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This article is for Disclosers and explains how CDP shares your questionnaire response data and score(s), depending on your response privacy selection and the types of requests you receive.

CDP treats response privacy and score privacy separately. A response is the information you submit through the CDP questionnaire in the Portal. A score is the letter grade assigned by CDP based on your disclosure.

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Response privacy for all Disclosers

When submitting a questionnaire response, all Disclosers can choose whether their response is public or non-public:

  • Public response: Your response data will be shared with your Requesters and may also be made available to CDP’s data users, including investor research firms, rating organizations, and other permitted recipients. For more information, please refer to Section 7 of ourTerms of Disclosure.

  • Non-public response: Your response data will be available to your Requesters, but will not be publicly accessible, except as described in our Terms of Disclosure. CDP may share your response data with other ‘Permitted Recipients’ for specific purposes, such as scoring your response. CDP may also use your data in aggregated or anonymized form in reports or other deliverables. For more information, please refer to Section 8 of ourTerms of Disclosure.

To learn more about how CDP may use your response data based on your privacy selection, please refer to Sections 6, 7, and 8 of our Terms of Disclosure.

For guidance on selecting your response privacy option, please see our article on submitting and editing your questionnaire response.

Note: To be eligible for an ‘A-’ or ‘A’ score, organizations must submit a public response in accordance with CDP's Essential Criteria.

Score privacy for Disclosers requested by Capital Markets Signatories

All Disclosers requested to disclose by CDP’s Capital Market Signatories receive a public score, regardless of the response privacy option selected when submitting their questionnaire response. This also applies to Self-Selected Companies that response to the 'CDP Capital Markets – Self-Selected Companies' request. Public scores are available on CDP's corporate scores webpage.


Environmental issue-specific scoring

If you receive a Capital Markets request for Climate Change but you:

  • Are assigned another environmental issue through a customer request only, your score for that issue will remain private (seesection below).

  • Are assigned another environmental issue based on your CDP-ACS activities or CDP’s assessment of issue relevance, your score for that issue will be made public in accordance with the Capital Market score publication rules.


First-year private score option

If you should receive a public score but are responding to CDP on an environmental issue (Climate Change, Forests, or Water Security) for the first time, you may request that your score remain private for your first reporting year.

To discuss this option, please raise a case using the ‘Contact Support’ button at the end of this article, or if you are raising this case directly from the My Support page in our Help Center, please select the category ‘Score related Support’ and subcategory ‘Score Privacy (Public/Non-Public)’ to ensure it goes to the right team. For any guidance on raising a support case or creating a Help Center account please refer to our How to raise a case in the CDP Help Center article.

Note: Private scores are still shared with your requesting customers.

Important: Scores for organizations based in India are subject to specific conditions. Please refer to Section 13 of the Terms and Conditions for more information.

Score privacy for Disclosers requested only by Supply Chain Members and/or other Requesters

If you are not requested by CDP Capital Markets Signatories and are requested only by a Supply Chain Member, a Bank, RE100, or other Requesters, your score(s) will remain private regardless of whether your submit a public or non-public response. Private scores will be shared with your Requesters but are not made publicly available. However, organizations that receive an A score will have that score publicly available automatically. For more information, please refer to our Terms of Disclosure.


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