Last updated: 24 September 2026

By accessing this website or using our services, you agree to these Terms of Use. Criteron Supplier Decisions provides independent buyer-side supplier decision support. Our reports and other materials are for professional informational and decision-support purposes only. They do not guarantee supplier performance, product quality, regulatory compliance, commercial outcomes, or the suitability of any supplier or transaction. Users remain responsible for their own sourcing, procurement, commercial, legal, technical, quality, compliance, and capital-commitment decisions.

1. Our services

Criteron Supplier Decisions provides independent buyer-side information, analysis, research, and decision support relating to supplier decisions, including matters connected with Mainland China sourcing. The scope, deliverables, timing, fees, and any project-specific terms for paid services will be confirmed separately in writing.

2. No professional advice or guarantee

Website content, reports, communications, and other materials are provided for general informational and decision-support purposes. They do not constitute legal, tax, accounting, investment, engineering, product-safety, regulatory, or other professional advice.

Information may be incomplete, time-sensitive, derived from third parties, or subject to change. You should independently verify information and obtain advice from appropriately qualified advisers before acting or making a commercial commitment.

3. Your responsibilities

You are responsible for assessing supplier capability, product specifications, testing, audits, inspections, contracts, due diligence, regulatory requirements, logistics, payment terms, intellectual-property protection, quality control, and all other matters relevant to your decisions.

You must not rely solely on our website, communications, reports, or other materials when making a procurement, sourcing, investment, manufacturing, supply-chain, or capital-commitment decision.

4. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Criteron Supplier Decisions is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive loss; loss of profit, revenue, opportunity, data, goodwill, or business interruption; or loss arising from a supplier decision, product, service, transaction, delay, or third-party conduct.

Nothing in these Terms of Use excludes or limits liability that cannot legally be excluded or limited.

5. Third-party information and links

This website may refer to third-party suppliers, websites, sources, services, or information. Such references are provided for convenience only and do not amount to an endorsement, recommendation, representation, or warranty. We do not control and are not responsible for third-party content, products, services, practices, or availability.

6. Intellectual property

Unless stated otherwise, the website content, reports, text, branding, and materials provided by Criteron Supplier Decisions are owned by or licensed to Criteron Supplier Decisions. You may use them only for your internal business purposes and must not reproduce, publish, distribute, modify, sell, or commercially exploit them without prior written permission.

7. Confidential information

Do not submit sensitive product designs, supplier confidential information, customer personal data, purchase orders, technical drawings, trade secrets, or other commercially sensitive information through this website unless we have agreed in writing to receive it and appropriate safeguards are in place.

8. Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms of Use from time to time. The version displayed on this website applies from the “Last updated” date shown above. Your continued use of the website after an update indicates your acceptance of the revised Terms of Use.

9. Contact

For questions about these Terms of Use, contact:

Criteron Supplier Decisions
Email: hello@criterondecisions.com