Sedex certification consultation——Sedex certification data acquisition

1. Sedex certified member suppliers will do their best to ensure the accuracy (according to Guideline 5.7) and up-to-dateness of the data they upload to their website. However, members should acknowledge that the right to access data is granted on the premise that there is no fraud or illegal behavior, and the member supplier who provides the data or grants the member the right to access the data will not be responsible for the inaccuracy, error or negligence of the data (whether contractual liability or tort liability).
2. Member suppliers will manage the access to the data they upload to their website. Class A and Class AB members are not eligible to access the data of a member supplier without the written or electronic approval document of the member supplier.
3. If the member supplier grants access to their data as provided above, the A and AB members may use and analyze this data for the sole purpose of assessing compliance with their labor and other standards and promoting the achievement of their objectives. Members must keep confidential all information downloaded from the website (except for trading companies within their corporate group that have a legitimate need to know the information) and must not disclose the information to any other party.
4. Among the members, any intellectual property rights in the data belong to the member who provided the data.
5. The data will be in the form of a questionnaire, audit report, audit report summary and action plan. Member suppliers will ensure that the source of the data is clearly defined, for example, whether the data is provided by a member supplier, a production site or a third party .
6. Members who are granted access to the websites cannot directly enter data on those websites, nor can they amend, modify or delete any data.
7. No Director, Advisory Board Member or Officer, or SEDEX Employee, shall have access to the Website or the Data on the Website without the written or electronic consent of each Member Supplier. If the Board or Advisory Board is considering a complaint against a Member, a decision to expel a Member, or any appeal from a Member, and all related matters, it is necessary for the Board or (as the case may be) the Advisory Board to view the Data on the Member's Website, and the Member will grant the Board or (as the case may be) the Advisory Board the right to access and view the Data, provided that the Board or Advisory Board members who view the Data undertake to the Member to keep the Data confidential and not to use the Data for any purpose other than the purpose for which the right to access the Data was granted. In the case of a complaint, the Board may appoint a person it deems appropriate to assume the responsibility for considering and/or deciding the complaint in the manner it deems appropriate, in which case the Board will not be granted any right to access any Data.
8. Directors of the Board of Directors, Advisory Committee Members or Officers, SEDEX employees and Members will have access to data in an anonymised state, but this data will not be accessible when it is possible to trace back to which Member is the source of the data.

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