You are encouraged to use and re-use the Information that is available under this 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 for Non-Commercial purposes only 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;
combine the Information with other
information.
You are not permitted to:
exercise any of the rights granted to you by
this licence in any manner that is
primarily intended for or
directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation.
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 use the following:
Contains information licensed under the Non-Commercial Government Licence v1.0.
ensure that any onward licensing of the
Information – for example when combined with other information –
is for Non-Commercial purposes only.
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 or use the information other than for Non-Commercial purposes 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, military insignia and the Royal Arms except where they form an integral part of a document or dataset;
- third party rights the Information Provider is not authorised to license;
- Information subject to other intellectual property rights, including patents, trade marks, 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.
‘Non-Commercial purposes’
means not intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or
private monetary compensation. For the purposes of this licence,
‘private monetary compensation’ does not include the exchange of the
Information for other copyrighted works by means of digital file-sharing
or otherwise provided there is no payment of any monetary compensation
in connection with the exchange of the Information.
‘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 this 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 non-commercial licence. The Controller invites public sector bodies owning their own copyright and database rights to permit the use of their Information under this licence where licensing under the default Open Government Licence is not appropriate.
The Controller of HMSO has authority to license Information subject to copyright and database right owned by the Crown.
This is version 1.0 of the Non-Commercial Government Licence. The Controller of HMSO may, from time to time, issue new versions of the Non-Commercial Government Licence. However, you may continue to use Information licensed under this version should you wish to do so.
Further context, best practice and guidance can be found in the UK Government Licensing Framework section on The National Archives website.
