Custom Research Terms

Passport Custom Research is a focused, timely, and cost-effective solution to your international business research needs. We deploy our global network of credentialed journalists to find authoritative answers to your urgent questions. The result is greater business certainty, at a speed and cost that beats the competition.

Terms:

GlobalPost retains ownership of the underlying reporting involved in all research projects. Such information may be used in other GlobalPost content but will be embargoed from any such publication for at least two weeks from the date the report is delivered to the client. The only exception to this rule is when information uncovered in the course of the research is deemed by GlobalPost to have significant news value that compels public disclosure.

GlobalPost Passport will deliver reports in final form for the exclusive use of its client. Requests for changes, edits or suppression will be honored at the sole discretion of GlobalPost Passport.

Any distribution or representation of GlobalPost Passport research must include proper attribution.

GlobalPost requires 50% payment before work can begin and 50% upon delivery of the final report.

GlobalPost Passport Custom Research is licensed in good faith and we strive to ensure that our research meets the highest journalistic standards. However, we make no claim that the resulting work is free of error or is suitable for any particular purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, GlobalPost specifically disclaims all other warranties (express or implied) including but not limited to any implied warranty of quality or fitness for any particular purpose.

GlobalPost will not be liable to the Customer or to any other person for the consequences of any decision or action taken in reliance on the research provided by us.

All communications between GlobalPost and Customer shall be treated as confidential information not to be disclosed except as specified in the engagement letter.

Copyright to the custom research is reserved to GlobalPost. Client may copy or distribute the work as outlined in the engagement letter but the work should not be published or exploited for any purpose without the express written permission of GlobalPost. All trade names, trademarks and logos are proprietary trademarks of their respective owners and are protected by applicable trademark and copyright laws.

Any agreement between GlobalPost and Customer shall take effect under, and its terms shall be interpreted in accordance with the Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the United States of America.