Global Nature Watch AI Terms of Use

Last Updated: September 17, 2025

PLEASE READ THESE AI TERMS CAREFULLY. THESE AI TERMS SUPPLEMENT OUR GENERAL TERMS OF USE, WHICH CONTAINS A BINDING ARBITRATION AGREEMENT, LIMITS YOUR RIGHTS TO BRING AN ACTION IN COURT, BRING A CLASS ACTION, AND HAVE DISPUTES DECIDED BY A JUDGE OR JURY, AS WELL AS PROVISIONS THAT LIMIT OUR LIABILITY TO YOU. Where there is a conflict between these AI Terms and the General Terms of Use, these AI Terms will govern.

BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SERVICES YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE AI TERMS AND THE GENERAL TERMS OF USE AND RECOGNIZE THAT YOU MAY BE WAIVING CERTAIN RIGHTS. IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO AGREE TO THESE AI TERMS, OR THE GENERAL TERMS OF USE YOU MUST NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICES.

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The following Global Nature Watch AI Terms of Use (the “AI Terms”), govern the Global Nature Watch AI tool, which is an online platform that utilizes artificial intelligence technology to process and analyze forest monitoring data based on user queries in a chat style interface to deliver requested outputs (the “AI Tool”), the creation and use of WRI user account to facilitate use of the AI Tool, and other services where these AI Terms are posted (collectively, the “Services”) that are owned and operated by World Resources Institute (“WRI,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). The Services help users gather information that is essential to making informed decisions about how to manage and protect forests, as well as holding governments and companies accountable for their impacts on forests. We’re excited for you to use the Service and help shape the future of geospatial monitoring.

If you use or access our other platforms or services, additional terms may apply such as our Terms of Service – WRI Data Platforms.

1. Use of the Services

The Services may allow you to access certain features of the AI Tool or create an Account (defined below) with us. If you are using the Services, you hereby certify that you are (i) over the age of eighteen (18), and are (ii) if you are creating an Account, you are physically located or are a resident of the jurisdiction you select as your “country.”

2. Changes to the Services

We may make improvements and/or changes to Services, add new features, or terminate the Services at any time without notice. We also: (i) reserve the right to change the Services at any time without any notice or liability to you or any other person; (ii) do not warrant that information on the Services is accurate, complete, reliable, current or error-free; and (iii) reserve the right to modify, cancel, or terminate Services for any other reason in our sole discretion. Some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusions and disclaimers of certain implied warranties, so some of the provisions of this section may not apply to you. Unless otherwise indicated, Services are intended for end use in the United States and are not labeled or intended for international distribution.

3. Your Authorized Use of the Services

A. While using the Services, you are required to comply with all applicable statutes, orders, regulations, rules and other laws. You may not use the Services for any fraudulent or unlawful purpose, and you may not take any action to interfere with the Services or any other party’s use of the Services. In addition, we expect users of the Services to respect the rights and dignity of others. For example, you may not do any of the following:

i. Input, upload, share, transmit, distribute, facilitate distribution of or otherwise make available to or through the Services any content that is unlawful, harmful, harassing, defamatory, threatening, intimidating, fraudulent, tortious, vulgar, obscene, hateful, pornographic, spam, discriminatory, violative of privacy or publicity rights, infringing of intellectual property or other proprietary rights, or otherwise objectionable in our sole discretion, including unauthorized or unsolicited advertising;

ii. Input in the AI Tool any personal or sensitive personal information about yourself or third parties, such as name, email address, social security, credit card or bank account numbers, health or medical information, or other information that could be reasonably identified to an individual;

iii. Reproduce, duplicate, copy, publicly display, frame, mirror, sell, resell or otherwise exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of, use of, or access to the Services;

iv. Impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity in connection with the Services, or express or imply that we endorse any statement you make;

v. Violate, or attempt to violate, the security of the Services;

vi. Disseminate on the Services any viruses, worms, spyware, adware, or other malicious computer code, file or program that is harmful or invasive or is intended to damage or hijack the operation of, or monitor the use of, any hardware, software or equipment;

vii. Reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, or otherwise attempt to derive the method of operation of the Services;

viii. Build a competitive product or service using the Services, build a product or service using similar ideas, features, functions, or graphics as the Services or determine whether the Services are within the scope of any patent;

ix. Interfere in any manner with the operation or hosting of the Services or monitor the availability, performance, or functionality of the Services;

x. Deep link to the Services for any purpose or frame the Services, place pop-up windows over any content, or otherwise affect the display of the Services;

xi. Use any data mining, bots, spiders, automated tools or similar data gathering and extraction methods, directly or indirectly, on the Services or to collect any information from the Services or any other user of the Services; or

xii. Assist or permit any third-parties in violating these AI Terms or other applicable laws or rules governing the use of the Services.

B. Linking: You are granted a limited, non-exclusive right to create text hyperlinks to the Services for informational purposes, provided such links do not portray us in a false, misleading, derogatory or otherwise defamatory manner and provided that the linking Site does not contain any material that is unlawful, harmful, harassing, defamatory, threatening, intimidating, fraudulent, tortious, vulgar, obscene, hateful, pornographic, spam, discriminatory, violative of privacy or publicity rights, infringing of intellectual property or other proprietary rights, or otherwise objectionable in our sole discretion, including unauthorized or unsolicited advertising. Additionally, notwithstanding the foregoing, and subject to compliance with any instructions posted in the robots.txt file located in the Services’ root directory, we grant to the operators of public search engines permission to use spiders to copy Content from the Site for the sole purpose of (and solely to the extent necessary for) creating publicly available, searchable indices of such Content, but not caches or archives of such Content. We may revoke these permissions at any time.

4. Accounts

A. The Services allow you to register and create an online account to access certain features of the AI Tool (an “Account”). Our practices governing any resulting collection, use, disclosure and management of your personal information are disclosed in our Privacy Policy and Global Nature Watch AI Privacy Notice. If you are under the age of eighteen (18), then you are not permitted to create an Account.

B. In general, you are not obligated to register for an Account in order to access the Services. However, certain sections and features of some of the Services are available only to users who have registered for an Account. We may reject, and you may not use, a user ID (or e-mail address) for any reason at our sole discretion. For example, we may reject a user ID (or e-mail address) that is already being used by someone else; that may be construed as impersonating another person; that belongs to another person; that violates the intellectual property or other rights of any person; or that is offensive. You may only have one active Account at any given time and you may not allow other people to use your Account to access the Services or participate in Services. WRI reserves the right to reject any account registration request, for any reason or no reason at all, in its sole discretion.

C. If you are a Registered User, we expect you to accurately maintain and update any information about yourself that you have provided to us.

D. You agree that you are responsible for all activities under your Account, and for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and restricting access to your computer so others may not access the Services in violation of these AI Terms. In addition, you agree to sign out from your Account at the end of each session if you are using a device that is shared with other people.

E. You agree to notify us of any unauthorized use of your username, password or any other breach of security that you become aware of involving or relating to the Services by contacting us as soon as possible. We reserve the right to take any and all actions we deem necessary or reasonable to maintain the security of our Services and your Account, including without limitation, terminating your Account, changing your password or requesting information to authorize transactions on your Account. WE EXPLICITLY DISCLAIM LIABILITY FOR ANY AND ALL LOSSES AND DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THIS SECTION.

F. We will not be liable for any loss or damage (of any kind and under any legal theory) to you or any third party arising from your inability or failure for any reason to comply with any of the foregoing obligations.

5. Interactive Chats and Chatbots

A. Some of our Services may have chat, live support, instant messaging, or similar functionality to serve you better (“Chats”). If you are signed in to an Account while using a Chat, the Chat may link the Account information with you or the Chat interaction. You may not impersonate or attempt to gain information regarding another individual via a Chat. Information provided via a Chat may be inaccurate, and Chats may not always be available or error-free. Chats may be provided by third parties, and you may be entering into a contractual agreement with those third parties when you use the Chat.

B. Chats may use interactive, automated computer programs and similar technologies to provide customer service via the Chat (“Chatbots”). Chatbots often work by using “natural language processing” technology to understand your questions and inputs and respond to them with relevant information or follow-up inquiries. Our Chatbots typically identify that you are interacting with a computer program and not a human, by setting up the Chat in such a way that it's apparent that a Chatbot is used. Chatbots use technology may respond to your inputs without human intervention. Although Chatbots are automated, your inputs and responses may be viewed and accessed by our real people, possibly in real time. Information collected via Chats is subject to our Privacy Policy and Global Nature Watch AI Privacy Notice. Be aware that communications may be monitored for quality assurance and other purposes. All information you provide to us for purposes of support is considered User Content.

6. Availability of Services and Content

The World Research Institute may immediately suspend or terminate the availability of the Service and Content (and any elements and features of them), in whole or in part, for any reason, in the World Research Institute's sole discretion, and without advance notice or liability. Without limiting the foregoing, if you take any action that the World Research Institute reasonably believes violates the foregoing Service and Content use restrictions (including by disclosing the names of any individuals associated with the Service or Content), then we may take any legally available action that we deem appropriate, in our sole discretion. However, we are not obligated to take any action not required by applicable law.

A. When you use the Services or send communications to us through the Services, you are communicating with us electronically. You consent to receive electronically any communications related to your use of the Services. We may communicate with you by email or by posting notices on the Site. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that are provided to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. All notices from us intended for receipt by you shall be deemed delivered and effective when sent to the email address you provide to us. Please note that by submitting User Content, creating an Account, or otherwise providing us with your contact information, you are agreeing that we or our agents may contact you in a manner consistent with our Privacy Policy and Global Nature Watch AI Privacy Notice.

B. Transmitting information electronically has the inherent risk of a third-party’s unauthorized access. By using the Services and providing us with information, you acknowledge that you are aware of and accept this risk.

8. Content Submitted By You

A. You are prohibited from entering any personal information or sensitive personal information as an input into the AI Tool.

B. You are responsible for any information, text, materials or content that you input into the Services, or otherwise transmit to us through our Services (“User Content”). You agree, represent and warrant that any User Content you transmit through our Services is truthful, accurate, not misleading and offered in good faith, and that you have the right to transmit such User Content. You shall not upload or otherwise make available on or through the Services any User Content that is protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right of any third party without the express written permission of the owner of such right(s). You shall be solely liable for any damages resulting from any infringement of copyright, trademark, proprietary rights, or any other harm resulting from such User Content. Additionally, uploading or providing information to use through the Services does not create a doctor-patient relationship.

C. By submitting User Content to us, you grant to us (or warrant that the owner of such information and material has expressly granted to us) a royalty-free, perpetual, sublicensable, irrevocable, and unrestricted right and license: (a) to use, reproduce, display, modify, adapt, publish, perform, translate, transmit and distribute or otherwise make available to others such User Content (in whole or in part and for any purpose) worldwide; (b) to incorporate such User Content in other works in any form, media, product, service or technology now known or hereafter developed for any purpose, including sale, manufacture or advertising (and to exercise all intellectual property rights associated with such products or other works); and (c) to use your name, screen name, location, photograph, avatar, image, voice, likeness and biographical information provided in connection with the User Content in any and all media and for advertising or promotional purposes. Additionally, you irrevocably waive any “moral rights” or other rights with respect to attribution of authorship or integrity of your User Content that you may have under any applicable law or legal theory. Notwithstanding the foregoing, please note that any personal information you submit to us as part of the account creation process or through your use of the Services will be handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy and Global Nature Watch AI Privacy Notice.

D. PLEASE DO NOT POST OR SEND US ANY USER CONTENT, IDEAS, SUGGESTIONS, OR OTHER USER CONTENT THAT YOU WISH TO KEEP PRIVATE OR PROPRIETARY OR FOR WHICH YOU EXPECT TO RECEIVE COMPENSATION. By sending any ideas, concepts, know-how, proposals, techniques, suggestions or other User Content to us, you agree that: (i) we are free to use such User Content for any purpose, (ii) such User Content will be deemed not to be confidential or proprietary (iii) we may have something similar already under consideration or in development, and (iv) you are not entitled to any compensation or reimbursement of any kind from us under any circumstances unless otherwise expressly agreed in writing by us. Be aware that we have no obligation to keep User Content confidential unless explicitly stated.

9. Notices, Questions and Customer Service

A. You agree that: (1) we may give you notices of new, revised or changed terms and other important matters by prominently posting notice on the home page of the Service, or in another reasonable manner; and (2) we may contact you by mail or email sent to the addresses provided by you. You agree to promptly notify us if you change your email or mailing address.

B. If you have a question regarding using the Service, you may contact WRI by sending an email to [email protected]. You acknowledge that the provision of customer support is at WRI 's sole discretion and that we have no obligation to provide you with customer support of any kind.

C. All legal notices to us must be sent to our contact information available here:

Address: World Resources Institute Attn: DMCA Designated Agent/LEGAL 10 G Street, NW Suite 800 Washington, DC 20002 mail: [email protected]

10. Updates to Terms

We reserve the right to revise and update these AI Terms at WRI’s sole discretion. All changes are effective immediately when we post the revisions. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of revised Ai Terms means that you accept and agree to the changes. You are responsible for periodically reviewing these AI Terms.

As to any provision in these AI Terms, or applicable additional terms, that grants WRI a right of consent or approval, or permits WRI to exercise a right in its "sole discretion," WRI may exercise that right in its sole and absolute discretion. No WRI consent or approval may be deemed to have been granted by WRI without being in writing and signed by an officer of WRI.

12. Operation of Service; Availability of Products and Services; International Issues

WRI controls and operates the Service from its U.S.-based offices in the U.S.A., and WRI makes no representation that the Service is appropriate or available for use in every jurisdiction. We reserve the right to limit the availability of the Service and/or the provision of any content, program, product, service, or other feature described or available on the Service to any person, entity, geographic area, or jurisdiction, at any time and in our sole discretion, and to limit the volume of inputs or outputs provided by the AI Tool.

13. Investigations; Cooperation With Law Enforcement; Termination; Survival

A. You agree that WRI shall, as permitted by applicable law, have the right, without limitation and without any obligation, to:

i. investigate any suspected breaches of its Service security or its information technology or other systems or networks,

ii. investigate any suspected breaches of these AI Terms and any applicable additional terms or any potential harm to our users or third parties,

iii. use any information obtained by WRI in accordance with its Privacy Policy in connection with reviewing law enforcement databases or complying with applicable laws and use and/or disclose any information obtained by WRI to comply with law enforcement requests or legal requirements in accordance with our Privacy Policy and Global Nature Watch AI Privacy Notice,

iv. involve and cooperate with law enforcement authorities in connection with any of the foregoing matters,

v. prosecute violators of these AI Terms and any applicable additional terms, and

vi. discontinue the Service, in whole or in part, or, except as may be expressly set forth in any applicable additional terms, suspend or terminate your access to it, in whole or in part, including any user Accounts or registrations, at any time, without notice, for any reason and without any obligation to you or any third party.

B. Any suspension or termination will not affect your obligations to WRI under these AI Terms or any applicable additional terms. Upon suspension or termination of your access to the Service, or upon notice from WRI, all rights granted to you under these AI Terms or any additional terms will cease immediately, and you agree that you will immediately discontinue use of the Service. The provisions of these AI Terms, the General Terms of Use, and any applicable additional terms, which by their nature should survive your suspension or termination will survive, including the rights and licenses you grant to WRI in these AI Terms, as well as the indemnities, releases, disclaimers, and limitations on liability and the provisions regarding jurisdiction, choice of law, no class action, jury waiver, and mandatory arbitration.

14. Miscellaneous

A. If any provision of these AI Terms is invalid, illegal, or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, such invalidity, illegality, or unenforceability will not affect any other term or provision of these AI Terms or invalidate or render unenforceable such term or provision in any other jurisdiction.

B. No waiver by WRI of any of the provisions hereof will be effective unless explicitly set forth in writing and signed by WRI so waiving. Except as otherwise set forth in these AI Terms, (i) no failure to exercise, or delay in exercising or enforcing, any rights, remedy, power, or privilege arising from these AI Terms will operate or be construed as a waiver thereof, and (ii) no single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power, or privilege hereunder will preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power, or privilege.

C. The AI Terms are to be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of Delaware without giving effect to any choice of law rule that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the laws of the State of Delaware to the rights and duties of you and us. Any dispute, claim, or controversy between you and WRI regarding, arising out of or relating to any aspect of these AI Terms, whether based in contract, statute, regulation, ordinance, tort (including, but not limited to, fraud, misrepresentation, fraudulent inducement, or negligence), including the validity, enforceability or scope of these Terms shall be brought only in state or federal court located in Washington, DC, and such, you hereby irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of these courts and waive the defense of inconvenient forum except where prohibited by law.

D. These AI Terms and the General Terms of Use, together with any additional terms are the entire agreement between you and us, regarding the Services.

E. In the event of any discrepancy or inconsistency between the English version of these AI Terms and any terms provided in any other language(s), the English version shall prevail.

15. Contact Us

Please see our contact information here: https://www.wri.org/about/contact.

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