Website terms of use and calculator disclaimer

Website terms, last updated 14 October 2026. The English version is authoritative.

1. Who we are

The website lodemark.eu is run by the operator named in the legal notice ("Lodemark", "we"). You can reach us at the email address given there.

2. What these terms cover

These terms apply to your use of the website lodemark.eu, including the calculator and the rule pages (together, the "Site"). They do not apply to a pilot or any other service we provide under a signed agreement; that agreement governs it.

Joining the early list creates no contract and no obligation for you or for us.

By using the Site you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the Site. If you use the Site on behalf of a company, you confirm that you may accept these terms for it.

3. Information, not advice

3.1 The Site explains rules on the European content of defence products and on the control of the companies that supply them, under instruments such as the SAFE Regulation (Council Regulation (EU) 2025/1106), the EDIP Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2025/2643), the Ukraine Support Loan (Regulation (EU) 2026/467) and the EU-Canada SAFE agreement. We cite the official texts and link to them where we can.

3.2 Nothing on the Site is legal advice, a legal opinion, a certification, or a decision on eligibility or qualification under any rule. Only the contracting authority or funding body decides eligibility. You alone are responsible for any declaration you make to an authority, funding body, customer or auditor.

3.3 Rule texts change, and official bodies may issue guidance we have not seen. A result names the rule text it uses and the date of that text. The rules shown have not yet been reviewed by an independent legal expert unless the page says so.

3.4 Some content is drafted with the help of AI tools. A named person reviews and approves every page and every rule text before publication and holds editorial responsibility for it; errors are still possible. If you find one, please tell us by email.

3.5 No reliance, no relationship. The Site is general information for businesses. It does not take your circumstances into account, and nothing on it is a recommendation to bid, declare, buy or sell anything. Using the Site creates no client, adviser, fiduciary or other professional relationship between you and Lodemark. If you need advice on your own situation, obtain it from a qualified adviser and from the authority or funding body concerned.

3.6 No duty to update. We check the rule texts on the dates shown and we try to keep the Site current, but we have no duty to update any page or result, to notify you of changes in the law or in official guidance, or to correct a result you downloaded earlier. The official texts, as published in the Official Journal of the European Union, and the guidance of the competent authority or funding body always prevail over anything on the Site.

4. The calculator

4.1 The calculator runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you enter leaves your device and we keep no copy. A downloaded PDF is made in your browser too.

4.2 A result is a calculation on the numbers and origins you entered, following the method published on the Site. It shows whether those numbers meet a threshold on the data entered, or whether the result needs review. Because the calculator sees no documents, every origin in it rests on a statement only. It does not check your numbers, your origins or your documents, and it does not decide eligibility.

4.3 Do not enter classified or export-controlled information in the calculator or anywhere else on the Site. You are responsible for what you type on your own device.

4.4 You may download a calculator result for your own use. It is a record of the data you entered and the arithmetic applied to it, generated in your browser; Lodemark has not seen, checked or approved it. It carries the line "Prepared with Lodemark. Not a certification." and the date and version of the rule texts used. It must not be presented as an audit result, a certification, an opinion or a statement by Lodemark about your product, and must not be altered or stripped of its notices.

4.5 Export controls and sanctions. The Site does not assess export-control classifications, licensing requirements or sanctions on any party. A flagged origin in the calculator is an alert for your review, not a determination. You remain responsible for your own export-control and sanctions compliance.

5. Acceptable use

You may not use the Site in a way that breaks any law, try to gain access to any system or data that the Site does not make public, scan, overload or interfere with the Site, copy the Site to build a competing service, use automated tools to extract Lodemark's own content in bulk (the official EU texts quoted on the Site are free to reuse under the EU's own rules), present a result as having been issued or verified by Lodemark, or remove notices such as "Not a certification".

6. Intellectual property

6.1 The Site, its design, its texts, its downloadable files and the software behind the calculator belong to Lodemark or its licensors and are protected by copyright and other rights. Quotations of EU legal texts come from the Official Journal of the European Union; their reuse follows the European Union's own reuse rules (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU), not these terms, and the Site acknowledges the source as those rules require.

6.2 You may read, print and download Site content for your own internal use, and you may quote short passages with attribution and a link. Any other use needs our written permission.

6.3 The name Lodemark and the Lodemark logo are used by the operator named in the legal notice. You may not use them in a way that suggests endorsement, partnership or certification.

6.4 Feedback. If you send us a correction, a suggestion or other feedback, we may use it without obligation or payment, and you confirm that you may share it with us.

7. Links to other sites

The Site links to official sources and to other websites. We are not responsible for their content or availability.

8. No warranty

The Site is provided "as is" and "as available". To the extent permitted by law, we give no warranty that the Site is accurate, complete, up to date, uninterrupted, secure or free of errors, or that a calculator result matches the view of any authority. We may change, suspend or withdraw the Site or the calculator at any time.

9. Limitation of liability

9.1 To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss or damage arising from the use of, or inability to use, the Site or the calculator, including loss of funding, loss of a contract, loss of profit, loss of data or any indirect or consequential loss, however arising.

9.2 Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including liability for wilful misconduct or gross negligence.

9.3 The Site is free of charge and you may obtain professional advice before relying on anything in it. Where any liability nonetheless arises in connection with the Site, it is limited to EUR 100 in total per user, except as stated in 9.2.

10. Privacy

The Privacy policy explains how we handle personal data. The Site sets no cookies; it counts visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, without cookies, as the Privacy policy explains.

11. Changes

We may change the Site and these terms. The date at the top shows the current version; earlier versions are available from us on request. Your continued use after a change is your acceptance of it.

12. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of Finland. To the extent the law allows, disputes are submitted to the District Court of Helsinki (Helsingin käräjäoikeus), Finland. If you are a consumer, nothing in this clause limits the mandatory rights, including the right to sue and be sued in the courts of your home country, that the law of the country where you live gives you.

13. Indemnity for misuse

If you present a calculator result, a page of the Site or the name Lodemark as a certification, audit, approval or statement by Lodemark, or alter a result and pass it on, you will compensate us for any loss, claim and reasonable cost that we suffer as a result.

14. Notices and contact

Notices to us are sent to the email address in the legal notice and take effect when we acknowledge them. We may contact you at the email address you wrote to us from.

15. Assignment

We may assign these terms to a successor of the business that operates the Site. You may not assign them.

16. Severability

If a provision of these terms is invalid or unenforceable, the rest remains in force, and the invalid provision is replaced by a valid one that comes closest to its purpose.

17. No waiver

A failure or delay in exercising a right under these terms is not a waiver of it.

18. Entire terms

These terms, the Privacy policy and the Legal notice are the whole of the terms on which the Site is made available. They do not affect any signed agreement between you and Lodemark, which governs its own subject.

19. Language

These terms are written in English. Any translation is a convenience, and if it differs, the English version prevails.