1*4882a593SmuzhiyunOpen Government Licence v1.0 2*4882a593Smuzhiyun 3*4882a593SmuzhiyunYou 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. 4*4882a593SmuzhiyunUsing information under this licence 5*4882a593Smuzhiyun 6*4882a593SmuzhiyunUse of copyright and database right material expressly made available under this licence (the ‘Information’) indicates your acceptance of the terms and conditions below. 7*4882a593Smuzhiyun 8*4882a593SmuzhiyunThe Licensor grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the Information subject to the conditions below. 9*4882a593Smuzhiyun 10*4882a593SmuzhiyunThis licence does not affect your freedom under fair dealing or fair use or any other copyright or database right exceptions and limitations. 11*4882a593Smuzhiyun 12*4882a593SmuzhiyunYou are free to: 13*4882a593Smuzhiyun copy, publish, distribute and transmit the Information; 14*4882a593Smuzhiyun adapt the Information; 15*4882a593Smuzhiyun exploit the Information commercially for example, by combining it with other Information, or by including it in your own product or application. 16*4882a593Smuzhiyun 17*4882a593SmuzhiyunYou must, where you do any of the above: 18*4882a593Smuzhiyun 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; 19*4882a593Smuzhiyun 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. 20*4882a593Smuzhiyun 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; 21*4882a593Smuzhiyun ensure that you do not mislead others or misrepresent the Information or its source; 22*4882a593Smuzhiyun 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. 23*4882a593Smuzhiyun 24*4882a593SmuzhiyunThese 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. 25*4882a593Smuzhiyun 26*4882a593Smuzhiyun Exemptions 27*4882a593Smuzhiyun 28*4882a593SmuzhiyunThis licence does not cover the use of: 29*4882a593Smuzhiyun - personal data in the Information; 30*4882a593Smuzhiyun - 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; 31*4882a593Smuzhiyun - departmental or public sector organisation logos, crests and the Royal Arms except where they form an integral part of a document or dataset; 32*4882a593Smuzhiyun - military insignia; 33*4882a593Smuzhiyun - third party rights the Information Provider is not authorised to license; 34*4882a593Smuzhiyun - Information subject to other intellectual property rights, including patents, trademarks, and design rights; and 35*4882a593Smuzhiyun - identity documents such as the British Passport. 36*4882a593Smuzhiyun 37*4882a593SmuzhiyunNo warranty 38*4882a593Smuzhiyun 39*4882a593SmuzhiyunThe 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. 40*4882a593Smuzhiyun 41*4882a593SmuzhiyunThe 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. 42*4882a593Smuzhiyun 43*4882a593SmuzhiyunGoverning Law 44*4882a593Smuzhiyun 45*4882a593SmuzhiyunThis 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. 46*4882a593Smuzhiyun 47*4882a593SmuzhiyunDefinitions 48*4882a593Smuzhiyun 49*4882a593SmuzhiyunIn this licence, the terms below have the following meanings: 50*4882a593Smuzhiyun 51*4882a593Smuzhiyun‘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. 52*4882a593Smuzhiyun 53*4882a593Smuzhiyun‘Information Provider’ means the person or organisation providing the Information under this licence. 54*4882a593Smuzhiyun 55*4882a593Smuzhiyun‘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. 56*4882a593Smuzhiyun 57*4882a593Smuzhiyun‘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. 58*4882a593Smuzhiyun 59*4882a593Smuzhiyun‘You’ means the natural or legal person, or body of persons corporate or incorporate, acquiring rights under this licence. 60*4882a593Smuzhiyun 61*4882a593SmuzhiyunAbout the Open Government Licence 62*4882a593SmuzhiyunThe 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. 63*4882a593Smuzhiyun 64*4882a593SmuzhiyunThe 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. 65*4882a593Smuzhiyun 66*4882a593SmuzhiyunThis 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. 67*4882a593SmuzhiyunThese 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. 68*4882a593Smuzhiyun 69*4882a593SmuzhiyunFurther context, best practice and guidance can be found in the UK Government Licensing Framework section on The National Archives website. 70