Terms and Conditions

Licence agreement for access to national and/or authority datasets

Welcome to the website http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/, which is owned and operated by us. Set out below are the terms and conditions which, together with any legal notices displayed elsewhere on http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/, represent all the terms and conditions on which we will provide you with access to the datasets created by Local Government Information House Limited (the "National Datasets") and/or the datasets compiled and maintained by the County of Herefordshire District Council (the "Authority Datasets") associated with the use of the National Land and Property Gazetteer and the National Street Gazetteer. Your continued use of http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/ indicates your acceptance to be bound by these terms and conditions. If you do not agree to be bound by these terms and conditions, please cease using http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/.

The terms and conditions for this licence agreement are as follows:

1. Plans, drawings and material submitted to the Council are protected by section 47 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988. You may only use material which is downloaded and/or printed for consultation purposes, to compare current applications with previous schemes and to check whether developments have been completed in accordance with approved plans. Further copies must not be made without the prior permission of the copyright owner.
2. Herefordshire Council accepts no responsibility for the contents of the comments received and reserves the right to withdraw comments not of a valid planning nature at any time.
3. The National and/or Authority datasets are associated with the use of the National Land and Property Gazetteer and the National Street Gazetteer. Information displayed throughout http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/ is extracted from a copyright work owned by the Local Government Information House Limited and the County of Herefordshire District Council. A single screen print of the results of a search of the National and/or Authority datasets is permitted for your own use.
4. You may not extract or re-utilise information derived from the National and/or Authority Datasets and/or any copies of such information (whether electronic or in hard copy format) for any commercial or business purpose including but not limited to, trading, building commercial databases, reselling or redistribution of such information.
5. You are not permitted to modify, adapt, arrange, alter, adjust or make any additions to any information derived from the National and/or Authority Datasets, nor are you permitted to combine such information with other mapping, data or other information, including for the avoidance of doubt, other such information derived from http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/.
6. Save as permitted by paragraph 2 above, the reproduction, copying, downloading, storage, recording, broadcasting, retransmission, distribution, decompilation, reverse-engineering or disassembly of any part of http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/ is not permitted without our prior written consent.
   It is your responsibility to ensure that any information derived from the National and/or Authority Datasets is not made available, either in electronic unencrypted form or in hard copy format, to any third party that may attempt to use the map in contravention of these terms and conditions.
7. You must inform us immediately if you become aware of a third party using information derived from the National and/or Authority Datasets in contravention of these terms and conditions or of any infringement of trade marks located on http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/.
8. We shall have no liability to any person or organisation in respect of any loss or damage arising directly or indirectly from the use of the information contained on http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/.
9. We take every reasonable effort to ensure that information contained on http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/ is as accurate as possible.  However, the services featured on http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/ are provided "as is", and all warranties, conditions and other terms implied by statute or common law are, to the fullest extent permitted by law, excluded. We shall not be liable to you for any indirect or consequential loss (whether for loss of profit, loss of business, depletion of goodwill or otherwise), costs, expense or other claims for consequential compensation whatsoever (howsoever caused) which arise out of or in connection with your use of http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/.