or your misuse of the Service. This indemnity applies to business users only and does not apply to consumers.
12. Suspension and termination
We may suspend or terminate your access for breach of these Terms or non-payment. You may stop using the Service at any time and cancel your subscription as described above. Clauses that by their nature should survive termination (including sections 3, 3a, 7, 9, 10, 11, 14, and 15) survive.
13. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of Norway, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Disputes are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Norwegian courts, with Oslo tingrett as legal venue, except where mandatory consumer-protection law gives a consumer the right to bring or defend proceedings in another forum (typically their country of residence).
14. General
- Force majeure — we are not liable for failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control.
- Assignment — we may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, or reorganisation; you may not assign without our prior written consent.
- Entire agreement — these Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service.
- Severability — if any provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions stay in effect.
- No waiver — failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.
- Notices — notices to us may be sent to post@frontcarbon.com.
- Order of precedence — these Terms prevail over conflicting in-product text, except that the Privacy Policy governs personal-data matters.
15. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms. We will post the updated version with a new “last updated” date and, for material changes, provide reasonable notice. Continued use after changes take effect constitutes acceptance.
16. Consumers
If you subscribe as a consumer (a private individual acting outside your trade, business, or profession), the following applies in addition to the clauses above:
- Right of withdrawal. You have a 14-day right of withdrawal under the Norwegian Right of Withdrawal Act (angrerettloven), counted from the day you subscribe.
- Immediate access. Your subscription is an ongoing digital service that starts immediately. At checkout you expressly request that the service begins during the withdrawal period. If you then withdraw within the 14 days, you remain entitled to do so, but you must pay a proportionate amount for the service delivered up to the point you notified us of the withdrawal.
- How to withdraw. The statutory withdrawal information and the model withdrawal form are available at frontcarbon.com/legal/ccs-map/withdrawal and are presented before you complete a purchase. You may also withdraw by emailing post@frontcarbon.com.
- Liability and indemnity. The limitation of liability (section 10) and the indemnity (section 11) apply to you only to the extent permitted against consumers; your mandatory consumer rights are not affected.
17. Contact
Front Solutions AS, Agnes torg 18, 3290 Stavern · post@frontcarbon.com · organisation number 933 375 250.