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Non-Commercial Government Licence
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for public sector information
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You are encouraged to use and re-use the Information that is available under
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this licence freely and flexibly, with only a few conditions.
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Using information under this licence
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Use of copyright and database right material expressly made available under
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this licence (the ‘Information’) indicates your acceptance of the terms and
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conditions below.
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The Licensor grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive
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licence to use the Information for Non-Commercial purposes only subject to
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the conditions below.
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This licence does not affect your freedom under fair dealing or fair use or
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any other copyright or database right exceptions and limitations.
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You are free to:
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copy, publish, distribute and transmit the Information;
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adapt the Information;
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exploit the Information for Non-Commercial purposes for example, by combining
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it with other information in your own product or application.
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You are not permitted to:
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exercise any of the rights granted to you by this licence in any manner
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that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or
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private monetary compensation.
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You must, where you do any of the above:
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acknowledge the source of the Information by including any attribution statement
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specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link
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to this licence;
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If the Information Provider does not provide a specific attribution statement,
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you must use the following:
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Contains information licensed under the Non-Commercial Government Licence
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v2.0.
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If you are using Information from several Information Providers and listing
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multiple attributions is not practical in your product or application, you
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may include a URI or hyperlink to a resource that contains the required attribution
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statements.
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ensure that any onward licensing of the Information – for example when combined
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with other information – is for Non-Commercial purposes only.
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These are important conditions of this licence and if you fail to comply with
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them or use the Information other than for Non-Commercial purposes the rights
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granted to you under this licence, or any similar licence granted by the Licensor,
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will end automatically.
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Exemptions
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This licence does not cover the use of:
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• personal data in the Information;
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• Information that has not been accessed by way of publication or disclosure
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under information access legislation (including the Freedom of Information
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Acts for the UK and Scotland) by or with the consent of the Information Provider;
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• departmental or public sector organisation logos, crests, military insignia
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and the Royal Arms except where they form an integral part of a document or
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dataset;
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• military insignia
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• third party rights the Information Provider is not authorised to license;
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• other intellectual property rights, including patents, trade marks, and
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design rights; and
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• identity documents such as the British Passport.
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Non-endorsement
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This licence does not grant you any right to use the Information in a way
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that suggests any official status or that the Information Provider and/or
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Licensor endorse you or your use of the Information.
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No warranty
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The Information is licensed ‘as is’ and the Information Provider excludes
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all representations, warranties, obligations and liabilities in relation to
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the Information to the maximum extent permitted by law.
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The Information Provider is not liable for any errors or omissions in the
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Information and shall not be liable for any loss, injury or damage of any
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kind caused by its use. The Information Provider does not guarantee the continued
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supply of the Information.
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Governing Law
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This licence is governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the Information
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Provider has its principal place of business, unless otherwise specified by
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the Information Provider.
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Definitions
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In this licence the terms below have the following meanings:
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‘Information’ means information protected by copyright or by database right
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(for example, literary and artistic works, content, data and source code)
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offered for use under the terms of this licence.
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‘Information Provider’ means the person or organisation providing the Information
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under this licence.
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‘Licensor’ means any Information Provider which has the authority to offer
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Information under the terms of this licence or the Keeper of the Public Records,
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who has the authority to offer Information subject to Crown copyright and
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Crown database rights and Information subject to copyright and database right
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that has been assigned to or acquired by the Crown, under the terms of this
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licence.
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‘Non-Commercial purposes’ means not intended for or directed toward commercial
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advantage or private monetary compensation. For the purposes of this licence,
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‘private monetary compensation’ does not include the exchange of the Information
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for other copyrighted works by means of digital file-sharing or otherwise
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provided there is no payment of any monetary compensation in connection with
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the exchange of the Information.
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‘Use’ as a verb, means doing any act which is restricted by copyright or database
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right, whether in the original medium or in any other medium, and includes
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without limitation distributing, copying, adapting, modifying as may be technically
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necessary to use it in a different mode or format.
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‘You’ means the natural or legal person, or body of persons corporate or incorporate,
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acquiring rights under this licence.
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