Disclosure type: Using Existing Verified Provider

Verification basis: We use/resell a provider that is already verified by the Green Web Foundation

This disclosure type refers to organisations who rely on another verified provider, either through a reseller, colocation, or other agreement.

What disclosures are required for verification?

To be verified based on your organisation’s use of another existing verified provider, you must:

1. Share a public statement from your organisation stating your commitment to achieving 100% hourly fossil-free energy use by 2030, for every region in which you operate. This statement should also include information about the hosting infrastructure you currently use. We have prepared this template to help you get started.
2. Disclosures that you have an active commercial relationship with them – Share a recent invoice, contract, or similar documents. This can be uploaded as a private item of disclosures. Sensitive information in these documents can be blacked out.

Public disclosure of provider relationships

Hosting providers who want to be verified based on their use of another verified provider (for example resellers, or providers who use colocation) will need to agree to the public disclosure of their relationship with other verified providers both in our Dataset and associated tools.

Transparency of disclosures

We require all providers seeking verification to share a public statement regarding their commitment to achieving 100% hourly fossil-free energy use by 2030, for every region in which they operate. 

All other disclosures that are shared for the purposes of verification in the Green Web Dataset can be shared as either public or private items of disclosures.

• Public disclosures – These disclosures are made available whenever a provider’s listing is queried through our Green Web Check, Hosting Directory and provider pages, or via our API.
• Private disclosures – These disclosures are securely stored on our servers, and are not made available for public access. These items of disclosures can only be accessed from within Provider Portal by users with access to the specific provider for which the disclosures has been uploaded to, and by Green Web Foundation staff for the purposes of verification checks.

Our Privacy Policy contains details about how our data is stored and processed.

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