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The information e.g. photographs, images and illustrations (such as paintings, watercolours, prints), maps and plans (including technical drawings), diagrams, newspaper extracts, manuscripts, 3D objects and sound and video recordings, graphics, artwork, text, animation (collectively called 'Content') contained in this Website is protected by copyright laws.

These copyright laws are the Copyright, Designs & Patents Act 1988 as amended. Copyright is one of several Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) which also includes Patents, Trade Marks and Designs. Copyright can cover issues such as moral rights, database rights, publication rights, rental and lending rights and performer’s rights.

The Content of the site comprises of Crown Copyright (which includes material created by Crown Court, County Court, Court of Appeal etc) Non-Crown copyright and out of copyright material.

The names, marks, images and logos identifying the National Maritime Museum, Royal Observatory, Greenwich or third parties are proprietary marks of these organizations and may not be reproduced without their prior written permission. Anyone republishing material from the Freedom Website without permission is liable for any resulting infringement of copyright.

Every effort has been made to locate copyright holders of materials included on this Website in order to obtain their permission to publish it.

If you need to contact us the details are at the bottom of this document.

General

Access to, and use of, the Freedom Website (the 'Website') is provided subject to the following terms and conditions. Please read these terms carefully as your access to and use of the National Maritime Museum Website will be deemed as acceptance by you of the terms of use.

Unauthorized attempts to deny service, upload information, change information or to attempt to access non-public data from this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable to the full extent of the law of England and Wales.

Internet websites normally qualify for copyright protection and probably Database Right protection under UK law. Each individual page is considered as a broadcast. In addition, any attempt to mount this material on another website will be considered an act of communicating the Content to the public without the consent of the copyright owner which will infringe the Right of Communication to the Public. Database Right will also be an issue as the site itself constitutes a database regardless of the status of the individual items incorporated in it.

Copyright in a broadcast Web page covers the signal sent, whereas copyright and database right cover the contents, so copyright would be infringed by:

• copying of screen pages onto a computer
• photographing multiple pages from the screen
• showing screen pages in public to a paying audience
• including screen pages on another website

Non-permitted use

Other than as expressly permitted by these terms of use, you may not copy, download, reproduce, publish, republish, post, transmit, modify, adapt, translate, manipulate, add to, delete from, adapt, distribute or otherwise use any Content in whole or in part, in any medium without the National Maritime Museum's prior written permission or without the written permission of the relevant copyright holder. In addition, users shall not be entitled to reproduce Content (or any part thereof) without any identification mark or other mark of origin relating hitherto.

No Content, or any part thereof, may be permanently copied or reproduced in any form or reproduced on any other system or website, or stored in or transmitted to or from any other electronic or digital from in whole or in part.

The National Maritime Museum reserves the right to require the removal of any link established by a third party between the Website and any third party website.

Third party copyright

From time to time the Content may include certain third party materials for which the copyright is not owned by the National Maritime Museum. You may not print (or otherwise store in any permanent form) any items which state that copyright is not held by National Maritime Museum.

Permitted use

Access to and use of the Website is permitted only by individuals for personal and/or educational use or non-commercial purposes. Subject to certain limitations there is no infringement by 'fair dealing', e.g. using material for research (non-commercial) or private study, criticism or for news and current affairs.

You may access and download the Content and store a copy on a temporary basis for the sole purpose of viewing such Content without alteration or addition. You may print any Content (other than third party copyright) in whole or in part provided that such reproduction is to be used for personal and educational purposes only.

Public Records/Crown Copyright

Any public record (e.g. ration books, discharge papers, official documents), published or unpublished, that is available to the public, can be copied and supplied without infringing copyright. This includes material in public record repositories such as The National Archives (formerly the Public Record Office) and designated places of deposit for public records (such as archives). Items can include census returns, deposited plans, tithe maps and apportionments. There are no problems with using such material that is still in copyright as long as acknowledgements are made. If using personal documents which happen to be held by the The National Archives but not of Crown copyright e.g. personal letters between a sailor and his wife, personal diary entries of a naval officer, permission must be sought from The National Archives.

Probate material post-1858 and pre-1858 material that was administered by ecclesiastical courts is also covered by Crown copyright, as are medical records created by the National Health Service and predecessor bodies up to 1990. For medical records created from 1990 onwards copyright rests with the individual bodies (such as Health Trusts).

Hyperlinking policy

You do not have to ask permission to link to this Website as long as it is a link directly to our homepage. It is the responsibility of the linking site to direct the users to read and understand the conditions of use information on our Website, before entering the site.

However, we do not permit our pages to be loaded into frames on your site. The National Maritime Museum page must load into the user’s entire window.

The National Maritime Museum does not sponsor, endorse or otherwise approve of any information or statements appearing in any website which may be linked to the Website (nor in sites referred to in or linked to such websites). Listings should not be taken as endorsement of any kind.

We are not responsible for the content or reliability of linked websites. We cannot guarantee that these links will work at all time and we have no control over the availability of linked pages.

Copyright infringement

We have put in place technical solutions to track and trace all copyright infringement of this Website. All instances of infringement will be pursued.

Some of the Content included on the Website may have been compiled by the National Maritime Museum from a variety of sources and is subject to change without notice. Although every effort has been made to contact the copyright holders of materials included on this Website, if visitors consider materials to be their copyright and have not been contacted by the National Maritime Museum, please contact the Museum at the address below.

The Website is provided for historical, educational and information purposes only and the Website and its Content are made available 'as is' and 'as available'.

The National Maritime Museum excludes to the fullest extent permitted by the law all warranties in relation to the Website and Content whether express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of satisfactory quality and fitness for a particular purpose.

In no event shall the National Maritime Museum be liable for any damage to your computer equipment or software which may occur on account of your access to or use of the Website, or your downloading of materials, data, text, or images from the Website, whether caused by a virus, bug or otherwise.

The National Maritime Museum does not warrant:

• That the information selected for the Website is comprehensive, complete, verified, organized or accurate
• That it is licensed by the copyright owner of any third party Content to include or reproduce such Content in the Website
• That the Website or its Content will be uninterrupted or error-free
• That the server from which the Website is available is free of viruses or bugs.

Limitation of liability

The National Maritime Museum shall not be liable for any losses or damages whatsoever, whether in contract, Tort (including negligence) or otherwise, arising from the Content or the Website.

The National Maritime Museum shall not be liable for any losses or damages whatsoever arising from the operation or content of such third party websites.

The National Maritime Museum, for the purposes of this notice, shall include its departments, employees, partners, principals, agents and representatives and any third-party providers or source of information or data.

Information on this Website may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. The information contained on the Website may be changed at any time without prior notification or obligation.

Please note that the above legal and disclaimer notices may be updated by us from time to time. By browsing our Website you accept that you are bound by the current legal and disclaimer notices and therefore recommend that you check these each time you re-visit the National Maritime Museum site.

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