ICIS Terms and Conditions – Use cases

Use Case Name	Description
Audit and Compliance	The use of ICIS data to ensure adherence to regulatory and corporate guidelines
Benchmarking	The use of ICIS data to measure performance of teams, assets and businesses against market reported data points.
Contract Negotiations	The use of ICIS data to conduct cost-price analysis, identify negotiation points, and justify contractual positions but not to be shared with contracting parties
Derivative Trading / Hedging	The use of ICIS data to formulate a trading and hedging strategy (typically trading SWAPS, futures and options).
External Reporting	The graphical presentation of insubstantial portions of ICIS data in reports, documents, charts and tables to be distributed externally on an occasional basis. A full copyright notice and disclaimer referring to ICIS as the source of the data is to be applied under each chart/table.
Financial and Business Modelling	The use of ICIS data to construct a numerical representation of business scenarios to implement a financial and business model.
Financial Planning and Reporting	The use of ICIS data to formulate internal budgets, forecasting and targets, develop business plans, and attribute a fair value to assets, liabilities and trades for such purposes.
Internal Transfer Pricing	The use of ICIS data to determine a fair price of goods/services supplied between affiliated legal entities within a group of companies.
Investment Strategy	The use of ICIS data to analyse investment opportunities. This includes the evaluation of value, income, and risk of the intended investment.
Invoicing/Settlement	The use of ICIS data to produce, check, and validate settlement of invoices or payments in connection with contracts.
Market Analysis	The use of ICIS data to identify key market trends, market capacity, market size, market share, commercial opportunities and competition analysis.
Operational Scheduling	The use of ICIS data to arrange, control and optimize workloads in a business process.
Risk Management	The use of ICIS data to identify, analyse and mitigate uncertainty in business, financial and legal decisions.
Trade Finance	The use of ICIS data to justify lending, issuing letters of credit, export credit, and insurance.
Trading with Settlement	The use of ICIS data to conduct settlements in physical or cash settled contracts. This includes using ICIS data to produce, check, and validate settlement of invoices or payments in connection with contracts. This excludes trading for hedging or risk management purposes.
Valuations	The use of ICIS data to attribute a fair value to assets and liabilities, conduct mark-to-market analysis.

Sustainability Use Cases

The below Use Cases apply only to the ICIS & Carbon Minds Supplier Carbon Footprints product

Use Case Name	Description
Scope 3 emissions reporting	Authorised Users may use Licensed Content for Scope 3 carbon emission reporting. Derived Data may be created for this purpose provided the Customer’s carbon emissions footprint is detailed only on a company wide basis. ICIS/Carbon Minds must be attributed as a source of the Derived Data where it is shared externally.
Supply Chain – Carbon Reduction	Authorised Users may use Licensed Content to identify supply chain possibilities for carbon reduction. Derived Data may be created for this purpose presenting graphically the Licensed Content for internal use only.
Emissions Baseline/Target Setting	Authorised Users may use Licensed Content to set a baseline and target for carbon emissions reductions. Derived Data may be created for this purpose detailing the Customer’s carbon emissions baseline and target. ICIS/Carbon Minds must be attributed as a source of the Derived Data where it is shared externally.
Carbon Footprint – Own Products	Authorised Users may use Licensed Content to produce a carbon footprint for the Customer’s products. Derived Data may be created for this purpose detailing the carbon footprint for the Customer’s products. ICIS/Carbon Minds must be attributed as a source of the Derived Data where it is shared externally.
Benchmarking	Authorised Users may use Licensed Content for benchmarking Customer’s production processes and its carbon emissions. Derived Data may be created for this purpose presenting graphically the Licensed Content for internal use only.

Last reviewed: April 2022