Terms & Privacy

Terms of Use

Effective 4 September 2026

These terms govern your use of gmpginternational.com. They are written in plain English so that a customs officer, a bank compliance team and a journalist can read them without a lawyer. If you do not agree with them, please do not use the site.

01Who we are

This website is published by GMPG International Corp., a corporation with its registered office in Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America. We are a natural-resources development and consulting group with operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania and Angola and a presence in the United States and the United Kingdom.

You can contact us about these terms, or about anything on the site, by email at contact@gmpginternational.com. That address is the only channel the site offers; the site has no forms, accounts or chat.

02Accepting these terms

By opening or using any page of this site you accept these terms. Our Privacy Notice and Cookie Statement explain how personal data is handled; they are information notices, not contract terms. If you use the site on behalf of an organisation, you confirm that you have authority to bind it. If you do not accept these terms, stop using the site.

03What you may do

You may view the site, print or save pages for your own reference, and quote short extracts with attribution to GMPG International Corp. and a link to the page. Journalists, regulators, banks and customs authorities may reproduce our published policy statements in full for reporting, compliance and enforcement purposes, provided the text is not altered and the date is shown.

04What you may not do

You may not use the site or its content to break any law, or to misrepresent who you are or your connection with us. You may not send us unlawful, defamatory or infringing material. You may not probe, scan or attack the site or the servers and networks that deliver it. You may not scrape or harvest content or addresses by automated means beyond what a public search engine needs to index the site. You may not remove or obscure copyright notices, credits or disclaimers.

You may not present our name, logo or content in a way that suggests we endorse a product, project or person when we do not. Nor may you suggest that we are party to any transaction when we are not. We may block access to the site from any source we believe is misusing it.

05Intellectual property

The text, diagrams, charts, page design and code of this site, and the GMPG International name and logo, are owned by GMPG International Corp. or used under licence. They are protected by copyright, trade-mark and other laws of the United States and other countries. All rights not expressly granted in these terms are reserved.

Photographs on the site are either our own or licensed from third-party photographers and image libraries. Third-party photographs remain the property of their owners and may not be copied, downloaded or reused separately from the page on which they appear. Images are illustrative and do not depict specific sites, deliveries or individuals unless a caption says so. Photo credits are available on request.

You may not reproduce our logo, our diagrams or our charts without our prior written permission, except as allowed under the heading 'What you may do' or by law.

06No offer, no advice

Nothing on this site is an offer, an invitation or a solicitation to buy or sell any security, mineral, commodity, service or other product, or to enter into any contract. Nothing on it is investment, financial, legal, tax, engineering, security or other professional advice. We are not a licensed investment adviser or broker in any jurisdiction, and we do not offer securities through this site.

Any business we do is done under a separate written agreement, after our own due diligence and yours. If you need advice about a decision, take it from a qualified adviser who knows your circumstances.

07Projections and forward-looking statements

The site describes projects, plants, purchase prices, tonnages, cash flows and returns. Where figures appear, they are projections calculated from stated inputs. They are not audited results, historical performance, guarantees or forecasts of what will happen. They may change as inputs, prices, security conditions, permits and law change.

Statements about what we plan, expect, intend or aim to do are forward-looking. They rest on premises about matters outside our control, including armed conflict, government action, commodity markets and weather. Actual outcomes may differ materially. We do not undertake to update any projection or forward-looking statement, and you should not rely on any of them when making a decision.

08Accuracy and changes to content

We take care to keep the site accurate and current, but we do not promise that it is complete, error-free or up to date at any moment. We may add, change, correct or remove content, pages or the whole site at any time without notice. Policy statements carry a date; the current version on the site replaces earlier versions.

09Third-party links and resources

The site may link to websites, documents, laws, registries and lists published by others, such as governments, international organisations and standards bodies. We provide those links for convenience. We do not control the linked material, we do not endorse it, and we are not responsible for its accuracy, availability or terms. Your use of a linked site is governed by that site's own terms and privacy practices.

The site also loads typefaces from Google Fonts (Google LLC) and two animation and scrolling libraries: GSAP and its ScrollTrigger plugin from cdnjs (Cloudflare, Inc.), and Lenis from jsDelivr (Volentio JSD Limited). What each provider receives is explained in our Privacy Notice and Cookie Statement.

10No warranties

The site and its content are provided 'as is' and 'as available'. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude all warranties, conditions and representations, express or implied. That includes any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title or non-infringement. It also includes any warranty that the site will be uninterrupted, secure, timely or free of viruses or errors.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you.

11Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, GMPG International Corp. and its directors, officers, employees, agents and contractors are not liable to you for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages. The same applies to any loss of profit, revenue, business, data or goodwill. This covers any loss arising out of or connected with your use of the site or its content, or your inability to use them. It applies however the loss was caused and under any theory of liability, even if we were told that such loss was possible.

To the same extent, our total liability for all claims connected with the site is capped at one hundred United States dollars (US$100). If you paid us to use the site and that amount is greater, the cap is that amount.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law. Nothing excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for loss caused by our wilful misconduct or gross negligence. Nor does anything exclude a liability that the law of your country does not allow us to exclude. If you are a consumer in the United Kingdom or the European Union, you keep the statutory rights and remedies your law gives you, and these terms do not take them away.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages, so some of the above limitations may not apply to you.

12Indemnity

If you are a business, or use the site on behalf of an organisation, you agree to indemnify GMPG International Corp. and its directors, officers, employees and agents. That means you will cover any claim, loss, liability, cost or expense, including reasonable legal fees, that arises from your breach of these terms or your misuse of the site. The same applies to any claim arising from your misuse of our content, or from your breach of any law or of a third party's rights. This indemnity does not apply to individuals acting as consumers where the law of their country does not allow it.

13Governing law and venue

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States of America, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The same applies to any dispute or claim arising out of them or out of your use of the site. You and we agree that the state and federal courts sitting in Delaware have exclusive jurisdiction over any such dispute, and you submit to their jurisdiction.

You may be a consumer living in the United Kingdom, the European Union or another country whose law gives you mandatory protections. If so, nothing in this section takes those protections away. Where that law allows it, you keep your right to bring a claim in the courts of your own country.

14Severability and entire agreement

If a court finds any part of these terms invalid or unenforceable, that part will be applied as far as the law allows. The rest of these terms will continue in full force. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it.

These terms are the entire agreement between you and us about your use of the site. They do not create any partnership, agency, employment or joint venture between you and us. They do not govern any separate written agreement you may have with us; that agreement prevails for its own subject matter.

15Changes to these terms

We may change these terms at any time by posting the revised version on this page with a new effective date. Changes apply from that date. If you continue to use the site after a change, you accept the revised terms. We recommend that you check this page from time to time.

16Contact

Questions about these terms, requests for permission to reuse content, notices of claimed infringement and reports of misuse should be sent to contact@gmpginternational.com. Please put 'Website terms' in the subject line so that we can route your message quickly.

Privacy Notice

Effective 4 September 2026

This notice explains what personal data is involved when you visit gmpginternational.com or email us, why, who receives it, how long we keep it and what your rights are. It is written to meet Articles 13 and 14 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation and the UK GDPR, and to be readable by anyone. The short version: this site sets no cookies, runs no analytics and has no forms. The only personal data we receive through it is what you choose to send us by email. Beyond that, a web server and the third-party font and script providers receive the technical data any page load sends.

01Who is responsible

The controller of your personal data is GMPG International Corp., registered office Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America. We decide why and how personal data connected with this site is processed. We have not appointed a data protection officer because the law does not require one. The person responsible for data protection can be reached at contact@gmpginternational.com with 'Privacy' in the subject line. Please use the same address for any question about this notice.

02What data we receive

Email correspondence. If you email contact@gmpginternational.com, we receive your email address, your name if you give it, the content of your message and any attachments. We also receive the metadata that travels with email: the date and time, your mail server's address, the subject line and the message headers. We keep the whole exchange, including our replies. We do not collect special-category data (such as health, ethnicity or political opinions) or criminal-offence data through the site. If you include such information in an email, we will use it only to respond and will delete it when the exchange is closed unless the law requires otherwise.

Server logs. The company that hosts the site keeps standard server logs for every request to a page or file. A log entry typically contains your IP address, the page or file requested, the date and time, the referring page and your browser type and version. We do not add anything to these logs and we do not run analytics on them.

Data sent to font and script providers. The site loads its typefaces from Google Fonts (a stylesheet from fonts.googleapis.com and font files from fonts.gstatic.com, both operated by Google LLC). It also loads two animation and scrolling libraries. GSAP and its ScrollTrigger plugin come from cdnjs, operated by Cloudflare, Inc. Lenis comes from jsDelivr, operated by Volentio JSD Limited, a company registered in England and Wales. When a page loads, your browser requests those files directly from each provider. Each provider therefore receives your IP address, the file requested, the page address that referred you and your browser type. Neither we nor those providers set cookies through this site.

Screening data. If you or your organisation propose to do business with us, we check names against publicly available sanctions and denied-party lists. These lists are published by the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union and the United Nations. We also check commercial screening databases and public sources such as company registries and news. The categories of data involved are identity details, corporate roles and any list match. This is the only personal data we obtain from a source other than you.

03Why we use it

To answer your message and follow up on it. Lawful basis: Article 6(1)(b) GDPR where your message asks about or leads to a contract with you or your organisation. Otherwise Article 6(1)(f), our legitimate interest in responding to people who write to us and in keeping a record of what was said.

To assess prospective partners, suppliers and customers who contact us, including screening against sanctions and denied-party lists before any business relationship. Lawful basis: Article 6(1)(f), our legitimate interest in complying with sanctions, anti-money-laundering and responsible-sourcing obligations, and Article 6(1)(c) where a law directly requires the check.

To keep the site available and secure, and to detect and stop attacks, fraud and misuse. Lawful basis: Article 6(1)(f), our legitimate interest and our hosting provider's legitimate interest in the security and integrity of the service.

To display the site as designed, by loading fonts and code from the providers named above. Lawful basis: Article 6(1)(f), our legitimate interest in a fast, consistent site that works on every device. We have weighed this against your interests: the data is limited to what a browser sends to any server, no cookies are set, and no profile is built. If you prefer that your browser not contact those providers, a content blocker or a privacy-focused browser will stop it. The site will still read correctly in a fallback typeface.

04Who receives your data

Inside GMPG International Corp., your correspondence is seen only by the people who need it to reply: management, the relevant technical or commercial team, and compliance. We do not sell personal data and we do not share it with advertisers. Outside the company, the following receive data:

Our hosting provider stores the site and keeps the server logs on our behalf under a written data-processing agreement. Our email provider stores and transmits our mailbox on the same terms. Where we run a screening check, the provider of the screening database receives the name we check, and nothing more.

Google LLC (Google Fonts), Cloudflare, Inc. (cdnjs) and jsDelivr (operated by Volentio JSD Limited) each receive the technical data described above directly from your browser. They process it under their own privacy notices. We send them nothing ourselves.

Public authorities, courts, regulators, banks and professional advisers receive data where the law requires it, or where we need to establish or defend a legal claim. A bank or customs authority may also see a record where it is entitled to do so as part of a transaction you are party to.

05International transfers

We are established in the United States. When you email us, your message goes directly from you to our mail server in the United States. When your browser requests a page, font or script file, the request goes directly to the provider's server, in the United States or wherever it serves you from. Neither is a transfer by us under data-protection law, but United States law applies to the data once it arrives.

We do make transfers when we pass data to our hosting and email providers, and to any other processor outside the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom. For transfers from the EEA, we rely on the European Commission's adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework where the recipient is certified under it. Otherwise we rely on the standard contractual clauses adopted by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/914, with additional safeguards where needed. For transfers from the United Kingdom, we rely on the UK's data bridge to the Data Privacy Framework where the recipient is certified. Otherwise we rely on the International Data Transfer Agreement or the International Data Transfer Addendum to the EU Commission Standard Contractual Clauses. Both are issued by the Information Commissioner under section 119A of the Data Protection Act 2018.

You can ask us for a copy of the safeguards we rely on at contact@gmpginternational.com.

06How long we keep it

Email correspondence: for as long as the exchange is open and for twenty-four months after the last message, so that we can continue it if you return. If the exchange leads to a contract, we keep the correspondence for the life of the contract and for six years after it ends. That is the period in which claims can typically be brought. If the correspondence is part of a sanctions, anti-money-laundering or responsible-sourcing check, we keep it for the retention period that law imposes, which is at least five years. Screening results are kept with the correspondence they relate to, for the same period.

Server logs: held by our hosting provider for its standard rotation period and then deleted or anonymised. Data sent to the font and script providers: retained by them under their own notices; we hold none of it.

We keep data longer only where a law, a regulator, a court or a live legal claim requires it. When a period ends, we delete or irreversibly anonymise the data.

07Your rights

If the GDPR or UK GDPR applies to you, you have the right to ask us for access to the personal data we hold about you, and for a copy of it. You can have inaccurate data corrected, and data erased where there is no good reason for us to keep it. You can have processing restricted while a dispute is resolved. Where we process data you gave us by automated means under a contract or your consent, you can receive it in a portable, machine-readable form.

Right to object. Where we process your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interests (see 'Why we use it'), you may object at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation. We will stop unless we can show compelling legitimate grounds that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is needed for a legal claim. We do no direct marketing, but if we ever did you could object to it at any time and we would stop.

Where we ever rely on your consent, you may withdraw it at any time; withdrawal does not affect what was done lawfully before it. You will not be treated differently for exercising a right. Similar rights exist under the laws of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Angola and several US states, and we will honour them in the same way.

08How to exercise your rights

Email contact@gmpginternational.com with 'Data rights' in the subject line, say which right you are exercising and, if you can, which correspondence it concerns. We answer within one month; where a request is complex we may take up to two further months and will tell you why. Requests are free unless they are manifestly unfounded or excessive, in which case we may charge a reasonable fee or decline and explain. We may ask you to confirm your identity, and we will use the answer only for that purpose.

09Complaints

If you think we have infringed data-protection law in handling your personal data, you may complain to us directly. Email contact@gmpginternational.com with 'Data protection complaint' in the subject line. We acknowledge every complaint within 30 days, investigate it without undue delay, keep you informed and tell you the outcome. In the United Kingdom this is your right under section 164A of the Data Protection Act 2018. Complaining to us does not remove your right to complain to a supervisory authority.

You do not have to come to us first. If you are in the United Kingdom, you may complain to the Information Commissioner's Office, or its statutory successor, the Information Commission. Its address is Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF; telephone 0303 123 1113; ico.org.uk. If you are in the European Economic Area, you may complain to the data protection authority of the country where you live or work, or where you believe the breach happened. The European Data Protection Board publishes the full list at edpb.europa.eu. You may also seek a judicial remedy.

10Must you give us data?

No. There is no statutory or contractual requirement to give us any personal data through this site. If you choose to email us, we need a reply address and enough information to understand your request; without them we cannot answer. Visiting the site without emailing us involves only the technical data described above, which your browser sends automatically.

11Automated decisions and children

We make no decisions about you by automated means alone, and we do no profiling. Any decision to enter into a business relationship is taken by a person.

This site is aimed at professionals and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 16 through it. If you believe a child has sent us personal data, tell us at contact@gmpginternational.com and we will delete it.

12Security

The site is served over HTTPS. Our mailboxes are protected by strong authentication and encryption in transit, and access is limited to people who need it. We keep no database of visitors because there is none to keep. Email is not a fully secure medium, however; if you need to send us something sensitive, ask us first and we will agree a secure channel. If we suffer a breach that is likely to put your rights at high risk, we will tell you and the relevant authority as the law requires.

13DR Congo, Tanzania and Angola

If you write to us from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, we follow the personal-data provisions of the Code du numérique (Ordonnance-loi n° 23/010 du 13 mars 2023). That includes its rules on lawful basis, purpose, security and your rights. If you write to us from Tanzania, we follow the Personal Data Protection Act, 2022 (Act No. 11 of 2022), overseen by the Personal Data Protection Commission. If you write to us from Angola, we follow Lei n.º 22/11 de 17 de Junho on the protection of personal data, overseen by the Agência de Protecção de Dados.

14United States visitors

This notice is also our privacy policy for the purposes of the Delaware Online Privacy and Protection Act (section 1205C of title 6 of the Delaware Code) and similar state laws. In summary: the only personally identifiable information we collect through the site is what you email us. We share it only as described under 'Who receives your data'. No third party collects information about your online activities across other sites through this site. We do not respond to browser 'Do Not Track' signals because we track nothing to switch off. We will tell you about material changes by posting them on this page with a new effective date.

15Changes to this notice

We will update this notice when our practices, our providers or the law change, and we will show the new effective date at the top. If a change materially affects how we use data you have already given us, we will tell you by email where we have an address for you. This version is effective from 4 September 2026 and replaces any earlier version.

Cookie Statement

Effective 4 September 2026

This site sets no cookies. It also uses no local storage, session storage, tracking pixels, device fingerprinting, web beacons or any other technology that stores information on your device or reads information from it. There is no analytics service, no advertising, no embedded social-media widget and no consent banner, because there is nothing to consent to. That is why you did not see a cookie pop-up when you arrived.

Two kinds of third-party resource load when you open a page, and you should know about them. Typefaces come from Google Fonts: a stylesheet from fonts.googleapis.com and font files from fonts.gstatic.com, both operated by Google LLC. Two animation and scrolling libraries also load: GSAP and its ScrollTrigger plugin from cdnjs, operated by Cloudflare, Inc., and Lenis from jsDelivr, operated by Volentio JSD Limited. When your browser fetches those files, each provider receives the ordinary technical information any web server receives: your IP address, the file requested, the page that referred you and your browser type. Google states that use of the Google Fonts API is unauthenticated and that the API does not set or log cookies. None of these providers sets a cookie through this site, and we receive nothing back from them.

If you would rather your browser did not contact those providers at all, a content blocker or a privacy-focused browser will stop the requests. The site will still read correctly in a standard fallback typeface. Our Privacy Notice explains the lawful basis for these requests and your rights.

In the United Kingdom, storing or accessing information on your device is governed by regulation 6 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (SI 2003/2426), as amended. In the European Union it is governed by the national laws implementing Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive 2002/58/EC. Because this site stores nothing on your device, those rules do not require your consent for anything here. If we ever add a cookie or similar technology, we will update this statement first and, where consent is required, ask for it before the technology runs.

Questions about this statement: contact@gmpginternational.com, subject line 'Cookies'. This statement is effective from 4 September 2026.