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Open Government Licence v1.0
You are encouraged to use and re-use the Information that is available under
this licence, the Open Government Licence, freely and flexibly, with only
a few conditions.
Using information under this licence
Use of copyright and database right material expressly made available under
this licence (the ‘Information’) indicates your acceptance of the terms and
conditions below.
The Licensor grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive
licence to use the Information subject to the conditions below.
This licence does not affect your freedom under fair dealing or fair use or
any other copyright or database right exceptions and limitations.
You are free to:
copy, publish, distribute and transmit the Information;
adapt the Information;
exploit the Information commercially for example, by combining it with other
Information, or by including it in your own product or application.
You must, where you do any of the above:
acknowledge the source of the Information by including any attribution statement
specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link
to this licence;
 If the Information Provider does not provide a specific attribution statement,
or if you are using Information from several Information Providers and multiple
attributions are not practical in your product or application, you may consider
using the following: Contains public sector information licensed under the
Open Government Licence v1.0.
ensure that you do not use the Information in a way that suggests any official
status or that the Information Provider endorses you or your use of the Information;
ensure that you do not mislead others or misrepresent the Information or
its source;
ensure that your use of the Information does not breach the Data Protection
Act 1998 or the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations
2003.
These are important conditions of this licence and if you fail to comply with
them the rights granted to you under this licence, or any similar licence
granted by the Licensor, will end automatically.
 Exemptions
This licence does not cover the use of:
- personal data in the Information;
- Information that has neither been published nor disclosed under information
access legislation (including the Freedom of Information Acts for the UK and
Scotland) by or with the consent of the Information Provider;
- departmental or public sector organisation logos, crests and the Royal
Arms except where they form an integral part of a document or dataset;
- military insignia;
- third party rights the Information Provider is not authorised to license;
- Information subject to other intellectual property rights, including patents,
trademarks, and design rights; and
- identity documents such as the British Passport.
No warranty
The Information is licensed ‘as is’ and the Information Provider excludes
all representations, warranties, obligations and liabilities in relation to
the Information to the maximum extent permitted by law.
The Information Provider is not liable for any errors or omissions in the
Information and shall not be liable for any loss, injury or damage of any
kind caused by its use. The Information Provider does not guarantee the continued
supply of the Information.
Governing Law
This licence is governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the Information
Provider has its principal place of business, unless otherwise specified by
the Information Provider.
Definitions
In this licence, the terms below have the following meanings:
‘Information’means information protected by copyright or by database right
(for example, literary and artistic works, content, data and source code)
offered for use under the terms of this licence.
‘Information Provider’means the person or organisation providing the Information
under this licence.
‘Licensor’means any Information Provider which has the authority to offer
Information under the terms of this licence or the Controller of Her Majesty’s
Stationery Office, who has the authority to offer Information subject to Crown
copyright and Crown database rights and Information subject to copyright and
database right that has been assigned to or acquired by the Crown, under the
terms of this licence.
‘Use’as a verb, means doing any act which is restricted by copyright or database
right, whether in the original medium or in any other medium, and includes
without limitation distributing, copying, adapting, modifying as may be technically
necessary to use it in a different mode or format.
‘You’means the natural or legal person, or body of persons corporate or incorporate,
acquiring rights under this licence.
About the Open Government Licence
The Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO) has developed this
licence as a tool to enable Information Providers in the public sector to
license the use and re-use of their Information under a common open licence.
The Controller invites public sector bodies owning their own copyright and
database rights to permit the use of their Information under this licence.
The Controller of HMSO has authority to license Information subject to copyright
and database right owned by the Crown. The extent of the Controller’s offer
to license this Information under the terms of this licence is set out in
the UK Government Licensing Framework.
This is version 1.0 of the Open Government Licence. The Controller of HMSO
may, from time to time, issue new versions of the Open Government Licence.
However, you may continue to use Information licensed under this version should
you wish to do so.
These terms have been aligned to be interoperable with any Creative Commons
Attribution Licence, which covers copyright, and Open Data Commons Attribution
License, which covers database rights and applicable copyrights.
Further context, best practice and guidance can be found in the UK Government
Licensing Framework section on The National Archives website.